Hubspot Marketing

APRIL 30, 2019

The results of the third annual State of Content Marketing Survey are now in -- the findings include victories, challenges, and trends. With three years of data behind us, we can see just how much growth the content marketing world has achieved. But we haven't reached perfection yet. Three years ago, only 6% of marketers felt they knew what a successful marketing campaign really looked like -- in 2019, that number has increased to more than a third of marketers.

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Unbounce

APRIL 23, 2019

Lead generation is the number one challenge for marketers today. And it’s only going to get harder now that most Google search results pages have become saturated with promotional lead magnets masquerading as “great” content. There are millions of free resources out there already competing for attention. And customers are quickly catching on to the fact that most of these “Ultimate Guides to Dog Grooming” aren’t really worth giving up their personal information for.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 17, 2019

Today’s modern marketing department encompasses a variety of roles that blend expertise in both traditional and digital mediums. Hiring for SEO related roles, in particular, has increased by over 40% in the last year. Companies are injecting more dollars than ever into organic search and content marketing. This strategic shift calls on SEO and marketing teams to move in concert in order to achieve mutual campaign KPIs.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 30, 2019

There’s a formula to SEO and as long as you follow it, you’ll get rankings. So, what’s this formula? Well, you write amazing content, optimize your code, create a great user experience, and you mix in some backlinks. Sounds simple, right? Well, the formula isn’t too complicated, but it does require hard work and patience. Now what makes SEO challenging isn’t the formula, or the time, or the patience.

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 30, 2019

Whether you’re a one-person business or you’re in charge of marketing for a large corporation, any marketing activity you invest in must demonstrate measurable business benefits to make it worthy of your time and money. While content marketing offers many benefits, an improvement in SEO and search rankings is often one of the first and most […].

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 26, 2019

Your site sees a lot of traffic, but conversions are apathetic. Could your call to action be the blame? Look at these four before-and-after CTA examples to see what you could do better and improve your conversion rates. Continue reading → The post Can’t Get That Click? 5 Simple Strategies for CTAs That Convert [Examples] appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Unbounce

APRIL 2, 2019

We’ve all had frustrating experiences browsing the web on our phones: load times that seem to carry on forever; pages that are cluttered and difficult to navigate; long, rambling blocks of text that make it tough to understand what you’re even looking at. Well, at Unbounce, we’re putting our foot down. We’re tired of junky mobile landing pages. We want to celebrate the pages that do mobile right, with easy-to-follow copy, super-sleek designs, and crazy-fast load times.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 24, 2019

Though agencies loudly tout the importance of transparency , ongoing federal probes show that clients—and the public—still struggle to trust advertising agencies. The ongoing industry conversation about media transparency was shocked into life by the Association of National Advertisers ‘ 58-page anonymously sourced 2016 report, detailing agencies’ widespread use of opaque business practices such as kickbacks.

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Sprout Social

APRIL 22, 2019

Although it joined the game a bit later than some of the other popular social networks (Instagram launched on October 6, 2010 while Facebook started in 2004, Twitter in 2006 and Pinterest in January of 2010), Instagram certainly has made a name for itself in the industry. Now one of the most popular social media platforms available, the photo-sharing app has come a long way from its humble beginnings.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 23, 2019

There’s a little growth hack that every ecommerce site should be using. It’s the easiest hack… it doesn’t require money, you don’t need a following, and it works instantly. But you know what? No one is using it. Can you guess what it is? Well, I’ll give you hint… just look at the image above. It’s not related to SEO, paid ads, or anything else you are used to reading about here on the blog.

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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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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 25, 2019

Cutting filler words bloating your online writing sharpens your point. It’s how you ratchet up your words’ value for readers. Clearer content is easier to understand. Here’s a list of common culprits you should get rid of. Continue reading → The post Get Rid of These 25 Phrases and Words From Your Content appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Hubspot Marketing

APRIL 22, 2019

Pinterest is often undervalued by social media marketers, and considered an unnecessary component of a marketing strategy -- unfortunately, if this is true for your team, you could be missing out on a major source of traffic and income. Pinterest offers plenty of unique opportunities for marketers to reach leads and influence consumer purchasing behavior.

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 15, 2019

When most people hear the term “content marketing” they immediately think of blog posts and articles. In actuality, there’s a lot more to content marketing than just writing articles. Written content is often less expensive to produce and can be very effective, but if you overlook other content formats such as videos, podcasts, and infographics, […].

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 29, 2019

Landing pages. They’re the unsung heroes of B2B marketing. You won’t see them up for many awards, but their role in the buyer’s journey is critical. Without them, your database would be decidedly threadbare, and you’d have little idea what kind of content or offers your customers value most. Most marketers know the fundamentals of landing page best practices : compelling copy, top-right form placement, social proof.

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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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Sprout Social

APRIL 19, 2019

Despite efforts to unseat it, Facebook is still the reigning social media network. As of the end of 2018, it boasted over 2.32 billion monthly active users. The use of Facebook has evolved through the years so it’s important for marketers to be up to date on the newest statistics. Here are the important stats for marketers to know, categorized by topic and ready for you to use in your social media strategy.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 17, 2019

Please note that you may have to clear your browser cache to see the latest version of Ubersuggest. Do you want to know how many people are linking to you? Do you want to find more link opportunities? Well, I created a free backlink tool that will allow you to do that (and much more). I decided to call it Backlinks. And, as you may have guessed, I integrated it within Ubersuggest so that way you can do more within one simple tool.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 23, 2019

Too often, marketers speak about search intent from an e-commerce perspective. But where does it fit in content marketing? It’s critical if you want an audience to find your content through search. Continue reading → The post Why You Shouldn’t Ignore Search Intent Optimization appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Hubspot Marketing

APRIL 26, 2019

In early 2019, HubSpot Research partnered with SurveyMonkey to conduct new research on social media preferences and buying preferences. We used SurveyMonkey Audience to ask over 2,700 consumers in Colombia, France, Germany, Mexico, Spain, the UK and the U.S. questions on how they buy. This report highlights the fascinating differences we've discovered in buying preferences worldwide.

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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.

Marketing

Unbounce

APRIL 10, 2019

A joint study by Econsultancy and RedEye found that only 28% of companies are satisfied with their conversion rates, while 37% reported they’re either quite dissatisfied or very dissatisfied. There could be many reasons for this lack of satisfaction. But from what I’ve seen with my past CRO projects, one major cause is marketers frequently missing out on some optimization opportunities that would improve their B2B conversion rates.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 19, 2019

Video ads are one of the most potent tools in a marketing arsenal. So why do so many event marketers ignore it? According to a 2018 Animoto report on social video trends, 93% of business score new customers from video marketing on social media. Eventbrite research shows that 94% of event creators who use video say it’s effective. While both reports highlight the power of video marketing, they also note that less than half of event marketers actually use this effective tool.

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Sprout Social

APRIL 15, 2019

If you have absolutely no idea how to approach your Facebook advertising strategy these days, you aren’t alone. It’s no secret that Facebook’s organic reach has taken a nosedive. Recent algorithm changes have basically forced businesses to invest in paid campaigns or abandon ship. But before you write off Facebook as a lost cause, think again. Facebook is still the preferred place for 97% of marketers to run paid ads for a reason.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 9, 2019

Do you know what the number one email request I get is? Come on, take a guess. What do you think it is? Ok, its people asking me for money. But, do you know what the second most common email request I get is? Companies asking me to rank them number 1 on Google for a specific term. And I have to say, it’s a big waste of time for you to focus all of your energy on ranking number 1 on Google for a specific term or even a handful of terms.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 19, 2019

Scrolling through social media platforms can be an irritating experience. Too many brands and individuals don’t use their digital megaphones effectively. What are they doing wrong? Read on for 22 of the biggest social media pet peeves. Continue reading → The post 22 Things You Wish Marketers Would Stop Doing on Social Media appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Hubspot Marketing

APRIL 18, 2019

For a long time, digital marketers organized their entire content calendar around specific keywords. They'd work with their teams to brainstorm core keywords relevant to their products or services, as well as all the variations of that keyword most likely to bring them high-converting traffic. And, ultimately, it worked. Users from around the world could enter specific search terms into a search engine and, if their intent matched your keywords, they'd land on your site.

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 8, 2019

Creating great content is obviously an important part of any content marketing plan, but your job doesn’t end as soon as you hit the publish button. If that content is going to bring you any benefits, people need to actually read it, and so your content promotion strategy is just as vital as the research […]. The post The Ultimate Guide To Content Promotion appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 8, 2019

In a way, sales reps are like nurses or doctors. They take people’s temperatures to determine how they’re feeling. A “hot” prospect is ready to buy. A “cold” prospect is merely browsing inventory. Before the internet, this heat check was usually performed in person. Sales reps would get a good sense of how interested someone was in their company’s products or services by spending some time with them.

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Sprout Social

APRIL 2, 2019

If you’re familiar with #SproutSessions, you know it’s a free digital conference where we host a variety of marketing and social talent from your favorite brands to talk shop. We recently took that format and made it live as a half-day, traveling event with speakers and panels that explore what it means to foster real connection on social. Yep, we’re pretty excited about it.

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Litmus

APRIL 11, 2019

Historically, choosing the right font for your email has never been too hard, considering the limited number of web safe fonts to choose from. But things have changed. More and more email designers are pushing the boundaries and embracing the same development techniques that web designers have been using for years—implementing web fonts in their emails.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 16, 2019

Images attract more people to your content. People also are likely to retain content with visuals longer. But marketers, particularly text-focused marketers, struggle to create or find the best visuals. Here’s some help. Continue reading → The post Make Your Blog More Attractive With These 12 Visuals appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Hubspot Marketing

APRIL 12, 2019

As a baseball player turned blogger, my blogging platform is just as important to me as my bat was to me. If I went up to the plate with a quality bat that I personally preferred swinging, I would feel more confident, boosting my chances of getting a hit. If I didn’t, I would most likely tap a dribbler back to the pitcher. Similarly, when blogging eventually replaced baseball in my life, I discovered using a blogging platform I was comfortable with and liked enabled me to produce better work and

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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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