March, 2019

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The Beginner's Guide to Editing YouTube Videos

Hubspot Marketing

As a video marketer, editing might be the most important part of post-production. If you can’t seamlessly weave your shots together or get your cut to hit the right frame, your video will seem unpolished and disengage your viewers. That said, if you’re operating on a shoestring budget, you might not be able to afford video editing software. So what’s a video marketer to do without editing software?

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8 Incredible App Landing Pages (and How You Can Create Your Own)

Unbounce

Have you looked at your iPhone’s App Store lately? How about Google Play? I’ve seen landfills with better curation. With more than two million apps available on each store, people have a much better chance of finding a pearl in an oyster than randomly stumbling upon your app. No matter how appealing it is—no matter how entertaining or even life-changing—most people won’t discover it without a robust marketing campaign.

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Why Email Marketing Still Rules (Plus 3 Tips to Increase Engagement)

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Email marketing is like an old friend. It’s been around for years. It doesn’t surprise you much anymore. You may even find it a little boring sometimes. But at the end of the day, you know you can depend on it. Even with the emergence of more exciting engagement tactics, email marketing has remained a key method for reaching your audience. In fact, nearly 70% of people between the ages of 18 and 34 prefer companies communicate with them through email, according to MarketingSherpa research.

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5 (More) Secrets of Great Storytellers

Content Marketing Institute

Here’s a secret: Even the most seemingly effortless storytellers work for it – formal training, study of storytellers they admire, perfection through retelling, etc. Get their best advice to improve your brand’s storytelling. Continue reading → The post 5 (More) Secrets of Great Storytellers appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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The importance of social media sentiment analysis (and how to conduct it)

Sprout Social

Today’s marketers are rightfully obsessed with metrics. But don’t forget that your customers are more than just data points. And yeah, it’s easy to overlook our customers’ feelings and emotions, which can be difficult to quantify. However, consider that emotions are the number one factor in making purchasing decisions. With so many consumers sharing their thoughts and feelings on social media, it quite literally pays for brands to have a pulse on how their products make people feel.

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How I Doubled My Email Open Rate Overnight

Marketing Insider Group

Towards the end of 2018, and as is true for many things in life, I felt like it was time for a refresh … of my email marketing strategy. Although I have a solid, growing list of subscribers, it’s inevitable that over time you’ll need to take a deep dive through your contacts. As people […]. The post How I Doubled My Email Open Rate Overnight appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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How to Create a Global SEO Strategy

Neil Patel

As a child, I did everything that most kids did. I played outside with friends, I watched a lot of TV, I loved eating cereal for breakfast, and I went to school. My childhood wasn’t too much different than yours. But there was one thing that was a bit unique. I grew up watching Bloomberg before I went to school. Now, I don’t want you to think I was some child prodigy because I wasn’t.

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How to Build Brand Loyalty on Your Landing Page

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Your landing page is your opportunity to make an impression on your target audience. If it connects on an emotional level and has a clear and transparent purpose, site visitors are more likely to identify with your brand. Building loyalty often takes a bit more time, but your landing page is a start to a long-term relationship with new customers. For most businesses, around 65% of their revenue comes from an existing customer base.

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57+ Tools, Tips, and Examples to Make Your Writing Better

Content Marketing Institute

To help you tackle the many challenges you face as a writer, we offer dozens and dozens of tips, tools, and examples. They’ll help you write content that stays on mission, wins readers over, and more. Continue reading → The post 57+ Tools, Tips, and Examples to Make Your Writing Better appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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6 Twitter analytics tools to amplify your Twitter strategy

Sprout Social

Twitter is an excellent platform to engage with friends and follow your favorite industry experts. But if you want to use it to promote your business or your personal brand, you have to do more than just broadcast tweets every once in a while. It’s not enough to blindly share your new blog posts and product updates either. A great Twitter strategy requires proper analytics to understand what’s working and what isn’t.

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Making the Moment: The Art of Creating Events That Drive Results

Speaker: Aja Bradley Kemp, Founder & Chief Experience Officer at Conversate Collective

In a world where every brand is vying for attention, how do you make your events stand out? ✨ From creative swag strategies to immersive brand experiences, the key lies in fostering real connections that inspire action and leave a lasting impression. Whether you're planning a large-scale conference or an exclusive executive gathering, this session will explore how to elevate event engagement, strengthen brand perception, and maximize ROI.

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How to Develop a Content Marketing Strategy to Reach and Convert

Marketing Insider Group

Like every aspect of your overall marketing strategy, your content marketing strategy should have two goals: to reach and convert. Therein, however, lies the challenge. How can you develop content that will reach your target customers, engage them with content they will read, and eventually convert them to buy your products and services? Even more […].

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7 Surefire Ways to Capture Email Leads in 2019 [+ Tools]

Hubspot Marketing

No matter what industry you’re in, email list building is still an important and high impact marketing activity. Though you may see the occasional article proclaiming “email marketing is dead,” you can safely continue your campaigns, and know that “the money is in the list” ( as they say ). Now, there are many ways to build an email list - tactics and tools beyond simple sidebar lead magnets and popup forms.

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17 Charts That Show Where Content Marketing is Heading

Neil Patel

I started content marketing in the early days. So early that when I first met the WordPress founder, he had just raised $1.1 million for WordPress. Fast forward to today and WordPress is worth over a billion dollars. Similarly, when I first started with content marketing, there were less than 30 million blogs that existed and now there are over a billion.

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Treat Customer Data Like You’d Want Yours to Be Treated

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Last Christmas, I bought a friend of mine a subscription to a science and culture magazine. She had discovered the magazine during downtime at work, so she was delighted when they started showing up at her door. The gift was a hit, despite the fact that I’d misspelled her name. But then other magazines offers started to arrive in the mail. Then came requests for donations from charitable groups.

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The Intersection of AI and Sales: Personalization Without Compromise

Speaker: Jesse Hunter and Brynn Chadwick

Today’s buyers expect more than generic outreach–they want relevant, personalized interactions that address their specific needs. For sales teams managing hundreds or thousands of prospects, however, delivering this level of personalization without automation is nearly impossible. The key is integrating AI in a way that enhances customer engagement rather than making it feel robotic.

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The Easy A-to-Z Guide to Writing Great Headlines [Infographic]

Content Marketing Institute

If you like to scan content to pick up some helpful tips, this article and infographic are for you. Make your way through the alphabet for 26 nuggets to improve your headline-writing chops. Continue reading → The post The Easy A-to-Z Guide to Writing Great Headlines [Infographic] appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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How to use Quora for marketing

Sprout Social

Should you be using Quora for marketing? In 2019, Quora turned 10 years old. However, you might have missed that it can also be a powerful platform for reaching your brand’s audience. More than 300 million monthly users are scouring Quora at any given time and now marketers have a variety of ways to reach them. If you’re looking to develop your thought leadership presence, confirm your authority in your niche or simply spread brand awareness, Quora is the way to go.

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4 Ways to Make Your B2B Marketing Videos Social-Ready

Marketing Insider Group

B2B marketers are using video more and more. In fact, they reported 10% and 8% increases in their use of YouTube and Vimeo respectively in 2018 compared to 2017. Videos are primarily shared via social networks including LinkedIn and Facebook, which B2B marketers ranked as their top-used social media sites. So while an informative, entertaining […].

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5 Essential SEO Tips That Have Helped HubSpot Become an Organic Powerhouse

Hubspot Marketing

In 2017, HubSpot experienced something that has never happened to us before -- our blog’s monthly traffic flattened. Even worse, it started to decline. So after months of stressing over the mysterious cause of our blog’s traffic plateau, we decided to sit down, chug a bunch of coffee, and find the culprit. What we discovered is that our strategy of brainstorming topics and relying on our intuition to determine our audience’s content preferences didn’t suffice anymore.

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Relevance, Reach, Revenue: How to Turn Marketing Trends From Hype to High-Impact

Speaker: Alexa Acosta, Director of Growth Marketing & B2B Marketing Leader

Marketing is evolving at breakneck speed—new tools, AI-driven automation, and changing buyer behaviors are rewriting the playbook. With so many trends competing for attention, how do you cut through the noise and focus on what truly moves the needle? In this webinar, industry expert Alexa Acosta will break down the most impactful marketing trends shaping the industry today and how to turn them into real, revenue-generating strategies.

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How to Find the Right Keywords to Rank #1 on Google For

Neil Patel

Do you want more traffic? Well, who doesn’t? The reason you want more traffic is that you think more traffic equals more revenue. But here is what you’ll learn the hard way… as your traffic goes up, your revenue won’t increase at the same pace. And in many cases, as your traffic goes up, your revenue won’t increase one bit. In other words, if you get the wrong kind of traffic, you’ll find yourself spinning your wheels and becoming frustrated.

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Why Big Data Means Big Responsibility for CMOs

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

The CMO’s position in the C-suite hierarchy has been elevated significantly over the past several years, thanks in large part to the rise of big data. With the right data at their fingertips, modern marketers can now target customers with surgical precision, as well as provide CEOs with evidence that their initiatives are working. And get this: Big data isn’t even all that big yet.

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Get to Your Audience’s Core: Know Their Content Intent

Content Marketing Institute

Your sales team finds four legit leads from 500 white paper downloads. What happened? Your audience wanted the info, it wasn’t interested in a transaction. Before you create and evaluate your content, think about audience intent. Continue reading → The post Get to Your Audience’s Core: Know Their Content Intent appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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The complete guide to online social listening

Sprout Social

If you haven’t noticed by now, social listening is kind of a big deal for brands today. Why? Because we’re capable of learning more than ever by tracking our customers’ social behavior. What products are people digging? What’s got your industry buzzing? Through social listening, you can answer these questions and so much more in an instant. But while the importance of monitoring your mentions and conversations is a no-brainer, many brands are actually missing out on some crucial interactions bec

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How to Build a Winning B2B Video Strategy in 2025

Speaker: Speakers:

Think creating impactful B2B video is intimidating, boring, or requires a Hollywood-level budget? Think again. Join our "B2B Growth Show" to uncover the secrets of building video strategies that drive ROI, captivate your audience, and leave your competition in the dust. What you’ll learn: Why video is non-negotiable for B2B in 2025 Storytelling tips to engage your target audience and keep them coming back Case studies from printing companies to telecom giants with jaw-dropping results Practical

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11 Benefits of Outsourcing Your Content Creation

Marketing Insider Group

If you want to dip your toes in content marketing but don’t have the time or expertise to create your own content, outsourcing your content creation is an easy and effective way to reap the benefits without all the work. In fact, content marketing can be so profitable, over 70% of brands now hire someone to manage […]. The post 11 Benefits of Outsourcing Your Content Creation appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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How to Edit Your Video Without YouTube's Retired Video Editor

Hubspot Marketing

Prior to September 2017, YouTube provided a built-in tool that allowed you to edit your videos before publishing to the platform. However, as of last September 20, 2017, YouTube's Video Editor tool is no longer an option. On YouTube's Help Forum , Community Manager Marissa explained, "We've seen limited usage of these features, so we've retired them to focus our efforts on building new tools and improving on other existing features.".

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How I Grew My Declining Google Traffic

Neil Patel

When you look at the chart above, what do you see? A site that gets a ton of traffic, right? I am a marketer, so I should be somewhat decent at getting traffic… or so you would hope. But here is the thing, just because I am decent at marketing doesn’t mean my Google traffic keeps climbing up and to the right. Just like you, I face challenges. I have ups and downs, I can also get penalized, and I have to continually battle algorithm updates.

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Demand Generation and Thought Leadership: Why You Need Both

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Demand generation and thought leadership are both terms you need to know if you’re a B2B marketer. But do you actually know what they mean and how they work, or are you using them in a “fake it till you make it” way? We’ve all been there, including me. When I first got into the marketing game, I can honestly say I didn’t know the difference between the two.

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2025 Association Survey Results Report

GrowthZone’s 11th annual survey highlights trends, challenges, and strategies shaping the membership industry through insights from U.S. and Canadian association professionals. Get your copy of the 2025 Association Survey Results Report to see how your organization measures up: The biggest challenges associations are facing Membership retention trends and non-renewal insights Strategies for automatic renewals and reinstatements Shifts in member engagement tactics Why members are joining (and sta

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What the H? How to Make Your Tags Matter in SEO

Content Marketing Institute

Before you can have a search audience’s eyes, your content needs to capture the attention of search engines. Learn the basics of maximizing your heading tags ( ) to get your content found. Continue reading → The post What the H? How to Make Your Tags Matter in SEO appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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5 social listening services you can offer your clients

Sprout Social

Social listening services have been a huge selling point for us lately. More of our clients (and brands in general) see the value and importance of customer service through social media. Because of this, we’ve found unique ways to use social listening services for these clients. Not that customer care is the only way to service your clients with social listening.

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How Technology Can Optimize Your B2B Content Marketing Strategy

Marketing Insider Group

When done well, content marketing can be a valuable part of your overall B2B marketing strategy. In fact, content marketing is both more effective and cheaper than traditional methods of lead generation. Over three-quarters of respondents to the Content Marketing Institute’s B2B marketing survey reported success with their content marketing in 2018.

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5 YouTube Description Templates That Have Helped Our Videos Go Viral

Hubspot Marketing

YouTube is the second largest search engine, with over 1.8 billion users per month -- so it's an undeniably powerful channel for your marketing efforts. However, if you don't use YouTube for your current marketing strategy, you're not alone. In fact, only nine percent of U.S. small businesses use YouTube to reach their audience. In 2018, the HubSpot Academy team didn't take advantage of YouTube, either.

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!