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The How, What, and Why of Marketing Your Brand

Aspiration Marketing

With an effective marketing strategy, you can establish a name for your business in your industry within a short span of time. If you think about some of the biggest brands in the world, like Nike or Apple, you will realize how they have become globally recognized names through their marketing strategies. Both companies made use of catchy taglines and innovative ideas to come up with memorable campaigns that have stayed with consumers.

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5 key trends we’re seeing in B2B marketing

Martech

Like just about everything in marketing, B2B marketing is changing — and fast. Some of the trends I’m seeing have been developing for a while, but now they’re really taking off. What’s going on? Here are five of the most important developments. 1. Welcome the new generation of buyers Gen X and Y are entering the buying group, in droves.

eCommerce 137
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AI Marketing Automation: An In-Depth Guide

Marketing Insider Group

AI marketing automation is not just a futuristic concept; it’s here today and transforming how businesses engage with customers, streamline campaigns, and boost ROI. Image Source According to estimates by Statista, the market value of AI in marketing will reach nearly $36 billion in 2024 and could eclipse $107 billion by 2028. Your competitors are using this technology, so understanding the basics of AI and exploring advanced automation tools is essential as you personalize customer experi

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Evaluating 7 AI video generators while waiting for OpenAI’s Sora

Martech

I watched “OpenAI Sora’s first short film — ‘Air Head,’ created by shy kids,” when it debuted in March and assumed Sora would be publicly available in a few months. But it’s already August and only a limited number of visual artists, designers and filmmakers have been granted access to “gain feedback on how to advance the model to be the most helpful for creative professionals.

Transform 130
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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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Types of Social Media Content: 30+ Ideas for Your Next Post (With Examples)

Buffer Marketing

Remember when social media content was limited to Facebook statuses and, er, “pokes?” Even a few years later, cutting-edge content was limited to a blurry photo with an oversaturated filter on Instagram. It seems bizarre now, given how much you can do with social media today. With the ever-growing list of platforms releasing new features daily, it's an exciting time to build a following online — but it's not an easy one.

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Essential stack for a B2B startup: Best of the MarTechBot

Martech

Best of the MarTechBot showcases the MarTechBot’s responses to prompts submitted by readers. See more about how marketers are using MarTechBot here. The language model is based on content from MarTech embedded on top of ChatGPT. The editors of MarTech selected this response for its usefulness and have supplemented it with additional relevant content.

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My AI stack and other short observations from the marketing world

Businesses Grow

Too short for an entire blog post, too fun to pass up, here are a few observations from the marketing world. My AI stack It’s hard to have a definitive comparison because all these LLMs are in a race to AGI (super-human intelligence) and evolving week by week. We have had many discussions in here about where to focus and invest because you could go broke buying subscriptions to everything.

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Breaking the Mold: How Radical Innovation and Disruptive Thinking Propel Growth-Stage Companies to Market Leadership

MarketingOps

We live in a world where markets are becoming increasingly saturated and competition is evolving at what seems like breakneck speed. PLaying by the traditional rules is no longer going to cut it. But, here’s the thing: I believe right now growth-stage founders and companies have a unique window of opportunity to truly disrupt the status quo and leapfrog their competition by embracing radical innovation.

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Marketing for the lulz

Hubspot Marketing

It often surprises people to learn just how unfunny making comedy can be. I worked with this week’s master of marketing some years ago out of The Onion’s HQ, so we’ve both been behind the scenes. A business is still a business, and marketing is still marketing. Which isn’t to say it can’t be a helluva lot of fun. I talked to Hassan S. Ali , the creative director of brand at Hootsuite , where he describes his job as “leading a team of creatives to ruffle B2B marketing feathers for an equally feat

Marketing 110
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Reframing SEO: Why training search engines is the new game in the age of AI

Search Engine Land

Sorry kids, but SEO isn’t what it used to be. It’s time to bury the old idea of “optimization” and start thinking about what we really do: train search engines. In this brave new world of generative AI, the way we approach search has fundamentally changed and clinging to outdated concepts won’t get us far. Why the ‘optimization’ no longer reflects modern SEO Once every two years or so since the coining of the phrase “search engine optimization” almost 30 years ago, there comes a concerted

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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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5 Best SEO Audit Tools for More Traffic

Backlinko

SEO audit tools reveal hidden issues and opportunities on your site. Backlinko uses these tools for in-depth SEO audits every year. And quarterly check-ins. This analytical approach has helped us maintain top rankings and grow organic traffic by 20.50% year over year. We run a fresh site crawl, review top pages, and optimize them to keep our search rankings high.

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Survey: Google updates, self-preferencing, AI Overviews are top SEO threats

Search Engine Land

Google’s favoritism of certain types of websites – or itself, in the form of search features and AI Overviews – are the biggest threats facing SEO consultants, according to a new survey from Aleyda Solis. SEO threats in 2024. Google updates that favor certain types of sites (e.g., user-generated content, big brands) in the search results is the biggest threat to SEO consulting efforts, according to 52% of survey respondents.

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How to Build a Winning B2B Medtech Demand Generation Strategy

Marketing Insider Group

In the ever-evolving landscape of medical technology, staying ahead requires more than just innovation; it necessitates a robust demand generation strategy. This tactic is crucial for companies looking to build awareness, engage prospects, and ultimately convert leads into loyal customers. A unique approach to demand generation is what will get you the most leads, and this involves building specific buyer personas and creating targeted campaigns to uncover gaps that most businesses miss.

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Create and Connect Through Live Video

David Meerman Scott

Applications to syndicate video and audio feeds to multiple social networking destinations have exploded in recent years. Apps such as Restream and StreamYard allow video creators to simultaneously go live to multiple streaming services, including YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, X, Twitch, and more.

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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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Pulse Report 8.26.24 

Set Up

The Set up Pulse: Trends CMOs Need to Know Right Now 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! Pitch it to the Limit At the Ad Age Small Agency Conference last month, conversations circulated around making a stronger pitch.

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Great B2B Marketing Is About People

David Meerman Scott

In the world of marketing, there is often a perceived divide between business-to-business (B2B) marketing and marketing to consumers. Many marketers believe that the strategies and tactics used in B2B marketing are vastly different from those used in consumer marketing.

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Faux Freckles: Trending in Beauty Influencer Marketing

Traackr

Learn about the beauty influencer marketing trend, faux freckles, and what creators and brands are driving it forward on social media.

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The Power Of Short-Form Videos In Marketing

InTouch Marketing

Short-form videos have surged in popularity, thanks to platforms like TikTok and Instagram Reels. Creating these bite-sized videos offers brands an excellent opportunity to engage new audiences and enhance their content marketing strategies.

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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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White House to tackle bad CX practices

Martech

The Biden/Harris administration is focusing attention on bad corporate customer experience practices like customer service “doom loops” and problems with customer service chatbots. That might seem an unlikely space for presidential intervention, but the administration has already addressed CX shortcomings at federal agencies. The plan to improve corporate CX is called “ Time is Money.” Why we care.

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Google Search may now use OG title for title links

Search Engine Land

Google Search updated its search documentation to reserve the right to use the OG title meta data for your title link in the Google Search results. That adds a ninth source Google may pull from for your title links. List of title link sources. Here is list of sources Google may use for your title link: Content in <title> elements Main visual title shown on the page Heading elements, such as <h1> elements Content in og:title meta tags Other content that’s large and prominent

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