Thu.Mar 21, 2024

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What is Return on Ad Spend (ROAS), and What Constitutes a Good One? 

Aspiration Marketing

Advertising is often a cornerstone for business success in an era dominated by digital interactions. Amid this landscape, understanding Return on Ad Spend (ROAS) is critical to guide your marketing efforts (especially if you're on a budget). ROAS, the keystone metric, defines the effectiveness of every advertising dollar invested. It's not just about expenses but the actual returns generated.

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Laying the groundwork for AI in MOps: How to get started

Martech

As artificial intelligence technologies rapidly advance, marketing teams are tasked with integrating these powerful tools into their existing operations. However, this transition can be daunting, especially if your MOps function was established before the rapid rise of AI. In this first article of our four-part series, we’ll outline the fundamental steps for incorporating AI into MOps, paving the way for the subsequent articles to delve deeper into planning AI integration with people, proc

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How I Repurpose Blog Content into LinkedIn Posts to Expand My Reach

Buffer Marketing

If you’re publishing quality blog content, you’re also creating ideal content for LinkedIn — you just need to learn how to repurpose it. I’m Irina, a Growth and SEO Advisor, and I help companies grow their visibility with inbound marketing. During the last eight years, I’ve helped well-known SaaS companies (like Hunter and Aura) grow their traffic to hundreds of thousands of sessions from organic and social media channels.

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Digital advertisers still looking for recipe to thrive in cookieless world by Stirista

Martech

Marketers can’t call Google’s bluff anymore. The company finally removed cookies for 1% of Chrome users (or around 30 million people) back in January. And as the conversation around PAIR, Google’s new identity solution that allows publishers and advertisers to match first-party data to deliver personalized ads, gathers more and more momentum each day, there’s one thing we can be sure about — when it comes to the deprecation of cookies, this time, it’s for real.

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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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Diving Deep Into Marketing in Construction (My Takeaways)

Hubspot Marketing

As the pandemic surged in 2020, people stayed home, and demand for home improvement services went through the roof. Construction companies swooped in and launched targeted marketing campaigns. One example is Brett Landscaping , which sold almost its stock of higher-priced porcelain paving products. Fast forward to 2024, people are at work. The economic outlook is grim, and interest rates and inflation are high.

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Product Marketing Strategy: How to Build Multi-Million Dollar Businesses

Social Media Examiner

Wondering how to successfully launch a new product? Looking for a proven framework to model? In this article, you'll discover the marketing strategy one entrepreneur used to grow Mint, AppSumo, and many other products. Why Is a Product Marketing Strategy Important? Launching a successful new product or service requires both creativity and analytical rigor.

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Find UK TikTok Influencers for your brand

Sprout Social

Looking to build buzz for your UK-based brand? There’s never been a better time to invest in influencer marketing —especially UK TikTok influencers. The platform, known for its fast-moving trends and authentic content, is often tough for brands to break into. However, working with local UK TikTok influencers provides you with plenty of opportunities to reach a wide range of people and niches.

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Marketo March 2024 release: Focus on Dynamic Chat Conversation Flow

Martech

Adobe Marketo closed out Q1 with a relatively light release primarily focused on Dynamic Chat Conversational Flow enhancements. Let’s dig in. Advanced Conversational Flow logic You are now able to add multiple fields to a single targeting choice within a Conversational Flow, whereas previously you were limited to a single field per choice. The fields available for targeting are based on the fields included on your form.

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How To Find and Include More Underrepresented Voices in Your Content

Content Marketing Institute

People often quote Steve Jobs and Bill Gates about leadership. Marketers often go to men in their industry for expert and customer quotes. It’s time to elevate the voices of women and other underrepresented communities in your content.

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Turbulence ahead: The wrath of the March 2024 core update is not linear 

Search Engine Land

SEOs are already speculating about which update did what to which sites (the March 2024 core update or March 2024 spam update ) and what sites should or shouldn’t be doing. This is a bit dangerous. Meanwhile, Google is urging SEOs to be patient and to let this thing play out. Google isn’t yanking your chain. There is a ton of volatility and a ton of reversals happening at the moment.

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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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Why Duplicate Content Is an SEO Issue | Solutions Revealed

Kuno Creative

Copy, paste, publish. We all know that plagiarizing someone else’s website content is unacceptable from a legal, moral and search engine optimization standpoint. But what about copying your own content? Why is having duplicate content an issue for SEO? Duplicate content on your website is a tricky, nuanced topic that’s often misunderstood. Google issued their official stance on the “duplicate content penalty” back in 2008 and a lot has changed since then, especially in terms of user experience o

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Accurate keywords are essential in contextual targeting

illumin

Using accurate keywords is a critical part of contextual targeting. While keyword research is a good first step, it isn’t enough. Marketers need to use specific and relevant keywords to sell their brand. The context surrounding a word is just as important as the word itself. Keywords and product names can be flagged as inappropriate or irrelevant out of context.

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4 keys to SEO and PPC collaboration in 2024

Search Engine Land

Every year brings a ton of change in digital marketing. In each of my 10 years in the industry, I’ve noticed that the beginning of the year can mark a surge in calls for SEO and PPC to work together. The difference in 2024? There’s an elephant in the room: AI. Google’s organic and paid sides are both rushing to adopt AI. From Search Generative Experience (SGE) to Gemini (formerly Bard), the SERP results for both paid and organic are evolving almost daily.

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How Brands, Agencies, and Media Buyers Can Use Push Notifications Strategy?

Rock Content

Have you ever thought about using push notifications strategy for advertising? Push notifications strategy involves quick messages that pop up on devices, offering a straightforward way for businesses to talk directly to their audience without getting lost in a sea of emails. Instead, they offer timely updates, instant reminders, or promotions, aiming to engage users by bringing valuable information right to their fingertips.

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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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Google Analytics 4 addresses Google Ads report discrepancies with conversion update

Search Engine Land

Google Analytics is shifting from tracking conversions to using “key events” for behavioral analytics, aligning its definition with Google Ads platforms. This update ensures that what constitutes a conversion will be consistent and easily comparable between Google Ads and GA4 reporting, providing marketers clearer insights into user behavior across platforms.

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7 Strategies to Diversify Your Content and Attract New Audiences

Scoop.it!

Content is king. It helps you connect with a relevant audience and generate awareness about your brand. Content is the key to generating traction for your online business and capturing quality leads for your sales funnel. However, doing so may be easier said than done, as growing businesses often find it challenging to attract and engage new audiences through their content strategy.

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How to onboard an SEO agency the right way

Search Engine Land

The decision to hire a new SEO agency brings high hopes for what might be achieved together. In these early stages, optimism runs high. However, successful partnerships require more than just hopeful thinking; you have to put in the work from the start. Whether it’s your first time or tenth, streamlining the ramp-up period when onboarding a new SEO agency will save you effort in the long run and lay the path to a productive partnership.

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The Ultimate Ranking Recipe: Content, Links & The Power of Persuasion

Duct Tape Marketing

The Ultimate Ranking Recipe: Content, Links & The Power of Persuasion written by John Jantsch 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 Tim Brown, founder of Hook Agency, a leading SEO and web design firm specializing in home service businesses such as roofing companies, HVAC, and plumbing services.

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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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Developing a Strategic Gameplan for Your B2B Marketing Efforts with John Lenker

The LeadG2 Blog

In this episode, we’re discussing the importance of hashing out a strategic gameplan for your B2B marketing efforts. We ask questions like: What are the key elements that should be included in a strategic marketing gameplan? What is a market opportunity analysis, and why is it so important? And how do you strike the right balance between personalized communication and scalable approaches when it comes to B2B spaces?

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8 Types of Email Content to Send Your Audience

Campaign Monitor

Engaging your audience with new email marketing strategies can be exciting, but knowing where to start can be daunting. While there are dozens of routes you can take when creating email marketing content that aligns with your audience’s preferences, we’re sharing some content inspiration that will ensure you’re sending compelling emails that your subscribers will look forward to seeing in their inboxes.

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Microsoft unveils key Performance Max updates and Smart Shopping sunset timeline

Search Engine Land

Microsoft confirmed the timelines for the introduction of key automated features like conversion value rules and video assets to Performance Max. Additionally, the tech giant provided additional insights into the deprecation timeline for Smart Shopping campaigns, which is set to begin in Q3 of this year. Why we care. If Microsoft can provide a product with capabilities equivalent to PMax within Google Ads, advertisers might be inclined to shift their ad budgets from Google to Microsoft’s P

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Struggling with B2B Industrial Marketing? Your Essential Guide to Proven Strategies & Tactics

Tiecas

B2B industrial marketing presents unique challenges compared to other forms of B2B marketing. Longer sales cycles, complex technical products, and a highly analytical buyer persona are just a few factors that set it apart. If you’re a marketer at a manufacturer, distributor, or engineering company, you know this firsthand. So, what can this post offer that you couldn’t find with a simple Google search?

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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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Digital advertisers still looking for recipe to thrive in cookieless world by Stirista

Search Engine Land

Marketers can’t call Google’s bluff anymore. The company finally removed cookies for 1% of Chrome users (or around 30 million people) back in January. And as the conversation around PAIR, Google’s new identity solution that allows publishers and advertisers to match first-party data to deliver personalized ads, gathers more and more momentum each day, there’s one thing we can be sure about — when it comes to the deprecation of cookies, this time, it’s for real.

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Simple Two Page Marketing Strategy Plan

David Meerman Scott

Here's a simple marketing strategy planning template to help you implement strategies and tactics for reaching buyers directly. I believe it's essential to shift out of the marketer's comfort zone of preaching about products and services and the template helps people to do just that.

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AI-powered martech releases and news: March 21

Martech

Right now we’re using AI to detect AI-generated content, AI to generate content that will avoid AI-detectors and AI to review the work of AI researchers. At the same time, OpenAI’s chatbot store is filling up with spam created by … you guessed it … AI. I am not saying we’ve reached peak AI recursiveness, but I am not not saying it, either. I guarantee that sentence will get past all AI-content detectors because AI can’t do silly.

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Maximize Political Mail with Political Power Up

DirectMail2.0

With industry experts projecting political ad spending to surge to $10.2 billion in 2024—a notable 13% increase from 2020—there’s never been a more crucial time to harness the power of omnichannel marketing. Watch this winning webinar on leveraging Political Power Up to elevate your political campaign strategies. Political Power Up is revolutionizing the scene by seamlessly integrating direct mail with digital platforms, providing unparalleled insights into campaign effectiveness.

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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.

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How Beef ‘O’ Brady’s streamlines customer experience

Martech

Family sports pub chain Beef ‘O’ Brady’s is building a unified customer experience for pickup, delivery and dining in. By managing these many moving parts within a single platform (or technically, two connected platforms for ordering and loyalty), the customer data also comes together. Whether ordering on a third-party app like UberEats or Doordash, or on Beef ‘O’ Brady’s mobile hub, customers will find greater consistency, along with relevant offers for their next online purchase or visit.

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WriterAccess Humanizer: Where AI Meets Authenticity

Rock Content

AI has emerged as a powerful scribe in a digital landscape where content is king. In this new AI algorithmic rush, the soul of storytelling often gets lost. With 84% of marketers affirming AI’s influence on their strategies and Google’s latest updates, the need for authenticity is not just apparent – it’s imperative. WriterAccess Humanizer is an innovative service designed to breathe life into AI-generated content and ensure it resonates with both search algorithms and human h

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What Is the Best Website Platform for Your Business?

SMA Marketing

Whether you’re looking to refresh your website or launch a new business site, your chosen website platform is important. Website builder platforms have greatly improved. However, some key differences set them apart. Learn more about what to look for when choosing the best website platform for your business below. What Is a Website Builder? Website builders provide a convenient option for creating websites without the need for coding.

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New Luxury Marketing Report: Athlete Influencers Win Big for Luxury Brands in 2024

Traackr

Luxury marketing report from Traackr and Luxurynsight finds professional athletes are winning the hearts and minds of consumers in the lead-up to the Olympics

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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