Marketing Insider Group
JANUARY 11, 2016
One of the best way to show a business the importance of content marketing is to show them all the great examples of companies who are already doing it right. I like to lead my own content marketing proposals with a few statements. Like these: Imagine you own the website for the generic category searches […]. The post 99 Amazing Content Marketing Hub Examples appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
JANUARY 29, 2016
Author: Raymond Coppinger Did you catch the video about the crazy guys snowboarding through New York that went viral just hours after it was posted on YouTube? New York filmmaker Casey Neistat created it with his friends, and its 2 minutes and 41 seconds are pure perfection. The video marries the simple story of friends having fun in the snow, with an underlying theme of it being a love letter to New York, where anything is possible (including skiing down Broadway)!
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Rock Content
JANUARY 25, 2016
As traditional, interruption-based advertising becomes less effective, marketers are under increased pressure to create engaging, high-quality content that stands out from the competition. Visually has met these needs for the past four years by pairing brands with top creative talent, and giving them the tools they need to make content creation fast and affordable.
Duct Tape Marketing
JANUARY 25, 2016
What is Structured Data & Schema for Websites & SEO? written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. For business owners and even for many marketing consultants, search engine optimization can seem like a headache – especially when it comes to any level of technical SEO. The good news is that a professional marketing strategy that is powered by a search engine friendly website and consistent content marketing, many small business websites can achieve at least some level of sear
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Marketing Insider Group
JANUARY 7, 2016
Watching the number of visitors to your site grow is pretty awesome – who wouldn’t want to see results like this? But, visits alone do not equate to a successful business. To make money, you’ve got to convert at least some of those visitors and turn them into customers. Thankfully, there’s plenty that you can […]. The post 10 Ways To Turn Visitors Into Customers appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.
Marketing Insider Group
JANUARY 27, 2016
Having a balanced business model is the end all be all for every company. A strong sales team doesn't do any good if your business can't retain its customers. The post How Content Marketing Can Help Ensure Customer Retention appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.
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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
JANUARY 4, 2016
Author: Ellen Gomes It’s a new year, which means it’s time to get started on making your resolutions a reality (both personally and professionally). If you’ve set personal goals already (like seeing the inside of 24 Hour Fitness more than once a week), but you’re looking for a professional goal that will make a tangible impact on your brand and organization, you’ve come to the right place.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
JANUARY 7, 2016
Author: Chris Gillespie And how does that make you feel?… This ain’t your grandmother’s psychotherapy. Despite all of his cultural preeminence, psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud is now completely outdated and out of favor. Our favorite father of modern psychology has been sidelined, with almost all of his theories disproven by science. So what’s the appeal of Freud and why do we still think of him when it comes to psychology?
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
JANUARY 11, 2016
Author: Elaine Ip Last week, a little bird told us that Twitter is considering increasing their 140 character limit count to 10,000 characters, and then the news spread like wildfire across (you guessed it) social media. Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey acknowledged these rumors with a long tweet of his own, about how people have already been getting around the character limit by screenshotting text (which he duly demonstrated).
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
JANUARY 28, 2016
Author: Mike Madden Let’s get one thing straight: deliverability is sexy. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. It’s the only way your emails get seen, opened, and clicked on. And if you can increase your deliverability by even just 1%, it can have a significant impact on your ROI. But achieving high deliverability rates that could make even a mailman jealous doesn’t come easy.
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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.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
JANUARY 26, 2016
Author: Marissa Lyman I have a confession. Up until a few months ago, I didn’t realize I was a millennial. I know. That seems horrifically unaware. It’s just that millennials get a bad rap, and my parents instilled so much self-worth in me that I thought the negative millennial descriptors couldn’t possibly apply, right? Oh, my parents building me up to think I’m great is a tell-tale millennial attribute?
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
JANUARY 25, 2016
Author: Chris Gillespie Have you ever photocopied a piece of paper so many times that the copies faded and became hard to read? This is called a transcription error, and it happens when little mistakes add up over time to make a big difference. This also happens in sales when you repeat your pitch over and over again until small details get lost, the delivery gets muddied, and your pitch loses its edge and effectiveness.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
JANUARY 22, 2016
Author: Amber Tiffany The most personal conversations happen offline. While a personalized digital experience is certainly enticing and powerful, to really get to know a prospect—their interests, burning questions, and biggest challenges—you talk to them. And what better way to talk to someone than over the phone, where chances for misinterpretation are greatly reduced.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
JANUARY 21, 2016
Author: Lizzy Funk No matter how deeply you gaze into the crystal ball pondering what next year has in store for you, the only thing you’ll know for sure is that despite your careful planning, some things will change. But what if you could have a better idea of the changes 2016 has in store for marketers? We were curious so we asked Marketo employees to take a moment to look forward and share their marketing predictions.
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!
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
JANUARY 15, 2016
Author: Mike Stocker Digital marketing has undergone significant changes over the past two decades, and I have been lucky enough to have a front row seat. I was able to work with some of the first ad servers and at one of the earliest programmatic paid media companies, Right Media, spending several million dollars per month acquiring paid media. It’s been really exciting to see the vast growth and development in technology supporting paid media acquisition.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
JANUARY 14, 2016
Author: Chris Gillespie They say that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. How many wheels can your team afford to reinvent? As a student of history, I see the present as just another iteration in the core human struggle to make things better. Whether it’s with a spear-thrower or an iPhone, we’ve been working on improving things for a very long time.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
JANUARY 13, 2016
Author: Ellen Gomes Words have an enormous impact on how we communicate with each other. Words communicate more than their textbook definition, they communicate subtleties and connotations that help you (as the reader) understand context—emotion, time and place. For marketers, words are our most powerful tool (followed closely by visuals). There are terms that stick around, whether they offer real value to a sentence (or to the reader) or not.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
JANUARY 12, 2016
Author: Cori Pearce Let’s take it back to the old school–elementary school. Demand generation marketers spend their careers building out complex lead acquisition and engagement engines, but sometimes it’s good to take it back to the basics—way back–as in, back to the things we learned in kindergarten that still hold true in today’s marketing landscape.
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.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
JANUARY 8, 2016
Author: Mike Tomita Since the news first broke about Disney’s acquisition of Lucasfilm in 2012, there has been a ton of speculation around whether Disney will be able to carry on the Star Wars legacy. Our questions were answered as Disney closed out the year by releasing Star Wars: The Force Awakens globally, and since then, it has been breaking box office records from left to right.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
JANUARY 6, 2016
Author: Andrea Lehr Ads are everywhere, and this can feel especially true when you’re trying to avoid them. And believe me, people try their hardest to do just that: Nearly 200 million people worldwide admit to employing some sort of ad blocking software, according to the 2015 PageFair Ad Blocking Report. Consumers don’t want interruptions, and the ability to block ads has fundamentally changed the consumer/brand relationship.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
JANUARY 5, 2016
Author: Katie Pope There’s really nothing like the smell of the ocean breeze—except maybe the ocean breeze and the perfect meal. Recently, on a trip to Monterey, CA, I started craving some fresh seafood. Naturally, I opened up my Yelp! app and searched for “seafood” near Monterey within the “$$” range. Why? First, I wanted to discover restaurants in the area.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
JANUARY 18, 2016
Author: Johnathan Dane Have you ever been so good at something that that everyone looked at you jealously while binging on Ben & Jerry’s? In this blog, I’ll share some effective AdWords Display tricks with you that not many people know about. These are the tricks that you can implement today. But before we get into how you can create your own AdWords Display Network plan , you need to understand the key difference between AdWords Search and AdWords Display.
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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
JANUARY 26, 2016
Author: Sanjay Dholakia Ten years ago this month, Phil Fernandez, David Morandi, and Jon Miller founded Marketo with one idea: to create a new kind of enterprise software company, one dedicated solely to the needs and mission of today’s marketing professional. There have been dozens of important milestones in Marketo’s quest to help brands market better, but we wanted to share a few of our favorites with you – the Marketo Marketing Nation – because we couldn’t have made it here without you.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
JANUARY 27, 2016
Author: Sean Zinsmeister It used to be that prospect management meant dolling out “ Glengarry Leads ” to add to your Rolodex, keeping a spreadsheet of top prospects, or most recently populating an empty CRM database with leads that seem to “look good.” But as the predictive sales and marketing landscape has flourished (with new vendors emerging and $242 million in venture capital funding last year alone), old school definitions of prospect management are quickly losing their relevancy.
Marketing Insider Group
JANUARY 26, 2016
Consumers trust recommendations from people they know above all else. This usually means friends, family, and colleagues. However the growth of platforms like YouTube and Instagram has led to a massive wave of new influencers in all manner of niche industries, many of whom boast huge followings. Their recommendations are dictating what lots of us. The post Influencer Marketing: 10 Strategies for Getting It Right appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.
Marketing Insider Group
JANUARY 21, 2016
Many – many – factors contribute to the decisions we make and how our lives are shaped, but one of the strongest influencers on our day-to-day lives is social proof. Put simply, social proof is the driving force that compels us to mimic the choices of others. It exists because, as a society, we naturally […]. The post How (And How Not) To Use Social Proof appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.
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Marketing Insider Group
JANUARY 27, 2016
There are few better ways of building brand buzz than content marketing. In short: done well, it works. But that’s easier said than done. Great content takes time and is hard work. Thankfully, there’s no shortage of tools that can help you create better content and get better results, faster. Here are 10 of them: […]. The post 10 Time-Saving Content Marketing Tools to Add to Your Arsenal appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.
Marketing Insider Group
JANUARY 25, 2016
What’s the optimal length for your tweet, Facebook post, or your blog headline? What will actually get people to click through and engage with your content? A while ago two of my favorite social media tools SumAll and Buffer partnered together and looked into this, and this is what they found about the ideal lengths […]. The post What’s the Ideal Length for Social Media and Web Content?
Rock Content
JANUARY 13, 2016
America has four living generations that marketers may be called upon to address. Each poses its own opportunities and challenges, but this four-part series of infographics is designed to create a point of entry to understand a little more about Millennials , Gen X, Baby Boomers, and Traditionalists. Here’s what marketers need to know about Generation X: Though they once had the reputation of being slackers, Generation X is now technologically savvy and is responsible for founding companies such
Marketing Insider Group
JANUARY 8, 2016
Surprisingly (or not), many content marketers aren’t the best planners. We scramble last minute to fulfill our publishing commitments or worse yet, lag behind and go radio silent on our readers. As a result or poor planning, our content marketing strategies become a reactive efforts of throwing together what ultimately becomes disconnected pile of assets.… More How to Create a Content Marketing Editorial Calendar.
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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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