March, 2018

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14 Ways to Get Free Advertising for Your Business

Hubspot Marketing

When you work at a small business with a limited budget, it’s not really possible to shell out $340,000 for a 30-second TV commercial, or $10,000 for an email marketing campaign. It can be frustrating when your budget dictates how many people your business can reach. Surprisingly, there are a lot of free ways to supplement your paid advertising efforts.

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The Alexa of Marketing: Helping Win Customers and the Boardroom

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Marketing has always struggled to show its value. Perhaps this explains why there are still a small number of CMOs in the boardroom. Only 21% had a marketing background among FTSE 100 CEOs. The annual Robert Half FTSE 100 CEO Tracker showed that majority of CEOs (43%) have a background in finance. That big discrepancy suggests a gap in value placed on the disciplines.

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Conversational Content: How to Market Through Text Messaging and Chatbots

Content Marketing Institute

Conversational interactions between content consumers and brands – via SMS text-style messaging and chatbots – are redefining how marketing teams can engage their audiences. When communication technology provides greater immediacy and convenience to content consumers like this, changes in expectations are likely to follow — many of us who manage brands learned this lesson through the growth and evolution of social media.

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How to Find the Content Marketing Agency To Seriously Grow Your Business

Marketing Insider Group

Are you trying to find Content Marketing Agency to help you grow your business? Of course you are (or you should be) ?? Why? Because Content marketing has the power to grow your traffic, to generate leads, and to deliver real Marketing ROI. It’s 3 times more effective than outbound strategies. It can boost your […]. The post How to Find the Content Marketing Agency To Seriously Grow Your Business appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Why B2B Growth Needs a Co-Marketing Strategy

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Struggling to grow your B2B brand in an overcrowded market? Discover how partner marketing can transform your strategy, unlocking new opportunities for lead generation and ROI. What you'll gain: Craft collaborative campaigns that minimize conflicts and maximize ROI. Harness automation to streamline partner marketing efforts. Learn to gain and retain partner mind share with proven strategies.

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Adams & Knight manager named Social Media Mover & Shaker

Adams & Knight Marketing

The Social Shake-up, one of the nation’s premier social media conferences, named Edgardo Rossetti, a 10-year veteran social media manager at Adams & Knight to its prestigious list of forward-thinking Social Media Movers and Shakers for 2018. Besides Rossetti, the list of winners included other social media movers and shakers from companies like Capital One, Dell, Cisco, Southwest Airlines, Harrahs Resorts, Delta Dental Insurance and IBM.

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The Top 12 SEO Tools of 2018

Hubspot Marketing

There's nothing quite like a sudden Google algorithm update to leave marketers feeling equal parts confused and concerned. It seems like they wait for you to get all of your ducks in a row and then unleash an update that makes your efforts instantly obsolete. Sure, they're pretty open about that fact that they're doing this for everyone's own good -- each algorithm tweak brings us one step closer to more relevant search results, after all.

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3 Things to Know About Customer Success Marketing

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

We are all familiar with the customer journey. We know it’s essential to help our customers to be successful. But what about customer success marketing? How much do you know about it, and how does it affect us as marketers? In this blog, I’ll cover what customer success marketing is and how it fits into your marketing plan. What is Customer Success Marketing?

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Road Map to Success: Creating the Content of Your Audience’s Dreams

Content Marketing Institute

In 1995, Steve Jobs was interviewed by Robert Cringely for a PBS documentary, Triumph of the Nerds. During the on-camera discussion, the future Apple CEO reflected on the notion that generating big ideas isn’t the same thing as being able to bring them to life in a valuable way. As he said, “There’s just a tremendous amount of craftsmanship in between a great idea and a great product.”.

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How to Activate Employees and Harness the Power of Internal Experts

Marketing Insider Group

Here’s a strategy brands such as IBM and Starbucks have been using for years to bolster their marketing reach and their revenue – employee activation. By harnessing the potential of the people who know your brand better than even your most devoted customers, you can tap into a rich source of brand advocacy and fuel […]. The post How to Activate Employees and Harness the Power of Internal Experts appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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How to Master Media Relations: Targeting, Tailoring, Timing

Speaker: Karen Swim, APR

Relevance is the currency of modern media relations—and personalization is how you earn it. In this new webinar with industry leader Karen Swim, APR, we'll explore proven strategies for precision targeting and crafting personalized pitches that resonate with journalists and build stronger relationships over time. You’ll also learn how to ensure your media lists are accurate and up to date, craft outreach that gets responses, and streamline your workflow without sacrificing quality.

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Tips for Scaling Your Small Business Efficiently and Effectively

Duct Tape Marketing

Tips for Scaling Your Small Business Efficiently and Effectively written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. When you started your business, chances are you didn’t do it with the intention of working with high-stress levels and long hours the rest of the life. In an ideal world, many business owners have the idea to create a business and then let it run in the background without a whole lot of their own involvement.

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6 Ways Traackr Can Help You Detect Fake Followers | Traackr

Traackr

Traackr's capabilities and data make it easy to gauge the authenticity of an influencer and detect anything inconsistent, in particular fake followers.

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7 AI Tools to Help You Grow Your Blog

Hubspot Marketing

OK, you get it. Artificial intelligence is kind of a big deal. It’s a huge buzzword in the marketing community. People talk about how it’ll change the world daily. And you can’t throw a rock without hitting a company with AI in the name these days. But what about real world uses for AI? Where do marketers start using AI to solve actual problems they have?

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3 Crucial Traits of the Fearless Marketer

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

If you’re a marketer with aspirations to one day become a CMO, what or where do you look for inspiration and motivation to continue on your growth path to leadership? For me, the best source of inspiration is getting to know top marketing performers that have blazed a trail that challenged the status quo of our field. I’m not alone. Here at Marketo, we are always looking for the fearless marketers to promote as the shining stars of our craft.

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AI In The Aisles: The Executives Guide To Better In-Store Experiences

Speaker: Steve Worthy, MBA

The rapid rise of AI-powered displays, touchless technology, and sensory marketing is reshaping the future of in-store engagement. Yet for many retail executives, the real challenge is not identifying new tools - it is knowing which signals to trust, which inputs to prioritize, and how to architect decisions that elevate in-store leadership rather than dilute it.

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Words That Convert: Test, Learn, Repeat

Content Marketing Institute

If you had a magic lamp for your content marketing, what would you wish for? More e-book downloads? More subscribers? More customers? Whatever you wish for, chances are, it amounts to boosting the conversion rate at some stage of the marketing funnel, ultimately resulting in more profitable customer action. If only it were easy to boost conversion rates.

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Email Marketing Conversion Rate Comparison

Marketing Insider Group

Despite the emergence of new communication channels, email remains king. The industry is saturated with marketing clutter, but email still drives the highest ROI out of all B2B marketing strategies. On average, businesses can earn $44 for every dollar spent on email marketing. As email marketers, it’s important to know how your email marketing results […].

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How to Fix a Broken Content Strategy

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Fix a Broken Content Strategy written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Many businesses out there spend the last few months of the year planning their content strategy for the year ahead. They have color-coded spreadsheets completed, goals in the place, and the optimism that the next 12 months are going to be the best yet. So, let me ask you a potentially awkward question: Are you on track to meet those goals?

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Influence in the Era of the Connected Consumers - Interview with Raymond Morin

Traackr

We sat down with Raymond Morin, social media expert, speaker and author, to talk about the "Connected Consumers" and influence in the digital era.

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Engage Better, Gift Smarter, Win Big: Events That Deliver ROI

Speaker: Hanan Polinovski, Events Manager and David Brown, Sr. Marketing & Events Lead

Are your events living up to expectations? Are you getting quality leads from your sponsorships? Have you ever wondered if that branded notebook actually makes an impact? Get ready to transform your event strategy! Join event marketing pros Hanan Polinovski from Printfection and David Brown from Bonusly for a fast-paced webinar about turning your event efforts into serious ROI.

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The 17 Best Resume Templates for Every Type of Professional

Hubspot Marketing

While an eye-catching resume alone probably won't land you your dream gig, it doesn't hurt to put a little extra effort into how you present yourself on paper. The right resume design speaks to your individual skills and personality, and can propel your application to the top of the stack. But finding a cool design that also fits your professional identity can be a major hassle -- and applying for jobs is already hard enough.

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Key Content Marketing Metrics For the Fearless Marketer

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Digital, social, and mobile technologies have dramatically changed the world we live in. And no function has been more disrupted than marketing. Executives won’t fund marketing if it doesn’t demonstrate real results. That’s why marketing ROI —including content marketing ROI—is one of the top challenges for CMOs and marketers. Social shares have no real value unless they drive engaged visitors back to your website.

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4 Google Tips Marketers Can’t Afford to Miss

Content Marketing Institute

Have you heard Google’s thunderous bellow? It’s shouting: “Hey marketers! Yeah, you guys, the ones producing all the content. SEO is still really important.” Here are four recent instances of this: 1. Google drastically improved Search Console. Free software (formerly known as Webmaster Tools), Search Console is designed to help users understand and improve their websites.

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7 Tips for Better LinkedIn Leads

Marketing Insider Group

When it comes to generating B2B leads on social media, LinkedIn is way ahead of the competition. No other social site gathers the volume of like-minded executives, professionals, and business owners in one platform in quite the same way LinkedIn does. LinkedIn offers a number of marketing tools that you can use to drive more […]. The post 7 Tips for Better LinkedIn Leads appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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A Data Revolution: Why Your AMS/CRM Needs a Native Data Warehouse

Unlock the Power of Historical Data A Data Revolution: Why Your AMS/CRM Needs a Native Data Warehouse Today’s association leaders need more than real-time snapshots—they need the full story. MemberSuite: A Data Revolution reveals how a native data warehouse transforms your AMS into a strategic decision-making engine. In this free eBook, you’ll discover: The difference between a database and a data warehouse—and why it matters How to gain historical visibility into membership, engagement, events,

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Why Problem Solving is the Golden Ticket For Your Marketing Efforts

Duct Tape Marketing

Why Problem Solving is the Golden Ticket For Your Marketing Efforts written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. People are always going to have problems, so as a marketer or business owner, your job is to solve these problems for your ideal clients. This really is the key to business success. Here’s the thing, problem-solving is easier said than done.

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Why See, Think, Do, Care Is The Best Marketing Model For The Digital Era

Rock Content

Intent-based marketing, or understanding the consumer intent that prompts search, is the concept behind Avinash Kaushik’s See, Think, Do, Care marketing model. Kaushik is a digital marketing evangelist at Google and, in an interview with Acronym CMO Mike Grehan in 2015, he said he hates standard offline marketing models like awareness, consideration, purchase and loyalty, so he created a new one.

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10 Ecommerce Trends to Expect in 2018

Hubspot Marketing

According to Statista , global ecommerce sales are expected to increase 246.15% by 2021, from 1.3 trillion in 2014 to 4.5 trillion in 2021. The ecommerce industry is booming and shows no signs of slowing down. Nowadays, stores can’t compete without offering excellent ecommerce options, and 56% of in-store purchases are influenced by digital commerce.

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How to Write a Marketing Budget Your CFO Will Enthusiastically Support

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Does it feel like presenting your marketing budget to the CFO is like pulling teeth? Do they ask countless questions and fail to understand, rationalize, or translate your work into business value? If you want a less painful budgeting process, my best piece of advice is to build a budget that your CFO will understand and agree with from the get-go. Click To Tweet.

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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How the Best Newsletters Get – and Keep – Readers’ Attention

Content Marketing Institute

Nobody wants more email. Yet, as a marketer you want your prospects to want more email – to want your newsletters, at least. How do you create a newsletter so compelling that people not only subscribe to it but also continually look forward to receiving and reading it? Scott Monty, CEO and co-managing partner at Brain+Trust Partners, has a few thoughts on this conundrum.

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15 Best Practices for Boosting Product Page Conversions

Marketing Insider Group

Sales shouldn’t be the only thing you celebrate — product page visits are worth a cheer as well. They indicate that someone is well on the way to becoming a customer. They’re one of the first steps in the right direction. These visits only happen because of a lot of work — engaging marketing campaigns, […]. The post 15 Best Practices for Boosting Product Page Conversions appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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The Role of Content Has Changed – Here’s How You Can Adapt

Duct Tape Marketing

The Role of Content Has Changed – Here’s How You Can Adapt written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. It wasn’t too long ago that you could follow the formula below to attract and generate leads for your business: Develop a content upgrade, like an ebook. Gate it behind a form on a landing page. Drive people to your landing pages through blog posts, social media, advertising, and email campaigns.

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