June, 2018

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Personalized Calls to Action Perform 202% Better Than Basic CTAs [New Data]

Hubspot Marketing

This article was written just for you. From the moment you log in to Facebook, to the shows recommended to you on Netflix, to the questions you have for Google, the content you most enjoy online was customized and served up to you for a reason. We've seen this behavior on Amazon for a long time, where we get products we personally love shown directly to us.

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The Evolution of Graphic Design

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Graphic design has a rich and varied history. The word “graphic design” didn’t appear on the scene until 1922, when William Dwiggins created the word to describe the art of designing with graphics. In the earliest days of graphic design, professionals drew by hand. However, in the last 60 years graphic design has forged ahead, advancing rapidly since the addition of today’s digital art tools.

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Connecticut marketing agency recognized with national Telly Awards

Adams & Knight Marketing

Adams & Knight, a digital marketing agency in Avon, Conn., was recently awarded three prestigious Telly Awards, which honor excellence in video and television across all screens. Chosen from over 12,000 entries from all 50 states and across five continents, the winning videos highlight two major Connecticut brands. On behalf of Hartford HealthCare, the agency won a Silver Award for Cinematography and a Bronze Award in the Hospital category for the TV commercial “ Care For Every Way You

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3 Graphic Design Tips for Non-Designers

Content Marketing Institute

Given the power of visual content (it’s more memorable and more engaging than text-based content), many marketers have turned to DIY graphic design software or contracted with graphic artists. With more traditionally text-focused people entering the world of visuals, it’s time for a brief refresher on the essential principles of design. It’s time for a reminder that the strategic use of typography, color, and white space can drastically improve the efficacy and aesthetics of visual content.

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How to Create a Community Your Members Can't 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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Why Content Marketing Is Important

Marketing Insider Group

Content marketing is important, not just because it works for building trust, generating leads, and cultivating customer loyalty, but because it has become the new normal from the consumer side. It is, in itself, helping to evolve what customers expect from the brands they interact with.Neglecting it is way more risky than investing in it.What […].

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Sipsmith: scaling an artisanal gin globally through influencer marketing | Traackr

Traackr

How Sipsmith harnesses the power of influencer marketing and word-of-mouth to scale its hand-crafted gin globally.

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12 Google Search Operators to Improve Your Competitive Advantage

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

53% of marketers say they have “too much to do with too little time.” Marketers have to plan campaigns that knock competitors out of the park, create content that both readers and search engines love, and hit very specific ROIs. Google search operators help to ease the tension. Google search operators are special characters/commands that help to elevate your search capabilities beyond that of a regular search.

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Agency earns 43 awards from Advertising Club of Connecticut

Adams & Knight Marketing

Adams & Knight, an integrated digital marketing agency in Avon, Connecticut, won 43 awards across all categories at the 63 rd Annual Advertising Club of Connecticut Awards Show, including two best of industry awards. On behalf of its clients, Adams & Knight won more awards than any other agency in the state for a variety of TV, radio, digital marketing , out-of-home, video, photography and integrated marketing campaigns for regional brands to national innovators, including the New Englan

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11 Content Curation and Collaboration Tools to Save You Time

Content Marketing Institute

Editor’s note: You may have missed the original version of this post a couple years ago. We’re sharing Aaron’s updated version today, as more efficient teamwork is a constant need for content marketers. As content marketers, we have our work cut out for us. Getting original ideas off the ground is hard enough. Unfortunately, when we add all the curating, collecting, and collaborating necessary for full-scale engagement, overwhelmed is an understatement.

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GDPR: What It Means and How to Make Your Website Compliant

Marketing Insider Group

In May, the EU Parliament rolled out the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a new data policy that protects the personal information of EU internet users by tightening the guidelines associated with data collection and retention by websites. While the GDPR only affects citizens and residents of the EU, there’s a catch that American’s and […].

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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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A Guide to Content Strategy and Brand Storytelling

Duct Tape Marketing

A Guide to Content Strategy and Brand Storytelling written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Kyle Gray. Podcast Transcript. My guest for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is Kyle Gray, founder of The Story Engine. He and I discuss insights from his book, The Story Engine: A Busy Entrepreneur’s Guide to Content Strategy and Brand Storytelling Without Spending All Day Writing.

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The Ultimate Guide to Email Marketing

Hubspot Marketing

The first marketing email was sent in 1978, resulted in $13 million in sales, and kicked off what has become one of the most highly used marketing channels even to this day. Given its early beginnings, email isn’t as shiny as some newer channels like messaging and social, but it is an effective way to build an owned audience that gets results. Email isn’t dead.

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Why Automation is Vital to Any Marketing Strategy

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

By now, marketing automation is nothing short of mainstream in the digital are we find ourselves in, but we may only be at the beginning of the revolution. According to Grand View Research , the marketing automation industry could be valued at $7.63 billion(!) by 2025, which means there’s no better time than now to adopt an automation solution in your own practices.

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How Leading Enterprises Avoid FTC Influencer Sanctions | Traackr

Traackr

How do you make sure your influencers are disclosing sponsored posts? Here are 3 techniques most successful enterprise customers use to avoid FTC sanctions.

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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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8 Copywriting Techniques to Boost Email Conversions

Content Marketing Institute

There’s one thing I hate about email marketing copy: You never know how it’s going to perform until the campaign goes live. What seemed like a rock-star line of copy could become the campaign’s kiss of death. Sure, you can A/B test every element of each email all month, but taking that time means you’ll probably start losing leads. Fortunately, I’ve taken that route and want to share with you some valuable copywriting techniques that have bolstered the performance of my emails.

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5 Critical Tips for Making Your Content Marketing Strategy More Video Centric

Marketing Insider Group

As marketers, we are very fortunate to live in a time when making a video doesn’t require heavy-duty cameras, microphones, world-class actors, fancy editing tools, etc. Nowadays, anyone can shoot a decent quality video directly on their smartphone or with some entry level equipment. The ease of video accessibility in recent years is changing the […].

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Voice Search: What Small Business Owner?s and Marketers Need to Know

Duct Tape Marketing

Voice Search: What Small Business Owner’s and Marketers Need to Know written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch About Voice Search. An increasing number of people are turning to search devices, but not necessarily search engines per se. We have laptops and our phones, and then, of course, we’ve got these Alexa and Google Home devices.

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Google Doc Resume Templates

Hubspot Marketing

Creating a resume from scratch can be a pain, particularly when you have limited design experience and your resume doesn’t extend beyond Times New Roman 1-inch margins in terms of flair. You want your resume to appear professional, but you also don’t need it to look exactly the same as every other resume in the stack. Fortunately, you don’t need to attempt any tricks you learned in a Photoshop 101 class to create a sleek and attention-grabbing resume.

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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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5 Ways to Instantly Improve Your Sales Prospecting Results

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Prospecting is difficult. There’s no denying it. In fact, one study revealed that 40% of salespeople said prospecting is the most challenging part of the sales process. Why is it so hard? There are a lot of reasons. It’s hard to capture buyer attention and to stimulate interest and desire. It’s difficult to persuade buyers into action. Many sellers don’t have the right mindset around prospecting.

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AcuityAds Acquires ADman Media, aims to Capture a Larger Share of the Hispanic Advertising Market

illumin

Today we announced the closing of our Adman Media acquisition. This exciting addition to our technology family comes at an important time in our company’s history. You might remember that we joined the Portada Council of the Americas, which was launched during Portada Miami back in April. This council includes more than 70 senior brand marketing, agency and media executives from all over the Americas and being a part of it allows us to offer perspective on the issues that face the modern adverti

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4 Secrets of Great Storytellers

Content Marketing Institute

What’s your story? It’s a common question when you’re first getting to know someone. It begs for details about your past, your career, your family, your hobbies. You probably never hear anyone reply: “I studied content marketing as an undergraduate and earned a Ph.D. in creating great customer experiences.”. Those degrees don’t exist, of course. But that’s OK.

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Marketing 101: What Is Content Marketing?

Marketing Insider Group

Content marketing, when you peel away all the layers of techniques, trends, and possibilities, is a business opportunity. At its core, it’s a tool businesses can use for growth. Unlike other methods, there is something special that makes content marketing stand out as the golden boy of modern marketing. It’s sustainable. When done well – […]. The post Marketing 101: What Is Content Marketing?

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Accelerate Your Marketing with Automation: A Quickstart Guide

Ready to streamline your marketing efforts and achieve more with less? Our guide provides a step-by-step roadmap to: Build a Strong Foundation: Set up your automation infrastructure for success. Execute Proven Tactics: Implement effective strategies to nurture leads and drive conversions. Measure and Optimize: Track your results and make data-driven adjustments.

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Your Guide to Google Search Console

Duct Tape Marketing

Your Guide to Google Search Console written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. The video above is a replay of a recent live webinar I conducted. Combined with the text below you should have a pretty good feel for how to use the new Google Search Console. There is a tremendous amount of interest in Google tools, especially for small business owners because these are important tools and they change a lot, making them difficult to stay on top of.

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5 Marketing Plan Examples to Help You Write Your Own

Hubspot Marketing

You did it. You’ve been spearheading your organization’s content marketing efforts for a while now, and your team’s performance has convinced your boss to fully adopt content marketing. There’s one small problem, though: your boss wants you to write and present a content marketing plan to her, but you’ve never done something like that before. You don’t even know where to start.

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How to Turn Ordinary Social Media Conversations into Actionable Sales Leads

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

While having thousands upon thousands of social followers is certainly something to brag about, the number means little if those followers largely ignore your brand. Engagement is the key to success for social media marketing—brands that drive more engagement from their audience are generally rewarded with better visibility and organic reach. All of these things—a large number of followers, an engaged audience, and a boost in organic visibility —are lofty achievements in today’s tough social med

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Assemble your own Avengers to win the influencer marketing Infinity War | Traackr

Traackr

In honor of the release of Infinity War, some tips for assembling your very own band of super-duper influencers.

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The Best Times of Day to Contact Leads

Ensure you are contacting leads on their schedule with this report! In our study of over 754,000 leads, we looked at what time of day people are most likely to respond, as well as response rates and qualification rates during business hours and after-hours. Download now to learn more.

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If You Aren?t Using Website Videos, You?re Missing These 3 Benefits

Content Marketing Institute

Video options abound, particularly given its growing influence on content marketing success. If you’re thinking video is best done on social media channels, you may not reap the biggest benefits. You need to create videos for your website. To make that pitch to your brand’s executives, read on and grab some stats to support your case. Plus, explore a way video can become a revenue stream for your business.

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How to Reduce, Reuse and Repurpose Top-Performing Content Into Visuals

Marketing Insider Group

Let’s just say it upfront: creating content is time-consuming. Many of us would like to think creating content was as simple as writing for an hour, sending it off, and being done with it. But as we’ve seen many times over, that isn’t the case. Consistent, quality content takes time and effort to produce. Ok, […]. The post How to Reduce, Reuse and Repurpose Top-Performing Content Into Visuals appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Perfecting Your Lead Generation Efforts: A Guide for Service Professionals

Duct Tape Marketing

Perfecting Your Lead Generation Efforts: A Guide for Service Professionals written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. If you own a professional services business, odds are you’re trying to get leads in the door. What I often see is that these types of businesses develop automated lead funnels, because that’s what they’re told to do, and spend a lot of time vetting these leads, but let’s face it, they probably don’t have a ton of time to do that!

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The Top 7 Free Alternatives to Adobe Illustrator of 2018

Hubspot Marketing

Adobe Illustrator is a hugely popular tool for designing vector graphics, logos, icons, and more. But when you’re a web or graphic designer with a small budget, you probably can’t afford Adobe Illustrator’s steep $239.88 pricing. Luckily, there are plenty of top-notch free alternatives on the market, some of which even offer features unparalleled by Illustrator.

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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.