SmartBrief - Marketing

JUNE 3, 2024

Thanks to AI, machines can meticulously analyze and optimize your every click, every scroll and every query. Its impact on search engine optimization strategies cannot be overstated. But what does the future look like for AI SEO tools? Will it continue to help you climb the SERP? Or search engines will penalize your site for abusing it. Let’s discover what lies ahead for AI-driven SEO, and how you can effectively use it to keep the top spot on the search results.

SEO 107

SEO Transform User-Generated Search Marketers 107

Martech

JUNE 3, 2024

As companies prioritize “efficient growth,” vertical software has gained prominence due to its lower customer acquisition costs, higher expansion sales and stronger gross retention than its horizontal counterparts. Here’s why you should consider adapting your horizontal software to attract vertical buyers, plus essential tips to help you go vertical.

Pharmaceutical 136

Pharmaceutical Customer Acquisition Thought Leadership Inbound Marketing 136

Trade Press Services Newsletter

JUNE 6, 2024

With over one billion members worldwide, LinkedIn is the go-to platform for brands and business professionals to network, connect, showcase industry expertise, and build their identities. Simply having a profile on the site, however, isn’t enough. To stand out, it’s vital for individuals and companies to tell their unique stories in a compelling, engaging, and meaningful way.

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Transform Thought Leadership Manufacturing Communications 249

Hubspot Marketing

JUNE 24, 2024

In April 2024, HubSpot asked 537 email marketers across industries in the U.S. if email marketing was inbound or outbound — 51% said it was inbound, while 49% believed it to be outbound. It’s fascinating to see how opinions differ on this topic, even among professionals. As an experienced marketing leader, I’ve always approached email marketing with a blend of both perspectives.

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Email Marketing Inbound Marketing Shoppers Marketers 125

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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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Martech

JUNE 3, 2024

The 118th session of the U.S. Congress is drawing to a close and the legislators have again failed to pass a national data privacy law. This means marketers will soon have to comply with the regulations in 17 different states. Five are already in effect, 12 more will come online by October of next year. That’s 17 slightly different headaches for marketers to deal with.

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Law Advertisers Advertising Price 138

Buffer Marketing

JUNE 19, 2024

Museums curate works of art. We marketers curate digital content. Though our link shares may not be artistic contributions, the idea of curation is at least the same at museums and online: We’re all seeking only the best material to pass along to our patrons, customers, fans, or followers. Finding and sharing exquisite content has never been more valuable.

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Place Branding Management Social Media Marketing 128

Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 12, 2024

Businesses are the most trusted entity today. Adding B2B influencer marketing to your owned media strategy can boost that advantage. Learn the benefits, influencer types, estimated pricing, and how to get started today.

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Price Influencer Marketing Branding Marketers 128

Martech

JUNE 12, 2024

This week, CRM and BPM software company Pega announced new generative AI capabilities, including enhancements to its new product, Blueprint, and to its AI assistant or copilot Knowledge Buddy. Before understanding what value these products might deliver for marketing or the CX organization in general, it’s worth taking a closer look at what they are and how they work.

Transform 130

Transform Marketers Marketing Customer Journey 130

Hubspot Marketing

JUNE 17, 2024

Benjamin Franklin once said, “Lost time is never found again.” While that isn’t exactly the most optimistic quote, it’s unfortunately true. Until scientists figure out time machines or immortality, we’re stuck with adopting methods to remain productive and better use our time. We can’t deny AI's cultural renaissance. It has become a part of everyday workflows and conversations.

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Product User-Generated Price Law 131

Aspiration Marketing

JUNE 27, 2024

Ever pour your heart into your website, only to see visitors disappear after browsing? You're not alone. Many businesses struggle with visitors who vanish without converting. The truth is, these visitors are interested! But without clear direction, they might not know what to do next. Here's where Calls to Action (CTAs) come in.

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Content Marketing Marketers Marketing 249

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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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Search Engine Land

JUNE 3, 2024

Google’s mobile-first indexing initiative started just seven and a half years, while we thought it was completed last October , it is now really going to be fully done after July 5th. “The small set of sites we’ve still been crawling with desktop Googlebot will be crawled with mobile Googlebot after July 5, 2024,” John Mueller from Google wrote on the Google blog.

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SEO Product 145

Social Media Examiner

JUNE 11, 2024

Looking for ways to automate your work? Wondering if AI could help? In this article, you’ll discover how to use AI to create repeatable workflows for your business. Understanding AI Workflows for Business An artificial intelligence (AI) workflow is a process that uses AI to perform productive tasks for you repeatedly. The AI workflow is […] The post AI Workflows: How to Get Started appeared first on Social Media Examiner.

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Product 139

Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 18, 2024

Marketers are a tough crowd. On one hand, they appreciate brands that offer extensive thought leadership. On the other hand, they know every content and marketing tactic in the book. New research offers insights (and a peek inside your peers’ opinions).

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Thought Leadership Marketers Marketing Branding 123

Martech

JUNE 4, 2024

In the movie “Gone in 90 Seconds,” Nicolas Cage and his crew have to steal 50 cars in a night. The goal is to steal the car in less than a minute and a half to reduce the chances of getting caught. The car is there one minute and literally gone the next. It’s eerily similar to visitors on your website. They’re there, and then they’re gone. You just have to look no further than your Google Analytics report to see it.

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Marketers Marketing Analytics Branding 138

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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Buffer Marketing

JUNE 13, 2024

Content distribution is critical in getting your hard work in front of the right people, driving brand awareness and engagement. Why isn’t it just about developing awe-inspiring content anymore? Creators worldwide publish about 500 minutes of video to YouTube, 116 blog posts, 1,099 Instagram posts, and six new websites per second. And don’t even get me started on TikTok (with an estimated 34 million videos posted every. single. day).

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PR User-Generated Promotion Key Performance Indicator 134

Aspiration Marketing

JUNE 4, 2024

Did you know that the vast majority of website visitors abandons your site after just one visit? When your lead generation isn't working, this isn't just a lost opportunity to connect; it's a potential customer walking right out the door! The solution? A website upgrade designed to capture those visitors and start generating leads. Imagine a website that informs and actively converts – that's the power of a lead-focused revamp.

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Customer 247

Search Engine Land

JUNE 6, 2024

Can you rank in the top 10 of Google with very few links? Not according to a new analysis published today by Internet Marketing Ninjas. It found that: Over 96% of websites ranking in the top 10 of Google had more than 1,000 backlinks from unique domains. Only 0.3% had less than 100 backlinks. Why we care. Google has been saying that links are no longer one of the top three ranking signals and needs “very few links to rank pages.” However, clearly, websites that rank well tend to have

Branding 144

Branding Marketers Marketing SEO 144

Hubspot Marketing

JUNE 18, 2024

Welcome to Creator Columns , where we bring expert HubSpot Creator voices to the Blogs that inspire and help you grow better. Less than a year after launch, ChatGPT reported over 100 million weekly users according to OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman. Our latest research found that there were roughly 127 million monthly visitors to OpenAI’s ChatGPT platform as of May 2024.

SEO 133

SEO User-Generated Marketing Mix Branding 133

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.

Marketing

Social Media Examiner

JUNE 18, 2024

Wish you could take a video and easily create lots of content that works across mediums? Looking for tools that are proven to work? In this article, you'll discover how to repurpose video into articles, podcasts, and more using AI. Why Use AI Tools in Content Production? Leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) tools for video repurposing […] The post Repurposing Video Content Into Multiple Mediums With AI Tools appeared first on Social Media Examiner.

Product 133

Product 133

Martech

JUNE 21, 2024

HubSpot’ s LinkedIn integration boosts sales efficiency with real-time data sync but presents new challenges for SMBs in marketing and consolidation. Salesforce has had a tight integration with Sales Navigator for a while, dominating the market by using LinkedIn data to target the right decision-makers. HubSpot, meanwhile, has long lacked this native two-way sync integration — until recently.

CRM 135

CRM Thought Leadership Customer Acquisition Marketers 135

Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 5, 2024

Host a poll. Do a quiz. Create a game. Interactive content comes in so many forms, but not enough marketers take advantage of it. Discover the possibilities, tools, and big results.

Marketers 116

Marketers Marketing Content Marketing 116

Aspiration Marketing

JUNE 25, 2024

Have you ever gotten that sinking feeling when a customer cancels their service? It happens to the best of us. But what if you could turn those cancellations around or better yet, avoid them? Loyal customers are worth their weight in gold, bringing in repeat business and positive word-of-mouth. That's where customer retention management and churn rate controls come in.

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Customer Management Marketers Marketing 231

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Search Engine Land

JUNE 20, 2024

Google has unleashed a new search spam update today, the June 2024 spam update. This spam update may take up to one week to complete, Google wrote. Google posted this update and wrote: One week to roll out. Released the June 2024 spam update. The rollout may take up to 1 week to complete. Spam updates. Google linked to its standard spam updates documentation that reads: While Google’s automated systems to detect search spam are constantly operating, we occasionally make notable improvement

SEO 142

SEO 142

Buffer Marketing

JUNE 6, 2024

With over ten years of social media expertise, freelance social media consultant Val Razo often hears from small businesses that they lack social proof. In this article, Val explains the importance of social proof and shares tips on how small businesses can encourage social proof on Instagram. At the beginning of my social media marketing career, when I worked in a digital marketing agency and we helped global supplier of cat and dog food Royal Canin establish and maintain an Instagram presence,

User-Generated 132

User-Generated Social Media Marketing Promotion Communications 132

Sprout Social

JUNE 17, 2024

Reddit is more than just a social platform—it’s community forum meets social media. If you’ve got a question—about anything at all—chances are someone answered it on Reddit. Redditors use the platform in multiple ways, from news aggregation to soliciting and sharing honest opinions without a marketing agenda. You won’t find paid influencers here. Instead, anonymous users of all backgrounds and interests share opinions about their hobbies, jobs, purchases and more in threads or forums on specific

Transform 131

Transform SEO Branding Customer 131

Martech

JUNE 28, 2024

Performance media has enjoyed many years of supercharged growth. Its high trackability in digital media has made it a preferred investment for marketers and CMOs alike, looking to drive direct and measurable impact on the top line. But as many have noted, the pendulum is swinging back. Brands are having a moment. Many advertisers are shifting investment back up the funnel after realizing their performance-heavy investment strategies may have starved their brands of the reach and relevance neede

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Branding Key Performance Indicator Marketers Marketing 132

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Social Media Examiner

JUNE 20, 2024

Do you need a better Instagram marketing plan? Wondering how to use Reels, Carousels, and photo posts to convert more followers? In this article, you'll learn how to create a sustainable Instagram strategy. Why Marketers and Creators Struggle With Instagram Marketing With over 2 billion monthly active users and a constantly evolving algorithm, standing out […] The post Creating a Sustainable Instagram Strategy in Five Easy Steps appeared first on Social Media Examiner.

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Marketing Plan Marketers Marketing Social Media Marketing 130

Aspiration Marketing

JUNE 6, 2024

Ever feel like you're constantly creating content but struggling to see real results? You're not alone. Many businesses fall into the content creation trap – churning out posts without a clear direction. But there's a better way. A content strategy is your roadmap to success, ensuring your content resonates with your audience and achieves your marketing goals.

Marketers 208

Marketers Marketing Marketing Strategy Content Marketing 208

Search Engine Land

JUNE 14, 2024

Google is notifying some advertisers that they must transition away from paying for Google Ads via credit or debit card by July 31 or face account suspension. The big picture. The move is part of Google’s effort to steer high-spend advertisers toward more automated payment methods better suited for scaling ad investment. Details. Impacted advertisers will only be allowed to use bank-based payment options going forward: Monthly Invoicing (Google’s recommended approach) with 30-day pay

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Advertising Advertisers Management Customer 130

MarketingOps

JUNE 13, 2024

Campaigns are not a single act. This is a friendly reminder that campaigns are a series of strategic actions, not just isolated tasks. Here’s what a campaign is not: Sending an email is not a “campaign.” Posting a message on social media is not a “campaign.” Hosting one webinar is not a “campaign.” Campaigns should be a strategic motion that consolidates all your actions related to your growth hypothesis.

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Energy Marketing Automation Platform Price Communications 130

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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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