Ann Handley
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
A version of this story appeared in Total Annarchy, my fortnightly newsletter that helps you be a better writer, storyteller, marketer. Get it in your inbox ; you’ll love it. * * *. < Hand over heart; eyes to the heavens. > This year, you resolve to… 1. WRITE THE FIRST DRAFT AS FAST AS YOU CAN. Get it out of your head. Get it onto the page.
Dreamgrow
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
Last Updated on March 24, 2022 by Karl Welcome to my Kartra vs. ClickFunnels review. Read more The post Kartra vs ClickFunnels 2022 (Decide in 5 Minutes or Less) appeared first on Dreamgrow. [This is a content summary, continue reading on our website!].
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Hootsuite
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
If your brand has accounts on multiple social media accounts, your job involves juggling metrics, audiences, and goals specific to each platform. Making sense of it all and maintaining an active, on-brand presence across networks can be a challenge. Wondering how to turn a bunch of scattered social media post ideas into a cohesive, powerful cross-platform campaign that leverages the best opportunities of each platform?
Martech
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
A new study from Gartner found that consumer opinions about the metaverse are vague and largely uncertain. Marketers should keep this in mind as they look at new ways to engage consumers in virtual spaces. Only 6% of consumer respondents told Gartner that they were “very familiar” with the metaverse and that they “understand and can describe it to others.
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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.
Unbounce
FEBRUARY 25, 2022
Facebook has more than 2.9 billion users worldwide , giving marketers a huuuge audience. But if you’ve ever tried to advertise on Facebook, you’ve seen that you can choose from a bunch of different ad formats. So which one should you choose and try out? May we suggest—hint, hint—giving link ads a shot? Why? Because Facebook link ads are flexible and beginner-friendly , which make them an excellent choice for folks new to the world of Facebook ads.
Sprout Social
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Trouble coming up with marketing campaign ideas? Hey, we hear you. Growing your business and keeping revenue rolling in means consistently crafting posts and promotions. But motivation can be hard to come by. This is especially true if your recent marketing push fell flat or your engagement rate is low. The reality? Too many businesses are caught in a trap of ad-hoc marketing.
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Search Engine Land
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
From RankBrain, Neural Matching, BERT and MUM – here is how Google uses AI for understanding language for query, content and ranking purposes. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.
Search Engine Journal
FEBRUARY 14, 2022
A hallmark of the SEO podcasts on this list is that each one will help search marketers become better at what they do. The post Top 17 SEO Podcasts For 2022 appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Martech
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Marketing your services is essential for building your brand image and reputation. One of the best ways to do so is by prioritizing customer experience (CX). Customer experience focuses on the relationship between a business and its customers. It includes every form of interaction or communication with the customer, whether direct or indirect, even if it doesn’t result in a purchase.
Hootsuite
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Affiliate marketing is one of the oldest models for earning money online. Online referral marketing predates modern social media by more than a decade and a half. (Yes, the Internet has been around that long.). But social media affiliate marketing takes this old concept to a new level. It allows brands to reach loyal followers of intensely relevant creators.
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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.
Sprout Social
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
If there’s one thing we know for sure about social media, it’s that you can always expect to see new features, content types and ways to engage your audience. One of the latest features by YouTube is YouTube Shorts. Haven’t heard it? No worries, you’re not behind the curve. In fact, you’ve probably already been creating this type of short-form video content on other platforms.
Content Marketing Institute
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
Bookmark this list of content creation tools, including lesser-known options and an old favorite or two. From idea generators and headline analyzers to research and SEO resources, infographic creators to meme designs, you'll find tools to help you through the creation process.
Aspiration Marketing
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
Good news! Your startup is picking up traction and growing quickly. Such a growth spurt may mean that you are finally over the hump and making your way in the world, but it is important not to get ahead of yourself. While an increase in growth is a great sign, it is vital that you keep the momentum going. A significant number of startups make the mistake of sitting back and relaxing after a major growth spurt, which is why so many startups fail right after they begin to grow.
Search Engine Journal
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
Are security headers a part of your SEO audits? Here's why they should be, alongside the top security headers you need to know. The post 5 HTTP Security Headers You Need To Know For SEO appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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!
Martech
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
Immersive media and technologies like augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR) and the Metaverse are a hot, hot topic these days. Long gone are the days when marketers could dismiss these technologies as a fad or as applications not ready for the mass market. With many technology heavy-hitters like Meta (Facebook) and Apple racing to be the first to offer a truly seamless immersive experience, there appears to be little doubt that we will get this technology into the hands of the mainstream.
Unbounce
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
It’s a humbling moment when you realize that not everyone has a use for the product you poured your heart and soul into. That’s right: Not everyone wants an app to remind them of their daily tasks or a food courier that delivers hot meals at a moment’s notice. It’s impossible to make everyone happy all of the time—and that’s OK! What’s not OK is wasting your resources (like ad money) on an audience that’s not searching for your product.
Sprout Social
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
How does Instagram shopping fit into your social media strategy ? It’s no secret that consumers rely on Instagram to browse new brands and hunt for products. Recent data shows that shoppers on Instagram have gone from “browsing” to “buying” in a huge way. According to Instagram, a staggering 44% of users shop on the platform weekly.
Content Marketing Institute
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
Publishing the wrong content can take many forms, but the end results are similar. At worst, it could seriously damage your brand. At best, your content will be ignored. Here are 15 content mistakes that can do harm to your content marketing strategy.
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.
Chief Martec
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
Bain & Company recently conducted a martech survey with 100 major consumer products companies. They evaluated these companies’ maturity on 30 different martech capabilities, including enablers such as martech product management and governance practices. They identified the top 12% of those companies as “leaders” in their martech capabilities and the bottom 19% as “laggards.” You will hopefully not be surprised to learn that the leaders have mostly gained market
Search Engine Journal
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
Struggling to keep up in the SERPs? Use this small business SEO checklist to get a leg up on the competition. The post Small Business SEO Checklist: 11 Ways To Improve Rankings appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Martech
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
Two recent studies measured ROI for social media versus email, and they appear to contradict each other. One said social media was first and email second for ROI, and the other said the opposite. Who’s right? I don’t know. But I know it’s the wrong question because email and social media don’t play the same roles. Much of the difference comes down to capturing, measuring and acting on intent.
The CMO Survey
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
Results from the February 2022 edition of The CMO Survey examined three topics on the minds of many marketing leaders and stakeholders—climate, privacy, and spending. Managing Climate Change : Only one-third of marketers surveyed report that their companies have specific goals related to climate change. Fewer than half of marketing leaders (47.4 percent) believe their companies are willing to make short-term financial sacrifices to reduce their environmental impact.
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Sprout Social
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Text messaging. Direct mail. Social media. These are all valid ways to keep in touch with customers and prospects. But there’s one method that’s stood the test of time: Email. And while it’s an effective tool for marketers to engage their subscribers—most will agree it’s a time-consuming task. It can take hours or even days to create compelling copy.
Content Marketing Institute
FEBRUARY 14, 2022
AI-powered writing tools can simulate human thought in a way that’s both awe-inspiring and a little scary. However, they have a way to go before they can fully replicate human thought patterns. That buys you time to prepare.
Calvyn Lee Blog
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
Speaking on social media pages, I strongly recommend every business create their company pages at every social media, such as Facebook pages and LinkedIn pages. In this post, I am excited to share with you how to get started with LinkedIn pages. I will cover this 3 main topic. What is a LinkedIn page? How are education marketers using LinkedIn pages?
Search Engine Journal
FEBRUARY 25, 2022
Popular WordPress plugin Rank Math now supports IndexNow for faster website indexing and ranking. The post Rank Math Integrates IndexNow for WordPress Sites appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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Martech
FEBRUARY 18, 2022
“Misalignment between marketing and sales teams is a trillion-dollar problem for B2B revenue teams,” said Julianne Thompson, director of sales development at revenue acceleration platform Drift, in a recent webinar. “There are a few key factors that led to this divide: sales reps not knowing how to service the appropriate content in sales deals, a lack of tracking for that content’s effectiveness, and wasted time on unproductive prospecting.”.
Search Engine Land
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
The way Google Ads automated extensions work is changing. Here’s what you need to know. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.
Sprout Social
FEBRUARY 21, 2022
Anyone who manages their company’s social media for a living operates every day in fear of being the one at the helm when the company Twitter account is hacked. But most of them don’t really do much to mitigate that fear. This is a critical error of epic proportions. Let’s state the obvious: Social media governance is not the sexy side of social. It is about as exciting to most social media managers as getting a tooth pulled.
Content Marketing Institute
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Hear from founder of the African-American Marketing Association. She talks about how to bake inclusivity into your content marketing strategy, planning, creation, and distribution.
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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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