Hubspot Marketing

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Braden Becker ’s journey to becoming an SEO specialist at HubSpot is a slightly unconventional one. In college, he studied Writing & Rhetoric, which helped him land his first job as a copy editor at a B2B trade publication. As he progressed through his career, Braden pivoted to content marketing, where he worked as an editor at a SaaS company and then as a content manager at the world’s largest environmental services firm.

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Unbounce

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Landing page SEO is a tricky proposition. Landing pages are potent tools to convert readers into customers, but the way most are designed is hardly SEO friendly. Think about it. A landing page aims to direct readers down a specific path, focusing them on your call to action without offering other distractions. But optimizing a web page for search engines requires more content, more links, more calls to action.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

You’ve got a loyal following of delighted customers. Now it’s time to grow. But to do that, you need leads. The question is, how do you go about getting them? What techniques and approaches will help you generate a consistent stream of leads this year and beyond? In this blog, I’ll share five simple lead generation methods and the techniques that will help you generate new customers over time.

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Adams & Knight Marketing

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

It’s getting tougher and tougher to attract and retain employees. According to professional staffing services firm, Ajilon, “More than 80 percent of workers are either actively looking for a new job or are open to one.” What’s more, 15 percent of workers believe you should always be exploring other opportunities.” So, how do you attract and retain good employees?

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

A successful marketing strategy can mean the difference between business success and failure, but what is marketing exactly? How should you best approach it in today’s digital world? Many business people consider marketing to be the same thing as advertising and lump it in with sales. However, while sales and marketing are closely related, they […].

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Content Marketing Institute

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Do you want to refresh your social media marketing? Video is a great way to engage your audience, but it can be difficult to determine what options will work for your brand. Let’s break down five valuable options. Continue reading → The post 5 Types of Video to Add to Your Social Media Marketing appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Don’t you hate how it takes forever to get results when it comes to SEO? Everyone says it takes 6 months to a year and even in some cases many years to see results. Well, I have some bad news and some good news for you. Let’s start with the bad news…. SEO is a long-term strategy. It’s not about doing it for a few months and forgetting about it. And if you stop focusing on it eventually your competitors will outrank you.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

“Basic” is a bad word. OK, maybe that’s a stretch. But it’s certainly not an inspiring word. If basic is all we aim for, we fail as marketers. That’s especially true when it comes to personalization. Addressing an email to an individual, sending a prospect industry-specific content, and inserting a lead’s first name and company logo into a retargeting ad is the bare minimum.

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Adams & Knight Marketing

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

“Over the past 10 years, only 6.5 percent of Super Bowl Ads were purpose-driven,” says Reem Nouh , Strategic Services SVP at Adams & Knight in Connecticut. But that’s changing with the crop of TV commercials airing during Super Bowl LIII. “Today, consumers want a brand to stand for something that they believe in,” says Nouh.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Content Marketing agencies like ours exist for one simple reason: to attract potential customers. Content marketing does this by creating the content your audience wants, using the keywords they use. So if you are looking to grow your business, increase website traffic, rank for important keywords, improve your SEO, or deliver revenue or qualified leads, […].

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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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Sprout Social

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Be honest: when’s the last time you updated your LinkedIn company page? Although the platform may not seem to be scoring as many headlines as Facebook or Instagram, companies can’t afford to sleep on their LinkedIn presence. LinkedIn’s rapidly growing user base of nearly 600 million professionals speaks for itself, especially in the B2B space. Beyond being a prime place to share content and flex your industry influence, LinkedIn performs 277% better than Facebook or Twitter for generating visito

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Hubspot Marketing

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

There are plenty of studies that highlight the importance of customer retention -- oftentimes, customer retention has been found to be even more critical to your company's success than customer acquisition. For instance, research conducted by Frederick Reichheld of Bain & Company found as little as a five percent increase in customer retention can result in an increase in company revenue by 25-95%.

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Content Marketing Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Digital media fostered a generation of lazy writing. Without finite space demanded of print, writers aren’t forced to edit. To keep skills sharp, writers must do writing workouts. Start with these five exercises. Continue reading → The post How to Make Your Writing More Powerful appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Events are often one of the biggest marketing expenses. If this is the case, why do so few of us measure the real impact of these initiatives? According to Event MB , 85% of event planners use event registration software, 61% use event marketing tools, and 54% use survey tools. While this is promising, these tech stacks can often lead to uncertain attribution models that fail to calculate the true ROI of events.

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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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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

I have a question for you…. How do you build links? If I had to bet, chances are you spend little to no time on link building. Why? Because it’s hard. But why should link building be hard? Most parts of SEO are much simpler and cost-effective. For example, if you want to write content… you just go and write it. It may not be great content, but nothing is stopping you starting, learning, and improving.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

One of the biggest questions I hear from clients who are just starting their journey with content marketing and those who want me to help create an effective content marketing strategy for them is, “Where do you find the time?” The simple answer is that everything you do with content marketing doesn’t have to be […]. The post 7 Super Effective Ways to Automate Content Marketing appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Traackr

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

These monthly reports will help you make better decisions and effectively manage your ongoing influence marketing campaigns.

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Hubspot Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

LinkedIn is a highly valuable tool to network with like-minded professionals. But here's something we don't talk about as much as we should: LinkedIn is also a highly useful inbound marketing platform. It might seem a little bit intimidating. You have enough on your plate … do you really need to figure out another way to create targeted content? Actually, yes.

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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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Content Marketing Institute

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

What if you had tools that don’t require a 24/7 commitment but make it seem like you operate your brand’s Instagram accounts all day and night? Here are seven options. Continue reading → The post 7 Great Instagram Scheduling Tools for 2019 appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Do your front-line employees, like customer service representatives and salespeople, know how to communicate your brand story? Most marketers laugh when they hear this question because they don’t have a high degree of confidence. In fact, according to my company’s research, 66% of marketing executives believe their brand message is lost by the time it reaches the front lines.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Facebook engagement is easier and more valuable than you ever imagined. I found this out the hard way. At one point, I was spending hundreds of thousands of dollars a month on Facebook Ads. Sure, I was getting some huge successes. But I was also wasting a ton of money. For example, I once spent $400,000 on Facebook fan page likes. I still feel dumb for that one… The engagement just wasn’t there.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

The content you create guides the buyer’s journey that your prospects and customers take. That’s why it’s important to tailor content to the stage of the buyer’s journey prospects and customers will be at when they come across a particular piece of content. Marketers have historically chosen content formats based upon the information needs of […].

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Sprout Social

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

“The bots are coming.”. This sort of line has been popular among marketers over the past couple of years. But is that reality finally coming to fruition? At this point, are chatbots really here to stay? Based on industry data and what we’ve seen firsthand at Sprout, the answer is a resounding “yes.”. While chatbots for marketing were once seen as uncharted territory, more and more brands are getting on board with bots.

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Hubspot Marketing

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Even if you're not sure what a blog is, you've no doubt come across one at some point in time. Perhaps you've stumbled across a blog when you've searched "healthy dinner recipes". Alternatively, maybe you used a blog to get more information on SEO strategies. In fact, if you're reading this, guess what? You're on a blog. (Very meta, I know.). If your business doesn't have a blog, you might want to reconsider -- B2B marketers who use blogs receive 67% more leads than those who do not, and blogs h

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Content Marketing Institute

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Counting headlines is an antiquated skill. But the sentiment should live on: Writing a headline that best fits its environment is what makes it great. Follow this checklist for headlines that work for your audience and your brand. Continue reading → The post How to Write Headlines That Get Your Brand What It Wants [Checklist] appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Demonstrating the impact of marketing efforts across all channels is one of marketing’s biggest challenges today. . It’s not easy to do. But with the right approach and technology, you can have confidence in the data, which will help you communicate impact to your leaders and make smarter, data-driven decisions moving forward. In this post, I’ll use web content as an example to demonstrate how we can measure performance.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

I started young. At the ripe age of 15 and a half, I started my first online business. Can you guess what it was? It was a job board. I created it because I couldn’t find a high paying job at that young of an age. Heck, I struggled to find even a low paying job! As you probably can guess, it failed and, eventually, I went on to do other stuff. From creating an ad agency to a few software companies… the list goes on and on.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

We’re right at the start of the AI revolution but we’ve already got a good sense of how artificial intelligence will change the face of digital marketing. If you’re not fully on the bandwagon yet or you’re just considering dipping your toes in the water, you’re not the only one. Investing in new technology is […]. The post 5 Benefits of AI for Digital Marketers appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Sprout Social

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

In October 2018, Google announced that it will be shutting down the consumer version of Google+ owing to insufficient usage. The company announced that it was too challenging to keep maintaining a product that could not meet consumers’ expectations. The initial announcement also stated that Google would complete the Google+ shutdown in 10 months. This wasn’t too surprising to a lot of social media marketers and experts who had been anticipating the downfall of the platform for a while.

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Hubspot Marketing

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

In the marketing industry, we treat experts like they’re village elders, soaking up every tip and trick they have to offer so we can implement them into our own work, desperately hoping for similar results. But, when you really think about it, marketing is always changing and experts often don’t have visibility into your unique context. This naturally begs the questions -- what should you do when you can’t find a solution to one of your problems on the internet?

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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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