July, 2024

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How curiosity fuels your marketing

Businesses Grow

The two most important “soft skills” in marketing are empathy and curiosity. I realized that I’d written more than 3,000 blog posts and had never written about curiosity. How un-curious of me. Curiosity is the spark that ignites innovation in marketing. It’s the fuel that propels us beyond the mundane and into the realm of the remarkable.

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The Power of B2B Influencers: How to Leverage Influencer Marketing to Drive Success

Trade Press Services Newsletter

Influencer marketing is the practice of collaborating with recognized experts or popular social-media users to drive brand awareness, engagement, and revenue. From viral tooth whitening products to the latest fitness gadgets, influencer marketing is a staple in the B2C marketplace. By partnering with industry influencers, brands can reach new audiences while deepening trust with existing ones.

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This Writing Technique Turns Your Copy Into a “Mind Movie”

Hubspot Marketing

Welcome to Creator Columns , where we bring expert HubSpot Creator voices to the Blogs that inspire and help you grow better. Months before Beau was born, my sister — herself a mother of three — recommended we put a “NoseFrida” on our registry. “It’s this rubber tube,” she said. “One end goes in the baby’s nose, the other goes in your mouth. Then you suck.

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4 Ways to Improve Digital Marketing With Donor Data

Marketing Insider Group

Nonprofits are investing more time and resources into digital marketing avenues than ever before. According to the 2024 M+R Benchmarks report , nonprofits invested 13% more in digital advertising in 2023 than in 2022. Digital marketing connects nonprofits to new audiences and strengthens their relationships with existing supporters. However, your digital marketing plan is only as powerful as the data you collect to inform your decisions.

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Why B2B Growth Needs a Co-Marketing Strategy

Speaker: Speakers:

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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How to Plan for a Marketing Campaign in 7 Simple Steps

Vertical Response

Need a clear way to plan for a marketing campaign? This guide will walk you through 7 simple steps to set goals, reach your audience, and measure your results. Key Takeaways Setting clear, measurable goals is essential for guiding a marketing campaign, allowing for alignment with business objectives and progress tracking. Identifying and understanding the target audience through segmentation and persona development enhances engagement and campaign effectiveness.

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5 Best Rank Tracking Tools for SEO Monitoring

Backlinko

Rank tracking tools let you monitor your SEO performance over time. By tracking which keywords you’re ranking for, where you’re gaining, and where you’re losing. Backlinko.com ranks for more than 114K keywords in the US. 16K of these rank in the top 10 positions. Keeping track of the keywords we know drive the most value helps us ensure we have visibility for key terms in volatile search results.

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Social Media Automation Strategy: 10 Tasks You Can Automate

Buffer Marketing

You’re spinning multiple plates at once as a social media marketer. Brainstorming content ideas, scheduling posts, replying to comments, analyzing your social media marketing performance, tweaking your marketing strategy based on data — and repeating it all over again day in and day out for multiple social media platforms. Whew. It takes some elbow grease to keep the wheels spinning.

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10 Content Marketing Benchmarks to Guide You in 2024

Marketing Insider Group

Content marketing is a dynamic field that evolves rapidly, and staying ahead requires significant effort. You’ll need to set strategic benchmarks to measure success, helping you improve wherever necessary. Whether you’re a seasoned marketer or just starting, these benchmarks will help define your successes and failures. From there, you can optimize your strategies and achieve the desired results.

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How to protect your brand from AI dupes

Martech

Brands today face a new and formidable threat: AI-powered dupes. These sophisticated copycats are eroding consumer trust, diluting brand identities and damaging bottom lines. The cost? The sale of counterfeit products is a $2 trillion criminal enterprise that impacts virtually every industry, according to the National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC).

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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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Community Management Metrics That Actually Help [Expert Interviews]

Hubspot Marketing

They say if you can measure it, you can manage it. So how do you measure a community? That’s not a rhetorical question. If you want to manage a thriving community, you better figure out which community management metrics actually mean something about your work. I spoke with a panel of four experts — from CCOs and Directors to program managers in the trenches — and asked what metrics they use themselves.

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8 Social Media Competitor Analysis Tools To Help You Get Ahead

Hootsuite

Social media competitor analysis tools should be a staple in every social manager’s toolbox. Unfortunately, there’s often a temptation to focus inward and get stuck micro-analyzing your own internal social media performance. The thing is, your own performance analysis is much more valuable when your marketing efforts are placed in the context of your industry niche.

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What Are Sales Battle Cards, and How Do I Use Them?

Aspiration Marketing

Ever feel lost during a sales call, struggling to answer a tough objection or explain your product's edge? You're not alone. Unpreparedness can sink deals. But don't worry; there's a secret weapon: sales battle cards. These handy quick-reference guides empower you with essential product knowledge, competitor insights, and objection-crushing responses.

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How to Do SEO for Your New Website [10-Step Guide]

Backlinko

If done well, SEO (search engine optimization) can send thousands of targeted visitors to your website every month. This turns your site from an afterthought into an asset that generates leads and sales. Backlinko started as a simple personal blog in 2012, publishing one or two posts per month. In the first two years, our traffic grew from a few hundred monthly visitors to several thousand.

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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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How to Use Content Segmentation to Tailor Marketing Campaigns

Scoop.it!

These days, you can’t just bombard your target audience with tons of generalized content and hope something sticks. You need to do what your competitors are doing: deliver tailored, personalized marketing messages. Of course, it would be impractical to create unique content for every single customer. However, you can identify shared characteristics among your audience and tailor content to meet the needs of these distinct groups.

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Press Releases Are My Secret to Marketing on a Small Budget: Here’s How I Do It With No PR Background

Buffer Marketing

When my sister and I started Vinat to make buying wine online more accessible, I thought that any kind of PR was going to be prohibitively expensive for our small brand. Previously, I had worked in corporate finance, so I knew exactly how much the companies I worked for spent on engagements with PR firms. And then we attended a webinar where we learned about platforms that help businesses write and publish press releases that get picked up by major news outlets like The Associated Press.

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3 ways to add a human touch to AI-generated content

Search Engine Land

Seventy-two percent of B2B marketers say they use generative AI to create content, but 61% say their organization has no guidelines for its use. This is a recipe for disaster. AI offers unparalleled efficiency in content creation, but we’re still working to balance its convenience with the authenticity that only humans can provide. Let’s dive into three simple ways to add a human touch to your AI-generated content. 1.

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7 Community Management Tools the Pros Actually Use [Expert Recommendations]

Hubspot Marketing

Having a hard time finding clear info on community management tools? I’m not even a little surprised. “Community management” covers a wide range of jobs, and they’re not going to have the same software needs. After all, if you’re running a B2B product support forum you need a different tech stack than someone modding a Bluey fandom on TikTok, right?

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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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5 Steps to create a digital business card for easy follow up

AWeber

Creating a digital business card can be a game-changer for your networking and marketing efforts. With AWeber, you can easily design and share a professional-looking virtual business card. Here’s how: Step 1: Choose a Digital Business Card App Start by selecting a digital business card app. AWeber offers a free, user-friendly virtual business card template that you can customize directly in your AWeber account.

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5 Best brands on Pinterest to learn from

Sprout Social

“You know what I really like? Pinterest. I’ve got a lot of stuff saved. I deleted Instagram and Twitter on my phone. I have TikTok, and I have Pinterest… Puppies, breakfast, workout videos and booty shorts. I see all the content I want to see.” This quote from Megan Thee Stallion during a recent chat at Social Media Week captures the buzz we’ve been hearing in marketing circles: Pinterest is having a moment.

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How to put marketing data into meaningful context

Martech

To business executives and marketing professionals, everything is numbers. Watch the news and pay attention to when a broadcaster states a number. Reading, seeing or hearing numbers is easy. Blindly repeating them is easy. What’s hard is validating the data, understanding it and then putting it into a meaningful, useable format. Context matters in data analysis “Numbers out of context are just numbers!

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30 Days of LinkedIn Post Prompts to Help You Build Your Following + Personal Brand

Buffer Marketing

As a professional, there’s no better way to future-proof your career than building your personal brand on LinkedIn. Establishing yourself as a thought leader and building an engaged audience on the platform can help generate new customers for your business, exciting job opportunities, and even paid side projects as a B2B (or B2C) creator.  I’ve been focused on building a personal brand on LinkedIn since mid-2022 (that’s just about two years at the time of writing this),

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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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Digital marketing primer: Understanding strategies and measuring success

Search Engine Land

Today, every business invests in digital marketing. Whether small or large, businesses either have an in-house team or outsource their digital marketing efforts to a third-party agency. Digital marketing is a broad term that encompasses many services. Although the term “digital marketing” is self-explanatory, there’s more to it than meets the eye.

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Understanding the Impact of Google Consent Mode For Your Business in 2024

Hubspot Marketing

In a report from May 2023 , Google states that “with Consent Mode in place, Air France’s visible conversions rose by 9% across Europe” after experiencing a 20% drop in conversions due to recent cookie guidance compliance. How can a company benefit from more accurate measurement as privacy regulations become increasingly strict? Consent Mode is the solution proposed by Google to continue providing valuable insights in a privacy-first digital world.

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16 Crucial Social Media Metrics to Track In 2024

SocialPilot

In a world where attention spans are already shorter than ever, understanding how your audience interacts with your brand online is crucial. You need to know what works for your audience and what does not. Looking at the likes and comments alone won’t work for long. You need to know which social media metrics to track to tell the whole story and decipher hidden actionable insights.

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What Do Engaged Sessions in GA4 Tell You?

Marketing Insider Group

Google Analytics 4 (GA4) is the latest version of Google’s powerful analytics platform. Its purpose is to provide deeper insights into user behavior and website performance, helping you make adjustments whenever necessary. Understanding engaged sessions within GA4 is crucial for anyone looking to optimize their online presence. These engaged sessions go beyond simple visit counts, revealing how users interact with your content, what captures their interest, and what drives them to take act

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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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Planting seeds and building trust in a world of overnight wins

Martech

There’s a comforting truth to the adage, “Good things come to those who wait.” But waiting often feels synonymous with missing out. Passive waiting offers little in today’s fast-paced world. The key lies in planting seeds. This is about taking action while acknowledging the role of time. Not all seeds will flourish; some may wither and success is never guaranteed.

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Facebook Ads: A Quick-start Guide for Beginners

Buffer Marketing

Paid advertising on social media is an immediate way to boost the reach of your content — particularly when it comes to a power platform like Facebook. With over 3 billion monthly active users , it's little wonder that Facebook is the most popular social media platform for running ads. But the Facebook algorithm is a tough nut to crack, especially if you're just starting out — whether you're a small business owner, a creator, or a social media manager — so the

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What is generative engine optimization (GEO)?

Search Engine Land

Change is the only constant in today’s rapidly evolving digital marketing landscape. Keeping up with the latest innovations isn’t just a choice – it’s a necessity for survival. Generative engine optimization (GEO) is the latest major development revolutionizing the way people search and interact with information online. As GEO and its effects on SEO and digital marketing continue to evolve, we’ll cover the basics to equip you with the knowledge to navigate these dynamic changes and stay ahead.