Thu.Jul 25, 2024

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The History of Podcasts: Then and Now

Aspiration Marketing

Podcasts have become popular in recent years, offering a universe of content accessible anytime, anywhere. But how did podcasts become the go-to entertainment and information source they are today? In this blog, we'll dive into the captivating history of podcasts, from their quirky beginnings in the late 1990s to the powerhouse industry they are today.

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OpenAI starts testing SearchGPT prototype, here’s what it looks like

Search Engine Land

OpenAI today announced SearchGPT, its long-awaited search product. SearchGPT is a “temporary prototype” and limited to just 10,000 users and publishers at launch. OpenAI plans to integrate the “best” parts of the new search features directly within ChatGPT in the future. How SearchGPT works. SearchGPT responds to queries using its AI models plus information pulled from the web.

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How behavioral economics can be the marketer’s secret weapon

Martech

In marketing, understanding what drives consumer behavior separates the strategic from the box-checkers. Behavioral economics, which combines insights from psychology and economics, provides the most valuable tools for marketers, second only to understanding the exact individuals they aspire to market to. By understanding how and why people make decisions, you can craft strategies that resonate deeply with their audience, leading to better engagement and increased conversions.

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How to START building a modern digital marketing plan

Search Engine Land

It doesn’t take a lot of sentences to cover the number of disruptions in search marketing in the season (or era?) that we’re in. Right now, Google is rapidly changing organic and paid search, causing excitement and confusion. New AI Overviews , leaked information and potential OpenAI search engines are creating distractions in our careers. Additionally, changing privacy laws and attribution challenges add to the complexity.

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Unlock the Secrets to Building Community

Unlock the secrets to building strong communities and sustaining growth with GrowthZone’s “5 Pillars of Community” ebook. In today's digital era, fostering a sense of belonging is more important than ever. GrowthZone’s informative ebook will help you transform your association’s community and discover new opportunities for growth. Explore the importance of personal and virtual communities, the ACHIEVE Model for success, and the key pillars including Direction, Shared Responsibility, Personal Val

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AI-powered martech news and releases: July 25

Martech

Welcome to The Olympics, now with AI! Earlier this year, the International Olympic Committee (which definitely no longer has any problems with corruption) released the Olympic AI Agenda. It promises to use AI to “foster an ethos of integrity,…deliver impact that reduces barriers to participation,” increase solidarity and improve sustainability and the role of sport in society.

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How to manage SEO campaigns during economic downturns

Search Engine Land

Economic downturns create uncertainty and changes in user behavior that impact markets and forecasts. They also affect the approach and resources allocated to marketing activities. Because no two recessions or economic downsturns are the same, marketers operate in uncharted waters every time one occurs. This article can help marketers manage SEO campaigns and show the value of their efforts despite a recession, during periods of market uncertainty, or during periods when external factors greatly

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What You Need to Know About LinkedIn Newsletters

Buffer Marketing

If you’ve been publishing LinkedIn posts regularly but want to find ways to level up your content on the platform, this article is for you. A LinkedIn newsletter is similar to an email newsletter, but it's distributed directly through LinkedIn to your network. This functionality allows you to share valuable insights, updates, and content consistently with your followers, establishing you as a thought leader in your industry.

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Disruptive AI Video Trends that are Transforming Marketing in 2024

Hubspot Marketing

AI-generated video content is turning the marketing world on its head. But what trends should marketers be focusing on to stay ahead of the competition? If you've been following the latest buzz in AI marketing trends — and you should be — you know that AI video tools are at the forefront of this change. Whether it’s trained ad avatars or hyper-personalized video scripts, these technologies are irreversibly changing how we create content and engage with our audiences.

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Want a New Role? What Hiring Managers Look for in Content and Marketing Job Seekers

Content Marketing Institute

Securing a new role in content marketing is challenging. To make it easier, follow the advice of these hiring marketers to craft compelling resumes, ace interviews, and make your application shine.

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What Are Productized Services? Strategy And Examples

CopyBlogger

Service businesses are excellent for generating cash flow, but they can be difficult to scale and require extensive client communication. Continue Reading The post What Are Productized Services? Strategy And Examples appeared first on Copyblogger.

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Increase Revenue With Better, Faster Sales Onboarding

Quotas need to be hit. Revenue goals need to be met. This reality makes shortening sales onboarding time a top priority. Organizations with a standard onboarding process boost employee retention by 58% and increase productivity by 50%. Unfortunately, many companies struggle with inefficient processes that lead to high turnover and missed revenue opportunities.

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5 tactics to build customers’ trust

SmartBrief - Marketing

Whitmer (Mosaicx) Research clearly illustrates the value consumers place on personalization. One report found that 84% of customers say being treated like a person – instead of a number – is crucial to winning their business. This isn’t confined to any one industry. From retail to finance to enter tainment, every industry has benefited from personalization, fostering deeper engagement and significantly boosting satisfaction rates.

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Digital out-of-home advertising: a quick guide

illumin

Curious to learn more about digital out-of-home advertising? Check out our handy guide on how to step up your DOOH game. If you’ve ever seen any of digital billboards when walking the streets or an LED board at the side of a bus stop that has an advertisement on it, you may wonder how those ads come to be. Out-of-home advertising or OOH has been around for decades.

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What You Need to Know About LinkedIn Newsletters

Buffer Marketing

If you’ve been publishing LinkedIn posts regularly but want to find ways to level up your content on the platform, this article is for you. A LinkedIn newsletter is similar to an email newsletter, but it's distributed directly through LinkedIn to your network. This functionality allows you to share valuable insights, updates, and content consistently with your followers, establishing you as a thought leader in your industry.

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Empowering Your Sales Team: A B2B Guide to Sales Enablement Content

The LeadG2 Blog

If your sales team is on the battlefield of the modern marketplace, what are they armed with? If they're equipped with nothing but a winning smile and a firm handshake, they might as well be bringing a knife to a gunfight. This is where sales enablement content comes in and separates the sales victors from the vanquished. Sales enablement content is the arsenal that can make or break your sales cycle.

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Accelerate Your Marketing with Automation: A Quickstart Guide

Ready to streamline your marketing efforts and achieve more with less? Our guide provides a step-by-step roadmap to: Build a Strong Foundation: Set up your automation infrastructure for success. Execute Proven Tactics: Implement effective strategies to nurture leads and drive conversions. Measure and Optimize: Track your results and make data-driven adjustments.

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AI Experiment: Hacking HubSpot Chat to Improve the Customer Experience

Hubspot Marketing

We integrated AI into our website chat and our KPIs flew off the charts. Here’s exactly how we did it and what we learned along the way. Key Outcomes: 43% increase in chat conversion rates >50% improvement in the value per chat CSAT scores matched human-led interactions I like to joke that one of my dumbest moments in early HubSpot history was realizing that potential customers preferred to talk or chat to us directly about buying our product, instead of filling out forms or sending emails.

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Email automation best practices for highly engaging campaigns

AWeber

Creating an automated email campaign can seem daunting. You have to consider multiple factors that can make or break your conversions. At the same time, you have to do this while balancing your customers’ needs. Then there’s the need to ensure your automated email series addresses every stage of the buyer’s journey. To make the process easier, we’ve put together this guide.

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In-House vs. Outsourced RevOps Solutions

Kuno Creative

Your organization’s revenue operations (RevOps) can make or break your ability to reach revenue goals. These processes create alignment between your sales, marketing and customer success teams, shattering departmental silos for more reliable revenue-building and business growth. Without this alignment, teams often fail to cooperate —instead working toward independent goals with little visibility into other departments’ efforts or data.

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Embracing Mortality: How to Live a Life Without Regret

Duct Tape Marketing

Embracing Mortality: How to Live a Life Without Regret written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with Jodi Wellman In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Jodi Wellman, an expert in positive psychology and author of You Only Die Once: How to Make it to the End with No Regrets. Wellman is known for her unique approach to living a life free from regrets by embracing our mortality and using it as a catalyst for meaningful chan

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Using Generative AI in Sales: Pros, Cons, and Considerations According to Sellers

Are your sellers unsure about using AI in their day-to-day workflows? Or are they eager to try but uncertain where to start? They might be asking: Which tasks are best suited for AI? How will using AI affect my relationship with my customers? With so many tools available, which ones are the most useful to me? To help answer these and other common questions about using AI during the sales cycle, we surveyed B2B sellers who were early adopters to get their insight and advice about how to use gen A

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5 Ways to Accelerate Your Revenue Growth

yorCMO

We’ll cover five steps you should take to accelerate your revenue trajectory, and then we’ll close things out with a real-world story.

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More Than Half of Marketers Don’t Track Creator Retention or Churn, Leaving Brand Loyalists on the Table, According to Traackr Study

Traackr

Influencer Marketing Platform Traackr Launches Creator Lifecycle – New Insights on Creator Acquisition, Retention and Churn to Maximize Strongest Partnerships

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How to Reach New Customers in a Digital Age with Direct Mail Marketing

Whos Mailing What

Technology has significantly influenced how organizations do their marketing strategies in today’s rapidly advancing digital age.

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Traackr's New Creator Lifecycle Feature Helps Brands Sustainably Scale Creator Communities

Traackr

Sustainably scale your creator community with top performers utilizing Traackr’s insights on your brand’s acquired, retained, and churned creators.

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The Ultimate Email Marketing Toolkit

Tired of your emails getting lost in the noise? Ready to turn subscribers into customers? Our comprehensive toolkit will help you break through the noise and drive business impact. Key Benefits: Maximize Deliverability: Ensure your emails reach inboxes consistently. Personalize at Scale: Craft targeted messages that resonate with every recipient. Optimize for Results: A/B test your way to higher open rates, click-through rates, and conversions.

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How to Reach New Customers in a Digital Age with Direct Mail Marketing

Whos Mailing What

Technology has significantly influenced how organizations do their marketing strategies in today’s rapidly advancing digital age.

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Brand Protection: The complete guide by Adthena

Search Engine Land

The strongest paid search strategy builds on your brand’s unique value. Here, you control the customer experience and messaging, driving traffic that converts from search, via Google Ads. Your brand terms, message and unique selling points are yours to leverage – and in paid search, they should be your safe haven. But with fierce competition, protecting your brand in paid search is crucial.

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Why buyer groups matter in B2B demand gen and how to target them

Martech

In B2B demand generation , buyer groups have become more important than individual buyers. Traditionally, marketers focused on the buyer journey as if a single person handled research, evaluation and final selection. This approach assumed that targeting a CEO, CFO or CMO would likely result in a sale. However, in large organizations, this isn’t realistic.

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Phygital agency NEWU is here to surprise you

Martech

The long line of young women curled around the corner from the iconic Casa Magazines store on 8th Avenue in New York City and stretched along West 12th Street. They were there to eat popsicles in the warm sunshine, pick up gift bags from the high-end fashion brand Miu Miu and accept free copies of books Miu Miu had selected as “Summer Reads.” The books were not an afterthought.

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Data Modeling for Direct Mail: Boosting Multi-Channel Reach and Response

Speaker: Jesse Simms, VP at Giant Partners

This new, thought-provoking webinar will explore how even incremental efforts and investments in your data can have a tremendous impact on your direct mail and multi-channel marketing campaign results! Industry expert Jesse Simms, VP at Giant Partners, will share real-life case studies and best practices from client direct mail and digital campaigns where data modeling strategies pinpointed audience members, increasing their propensity to respond – and buy.