Search Engine Land
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Ranking on Google, Bing and emerging search platforms now requires a strategic combination of search expertise and public relations finesse. At a time when brand reputation and visibility are critical, blending SEO with digital PR is a must. This article gives an overview of integrating SEO into digital PR to achieve business goals, plus best practices for effective collaboration and communication.
Aspiration Marketing
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Effective sales tools are crucial for closing deals in today's competitive sales world. Fortunately, HubSpot Sales Hub makes managing clients and closing deals more manageable. But, as businesses expand, so do their sales management needs. HubSpot offers excellent sales resources in its starter and professional tiers, but the enterprise tier is a must-have for sales teams looking to get one step further.
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Social Media Examiner
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Are you up to date on changes from Instagram? Wondering which recent Instagram updates are important to marketers and business owners? In this article, we explore Instagram changes that affect your marketing. #1: Instagram Reels New Reels Creation and Editing Tools Instagram is releasing new Reels editing features like undo/redo, crop, scale, rotate, zoom, and […] The post Instagram Updates: Reels Tools, Ads Features, Shopping, and More appeared first on Social Media Examiner.
Search Engine Land
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Crowd-sourced human quality raters have been the mainstay of the algorithmic evaluation process for search engines for decades. Still, a potential sea-change in research and production implementation could be on the horizon. Recent groundbreaking research by Bing (with some purported commercial implementation already) and a sharp uptick in closely related information retrieval research by others, indicates some big shake-ups are coming.
Advertiser: ZoomInfo
As marketing becomes more tech-driven, the role of marketing operations (MOps) is getting more complex. Today, the discipline is increasingly interwoven with other vital go-to-market motions — including sales and customer support — and is responsible for all business elements associated with marketing, including the tech stack. In this eBook, we’ll show you how marketing operations can create efficiencies in your tech stack, reporting, and budget that will not just improve internal processes, bu
Marketing Insider Group
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
How does a playing card company end up becoming one of the world’s most enduringly popular video game makers ? Or how does an online bookseller evolve into the most popular global marketplace ? Nintendo and Amazon understood the ageless principle that your product is not what you sell. If you’re struggling to get the revenue you desire or your marketing isn’t converting, you might be selling the wrong thing.
Search Engine Land
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Attracting good traffic to your website and related properties is a great achievement in SEO. Pat yourself on the back for being good enough at keyword research, metadata, UX, etc., to get those traffic numbers up! OK, celebration time is over. How much of that traffic is actually converting? SEOs don’t have the luxury of focusing only on transactional keywords and/or relying on direct response-focused landing pages.
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Customers.ai
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
In the fast-paced realm of marketing, where every click holds the potential for a sale, sophisticated retailers face a formidable challenge— converting anonymous website visitors into loyal customers. Consider this: on average, nearly 98% of website visitors remain anonymous, navigating through product and offer pages, engaging with content, yet leaving no trace of their identity.
Sprout Social
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
If a business is an orchestra, then every department is its own instrument. When teams work in isolation, the result is simply noise. However, when everyone unites around shared goals, beautiful music is made. And there’s no sweeter harmony than what’s created through collaboration between customer service and marketing. Looking for proof? Look no further than Instant Brands.
Martech
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
As senior marketing leaders, you’re undoubtedly well-acquainted with the challenge of doing more with less. You’ve heard the standard guidance — prioritize, automate and use data. It’s good advice. But here are a few secrets that savvy marketing leaders should know to help deliver exceptional results despite resource constraints. Doing more with less has a natural end Both the productivity of humans and return on ad spend decrease when they reach saturation.
Sprout Social
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
As more companies adopt an omnichannel approach to engage with customers, keeping up with competitors can be challenging. What are they posting on social media? What’s their email marketing strategy? What kind of content are they publishing on their blog? Where are they getting most of their traffic from? You need to know it all. Competitive monitoring helps you stay on top of this data at all times.
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Here’s Your Blueprint for Year-Round Member Engagement. Are you ready to transform your association into a thriving, 365-day community? Download GrowthZone’s ebook, How to Create a Community Your Members Can’t Get Enough Of , and learn strategies for leveling out the peaks and valleys of member engagement. This guide provides actionable strategies to create consistent networking opportunities, deliver value-packed content, and foster connections that your members won’t want to miss.
Search Engine Land
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Google has confirmed a bug with some of the reporting within Google Search Console. The bug impacts the experience and enhancement reports, including the core web vitals, mobile usability, HTTPS, AMP and other enhancement and experience reports. The issue is it shows a drop in the number of valid URLs being reported. What Google said. Google posted on X saying, “The team has been looking into this and is working to resolve it.” It is unclear when the issue will be resolved, but Googl
Martech
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff is hoping to turn OpenAI’s chaos to his advantage, offering to at least match the compensation of any AI experts willing to join the CRM giant. Salesforce will match any OpenAI researcher who has tendered their resignation full cash & equity OTE to immediately join our Salesforce Einstein Trusted AI research team under Silvio Savarese.
CMO Network
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Consumers have increasingly been searching for non-alcoholic alternatives. Hop Water has been one of the fastest growing categories, with sales up 200% in the past year.
Kuno Creative
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Not all failures in brand launch strategy are equal. Some flops fly under the radar barely causing a ripple, others make headlines. And some end up in the Museum of Failure. Yes, there is such a thing as the Museum of Failure. The touring exhibition has more than 150 failed products and services, from a horror movie-esque beauty mask that targets wrinkles with electricity (that never received FDA approval) to a line of Bic pens marketed exclusively to women.
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What if you could help your sellers stop wasting 72% of their day on non-selling activities and focus on bringing in revenue? Incorporating AI in your enablement workflows can help you cut down on busy work, get projects done faster, and let your team (and you!) focus on making a bigger impact. We put together this guide to show you how to use AI to cut time and costs for projects, including collateral creation, development of training videos, and automating tedious processes.
Hootsuite
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
YouTube Shorts are bite-sized vertical videos that can supercharge engagement with your audience. Shorts are 15-60 seconds in length, and they’re just as addictive – and easy to create – as a TikTok or Instagram Reel. It’s quick and easy to upload YouTube Shorts, so what are you waiting for? Whether you want to upload your YouTube Short from desktop or mobile, we’ve got you covered.
CMO Network
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Elliot Kotek sheds light on the ethos behind his company and his compelling documentary, 'The Hidden Power of Purpose,' created in collaboration with AARP.
Litmus
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Your email service provider (ESP) is essential to your email marketing workflow. Without it, you wouldn’t have a way to deliver the messages you work so hard to strategize, design, and test to your audience. While your relationship with your ESP can change over time, leaving one to move to another is bound to be an emotional time. Whether you can’t wait to make the switch or you’re overwhelmed by what lies ahead, this guide will walk you through: What is ESP migration?
Martech
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
More frequently than not, B2B buyers are vetting sellers based not only on product specifications, pricing and other traditional factors but on the digital experiences they deliver. Failing to adapt to these rising customer expectations can be costly. Deloitte Digital conducted a study of more than 500 B2B executives at U.S. companies and discovered that 77% of B2B executives agree that digital transformation is critical to their company’s success.
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Ever wonder why brands like Apple, LEGO, and Sephora are going all-in on branded communities? It’s because online community building is the secret sauce to connecting with audiences in ways that ads and emails simply can’t. But here's the best part—it’s not just for big corporations. Associations can create thriving online communities too. GrowthZone’s eBook, "The Power of Community," breaks down exactly why a branded online community can be a game-changer for your association.
Hubspot Marketing
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
The theory that we can only hold a finite number of stable social relationships has long been debated. That number, estimated to be 150 by anthropologist Robin Dunbar, has created a widespread belief that the brain has a cognitive limit to the size of social groups it maintains. Is there a cognitive limit to the number of connections we can navigate?
Martech
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Implementing a digital asset management (DAM) system requires careful planning, but it doesn’t have to be overwhelming. Making data the foundation of the DAM ensures it will be useful and adaptable to your business for years to come. “With content constantly changing and evolving, planning for a DAM system to track and store all your content reliably seems futile,” said John Horodyski, managing director for digital consultancy Salt Flats, in a session at The MarTech Conference.
Hootsuite
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Social media competitor analysis tools should be a staple in every social manager’s toolbox. Unfortunately, there’s often a temptation to focus inward and get stuck micro-analyzing your own internal social media performance. The thing is, your own performance analysis is much more valuable when placed in the context of what’s happening overall in your industry niche.
Content Marketing Institute
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Getting your arms around the disruptions of generative AI presents an extreme challenge. A 20-year-old framework for self-reflection may help. Ask these three questions in proper succession.
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Every marketer knows how important it is to prove their efforts drive sales opportunities, but that’s easier said than done. When problems like sales and marketing misalignment, lack of data, and wasted efforts persist, marketers can’t measure, prove, or increase their impact on revenue at a time when demonstrating marketing value is critical. Using analyst and expert data, this guide to marketing impact and content attribution explains: How B2B buyers use content The most common types of conten
Search Engine Land
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
More frequently than not, B2B buyers are vetting sellers based not only on product specifications, pricing and other traditional factors but on the digital experiences they deliver. Failing to adapt to these rising customer expectations can be costly. Deloitte Digital conducted a study of more than 500 B2B executives at U.S. companies and discovered that 77% of B2B executives agree that digital transformation is critical to their company’s success.
AWeber
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Event email marketing is a key strategy for building anticipation for your next event—whether online or offline. This post explores key event email marketing examples and strategies to help. When a survey asked event marketers their most effective strategy for getting the word out, the results were interesting: The best strategy wasn’t word-of-mouth.
David Meerman Scott
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
The world wants to know who you are! And we’d like to learn about you in your own words.
Traackr
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Samantha Hofherr from ILIA Beauty and content creator, Tennille Jenkins share 3 top influencer marketing strategies.
Speaker: Jam Khan, SVP, Product Marketing at ZoomInfo & guest speaker Amy Hawthorne, Principal Analyst from Forrester
Buying signals extend well beyond intent. They give go-to-market teams the chance to know everything about their customers. With buying signals, they can reach more customers and win more deals. Join Jam Khan, SVP, Product Marketing of ZoomInfo and guest speaker Amy Hawthorne, Principal Analyst from Forrester for this new webinar where you'll find out how marketing teams operate more efficiently and sales teams close more business when they act on buying signals, not just intent!
Set Up
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
At Set up , we regularly interview marketing leaders from different industries ranging from Tourism to Packaging to Entertainment and Healthcare. Having periodic conversations with marketing leaders not only helps us keep a pulse on every industry, but reveals common trends and challenges that all marketers are facing. Although we have written about the Manufacturing industry in the past , we spoke with marketing leaders Andrea Arnold , the Senior Manager, Global Marketing, eMobility at Eaton, a
Rock Content
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
It might be almost 2024, but content is still king for businesses hoping to reach, attract, and convert their ideal clients. However, since the pandemic, what customers want has changed dramatically. Yes, they still want great content at each stage of the sales funnel to help them make buying decisions. But they increasingly want to be able to contact businesses at any time of the day or night and by their preferred channel, whether that’s by social media (including private messaging and public
SMA Marketing
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Your Google Business Profile (GBP), formerly called a Google My Business profile, is an invaluable free tool for local businesses. That said, what can help your business visibility can also harm it. As a local business, it’s absolutely vital that you own and optimize your GBP. It often surprises our clients at SMA Marketing when they learn that your Google Business Profile (GBP) is not a “set it and forget it” digital entity.
Rock Content
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
The Software as a Service (SaaS) business model is maturing into one of the most sustainable. It offers companies a way to reduce or eliminate upfront costs like software licensing. From 2012 to 2018, subscription services saw a 300% growth rate – that’s five times faster than S&P-500 companies, according to the Harvard Business Review. However, SaaS brands face unique challenges when it comes to marketing.
Speaker: Mike Rizzo, Founder & CEO, MarketingOps.com and Darrell Alfonso, Director of Marketing Strategy and Operations, Indeed.com
Though rarely in the spotlight, marketing operations are the backbone of the efficiency, scalability, and alignment that define top-performing marketing teams. In this exclusive webinar led by industry visionaries Mike Rizzo and Darrell Alfonso, we’re giving marketing operations the recognition they deserve! We will dive into the 7 P Model —a powerful framework designed to assess and optimize your marketing operations function.
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