Hubspot Marketing

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

When marketers like us create landing pages, write email copy, or design call-to-action buttons, it can be tempting to use our intuition to predict what will make people click and convert. But basing marketing decisions off of a "feeling" can be pretty detrimental to results. Rather than relying on guesses or assumptions to make these decisions, you're much better off running conversion rate optimization (CRO) tests -- sometimes called A/B tests.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

As marketers, we spend vast amounts of time, effort, and sometimes money producing content and campaigns that speak to our prospects and customers to convince them to move to the next step of the customer journey. But there are ways in which our content and campaigns fall short for our audiences. In this blog, I’ll show you the four reasons your content isn’t working and what you can do to improve. 1.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Getting your content marketing analysis right isn’t just about finding out how successful your strategy is and validating it to stakeholders. It’s the only way you’ll be able to make your content marketing strategy better and use it for achieving business goals. Without the right metrics, you are making decisions in the dark, possibly without […].

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Content Marketing Institute

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

It’s obviously not enough to create an account on Instagram and start shooting photos to share. Successful content marketers on this social platform tailor their content to take advantage of the channel’s strengths, from hashtags and Stories to advertising and live video. Let’s explore how to use these features to maximize your content marketing strategy.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

How to Remove Writers Block and Come Up with Awesome Content Ideas written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Seth Godin is often quoted as saying Content Marketing is the only marketing left. The real truth is this. Useful marketing is the only marketing people will tolerate and content marketing can be very, very useful. However, even when you have the time to produce the content , that doesn’t always mean your mind is right there with you.

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Rock Content

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

It may only happen once every four years, but loyal sports enthusiasts have come out in droves this year to watch the winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea and to support their country and favorite teams. While the Olympics have a way of naturally bringing communities together, creating this self-sustaining buzz during an incredibly short period of time, what do we do for the rest of the year?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Social selling—where salespeople leverage social networking to connect with the right prospects and forge deeper, more meaningful relationships—has emerged as one of the hottest sales industry trends in recent times. This is mostly thanks to the growth of social media. However, many organizations are finding the process of actually implementing a social selling methodology into their sales training programs to be a challenge.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Where a lot of marketers fall short in developing a content marketing strategy is in understanding the importance of the strategy relative to tactics and plans. That all-important unifying force that should be both driving and pulling together every element of your content, from the design of your landing pages to the experience customers have […].

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Content Marketing Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Anyone who has learned about the fundamentals of content marketing knows the concept isn’t all that complicated – consistently provide something of relevant value to your target audience in the hope it will ultimately return the favor in kind. Serving the needs of your audience with valuable, high-quality content in this way is an admirable goal for any company.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Using Content As Your Voice of Strategy written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. I’ve said it once (or twice) and I’ll say it again: content is no longer king, it’s air. It not only touches all aspects of your marketing these days but of your business as well. Your audience expects to find information about any product, service, or challenge they face simply by typing a keyword into Google.

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Traackr

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Social Tribe’s Megan Conley explains why a holistic approach to your influencer program can help you gain buy-in and scale an always-on strategy.

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Hubspot Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Wouldn't it be great if creating infographics was as simple as writing regular ol' text-based blog posts? Unfortunately, the reality is that making visual content like this usually takes a lot more time, effort, and let's face it -- skill -- than the written word. Usually. But considering the popularity and effectiveness of visual content in marketing today, you can't just afford to throw in the towel.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Metrics, metrics, metrics! You can’t avoid them. Did you know that when it comes to tracking your social media metrics, there are millions that you could be analyzing to reach your KPIs? ( Well maybe not millions, but there are really quite a few to choose from. ) KPIs of course, are the values used by marketing and social media teams to measure the performance of your social media campaigns.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Few terms raise the ire of the buzzword police more than thought leadership. But what is thought leadership? When should you consider using it, and how do you balance the talent and experience of your team with the humility and authenticity today’s audiences demand? Let’s start by getting on the same page. What Is Thought […]. The post What Is Thought Leadership?

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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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Content Marketing Institute

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Remember when you could write an amazing blog post, paste the link with a featured image, and hit share on social to see your web traffic grow? The same old content promotion tactics don’t work anymore. With organic reach rapidly declining on social media, you need new ways to effectively promote blog content without paying for it. In this post, I’ll walk you through four effective and unconventional ways to promote your blog content on social media without paying for it.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

How to Create Effective Content Without Adding More to Your To-Do List written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Content influences not only all aspects of our marketing but of our entire business as well. Content is not something you can take lightly. It needs to be front and center of your strategy and it needs to be done well. The only issue is, it’s time-consuming.

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Rock Content

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Every piece of content should be written in a language and tone befitting your audience. But do you know how to create content that speaks to them? Take Rosetta Stone for instance, they grew from a model that was all about language learning and moved into education technology. With millions of learners worldwide, the company has expanded its offerings and propelled the learning of a second language for native english speakers.

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Hubspot Marketing

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

As an acquisition marketer, I hear questions like this all the time: "Is the PDF dead? Is the webinar dead now too? How should we continue generating leads for our sales team while continuing to innovate on the content formats we produce and gate behind a form?". It’s 2018, and the way our prospects and customers find and consume content has certainly changed.

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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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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Over the last decade, marketers’ opinions of events have gone up and down. To some, events can be a monumental waste of money. But to many others, there’s an increasing sense of value in running expos and conferences. They bring your best customers together and attract a wider audience from your target market. It’s what happens at the event that matters.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Predictive analytics fuel growth. Research shows, B2B marketers that use predictive analytics to develop their marketing strategies are 2.9 times more likely to experience above industry average revenue growth rates. Their organizations are 2.1 times more likely to be positioned as an industry leader. Prescriptive analytics defines it. By 2015, the vast majority of B2B marketers, about […].

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Content Marketing Institute

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Kate Santore took the stage at Content Marketing World to share Coca-Cola’s storytelling ethos – and in the process inspired marketers to ask, “What if?”. “Sharing our strategies and approach to marketing has been a tradition at Coca-Cola to open the door for other brands to learn from our 130 years of marketing experience,” Kate says. “Sharing this ‘thought-ware’ collectively raises the bar for every brand and therefore makes us strive for bigger, better, bolder.”.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Stop Networking and Start Focusing on Relationships That Matter written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Scott Gerber. Podcast Transcript. My guest for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is Scott Gerber. He is the co-founder and CEO of The Community Company as well as Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) and Forbes Councils.

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Lusha

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

My name is Lusha, and I’m here to spread the word on the latest tools and techniques that can help sales professionals. Today, I’ll be looking at how to get the most from one of the most powerful platforms out there for sales reps: LinkedIn. Historically, LinkedIn was perceived as a job hunting and recruitment platform. However, it is now the go-to business networking venue and is an extremely effective lead generation tool.

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Hubspot Marketing

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Today’s B2B buyers rely on digital channels through every stage of their journeys -- even long after in-person sales interactions with reps. As a result, commercial organizations’ efforts to identify, nurture, and pursue opportunities “serially” -- first through digital engagement via marketing, followed by a hand-off to sales for in-person interaction -- is failing to support the way customers actually buy.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

The GDPR, or General Data Protection Regulation (2016/679), is a unifying update to European Union law that will apply directly to the processing of all personal data in the Union on May 25, 2018. Prior to that date, the law of privacy in the E.U. has been governed by Member State laws passed under the E.U. Privacy Directive (95/46/EC), which had considerable variation among them.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Every business wants to get its name out there, but when you’re a small business with a modest budget, it’s hard to come up with traditional and online marketing ideas while balancing marketing expenses against the expenses of actually doing business. And with advertising costing as much as it does, it’s no wonder that so […]. The post Small Business Marketing: Brands On A Budget appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Content Marketing Institute

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

It’s a hazard of the job for content marketers. When you read or see a piece of high-quality content, you wonder how it got created. You ask yourself, “What does this company do to create great content? Is it great for business too?”. The simple answer is high-quality content serves both audience and business. “It’s written in such an energetic and engaging way that it will trigger the audience to take actions,” says Massimo Chieruzzi, CEO of AdEspresso.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Content Marketing is About Customers, Not Keywords written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch About Content Marketing for Small Business. I’ve had content marketing for small business on the brain recently so I thought I’d write about it today. “ Boy, there is a topic that hasn’t been covered recently,” said nobody in a long time.

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Lusha

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

My name is Lusha, and I’m here to spread the word on the latest tools and techniques that can help sales professionals. Today, I’ll be looking at how to get the most from one of the most powerful platforms out there for sales reps: LinkedIn. Historically, LinkedIn was perceived as a job hunting and recruitment platform. However, it is now the go-to business networking venue and is an extremely effective lead generation tool.

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Traackr

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

In a Vogue 73 Questions spin-off, we ask Jay Acunzo 23 questions to get his thoughts on everything from his biggest brand crush to his hidden talent.

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