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The Buyer's Journey: Best Content for the Consideration Stage

Aspiration Marketing

Your potential customer has made it past the awareness stage and is now considering your business as a solution: this is the consideration stage of the buyer's journey. You must ace your consideration stage content to keep this individual's interest and move them to the final stage. Let's dive into what that entails.

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How to make sure your data is AI-ready

Martech

Leading CRM platforms like Salesforce, Dynamics, Zoho and HubSpot are introducing new AI features for autonomous chats, automatic campaign launches, product suggestions and sentiment analysis. That’s great and exciting. But there’s one thing in the way: our data. Ultimately, all the technology in the world isn’t worth the investment if the data it relies on is poor.

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Eliminate Fixed Costs: Financial Tips for Marketing Agencies

Social Media Examiner

Are fixed costs threatening your profit margins? Do you need better financial planning practices to weather economic fluctuations that affect your agency? In this article, you’ll learn key strategies for managing finances through unpredictable conditions. Why Are Fixed Costs a Major Threat to the Sustainability of an Agency? Digital marketing agencies are no strangers to […] The post Eliminate Fixed Costs: Financial Tips for Marketing Agencies appeared first on Social Media Examiner.

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How To Survive 3 New Threats to Your SEO Strategy

Content Marketing Institute

Three cataclysmic forces are shaking the search landscape – Google's Search Generative Experience, the flood of AI content, and the growth of social search. It’s time to see the threats and figure out what to do. Here’s some help.

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How to Create a Community Your Members Can't Get Enough Of

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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Maximizing your B2B spend: Is account-based marketing worth it?

Martech

In B2B marketing, the traditional approach of casting a wide net is increasingly being challenged by a more targeted and personalized strategy: account-based marketing (ABM). This method focuses on identifying and engaging with specific high-value accounts, treating each as its own distinct market. But is ABM the right approach for your business? This article explores the potential benefits and challenges of implementing an ABM strategy, along with key factors to consider when evaluating its sui

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Boosted Posts vs. Ads: Tips for Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn

Hootsuite

The language of digital advertising can be confusing: ROI, UTMs, CTRs… One particularly common question is: what exactly is the difference between a boosted post vs ad on social platforms? It’s a bit of a tricky one to answer because boosted posts are technically a form of social advertising. However, they are created, promoted, and reported on differently from other social ads.

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How marketers are investing in games: IAB PlayFronts

Martech

Zoe Soon, IAB’s vice president, Experience Center, delivers measured optimism at IAB PlayFronts in New York. Image: IAB. The gaming industry saw a lot of disruption over the last year, including the consolidation of major publishers, layoffs and canceled game releases. On the ad side, however, marketing budgets for gaming are growing. As a result, the tone at the third annual IAB PlayFronts this week was measured but optimistic.

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Google Analytics real-time reporting bug confirmed

Search Engine Land

Google has confirmed an issue with the real-time analytics reports within Google Analytics, GA4. Many profiles show zero real-time traffic being reported since early this morning ; some are seeing a fraction of their normal real-time traffic being reported, and some are seeing normal traffic. Google working on a fix. Ginny Marvin, Google’s Ads Liaison, responded on X saying, “Thanks for flagging.

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10 ChatGPT prompts for digital marketers by Digital Marketing Depot

Martech

This guide offers a curated collection of prompts tailored to various marketing roles, from social media to SEO. Learn best practices for interacting with AI and discover how to effectively leverage tools like ChatGPT to boost productivity, creativity, and strategic thinking. Each prompt comes with a detailed explanation and practical example, making it easy to apply AI to your everyday marketing tasks and challenges.

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Google suspended 12.7 million ad accounts and blocked 5.5 billion ads in 2023

Search Engine Land

Google’s 2023 Ads Safety Report revealed that it blocked or removed 12.7 million advertiser accounts last year – nearly double the previous 12 months. Additionally, the search engine blocked or removed 5.5 billion ads for violating its policies – slightly up from the prior year. Why we care. Cracking down on fraudulent accounts is critical for brand safety and also helps to ensure a safer space for consumers so that they can confidently make online transactions.

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AI Strategies for Sales Managers: How to Cut Down on Tedious Admin Work

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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Lusha Product Updates: March 2024

Lusha

March has been a busy month for us, and we’re excited to share some exciting updates to your Lusha experience. This month’s updates include new filter capabilities and enhanced experiences for Engage and platform navigation, all designed to make your Lusha experience even better. Here’s what we’ve been up to and how you can use it: 1. New company specialties filter Finding the right companies just got easier.

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Winning Strategies With Inbound Marketing

yorCMO

We’ll talk about what inbound marketing is, how it differs from traditional outbound marketing, and how to do inbound marketing right.

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4 Metrics You Should Add to Your Email Reporting

Litmus

Gone are the days of using only open and click-through rates to evaluate your email’s performance. Even with increasing data privacy regulations , marketers are finding new ways to measure and track their campaign’s success–including better methods to evaluate audience engagement. Ready to lift your email reporting to the next level? Here are four metrics you should add to learn more about your audience and how to get more thorough insights on them using your email campaign performance. 1.

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Google changes definition of ‘top ads’

Search Engine Land

Google updated its definition of top ads in its Help Center to better reflect how ads can appear in Google Search A spokesperson told Search Engine Land that this just a “definitional change” and that it would not affect how performance metrics are calculated. What are top ads? Top ads are ads that appear above the organic result, and also below organic results for certain queries.

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The Power of Community: Why a Branded Community is a Must-Have for Every Association

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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How review management helps brands

Sprout Social

Translating reviews into actionable steps allows you to take control of your online reputation, identify areas for improvement and showcase your commitment to customer satisfaction. But it can be time-consuming and often overwhelming, especially when you’re struggling to keep up with reviews on different platforms. In this article, we cover what review management is, how it supports reputation management and what its benefits are.

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Exploring Meridian, Google’s new open-source marketing mix model

Search Engine Land

Meridian , Google’s new open-source Marketing Mix Model (MMM), has entered the rapidly evolving market for advanced marketing analytics and forecasting tools. This article explores Meridian’s key features, capabilities and limitations, comparing it with Meta’s MMM called Robyn. It delves into how Meridian leverages advanced techniques like hierarchical geo-level modeling, Bayesian methods and scenario analysis to offer actionable insights for cross-channel budget optimization

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Catching Up with Customers.ai: What’s New in Q1

Customers.ai

Can you believe it’s almost the end of Q1? We most certainly cannot. The past few months have been an exciting whirlwind for us at Customers.ai. As we get prepped for an even more exciting Q2–can’t say too much but we’re pumped –we wanted to take a moment and reflect. We’ve launched tons of exceptional new features designed to help marketers overcome the challenges they’re facing now and will face in the future.

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Maximizing your B2B spend: Is account-based marketing worth it?

Search Engine Land

In B2B marketing, the traditional approach of casting a wide net is increasingly being challenged by a more targeted and personalized strategy: account-based marketing (ABM). This method focuses on identifying and engaging with specific high-value accounts, treating each as its own distinct market. But is ABM the right approach for your business? This article explores the potential benefits and challenges of implementing an ABM strategy, along with key factors to consider when evaluating its sui

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How to Prove Marketing Value: Demonstrate Content ROI and Contribution to Sales

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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Why is there a backlash against purpose-driven marketing?

Businesses Grow

All over the web, I’m reading accounts about the ineffectiveness of purpose-driven marketing. Have marketers ruined everything again? The story goes like this: Companies make claims of civil service, altruism, and environmental goodness and then don’t follow up with actions. Bad actors have been in the news so much many people — especially young people — don’t trust any corporate claims any more.

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10 ChatGPT prompts for digital marketers by Digital Marketing Depot

Search Engine Land

This guide offers a curated collection of prompts tailored to various marketing roles, from social media to SEO. Learn best practices for interacting with AI and discover how to effectively leverage tools like ChatGPT to boost productivity, creativity, and strategic thinking. Each prompt comes with a detailed explanation and practical example, making it easy to apply AI to your everyday marketing tasks and challenges.

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Setup Pulse - 4.1.24

Set Up

Welcome to the Set up Pulse for Brands and Agency marketers alike! Every other week, we’ll provide three trending topics in the Marketing industry, as well as a new story that you will want to get your eyes on. Read about what’s being talked about this week! Trending Topics Social Doesn’t Want You to Leave A recent report by SparkToro shows that social is driving very little traffic to websites.

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Amazon ordered to publicly share details of ads it serves in the EU

Search Engine Land

Amazon must now share details about the ads it serves in the European Union through a public library. The retail giant is being forced to provide more transparency about its ad operations under the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) after losing an appeal in the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) for a temporary suspension. Why we care. The creation of an Amazon ads library will offer marketers valuable insights into how the retail giant showcases and profits from campaigns.

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Evolving Beyond Intent: Create Customer Value with Signals

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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Becoming & Hiring a Content Writer in the Philippines

Spiralytics

Poor content quality, limited creativity, and lack of keyword optimization… are these issues your brand struggles with? Many marketing professionals grapple with SEO strategies without access to skilled writers who can elevate their content and online presence. But interestingly, content writing in the Philippines has boomed. Thanks to advancements in remote work technology and the growing demand.

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Adobe continues to roll out genAI capabilities across its platform

Martech

“When we think about the magic and value of AI, we know that it actually comes only from a seamless integration into the workflows that you, as customers, already know and love.” That was the message from Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen to his audience at the 2024 Adobe Summit as he announced the integration of Adobe Firefly Services (its flagship genAI offering) across Document Cloud, Creative Cloud and the applications with Experience Cloud, Adobe’s marketing and CX suite. “

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