November, 2024

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The 4 Ps of Marketing: How to Apply Them in the AI Era

Backlinko

What are the 4 Ps of marketing? Product. Price. Place. Promotion. For over 60 years, these four elements have been the cornerstone of many successful marketing strategies. But do these classic principles hold up even as AI transforms whole businesses and industries? Absolutely. Why? Even with AI’s growing influence, the fundamental customer needs haven’t changed.

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5 Common Paid Media Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Marketing Insider Group

Paid media is promotional content a business pays for to reach a target audience. It’s a useful digital marketing tool because it offers a direct line to potential customers. Ahrefs reports that over 96.5% of content gets no organic traffic from Google whatsoever, so paid media is a convenient way to get your brand’s message to potential buyers.

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6 Best Enterprise SEO Tools (In Depth Comparison)

Backlinko

Ever wondered which enterprise SEO tools drive the success of the largest companies? As a decision-maker in an enterprise-scale business, you need more than just a list. You need insights that matter. That’s why we’ve gone the extra mile. After more than 20 hours of in-depth research, input from Backlinko’s head of SEO, Leigh McKenzie, and thorough analysis of numerous review sites and forums, we’ve narrowed it down to the top six tools.

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How TikTok is transforming brand advertising

Martech

TikTok is no longer just the platform for viral dances and trends; it’s transforming how brands connect with consumers and driving unprecedented advertising success. As companies embrace TikTok’s unique blend of storytelling, targeted ads and interactive features, they’re discovering a powerful path to growth that seamlessly integrates brand visibility, audience engagement and increased sales.

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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketer's Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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Why your marketing team needs training, not just tech, in the age of AI

Martech

Automation, machine learning and analytics are taking center stage as AI reshapes the business landscape. But in the rush to adopt the latest tools, one thing is often overlooked — the people. For any AI-driven initiative to succeed, employees must be ready to work with new tools, adapt to fresh methods and embrace different ways of thinking. For CMOs, this is a call to action.

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The ROI of Thank You: Why Gratitude Matters in Business

Trade Press Services Newsletter

When was the last time you experienced genuine gratitude at work? If you can’t recall, you’re not alone. Gratitude is often thought of as a personal virtue to practice in everyday life or around holidays. “The practice of expressing gratitude is far more often associated with personal relationships like friendships, partnerships, or family,” says Intelligent Change. “You rarely hear the words ‘gratitude’ and ‘business’ in the same sentence.” A recent study by the John Tem

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Marketing Budget and Job Growth Rebound

The CMO Survey

Marketing leaders’ optimism about the U.S. economy lost strength, as a three-year-high in confidence levels recorded last spring was dampened by election uncertainty and lingering inflation worries. But despite macroeconomic and political concerns, marketing spending at U.S companies grew by 5.8% during the last year, up from a growth rate of 2.5% in the last survey with projected growth of 8.6% over the next 12 months.

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How Social Media Marketing Drives Business Growth

Calvyn Lee Blog

Social media has become an indispensable tool for business growth, but many organizations struggle to use it effectively. In a recent conference session, chartered marketer Luan Wise shared valuable insights on leveraging social media marketing to drive business success. Here are the key takeaways from her presentation. Understanding Business Growth Fundamentals Growth isn’t just about increasing revenue or headcount.

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Unlocking the Potential of Bluesky Social for Sales & Marketing

SMEI

Register for the SMEI Bluesky Starter Pack and Get Promoted! Unlocking the Potential of Bluesky Social for Sales and Marketing Professionals The digital landscape is changing, and platforms like Bluesky Social are transforming how brands connect with their audiences. As a decentralized network focused on transparency and user control, Bluesky offers unique opportunities for sales and marketing professionals to stand out.

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What makes content go viral, backed by research

Martech

What makes content go viral? According to our latest research, the key lies in triggering specific emotions, publishing at the right time and telling stories that resonate. By understanding the emotional drivers behind viral content, brands can create campaigns that reach wider audiences and inspire real engagement. The viral emotions driving brand engagement Up to 70% of journalists say PR pros are important to the success of their jobs, yet 49% of journalists seldom or never respond to PR pitc

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How to Create a Community Your Members Cant Get Enough Of

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.

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4 Hidden Salesforce Data Quality Saboteurs Undermining Your MOps

MarketingOps

While marketing focuses on driving demand and capturing leads, it’s up to MOps to support those efforts with the right processes, tools, and most importantly, accurate data. But even the most sophisticated strategies won’t deliver results when the data that powers your CRM is cluttered with inconsistencies, duplicates, and outdated information.

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What is Social Listening, and How Can I Use It?

Aspiration Marketing

Today, the internet and social media aren't just platforms for sharing photos and status updates; they're a bustling marketplace of ideas, opinions, and conversations. Every tweet, post, and comment adds to a symphony of voices, creating a wealth of raw, unfiltered data. For businesses, this digital chatter isn't just noise—it's an invaluable resource waiting to be tapped.

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How to Humanize AI Content So It Will Rank, Engage, and Get Shared in 2025

Hubspot Marketing

I still remember my first taste of artificial intelligence (AI).It was “SmarterChild,” a chatbot available on AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) and Windows Live Messenger in the early 2000s that you could have a “conversation” with when your real friends weren’t online. But honestly, even as a preteen, I could see that it needed a lesson in humanizing AI content.

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The LinkedIn Conundrum: Finding Sanity in Social Selling

Calvyn Lee Blog

In a compelling presentation at the conference, Nenad Pavlov, founder of SimplyGrow, shared valuable insights on navigating LinkedIn for sales and marketing while maintaining your sanity. With over seven years of experience running a pre-sales agency and working across 50+ clients in 15+ industries, Pavlov offered a fresh perspective on using LinkedIn effectively.

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AI Strategies for Sales Managers: How to Cut Down on Tedious Admin Work

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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13 Ways to Get More Followers on Instagram in 2024

Buffer Marketing

There are no definitive “growth hacks” for increasing your number of followers on Instagram — but there are still plenty of things you can do to build your Instagram growth strategy. Here are 13 steps you can take for organic Instagram growth, in the order we recommended doing them. Before we dive in: If you’re just  starting with Instagram for your business  or as a creator, the first step is to tighten the nuts and bolts of your Instagram presence.

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How to grow your organic reach with behavioral analytics insights

Martech

Do you know why some visitors engage deeply with every page on your website while others barely make it past the homepage? For marketers, understanding these patterns is key. It’s about creating an engaging site experience — a user-centered journey that drives organic growth. Behavioral analytics provides a clear view of how users interact with your site: where they click, what grabs their attention and what makes them leave.

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New Research Shows That From Boomers to Zoomers, Authenticity Matters

Businesses Grow

by Mara Singer, {grow} Community Member Without authenticity, you cannot connect; without connection, you have no consumer relationship. Over the past year, my research on generational differences in perceived digital authenticity has found a few golden marketing nuggets. Grab your favorite caffeinated beverage and settle in, because I will share my findings concerning the four consumer generations, from Gen Z to Baby Boomers.

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What is Email Marketing, and Why Does It Matter?

Aspiration Marketing

Today, businesses constantly seek innovative ways to reach and engage their target audience. One powerful tool that has stood the test of time is email marketing. Despite the rise of social media and other digital channels, email remains a highly effective way to build relationships, drive sales, and increase brand loyalty. Whether you're a seasoned marketer or just starting out, understanding the power of email marketing can significantly improve your overall strategy.

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Evolving Beyond Intent: Create Customer Value with Signals

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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Conducting B2B Market Research the Right Way — Here‘s Everything I’ve Learned

Hubspot Marketing

Few things bring me joy like diving into a Wikipedia rabbit hole for a few hours. I relish the chance to research topics and ideas and discover the unexpected ways they connect. And while I may relax that way in my personal life, I also use those skills in business, where I conduct B2B market research to build marketing strategies and plans. Understanding businesses as buyers is its own kind of rabbit hole.

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Building Authentic Social Media Engagement

Calvyn Lee Blog

In a compelling session at the conference, international brand consultant Frank Vinchon shared valuable insights on creating meaningful social media engagement. With over 20 years of experience working with major brands like Google, EA Games, L’Oreal, and Toyota, Vinchon emphasized that successful social media marketing isn’t just about talking – it’s about creating genuine conversations.

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10 Overlooked Ecommerce Store Conversion Optimizations You Need to Try Now

Customers.ai

You’ve got visitors rolling into your ecommerce store but how many are actually pulling out their wallets? Not as many as you’d like, right? Ouch. It’s not because your products aren’t amazing (they are). It’s because your site isn’t doing enough to turn curious browsers into loyal buyers. Here’s the thing…most ecommerce store owners focus on the obvious stuff like adding flashy CTAs and running discount ads.

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Why B2B marketing must adopt B2C tactics

Martech

Digital natives aren’t like the rest of us. They are bringing entirely new behavioral patterns into the B2B buying process, and experienced marketers and sellers ignore this at their peril. Call it “the consumerization of B2B.” We must treat buyers like the consumers they are in their personal lives, and develop new expertise in the media channels and messages that tend to work in consumerland.

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Marketing Operations in 2025: A New Framework for Success

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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The Role of Keywords in Successful PPC Advertising

Marketing Insider Group

PPC (Pay-Per-Click) advertising relies heavily on one foundational element: keywords. Crafting a strong PPC keyword strategy will help you drive targeted traffic, increase conversions, and optimize advertising budgets. By identifying and implementing the right keywords, you can make sure your ads appear in front of audiences already searching for relevant products or services.

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How Do I Get It? 12 Ways to Collect Customer Feedback for 2025

Aspiration Marketing

The best way to know what your customers think about your brand, service, and product is to collect feedback directly from them. The goal is to go beyond simple likes and dislikes and understand your customers' feelings about your product. Leaving feedback and encouraging open-ended questions will aid in evaluating where you can improve and where you stand among the competition.

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Top 6 Social Media Marketing Challenges in 2024, According to 1,500+ Marketers [+ How to Face Them]

Hubspot Marketing

I’m not sure which social platform is winning the algorithmic gymnastics competition this year. Is it Instagram? Maybe TikTok? Either way, it seems like all of our favorite channels are actively competing for gold, which presents quite the range of social media marketing challenges for us. From algo updates to unpredictable trends, we’re always left wondering: Which platforms will provide the highest return?

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‘Tis the season for scrolling: 89% of consumers say social media influences their holiday shopping

Sprout Social

As the poem goes: “Consumers scour social media with care, knowing that the holidays will soon be here.” Or something like that. The most wonderful time of the year is fast approaching, and the influence social has on consumer purchasing behavior is undeniable. According to the Q4 2024 Sprout Pulse Survey*, a staggering 89% of consumers say social media impacts their holiday shopping decisions.

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4 AI Hacks to Make Sales Teams More Efficient

Over the last two years, there’s been a 76 percent increase in AI adoption across sales organizations. The reason for its rise? AI increases teams’ productivity by predicting and automating actions that require manual effort. In other words, the research that takes reps hours, AI can do in seconds. For sales teams, AI opens up a world of new possibilities, including automating outreach, identifying best-fit buyers, and keeping CRMs flush with fresh data.

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Marketing Tech Stack Audit Guide for Marketing Operations

MarketingOps

How to audit your marketing technology stack? If you are in the process of auditing your marketing tech (MarTech) stack and you feel overwhelmed, we are here to help. This guide will help you through the process and through auditing your marketing technology stack appropriately. Table of content What is a marketing technology audit? Why audit your marketing technology?

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3 must-send emails to maximize your Black Friday campaign

Martech

With Black Friday quickly approaching, the smartest marketers are preparing to pull out all the stops on their email campaigns for the biggest shopping day of the year. Perhaps you’re already outlining, drafting and even uploading your campaigns to your CRM or email service provider. But before you hit send, consider this: Your campaign must deliver more than discounts to be effective and profitable this Black Friday.

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10 Things Ops Teams Should Steal from Product Management

The Marketing Operations Leader

In this edition: 10 Things Ops Teams Should Steal from Product Management The Woes of Working in Marketing Operations POLL - What is The Biggest Data Challenge Marketers Face Today? For Paid Subscribers: The Paradox of the Job Title: Does It Really Matter? REMINDER: The Marketing Operations Virtual Event of the Quarter (MOPs Breakout) is this Wednesday!

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What Is Interaction to Next Paint and How Does It Impact Marketing?

Aspiration Marketing

Have you ever clicked a button on a website, only to be greeted by an agonizing wait? You're stuck in molasses, watching the loading icon spin endlessly. This frustrating slowness might be caused by a hidden culprit called Interaction to Next Paint (INP).

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The Power of Community: Why a Branded Community is a Must-Have for Every Association

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.