October, 2017

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13 Email Examples That Totally Nailed Personalization

Hubspot Marketing

If you're anything like most people, you can probably rattle off 100 different things you'd rather do than dig through your inbox. It starts to feel like a chore, because what's in there isn't very interesting. In fact, only 21% of consumers reported that they've received a memorable promotional email in the past two months, according to a study by Litmus.

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6 Email Marketing Tips for the B2B Marketer

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Content and social media marketing are excellent means of nurturing leads through the sales funnel, but they have their limitations. Getting site content in front of leads requires high search rankings for relevant keywords, and social media posts have a short lifespan and heavy competition. There is no guarantee that leads will discover content published on these channels.

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9 Stats That Will Make You Want to Invest in Content Marketing

Content Marketing Institute

Editor’s note: Because proving the value of content marketing continues to be necessary, Julia McCoy updated her 2016 post with some fresh stats and perspective. . Content marketing has been moving at the speed of light in recent years. Why? Consumers are fed up with in-your-face advertising and sales tactics that feel cheap, slimy, or underhanded.

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4 Exciting Video Marketing Trends for 2018

Marketing Insider Group

As we turn the corner to 2018, the evolution of video marketing isn’t slowing down. In fact, with one more year of technological innovation and creativity behind the camera, the world is in for more captivating video content over the next year. From virtual reality to live streaming, marketers are going immersive. Consumers can step into both […].

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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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[Infographic] Where B2B Marketers Turn When the Easy Road Ends | Traackr

Traackr

Take a stroll through the evolution of influencer marketing in B2B technology, and go deep into the specific challenges and solutions for technology brands.

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Why Content Marketing Projects Need Project Managers

Rock Content

There used to be a time when I didn’t fully understand what Project Managers actually did within content projects! Your job is to tell others to stay on track, right? I’m a Project Manager in the dad part of my life, I guess. Seriously, though, having worked with some fantastic Project Managers throughout my career in content marketing and technology, I now know their importance to, really, all content marketing projects – large or small.

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7 Marketing Campaign Essentials to Drive Success

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

We are continually obsessing over our marketing campaigns, but how often do we stop to work out precisely what this means and how to succeed step by step. Typically, a marketing campaign is a planned sequence of activities and processes which promote an individual product, service, or resources. A multitude of channels are used and coordinated to deliver effective results.

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How to Do a Competitive Content Marketing Analysis

Content Marketing Institute

What’s the first step to creating unique, differentiated content? Analyze the content created in your market. You need to know what your neighbors, friends, and competitors are publishing to ensure that you’re creating the most engaging, differentiated content. Completing a competitive content analysis helps you stay one step ahead in your content marketing strategy and use your competitors’ efforts to your advantage.

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What is Agile Marketing: Everything You Need to Know

Marketing Insider Group

This article has been updated, expanded, and republished. As audience expectations rise, marketing technology gets more sophisticated, and the number of channels we need to reach keeps growing, marketers are discovering that their tried and true ways of working just don’t cut it anymore. Fortunately, Agile marketing holds the key to making marketing work in […].

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[Video] 6 “Aha” Moments from Mark Schaefer about Influencer Marketing | Traackr

Traackr

Gain insight into the ever-evolving state of marketing from Mark Schaefer. Watch now and learn how to overcome your biggest marketing hurdle.

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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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9 Tips to Improve Your Content

Duct Tape Marketing

9 Tips to Improve Your Content written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Allow me to let you in on a little secret. You don’t have to be the best writer in the world to produce effective content, but you do need to create that content if you want to be a successful marketer, so it’s important you do what you can to improve your content writing.

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Brand Strategy 101: 7 Essentials for Strong Company Branding

Hubspot Marketing

Let's say you've come to the difficult realization that quite frankly your brand -- if you can even call it that -- is all over the place. Or perhaps worse, you have a defined brand, but you're noticing that it just doesn't seem to mesh with who you really are and what you really do. Don't panic. Before you get all hung up on what shade of green to use for your logo or what tone you're going to use when engaging with people on Twitter, you need to step back and take a look at the big picture.

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The 5 Elements of an Effective Digital Marketing Strategy for 2017 and Beyond

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

A digital marketing strategy is a marketing plan that draws on insights from almost every department within a company to design and implement seamless brand communications across every digital channel. Popular digital marketing channels include the company website, organic search, paid search, social media, and email. But digital technology is evolving at a rapid pace, and taking everything else with it.

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How to Take an Audience-First Approach to Your Content

Content Marketing Institute

How do you identify an effective space in the content arena for your brand? Take a journey with your audience. We developed the audience journey as a tool for content marketers. Its sole purpose is to align your brand’s content with the needs of your audience. It is based on the hero’s journey – a model commonly used in storytelling to attract and retain the attention of the audience throughout a narrative.

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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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5 Principles of Effective Social Selling

Marketing Insider Group

Social selling refers to the use of social media communities in your sales strategies. However, despite their similarities, social selling is not exactly like social media marketing. Social media marketing is about delivering content to a particular community or segment, whereas social selling refers to the meaningful interaction between salespeople and individual prospects.

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Answers to the Top Questions Asked During the B2B Influencer Marketing Webinar | Traackr

Traackr

From identification to compensation to measurement, get your questions about influencer marketing for B2B technology organizations answered in this post.

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How to Optimize Your Event Marketing Campaigns: Before, During and After Events

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Optimize Your Event Marketing Campaigns: Before, During and After Events written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Frost and Sullivan report that the live events industry is worth around $512 billion. Alon Alroy, CMO of Bizzabo, explains how event marketers can measure and optimize their event marketing campaigns before during and after the event process.

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How to Understand Facebook Insights for Social Video

Hubspot Marketing

Hi. I'm Nick, and I'm new to the HubSpot Marketing Blog. But I'm not new to HubSpot. I've been working at HubSpot for over a year now, and in that time, I've created more than 50 videos for HubSpot's Facebook page. And over the last year, we've grown our organic Facebook video views by nearly 250%. We used a lot of different content creation strategies to change our approach to Facebook videos, and knowing specifically what to track -- and why -- was a critical part of measuring our success and

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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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Moving from Volume to Value with Artificial Intelligence (AI) Built for Marketers

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

As a modern marketer, you know all too well how challenging it is to satisfy today’s demanding buyers. You’re doing your best to meet their ever-growing expectations for personalized and relevant experiences in the moment. It’s clear that marketers who shift from volume-based, one-size-fits-most communication to engaging segments of one with high-value experiences will be the ones who win over the hearts and minds of their customers.

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How 3 Serious Brands Engage Humanly on Social Media

Content Marketing Institute

Leaf through a portfolio of social media award winners, and you’re likely to see entrants from the tourism, cooking, and fashion industries. Putting together an Instagram or Snapchat plan for these companies may not be easy, but then again, emerald beaches and platefuls of poké make for great social sharing. . What about those less-than-obvious brands?

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5 Reasons to Write a Blog For Small Business

Marketing Insider Group

These days, it seems like everyone has a blog site. In fact, WordPress blogs alone are read by over 400 million people every month, with users creating over 80 million new posts, 44 million comments and 23 billion page views each and every month. But despite that, many old school businessmen question whether they should […]. The post 5 Reasons to Write a Blog For Small Business appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Finding your CMO 2.0: 5 Attributes for Longevity in the C-Suite | Traackr

Traackr

In response to Harvard Business Review’s The Trouble with CMOs, Traackr’s CEO divulges five attributes companies should seek in a long-lasting CMO.

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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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10 Offline Marketing Tips to Boost Your Online Brand

Duct Tape Marketing

10 Offline Marketing Tips to Boost Your Online Brand written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Just because the world wide web has become a place where brands get a chance at massive growth doesn’t mean offline strategies no longer work. In fact, learning how to effectively market your business to regular passersby or people not hooked to their mobile devices helps you maximize your efforts.

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That Fine Line Of Trickery In Digital Marketing: How Not To Cross It!

Rock Content

Digital marketing can be done a number of different ways. Slow or fast. Set or iterative. Right or wrong to a degree (of course, there are many different right answers to digital marketing issues). Authentically or trickery. I’m a big fan of running digital marketing in a fast way that’s iterative and actually allows me to figure out the right way for specific audiences.

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How to Use Drip Campaigns to Nurture Existing Customers

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Many marketers understand the power of implementing automated drip campaigns to turn leads into customers by moving them through the sales cycle. Truly successful marketers know the best bang for your marketing buck comes from using drip campaigns to nurture existing customers. Why? Smart marketers know that it’s easier and more cost effective to sell to existing customers than it is to cultivate new leads.

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Email Lists: When Smaller Is Actually Better

Content Marketing Institute

Have you been attracted to headlines like these? 50 Tips to Help You Get 50,000 Email Subscribers for Your List. 20 Ridiculously Easy Ways to Get More Email Subscribers. How to Build an Email Marketing List as Quickly as Possible. 10 Irresistible Incentives That Will Grow Your Email List—Fast. Of course you have, and I understand why: For us content marketers, eyeballs are everything.

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The Best Times of Day to Contact Leads

Ensure you are contacting leads on their schedule with this report! In our study of over 754,000 leads, we looked at what time of day people are most likely to respond, as well as response rates and qualification rates during business hours and after-hours. Download now to learn more.

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How Marketers Can Thrive in a Post-Digital World

Marketing Insider Group

There’s a flaw in the world of digital marketing. We’re living in a post-digital world! Adopting new marketing technology, expanding digital assets and shifting those advertising dollars to social media advertising and PPC are all part of the digital approach. But the world we’re marketing within has already moved on. And the result? We’re missing the […].

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A Data-Driven, Content-Led Approach to Beauty Influencer Identification | Traackr

Traackr

Identifying which beauty influencers you want to work with can be challenging. Here are 3 ways to find influencers based on contextually relevant topics.

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How to Make Your Business More Referable

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Make Your Business More Referable written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. “How can I make my business more referable?” I get asked this question all the time but the question people should be asking is “who do people refer?” Having the answer to that question will better prepare you to take advantage of this powerful marketing tactic.

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Sports Marketing: 7 Steps to Drive Audience Engagement

Rock Content

Sports connect many of us. We wear the same hats, shirts, and of course, connect digitally to our favorite teams and players. And while audiences continue to be broken up with the addition of more and more digital channels, this also allows sports teams around the globe to reach their die hard fans, as well as the casual ones, in new ways. “The biggest change I’ve seen for teams is their willingness to post original content intended solely for the digital space,” said Anthony Herron, a for

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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.