Neil Patel

APRIL 29, 2021

Search engine optimization (SEO) used to be defined by the number of keywords and keyword synonyms across your website’s content. When Google launched its knowledge graph , SEO shifted away from simply relying on keywords, and search engine crawlers began prioritizing rich snippets and entities on search engine results pages ( SERPs ). These days, Google has more systems to identify the true meaning of keyword searches and queries.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 29, 2021

Introductions get all the attention. Yet conclusions and endings matter even more. Readers who get to the end of the story are the ones most interested in the topic (and likely what your business offers). Here’s how to reach a satisfying conclusion. Continue reading → The post 15 Engaging Ways to End Your Next Blog Post appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Hootsuite

APRIL 26, 2021

One of the greatest benefits of social media advertising is the ability to test, track, refine and target your ads with laser precision. The Facebook pixel is a data-gathering tool that helps make the most of your ads across Facebook and Instagram. If you use Facebook or Instagram ads now, or plan to use them at any point in the future, the Facebook pixel is a must-use tool.

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 26, 2021

The challenges we are facing have changed how we communicate with consumers and market our products and services. We’ve had to quickly uproot some of the traditional methods we’ve used for years to adapt to new business practices and accommodate unique needs. Here are some emerging trends we’re seeing this year and expect to see more of in the future: Businesses are more boldly standing for or against political and social issues publicly.

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Sprout Social

APRIL 14, 2021

The TikTok boom is in full effect. Since the platform first became available in the U.S. in summer 2018, TikTok has generated six billion lifetime downloads in app stores and hit 689 million users worldwide, with no plateau in sight. Between viral dances, memes, recipes, hacks and other TikTok trends, it’s hard to avoid the platform’s influence, leaving many brands to wonder—should we be on TikTok?

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Hubspot Marketing

APRIL 6, 2021

In this competitive B2B marketing landscape, businesses make substantial investments in building content marketing programs. Why? Content marketing has been proven to deliver resounding success. As one of the most effective methods of growing audience engagement, developing your brand presence, and driving sales, content marketing is a mission-critical growth method for most businesses.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 19, 2021

Instagram doesn’t make it easy to get clicks to your landing pages. But these five ideas will help you navigate the channel to get the traffic to your site. Continue reading → The post How to Drive Organic Clicks and Leads From Your Instagram Channel appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Hootsuite

APRIL 19, 2021

If you’ve ever scrambled to get regular content published to your brand’s Facebook Page, you’ve probably wondered if there’s a way to schedule Facebook posts ahead of time. Well, there is! When you schedule Facebook posts, managing a social media content calendar becomes far more efficient. Scheduling posts can help your brand post consistently and stay on top of posting schedules.

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 22, 2021

Whether you’re thinking about launching a business in 2021 or working on growing one, you probably recognize and understand the importance and value of tools. The fact is, you can’t do it all on your own – no matter how savvy you are. To build or grow a startup in 2021, you need to invest in tools that can help you optimize, automate, and improve every working part of your business – from sales and marketing to employees and customers.

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Sprout Social

APRIL 22, 2021

While TikTok is newer to the world of social media, there’s no denying its popularity – especially with younger generations. Although TikTok content is more specific with its narrow focus on short, viral-ready videos there are many ways brands can still see success. However, in order to know if TikTok makes sense for your brand , you need to understand some basic TikTok stats such as demographics and user behavior that can inform what opportunities exist for your brand.

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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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Hubspot Marketing

APRIL 12, 2021

Long gone are the days of dial-up internet when web pages loaded line by line. Today's internet users expect an instant response, with 93% of people leaving a website because it didn't load properly. No one wastes time on a poor experience. To elevate the online experience, Google released Core Web Vitals — a set of metrics to help site owners measure the speed, responsiveness, and visual stability of their pages.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 23, 2021

There are a lot of misconceptions about online reputation management. Some people think it’s just social media monitoring, while others believe it has something to do with public relations, and still others have no idea the impact it can have on sales. In this guide, I’ll explain the role of online reputation management in today’s digital age, explain why it matters, and outline 10 tips for improving and protecting your brand’s online image.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 12, 2021

Taking your pages to the next level in Google search results requires cleaning up your mistakes and focusing on what counts. Here are five common reasons your pages aren’t ranking higher – and what you can do to change that. Continue reading → The post 5 Mistakes That Google Doesn’t Like and How to Stop Making Them appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Hootsuite

APRIL 8, 2021

More than one billion people use Instagram every month, and roughly 90% of them follow at least one business. In just over 10 years Instagram has grown from a photo-sharing app to a hub of business activity. Brands can run fundraisers in Instagram Live broadcasts, open shops from their profiles and let people book reservations from their accounts. Updates of new business tools, features and tips in the app have become pretty much routine.

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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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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 21, 2021

Content creation is the cornerstone of a successful inbound marketing strategy. This new Checklist: Perfecting Your B2B Brand Identity helps B2B companies hone how their brand looks, feels, and sounds in the marketplace, which is a great first step to creating the voice that will transcend your content. Once companies establish a brand identity, they can begin to consistently infuse content with the right language, tone, and other nuances that make your company distinct.

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Sprout Social

APRIL 29, 2021

The marketing department used to be the mouth of an organization—developing content and communicating messages to support sales. I think back to when I started in the field and my role was all about creating one-sheets, building presentation decks, planning events and helping to support advertising and awareness goals. Now, the role of marketing has fundamentally evolved, changed and grown.

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Hubspot Marketing

APRIL 27, 2021

Businesses pump out content at a staggering rate these days — and as that volume increases, more inconsistencies are bound to creep in. Whether due to lack of clarity about the style in which you'd like to write or disjointed communication across the multitude of content creators in your organization, failure to decide upon and document accepted editorial guidelines is a recipe for inconsistent messaging.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 20, 2021

If you’ve spent any time learning about marketing analytics, you’ve probably come across the term “funnels.” What exactly are marketing funnels and why do they matter? Marketing funnels are a useful tool to help you visualize the path customers take from first finding out about your brand to converting. Understanding them provides useful insight into why some customers convert — and some don’t.

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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

APRIL 13, 2021

Blogs, social media, and websites, oh my. The appetite for visual content seems insatiable – and graphic designers aren’t always available to help. This intro to the design principles of white space, typography, and color will help you make the most of your DIY designs. Continue reading → The post 3 Graphic Design Tips for Non-Designers appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Hootsuite

APRIL 8, 2021

Since the launch of LinkedIn native video in 2017, LinkedIn has proven that it’s more than just a platform for long-form B2B content. In one year, LinkedIn video posts generated more than 300 million impressions on the platform. They also earn an average of three times the engagement of text posts. Plus, early findings from LinkedIn’s beta program show that LinkedIn native videos are five times more likely than other content to start a conversation among LinkedIn members.

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 20, 2021

Do you ever feel like an obsessed ex stalking your competition’s content? Did their Tweets get better engagement than yours this week? Are you still below them in the search results for those battleground keywords? What topics did they cover this month? It sure would be great if you never had to think about them. You wouldn’t even need to know they exist most of the time.

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Litmus

APRIL 23, 2021

From my very scientific study (I observed my daughter as she started writing reports over this past year), I have learned that one of the first aspects of design that people ever start playing with is typography. When you first start writing reports, you spend hours trying to figure out the best font to use. Ok, maybe not hours, but most people spend a bit of time on it.

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Sprout Social

APRIL 21, 2021

Oscar Wilde said “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery”—and social networks are really taking that quote to heart. Case in point: it took less than a year for the big names in social to start developing their own audio chat product to compete with rising newcomer, Clubhouse. Facebook is experimenting with audio features, Twitter launched Spaces last December, and even Reddit is pursuing its own Clubhouse clones.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 16, 2021

It doesn’t matter if you run a tiny mom-and-pop shop or a mega-billion dollar corporation; content marketing works. Just look at the way the content marketing industry has exploded in recent years. In this article, I’m not just going to sing the praises of content marketing. Instead, I’m going to take a deep dive into something that most people don’t talk about: a tiny slice of content marketing called H1 tags.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 1, 2021

Your content marketing program will be judged by the impact it makes on your business’s bottom line. Try the tips, templates, and techniques in this post to make sure you’re measuring (and acting on) things that make a difference. Continue reading → The post How to Measure Content Marketing: The (Updated) Essential Guide appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Hootsuite

APRIL 7, 2021

When’s the best time to post on Instagram to make sure a post gets seen? And what about the best time to get the most likes? The most comments? We’re here to tell you that—sigh—there’s no one single “best time” to post. The time is different for every single Instagram account. And your Instagram account alone might have a few different answers, depending on your marketing goals.

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 12, 2021

As a content marketer, there are numerous channels and strategies at your disposal. One of the most critical aspects of using content marketing is managing your paid, owned, and earned media. They actually all work together to drive traffic and conversions. Some come with a higher investment, and others have a more impactful ROI (return on investment).

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Hubspot Marketing

APRIL 8, 2021

Facebook is the most popular social network in the world. Its users are on the platform to connect with friends, watch videos, and share snippets of their own lives. The channel is also a great platform for businesses, as many consumers report using it to interact with the brands they enjoy. In fact, in a recent HubSpot poll, 51% of respondents reported primarily using Facebook for product research.

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Sprout Social

APRIL 7, 2021

Likes, shares and follows tell us a lot about what kind of content lands with our audience. However, these engagements paint an incomplete picture. Just consider the “90-9-1 Rule”. According to this rule, only 1% of social media users create content, 9% share, Like, and comment on that original content. 90% of users simply lurk , making no visible contribution at all.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 22, 2021

Sign up. Buy now. Learn more. None of these common call-to-action triggers will probably get you the desired result, because your target audience is more knowledgeable than ever before. If you want to learn how to write the perfect call-to-action that’ll captivate your target audience, educate them and increase your conversions, this in-depth article was written with you in mind.

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