Tue.Nov 14, 2023

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8 Brainstorming Tools Marketers Need to Try in 2023

Hubspot Marketing

We’ve all been there: staring intensely at the screen, willing ideas to come to our minds.When words or ideas aren't shooting out of our minds or fingertips, we know we've entered a writers' block rut. This is where brainstorming tools come in. By helping us generate and organize ideas, they can help both individual marketers, or teams who are always brainstorming.

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What are Image Alt Tags, and How Do I Use Them?

Aspiration Marketing

Visuals play a vital role in online content and can also be inaccessible to some users. That's where image alt tags come into play. These tags are significant not only for accessibility but also for SEO. Whether you're a seasoned marketer or just getting started, understanding image alt tags is crucial for enhancing your website's user experience and search engine visibility.

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Authentic marketing myths and tips for getting it right

Sprout Social

“Authenticity”—there’s no question that it’s one of the biggest social media buzzwords. But don’t be fooled—authentic marketing is only becoming more important. According to this year’s Sprout Social Index™ , the number one reason consumers follow brands on social is to stay informed about products and services. But at the same time, the Index also found that authentic, non-promotional content is the number one thing consumers don’t see enough from brands.

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Facebook Updates: Reels A/B Testing Tool, New Ads, Broadcast Channels, and More

Social Media Examiner

Are you up to date on changes from Facebook? Wondering which recent Facebook updates are important to marketers and business owners? In this article, we explore Facebook changes that affect your marketing. #1: Ad-Free Facebook Subscriptions Meta announced the rollout of a paid subscription without ads to EU, EEA, and Swiss users, balancing regulators' requirements […] The post Facebook Updates: Reels A/B Testing Tool, New Ads, Broadcast Channels, and More appeared first on Social Media Exa

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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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2023 in review: 3 key trends to inform your 2024 marketing plan

Martech

Whoa, did you just hear that? If you’re a retailer, an ecommerce company, or anybody else who relies on Q4 to make big money, that distant rumbling is the Black Friday engine revving up to what will become a deafening roar. At this time of year, we’re all crazy, working on campaigns, tightening our final strategy and getting ready to run the last big race.

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5 Tips for Turning Your Social Media Following Into a Paid Membership Community

Buffer Marketing

When I was building a social media audience for an e-commerce company I ran a few years ago, the go-to options for monetizing that audience never appealed to me. It felt like advertising or brand sponsorships would water down the content. Plus, I never liked the idea of monetizing an audience for the sake of doing so—I wanted to create something so meaningful that people wanted to support my work by paying for it.

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4 essential ways to boost your marketing automation program

Martech

Marketing automation platforms (MAPs) help marketers speed up processes and increase efficiency. There are always more tasks that can be added to the marketing automation program and other ways that the program can be improved. Here are four essential steps marketers can take to boost MAP performance and drive value for their organization. Reverse engineer segmentation Customer segmentation is something marketers frequently do to improve marketing automation and make sure the right messages are

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Treat Your Marketing Database as an Audience? That’s a Mistake

Content Marketing Institute

Modern marketing teams recognize the value of building an audience. But what does that really mean? Haven’t content marketers already been doing that? Well, let’s start with a marketing database is not an audience.

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How to Give a Great Presentation (+ Expert Tips)

Hubspot Marketing

In your career as a business professional, there’s a good chance you’ll be asked to give a presentation, be it in the office or at an event. So we’ve spoken to experts across several industries who shared some presentation tips that can help you overcome the fear of public speaking, which affects 75% of the general population. In this piece, you’ll also learn the elements of a great presentation and the breakdown of a real-life TED talk that encompasses most of the tips provided by experts.

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Ecommerce Benefits of Content Marketing

Practical eCommerce - Marketing

Done well, content helps merchants attract, engage, and retain customers. The post Ecommerce Benefits of Content Marketing 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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Hiring a marketing technology manager: 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 embedded 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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Google Analytics 4 can now be integrated with Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Search Engine Land

Google Analytics 4 properties can now be connected to Salesforce Marketing Cloud using the Sales Marketing Cloud interface. Integration is available to both GA4 standard and 360 properties for the first time to anyone who was previously using the same setup with Universal Analytics 360. Why we care. GA4 integrated with Salesforce Marketing Cloud allows you to sync audiences from Analytics to Marketing Cloud.

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What marketers really want to know about GenAI

Martech

Generative AI has produced a lot of hype, but has the hype translated into application among marketing leaders and practitioners? Most agree that generative AI brings equal parts opportunity and apprehension, but very few answers when it comes to the practice of marketing and the impact it will have on customer experiences. Join experts as they answer the questions most marketers have about GenAI.

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Google’s Florida update: 20 years since the SEO ‘volcanic eruption’ 

Search Engine Land

I remember well how, seemingly, one flick of a Google switch impacted the entire SEO community. Google’s Florida Update of 2003 affected Google search results for the industry and end users. I was at a huge gathering of SEOs who all had the same thing on their minds. I saw many almost grief-stricken faces of website owners who “bet the farm” on free traffic from Google for their online businesses, only to wake up one morning and discover their once top-ranking webpages had dropped – to so

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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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How Much Does YouTube Pay Per View? We Tested It!

Hootsuite

Ever wonder how much your average cat video generates on YouTube? Or maybe, whether or not you can pay your rent with your ukulele cover of Baby Shark? Before you quit your day job, you’ve got to answer the question, “How much does YouTube pay per view?” Get ready because we’ve taken it upon ourselves to answer whether or not monetizing your YouTube channel is worth it.

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Boosting search conversions: 5 behavioral strategies to test

Search Engine Land

SEO and PPC professionals are all in the business of driving more traffic to websites. But are you getting the most out of the visitors you already have? This is a critical question. And, often, the answer is “no.” A solid search marketing strategy requires a customer experience plan as its core. Even if customer experience isn’t your direct responsibility, it should be on your radar.

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Balenciaga And Michelle Yeoh: Redefining Beauty Standards In 2023

CMO Network

Let’s applaud Balenciaga for selecting Michelle Yeoh—the first Asian to win an Oscar—as a brand ambassador. Not just savvy business but a bold move toward inclusivity.

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Report: Yandex search engine for sale

Search Engine Land

Yandex N.V., which is now a Dutch holding company, is looking to sell off its search engine and all of its other Russian assets as part of a deal estimated to be between $5 billion and $6 billion, Reuters reported. Likely sale? A sale could come as early as December. Yandex N.V. might sell 100% of all its Russian assets or hold share options. “Dutch holding company Yandex NV’s planned restructuring is aimed at recouping some shareholder funds with the sale of its main revenue-generat

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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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Pay-For-Play: Are Subscription Fees the Future of All Social Media Platforms?

Rock Content

The current leading social media platforms – Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and X – are beginning to develop and test paid models for their platforms to eliminate advertising. Social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter , has already started testing this billing model with X users in New Zealand and the Philippines. A fee of $1 is charged for new users who want access to the platform.

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SearchBot upgraded with 12 new personas, AI image generation

Search Engine Land

SearchBot – the first generative AI chatbot for search marketers – is now a suite of marketing generative AI tools. You can now: Access 13 new chatbot personas (each designed to meet a unique marketing use case). Create images using generative AI. Get prompt suggestions and tips. New persona-driven AI chatbots. You can try 13 pre-prompted “personas” that were created to provide help and generate marketing (or complete other generalized tasks – sales, revenue generation, MOps, HR, tal

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Website UX Checklist: A Guide to Improve Your Site’s UX Design

Rock Content

In 2023 and beyond, a great website is more than just something helpful to have at your disposal. It’s the place most of your existing and future customers will go to connect with your brand or take a closer look at what you have to offer, so it needs to cover all the right bases. That means cultivating a user experience that meets current consumer expectations and is easy to use on every level.

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Lifting the lid on Google’s black box to find growth by Adthena

Search Engine Land

So, you headed into 2023 with a new pair of running shoes. You set off for your first run, but the track was much tougher than you first expected. At the end of your run, you realize that your heart rate remained in the red zone throughout, working you harder than you would have done in perfect conditions. The moral of the metaphor: When pushed into the unknown, we tend to do quite well. 2023 has been a transformative year despite its many hurdles.

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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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Acquia acquires tech platform to expand DXP capabilities

Martech

Acquia kicked off the annual Engage conference by announcing a major acquisition and expansion of the company’s digital experience platform (DXP) based on the purchase. The Boston-based company is purchasing the website accessibility and optimization platform Monsido from CivicPlus, a provider of government technology solutions. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but it is expected to be finalized early next year.

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Microsoft updates email notification process for ad disapprovals

Search Engine Land

Microsoft has updated its email notification process to promptly inform marketers about disapprovals in their ads, keywords, and product offers. These changes include: More frequent alerts. Enhanced insights. Technical error notifications. Why we care. The enhanced notification process is designed to give marketers quicker and more detailed information about ad disapprovals.

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Emotional Language Improves AI Responses

CMO Network

A new study shows that adding emotional language to prompts can significantly improve the quality of results from ChatGPT and other LLMs.

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Insider Secrets On How To Market Your Small Business

InTouch Marketing

Marketing has changed rapidly over the last few years. For many businesses, the same old marketing strategies they have always used aren't working anymore, and they find themselves at a loss as to what to do.

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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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How The Fem League Cultivates Curiosity And Female Leadership To Confront Global Challenges

CMO Network

The Fem League, founded by the dynamic entrepreneur and former Vogue model, Yomi Abiola, is not merely a boutique leadership development firm.

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How to sell your ebook: From marketing and launching, to building an audience

AWeber

You can’t go on vacation these days without seeing someone on their e-reader. And that’s fantastic news for ebook creators. The ebook market should hit $14 billion in the U.S. alone by the end of this year. It will expand to an expected global market of 1.1 billion readers by 2027. But even in a hefty market like that, success isn’t guaranteed. If you want to sell ebooks in this climate, you’ll need to stand out from the other sellers.

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What marketers really want to know about GenAI by Cynthia Ramsaran

Search Engine Land

Generative AI has produced a lot of hype, but has the hype translated into application among marketing leaders and practitioners? Most agree that generative AI brings equal parts opportunity and apprehension, but very few answers when it comes to the practice of marketing and the impact it will have on customer experiences. Join experts as they answer the questions most marketers have about GenAI.

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How AI and Robotics Helps Employees Build Fans at British Airways

David Meerman Scott

I was fascinated by a little robot working away at the British Airways lounge in Boston. What a great example of how Artificial Intelligence and Robotics can help workers.

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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.