Mon.Oct 30, 2023

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The CMO’s practical guide to personalization

Martech

Personalization is not just a marketing buzzword. It’s a driving force behind effective consumer engagement. It has come a long way from its origins in the 1990s and is now powered by advanced technology, behavioral data and a plethora of marketing tools. However, as personalization becomes a baseline expectation for consumers, it presents new challenges for chief marketing officers (CMOs).

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Madonna 2023: The Celebration Tour And The Power Of Nostalgia

CMO Network

As I was bombarded with Madonna's latest Celebration Tour posts on Insta, what I was truly witnessing was a seismic shift in her brand—a fierce embrace of nostalgia.

Branding 141
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How customer relationship marketing on social media drives revenue

Sprout Social

If you treated your friends the way your brand treats your customers on social media, what kind of relationships would you have? That’s the question you should ask if you’re trying to improve your social performance and generate revenue. Consumers expect brands to treat them like friends (or at least friendly acquaintances) by being attentive and personal, not ignoring their messages while spamming their feed with posts.

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TikTok AI: I Tried Creating a TikTok Using Only AI & Here's What Happened

Hubspot Marketing

As a social media-obsessed content creator, I am familiar with TikTok. I often create TikTok videos to promote my work, express an idea or opinion, or share funny anecdotes. As much as I enjoy TikTok, creating content consistently for the platform can feel overwhelming. TikTok suggests posting content at least 1-4 times per day to boost views and followers.

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Marketing Operations Efficiency: The Essential Checklist

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

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5 Tried-and-tested Strategies I’ve Used to Grow to 30K LinkedIn Followers

Buffer Marketing

I may not have Justin Welsh's celebrity status on LinkedIn with half a million followers, but my journey is worth sharing. With just 30,000 engaged followers on LinkedIn, I managed to take my consulting business from a $0 startup to a thriving $100,000 yearly. I started as a content marketing consultant, leaving behind my nine-to-five corporate engineering job in 2018.

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Google Bard can now respond in real time

Search Engine Land

Google Bard , the conversational AI tool by Google, can now respond to your questions in real-time. You can turn it off and tell Bard to only respond once the answer is complete, but now, by default, Bard writes out the response in real time. Default on. By default, Google has turned on real-time responses, so you can see Bard typing the answer as it figures out the response.

SEO 126

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Google CEO details how Chrome helped grow Google Search

Search Engine Land

Google knew as far back as 2010 that Google Chrome would help drive more Google searches. We learned some exact figures today during testimony from Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai at the ongoing U.S. vs. Google antitrust trial. Users who switched to Chrome from Microsoft’s Internet Explorer performed 48% more Google searches. Users who switched to Chrome from Mozilla’s Firefox performed 27% more Google searches.

Marketers 122
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Who’s responsible for social media addiction? Me and you.

Businesses Grow

Many times in my career, I’ve used a variation of this phrase: “I want this (product / content / service) to be so good people are addicted to it!” In a way, that’s the ultimate dream. Sergio Zyman , ex-CMO for Coca-Cola, used to tell me the goal of marketing was to “sell more stuff, to more people, more often, for more money.” The idea of being addicted to what you sell seems like an elegant goal that would make you strive to be the best at everything you do,

Health 121
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Experiment: How Many Hashtags to Use on Reels?

Hootsuite

We don’t just do social media experiments to kill time over here at Hootsuite HQ: we do them to serve the people. So when one of our readers asks us to figure out how many hashtags to use for Reels, we get to work. Reels continue to be one of Instagram’s top-performing formats … but there’s no harm in getting a little hashtag help to reach even further, right?

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New ‘Search Themes’ Boost Performance Max Ads

Practical eCommerce - Marketing

Google's new targeting feature allows advertisers to finetune a target audience, improving performance. The post New ‘Search Themes’ Boost Performance Max Ads appeared first on Practical Ecommerce.

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How to Create a Community Your Members Cant 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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How to integrate generative AI in your SEO

Search Engine Land

As the initial buzz around AI dies down, the practical use of generative AI is now well-established in the content creation world. In theory, this creates a huge content marketing opportunity. However, as we are seeing , there are many pitfalls from an SEO perspective. This article outlines how we are primed to make such mistakes, ways Google has tackled this historically and how to safely integrate generative AI in your SEO and content marketing.

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Crafting Your Content Blueprint for the Rest of 2023 With Creator Modern Millie

Hubspot Marketing

If you fell off the bandwagon of sticking to your New Year's Resolution to become a content creator, you’re not too late. Fall is the best time of year to get started, so I want to walk you through my step-by-step process for planning out the next four months of content. This process is the same one I've used to grow my brand, Modern Millie — it's helped me achieve over 350K subscribers on my YouTube channel, and over 140K followers on Instagram.

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14 Social Media Calendar Tools for a More Organized 2024

Hootsuite

Social media calendar software is a must for any social team. With multiple platforms to manage and audiences in multiple time zones, it’s simply not realistic to post your social content on the fly to each account. (You need to sleep sometime, right?) A social media calendar tool eases the pain by centralizing your social content schedule, so you can plan, tweak, and share your social media posting strategy all in one place.

Analytics 112
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September 2023 Google core update: A deep dive into personal knowledge panels and E-E-A-T enhancements

Search Engine Land

In July, Google released a massive update to the Knowledge Graph. We named it the E-E-A-T Knowledge Graph update and gave it the codename “Killer Whale” because it made a splash in the SERPs twice: In real time between July 14 and 18. As part of the September helpful content update. A Knowledge Graph (Vault) update rarely occurs simultaneously with a ranking update, core or otherwise.

PR 112
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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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Europe gets ad-free Facebook and Instagram subscriptions

Martech

Meta is rolling out ad-free subscriptions for Facebook and Instagram users in Europe. It is also putting a “temporary” ban on ads to those under 18. People over 18 in the EU, EEA and Switzerland will be given the choice to either continue using these platforms with personalized ads or pay a fee to remove sponsored posts completely starting in November.

Branding 112
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ELI5: brand combination searches

Kevin Indig

JetOctopus has a state-of-the-art Google Search Console SEO Insight Extractor with more than hundreds of data sets and visualization charts.  SERP dynamics.  Watch the percentage change in impressions, clicks, CTR, active pages, and ranking in dynamics. Find out which URLs have grown or dropped over time.  Keywords. View the performance of all the keywords, new and lost keywords, zero-click keywords, along with winners and losers (by impressions, clicks, CTR, and positio

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Marketo’s October 2023 releases: A manager’s guide

Martech

Marketo’s October releases are all improvements to existing features. Updates include improved report filtering, the ability to write Excel-style formulas in Adobe’s I/O Runtime and expanded features available with Marketo Engage’s Interactive Webinars. In addition to the bevy of updates Adobe continues to make to Marketo functions, it sunsetted two apps, Marketo Events and Marketo Moments.

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Best Halloween ads of 2023

illumin

Halloween has been growing in recent years, and now sits as the second-biggest retail holiday. Only the holiday season is a bigger income generator. This means that Halloween ads are more important, and more exciting, than ever before. This year advertisers aren’t shying away from creative and ghoulish ads – showing off their own Halloween spirit. Most 2023 Halloween ads are specifically for seasonal drinks or shows.

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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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Executing a TikTok campaign: Best of the Bot

Martech

Best of the Bot showcases MarTechBot’s responses to prompts submitted by readers. The language model is based on content from MarTech layered on top of ChatGPT. The editors of MarTech selected this response for its usefulness and have supplemented it with additional relevant content. I am the first generative AI chatbot for marketing technology professionals.

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Optimizing Client Data and Documenting Marketing Opportunities

yorCMO

Maximize business potential by understanding best practices in client data storage and effectively documenting emerging marketing opportunities.

Marketers 105
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Pinterest revenue rises 11%, delivering better than expected results for advertisers

Search Engine Land

Pinterest’s third-quarter revenue jumped 11% to $763 million in Q3, 2023. Ad earnings surged as the platform’s global monthly active users increased by 8% year-on-year to 482 million. The company credited its success in part to “Its ability to attract and retain advertisers and effectively measure advertising campaigns.” Why we care.

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Does Your Language Help or Harm Your Professional Relationships?

Hubspot Marketing

Welcome to Breaking the Blueprint — a blog series that dives into the unique business challenges and opportunities of underrepresented business owners and entrepreneurs. Learn how they’ve grown or scaled their businesses, explored entrepreneurial ventures within their companies, or created side hustles, and how their stories can inspire and inform your own success.

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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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Instagram Reminder Ads launch new features to boost reach

Search Engine Land

Instagram Reminder Ads are rolling out new features to help advertisers reach a wider audience: Instagram Stories visibility : Reminder Ads can now be featured within Instagram Stories, allowing businesses to increase visibility and improve efficiency. Ads Manager set up : Reminder ads can now be created directly in Ads Manager, which removes the previous requirement of only using organic posts to create a reminder ad.

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Become a data champion by mastering marketing analytics automation by Cynthia Ramsaran

Martech

Today, actionable data is key. Yet, drowning in a sea of information from various sources can be overwhelming. How do you prove your campaigns are hitting the mark and contributing to the bottom line? Automation can elevate your marketing game by freeing time so you can focus on innovative strategies rather than wrestling with data. Join marketing analytics automation experts to learn how to impact the bottom line and prove your campaigns succeed Register and attend “Become a Data Champion

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Meta unveils ad-free Facebook and Instagram subscriptions in Europe

Search Engine Land

Meta is rolling out no ads subscriptions for Facebook and Instagram users in Europe. People in the EU, EEA and Switzerland will be given the choice to either continue using these platforms with personalised ads, or pay a fee to remove sponsored posts completely from November. Users that opt to pay for a subscription, which will cost €9.99 per month on the web or €12.99 per month on iOS and Android, will not have their information used for ads.

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7 Persuasive Tactics for Backlink Outreach

Marketing Insider Group

Have you ever wondered what really makes a website stand out in the crowded online space? It’s not a fancy design, a big brand name, or even the platform you’re using. It’s your reputation. Imagine the internet as a big party, and the most-talked about guests are the ones who get noticed. Now, enter backlinks. They’re the conversations that make everyone turn their heads and listen.

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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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4 ways to find unique content ideas from real-life insights

Search Engine Land

Marketers often work at a distance from frontline operations. We may not directly build the product, deal with angry customer phone calls, or be out in the field selling. We might even be at an agency, an additional level removed from the shop floor or direct interactions with the target customer. How, then, can you: Know what to write about? Insert meaningful insights into your landing pages or ad creative?

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Why Kim Kardashian's SKIMS NBA Partnership Is Marketing Gold

CMO Network

I would have never expected a picture of Kim Kardashian and Adam Silver together announcing a marketing deal.

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Digging deeper into the E-E-A-T Knowledge Graph 2023 update

Search Engine Land

In July, Google released a massive update to the Knowledge Graph. We named it the E-E-A-T Knowledge Graph update and gave it the codename “Killer Whale” because it made a splash in the SERPs twice: In real time between July 14 and 18. As part of the September helpful content update. A Knowledge Graph (Vault) update rarely occurs simultaneously with a ranking update, core or otherwise.

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How CREYENTES Unlocks The Latino Market Success By Elevating The Community

CMO Network

CREYENTES is not just another creative agency; it is a strategic powerhouse aimed at solving business challenges while uplifting the US Latino community.

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Marketing Operations in 2025: A New Framework for Success

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.