Hubspot Marketing

AUGUST 30, 2017

Mad Men fans everywhere remember the pivotal first scene where we learn just how talented Don Draper is at his job. Faced with an almost-impossible copywriting task, he rose to the occasion to solve a huge problem for his client, Lucky Strike. In spite of research warning customers of the dangers of cigarettes, Draper delivered the iconic slogan -- "It's toasted" -- to differentiate the brand from its competitors.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 31, 2017

In one of our bi-monthly #marketochat’s, we discussed How to Build a Vibrant Community on Twitter with Social Media Influencer, Madalyn Sklar. Twitter continues to be a place that people go in order to find out brand information, so it is critical that you are building the right community for your brand and follower base. In this blog, we’ll cover Madalyn Skylar’s advice on building a vibrant community on Twitter from a recent #marketochat.

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Traackr

AUGUST 29, 2017

Here are the top 20 marketing influencers in the Latin America. These leading voices are innovators in the LATAM marketing space.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 15, 2017

Content marketing at its best will draw you in without you even realizing what hit you. Nowhere is the power of good content more apparent than in the unsexiest of industries – finance. It’s not overly challenging to make fashion brands or vacation destinations appealing. But tax accounting? Now that takes skill. When marketers can […]. The post 6 Inspiring Content Marketing Examples from an Uninspiring Industry appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Rock Content

AUGUST 24, 2017

Most of my writing and speaking around content marketing and journalism is kind of one-way and focuses around: How journalists can make the jump to content marketing. How corporate content marketing teams can use journalistic tactics to improve their storytelling. But on the flipside, media companies and journalists can actually use content marketing strategies to help themselves continue to build their own audiences.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 25, 2017

5 Phrases To Banish From Your Copywriting (And What To Replace Them With) written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. As marketers, we’re all doing two things: Writing with the intent to sell something. Maybe it’s a product description in an e-commerce store, maybe it’s a landing page trying to generate a lead, or maybe it’s a blog post (like this one!

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 30, 2017

For most marketers, the idea of strategically “going dark” on social media screams marketing faux pas. From irregular posting to unorganized content, a mismanaged marketing calendar is nothing but blatant disregard for best practices. And in today’s marketing industry, companies live and die based on the organizational quality of their content calendars.

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Traackr

AUGUST 29, 2017

Who leads the Dreamforce conversation? Discover the top influencers leading conversations around Salesforce's Marketing Cloud, Sales Cloud and Service Cloud.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 7, 2017

Trust is the glue that binds together any relationship. This includes the all-important brand-customer bond. When consumers trust your brand, they will feel more confident in your products and services. Your odds of lead conversion and customer retention go from the toss of a die to the flip of a coin. A study done by […]. The post 7 Tips for Building Trust with Your Content Marketing appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Rock Content

AUGUST 21, 2017

As content marketers, the holy grail of challenges we all face is figuring out how to create engaging, relevant content that ultimately converts and strengthens the relationship we have with our audiences. One of the many risks when it comes to investing in content is a lack of guarantee that all the time, budget, and effort your team devotes is going to yield your desired results.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 22, 2017

Master These 3 Things and Your SEO Plan Will Come Together written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Let’s de-mystify search engine optimization. I want to help you understand that SEO is not only important, but it’s something you should really master to a degree for your business. You should have the ability to handle SEO on your own, or at least be able to find somebody that is reputable and not just trying to rip you off.

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Hubspot Marketing

AUGUST 28, 2017

Reputation is everything. And on the internet, that couldn't be more true. It's important to always know what people are saying about you -- whether it's your customers, your competitors, or the press. And on any given day, it can be tricky to keep up with what your audience is sharing across a variety of social media platforms. So, we've rounded up some of the best free social media and brand monitoring tools from around the vast web of social networks.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 28, 2017

The dreaded blank screen stares back at you. Your to-do list is growing. You’re bleary-eyed. All you want to do is to kick up your feet at the end of a long day and enjoy your favorite beverage. It’s up to you, however, to turn the stubborn empty page into a tasty blog post that your audience devours. And that leaves you struggling to shoehorn the creation of a blog post into the days when you don’t have a minute to spare.

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Traackr

AUGUST 29, 2017

Discover why Influence 2.0 matters and check out what 11 industry experts had to say about the shift from influencer marketing to influencer relations.

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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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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 1, 2017

There is an entire world of content out there beyond blogs. It’s true, they are one of the most widely used forms of content. 4 out of 5 brands use blogs as part of their marketing strategy. They’re cited as the most effective type of content for lead generation – the number one concern of B2B marketers […]. The post Content Marketing Without a Blog – Is It Possible?

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Rock Content

AUGUST 8, 2017

In digital we are obsessed with measurement and data; there are hundreds of ways to collect stats on how websites perform and how users are interacting with each site. It becomes easy to be blinded by data and hit a wall of numbers. However, data is only useful if you can extract insight from it that will help drive your business forward. The best way to do this is to streamline the information you’re looking at to be only the most relevant and useful figures to your overall business goals.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 4, 2017

Revive and Re-purpose: How to Use Old Content for Better Results written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Today’s modern world relies heavily on the internet to make transactions and businesses even faster. In a single click, an item from the other corner of the world could be right on your doorstep in just a few days time. Truly, the age of the modern world is upon us.

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Hubspot Marketing

AUGUST 4, 2017

At HubSpot, our one-minute Facebook videos usually receive more views than our longer videos. So how is it that our third most viewed video right now is almost four minutes long? Facebook will boost a video’s organic reach if it deeply engages viewers , so we knew our video needed to grip our audience from start to finish -- especially since it’s four times longer than the majority of our videos.

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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

AUGUST 25, 2017

There’s no doubt that data is a marketer’s very best friend these days. According to Forbes , best-in-class marketers are 56% more likely to use data and analytics platforms and 64% of marketing executives see data-driven marketing as crucial to success in a globalized economy. But, as the importance of data in marketing has greatly increased, the line between art and science has blurred.

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Traackr

AUGUST 29, 2017

Shane Barker, digital marketing consultant, reveals how to find the ideal influencers for your brand and how to successfully reach out to them.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 28, 2017

Whether your business is in digital marketing starter kit mode or you have saturated the web with your brand’s presence already, you’re missing out if you aren’t using a content marketing strategy. The effectiveness of having a written-out, well developed, thoughtful strategy isn’t just a theory or the experience-based opinion of top marketers. It is […].

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Rock Content

AUGUST 10, 2017

Storytelling has been around for a while. It’s not that new at all, despite its headline-grabbing ability in the content marketing world right now. It’s not even new for businesses. Organizational storytelling has been around for over 100 years. Unfortunately, the latest iterations of organizational storytelling seems to make processes harder , more cumbersome and sometimes even obstructionistic than ever before.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 5, 2017

Weekend Favs August 5 written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you to check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from an online source or one that I took out there on the road.

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Zumvu

AUGUST 29, 2017

It is the era of technology and internet advancement and you might take these things easily and effectively. One of the best resolutions to make this year is to take your search engine optimisation (SEO) to the next level.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 24, 2017

With the recent launch of The State of Engagement , we saw data that demonstrates that consumers expect more relevant, timely interactions from brands and that marketers are falling short of those expectations while struggling to find the right tools to help them deliver on consumer expectations. With that in mind, I am excited to share that together Marketo and Google Cloud are announcing a multi-year alliance to transform engagement solutions for the enterprise.

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Traackr

AUGUST 29, 2017

Learn from SAP's VP of Influencer Marketing to kickstart your influencer marketing, drive transformative change, and create a framework for success.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 24, 2017

For the longest time, marketing and advertising have been seen as intrusive and interruptive. A commercial on TV, an ad on the radio, and those huge billboards along the highway are all part of traditional marketing and advertising. Furthermore, the introduction of the internet and social media has resulted in ads showing up on our […]. The post Permission Marketing: Love it or Hate it?

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Rock Content

AUGUST 31, 2017

Content marketing strategy is certainly an ongoing and evolving project. But when it comes down to it, there are 5 basic steps that I apply: Here’s our high-level strategy. Goals. Topical niche. Workflows. Tools. The best content marketing strategies are high level and then broken out into tactical pieces for a specified time period. This could be six months, rolling 90 days, and oftentimes calendar (or fiscal) years.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 10, 2017

How to Write a Small Advertisement written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Small ads can be good opportunities for a business if they’re done right. When you first sit down to create your ad – before you do anything else – ask yourself: What do you want them to do? This is the ‘why’ of your ad. Why are you running it?

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Zumvu

AUGUST 4, 2017

When it comes to growing a blog, it is the search engine giant Google that apparently plays the key role, right? Wrong! The survival of your blog in this World Wide Web is not only depended on Google.

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