Backlinko

MARCH 13, 2024

Market research is a growing multi-billion-dollar industry. Brands leverage market research insights to introduce customer-focused offerings and improve their experiences. From mobile-first surveys to social media analytics, researchers have access to a growing toolkit helping companies make data-driven business decisions. Here’s a breakdown of what you’ll find on this page: Market Research Industry Statistics Market Research Methods Statistics AI in Market Research Statistics Market Research St

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Aspiration Marketing

MARCH 13, 2024

As businesses strive to outshine competitors and secure a prominent online presence, understanding the pivotal role of SEO is non-negotiable. Hand-in-hand with SEO are XML sitemaps, instrumental tools for helping your website’s content rank on search engines.

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Martech

MARCH 13, 2024

In the dynamic world of consumer-packaged goods (CPG), my curiosity has converged around brands, consumer behavior, behavioral economics and the intriguing domain of artificial intelligence. What excites me most about this landscape is AI’s ability to increase efficiency and drive creativity. AI: A driver of creativity and efficiency AI isn’t just a tool; it’s a transformative force for creativity, augmenting human ingenuity rather than replacing it.

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Buffer Marketing

MARCH 13, 2024

A thriving personal brand is a ticket to unparalleled opportunities: Get introduced to dream clients  Generate a consistent flow of inbound leads Establish your expertise and become known in your niche Stand out from the crowded job market through your work and network Attract like-minded people and get introduced to valuable opportunities But, the path to building a solid personal brand and unlocking all these opportunities comes with many challenges.

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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.

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Martech

MARCH 13, 2024

Surveys and focus groups are the go-to methods for gathering customer insights to drive marketing strategy. However, they have major flaws like inherent biases, poor predictive power, high costs and responder fatigue. It’s time to move beyond these outdated tactics. Today, AI-powered tools like data mining and sentiment analysis offer a powerful way to augment and improve customer research.

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Social Media Examiner

MARCH 13, 2024

Wondering how to divide your time between marketing your agency and serving clients? Looking for advice from someone who’s figured it out? In this article, you’ll discover how to allocate agency resources for ongoing content marketing, client qualification, service development, and more. Balancing Marketing and Sales Efforts for Agency Growth Running a successful business requires […] The post How to Balance Agency Marketing and Client Needs appeared first on Social Media Examiner.

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 13, 2024

Performance Max campaigns have become incredibly popular among PPC advertisers due to their automation and simplicity. However, one consistent pain point has been the lack of visibility into search queries triggering ads. Without this data, optimizing Performance Max campaigns has been limited. Relief seemed at hand when, in February 2023, Google introduced the campaign_search_term_insight report, which includes a field with the search term.

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Sprout Social

MARCH 13, 2024

Part of growing your TikTok profile is increasing the amount of engagement you receive. TikTok engagement refers to actions that your viewers take on your posts, including likes, comments and shares. Reach and follower counts can be considered important metrics, but social media engagement shows how much your content actually resonates with your intended audience.

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 13, 2024

I noticed that an emphatic comment by Google’s VP of Search, Hyung-Jin Kim , at SMX Next in November 2022 passed without much discussion in the SEO community to this day. He said (my emphasis): “E-A-T is a template for how we rate an individual site. We do it to every single query and every single result. It’s pervasive throughout every single thing we do.

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 13, 2024

Discover what enterprise content marketers expect in 2024, from budgets, generative AI, tech, social media use, and more. CMI's newly released research also finds out what sets top performers apart from their industry peers.

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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.

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 13, 2024

Meta announced a string of updates to its Advantage+ and Shopping Ads, designed to help brands improve engagement, drive conversions and deliver more personalized ads. The platform claims that the updates will help give consumers “the confidence to make a purchase after seeing an ad.” Advantage+ creative optimizations. This feature can now automatically optimize video ads to fit Reels or the mobile Facebook and Instagram apps with a 9:16 aspect ratio.

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Businesses Grow

MARCH 13, 2024

We are starting to move beyond the magic trick phase of AI and it’s time to start thinking about using AI without being overwhelmed. Paul Roetzer of the Marketing AI Institute and I generally agree on the path and we discuss it in detail on the new episode of The Marketing Companion. In this unmissable show, we cover: How to cut through the overwhelm and focus on practical applications now How to think about organizing around AI Gaining competitive advantage by pushing the edges of AI Over

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 13, 2024

YouTube announced a series of updates aimed at simplifying content management and monitoring for creators. These updates include: Notifying creators when issues prevent tagged products from being displayed. Making it easier for viewers to access subscribed content. Launching a Clips Library. Extending the “known issues” filter chip to Studio mobile.

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Litmus

MARCH 13, 2024

In just 3 steps, we’ll help you say goodbye to send time anxiety with a bulletproof method to ensure your emails display beautifully in the email clients your subscribers use. In this blog post, you’ll learn how to QA and monitor your email with Litmus—using email client previews, spam testing, and more—to ensure your email looks and works as perfectly as you intended.

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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.

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yorCMO

MARCH 13, 2024

Find out how to overcome common execution challenges that may be hindering your marketing strategy with actionable solutions. The post Why Your Marketing Strategy is Falling Short: Common Pitfalls in Execution appeared first on yorCMO.

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AWeber

MARCH 13, 2024

Your Instagram profile is prime real estate, but have you ever wondered whether you’re making the most of the links in your bio? The link in bio on your Instagram profile has the power to skyrocket conversions, sales, and web traffic for your business. However, if you don’t use it to its full potential, your profits may fall short. And with all the hard work it takes to publish successful content on Instagram, your ROI is a big darn deal.

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 13, 2024

TikTok rolled out a new feature called Creator Search Insights, allowing creators to track trending search terms on the platform. Accessible through the app by searching “Creator Search Insights,” this tool aims to provide creators with valuable insights to inspire and enhance their content creation process. Why we care. Creating trending content has the potential to boost your visibility and reach on TikTok, as there’s active demand for it.

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Martech

MARCH 13, 2024

Gaurav Kachhawa is the CPO of Gupshup, which builds advanced conversational messaging platforms. He knows AI both through his work and working with clients as they deploy it. He gave us a look at what he expects in the very near future with artificial intelligence. ( Interview edited for length and clarity.) Q: What do you see happening right now with business and AI?

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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

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 13, 2024

Best of the SearchBot showcases Search Engine Land’s SearchBot’s responses to prompts submitted by readers. The language model is based on content from Search Engine Land layered on top of ChatGPT. The editors of Search Engine Land selected this response for its usefulness and have supplemented it with additional relevant content. I am the first generative AI chatbot for search marketers.

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Chief Martec

MARCH 13, 2024

Tech stacks are large. The empirical stack data we recently shared from Zylo, a leading SaaS management platform, showed that even after a year of belt-tightening, the average SMB (500 employees or less) still has 162 SaaS apps. Mid-market companies (500 to 2,500 employees) have 245. And large enterprises have 650. This isn’t particularly surprising any more, is it?

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 13, 2024

One of the biggest mistakes I see time and time again with B2B content is that it misses the point that you are selling to a human. The naming conventions B2B and B2C have forced us to think that each need a completely different approach, but often they don’t. When we turn up to work, we aren’t able to put ourselves into robot corporate mode. We are still that human that was at home in the morning and has many different motivational drivers.

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Martech

MARCH 13, 2024

Meta unveiled updates to its Advantage+ and Shopping Ads, designed to help brands improve engagement, drive conversions and deliver more personalized ads. The platform claims the updates will help give consumers “the confidence to make a purchase after seeing an ad.” Advantage+ creative optimizations. This feature automatically optimizes video ads to fit Reels or the mobile Facebook and Instagram apps with a 9:16 aspect ratio.

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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!

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David Meerman Scott

MARCH 13, 2024

As a unit, the combined sales and marketing team is charged with leading buyers along the sequence of interactions that lead to business success. But marketers and salespeople have different roles. By making certain we understand the difference, we can close the gap between marketing and sales and grow business faster.

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The Marketing Journal

MARCH 13, 2024

The Korean Wave, also known as Hallyu, represents a significant cultural phenomenon characterized by the global dissemination and popularity of various facets of South Korean culture, including music (K-pop), television dramas (K-dramas), films, fashion, cuisine, language, and beauty trends.

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Fashion Marketing Ethics B2C Customer 81

Spiralytics

MARCH 13, 2024

In recent years, content creation in the Philippines has undergone a remarkable transformation, with YouTube emerging as the quintessential platform for fame, fortune, and self-expression. What once began as a hobby for many now blossoms into a lucrative career path. It draws not only aspiring influencers but also established celebrities eager to connect with their audience on a more personal level.

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Entertainment Health Energy Transform 52

Use Insider

MARCH 13, 2024

What is cookieless marketing? The term cookieless marketing refers to using marketing strategies that don’t rely on third-party cookies. Instead, cookieless marketing relies on no user data or on zero- and first-party data provided by customers explicitly (e.g., via surveys) or collected directly by brands from their own channels (e.g., by tracking website activities).

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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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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 13, 2024

Remote Work Revolution: Drive Sustainable Growth with Virtual Teams written by Tosin Jerugba read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Scott Cox. Scott brings a wealth of experience in the ever-evolving world of sales and marketing, with a career spanning over a decade.

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Backlinko

MARCH 13, 2024

Smartphones have revolutionized the way we communicate and have boosted our productivity, allowing us to stay connected on the go. Back in 2014, there were 1 billion smartphone users. Now, the number is nearly 5 billion and forecasted to reach 6 billion by 2027. We’ll explore the latest statistics on smartphone usage, including smartphone habits across the world and in the US, how they’ve changed over the years.

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 13, 2024

The U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill requiring ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, to sell the platform or else face a total ban in America. Under the new legislation, ByteDance has a six-month ultimatum to divest its controlling stake in TikTok, or else it will lose its 150 million users in the States. Why we care. A U.S. ban on TikTok would significantly impact advertisers, especially those targeting Gen Z.

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