Sat.Nov 04, 2017 - Fri.Nov 10, 2017

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How Buyers Want to Talk to Your Business in 2018: The 3 Channels You Need

Hubspot Marketing

When we talk about conversion, we’re essentially talking about an exchange. Let’s say, for example, you’re offering a piece of downloadable content to your site visitors. It’s “free,” in terms of the lack of money paid for it, but some other information is traded. So, for example, in exchange for this ebook, the visitor fills out a form with a certain amount of contact information.

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How Blending Can Boost Your Business

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Until 1991, being lost in a multilevel mall parking garage might have struck you as more frustrating than funny. But Seinfeld took that universal and unpleasant experience and made us laugh about it. Everyone has searched unsuccessfully for his or her car; everyone has had to smile while complimenting an ugly baby. Seinfeld simply showed viewers that these mundane moments could be (and are) profoundly hilarious.

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5 Types of Content That Naturally Attract Links: Insights From 628 Advanced SEOs

Content Marketing Institute

Practically everyone understands the importance of “doing content marketing,” but many – even those with documented content marketing strategies – don’t know how to align the types of content they create with their desired content marketing goals. For example, some of the best content for drawing in and nurturing qualified leads – like webinars – underperforms when it comes to link building.

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Major CMO Priority Shift for 2017 Is Audience Centricity

Marketing Insider Group

CMOs have a lot to wrangle within the next two years. Facilitating transformation initiatives – which entails guiding and empowering teams. And, continuing to push for a better alignment of marketing with overall business strategy. Within this matrix of monumental tasks, exists one central, gleaming thread that global CMOs will need to follow if they […].

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The AI Revolution: Why B2B Buyers Expect More than Just a Website

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Discover why a traditional website is no longer enough to meet B2B buyer expectations in our must-attend session of The B2B Growth Show, The AI Revolution: Why B2B Buyers Expect More Than Just a Website. Learn how cutting-edge AI tools can transform your B2B website into a results-driven powerhouse that delivers the right message to the right visitor, every time.

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5 Departments of Your Company That Need a Content Strategy

Hubspot Marketing

As many of the nearly 20,000 attendees at HubSpot’s annual INBOUND event would probably attest, a major highlight of this year’s event was Michelle Obama’s powerful keynote address. A close second would have to be my breakout session. (Just kidding.). Well, I’m just kidding about being a close second to Michelle. I really did speak at the same event as she did, and I was fortunate enough to interact with a roomful of forward-thinking marketers during my talk about one of my favorite topics in co

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Enterprise Marketing Best Practices for 2018

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

20% of all market leaders will lose their dominant position to a company founded after the year 2000, due to a lack of digital business advantage. There’s a long way to fall for top companies that don’t adapt to this changing climate, but it’s not too late to take action. If your company is in the precarious position between market leader and losing ground to a competitor, it’s time to push forward.

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Influencer Marketing Budget: What’s Reasonable to Drive Results?

Marketing Insider Group

For most marketers, influencer marketing is well worth the investment. Research from 2016 revealed that this marketing tactic can generate 11 times the ROI of traditional digital marketing. Collaborating with a thought leader, mover or shaker within your brand’s niche can be a lucrative piece of your overall strategy. That’s already well known. But, with so many […].

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How Brands can Establish Real Connections to Gain Consumer Trust | Traackr

Traackr

Gain consumer trust by connecting with the communities you care about, partnering long-term with influencers, and sharing your customer’s aspirations.

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Increase Conversions With a Content Marketing Platform

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

I remember many late nights at work trying to figure out how to show which individual articles on our website were working. By “working,” I mean generating quality new leads and engaging our already existing leads. My company challenged me to show ROI for our content marketing program. We had the basic metrics down but they only tell a part of the story.

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Building Your Content Marketing Team? 14 Skills for New, Growing, and Mature Programs

Content Marketing Institute

Each year, CMI founder Joe Pulizzi covers the essential roles you need on your content marketing team. It’s one of those posts that is consistently well received because it hits a nerve: Whom do you need on your team to make content marketing work in your organization? I had the pleasure of thinking through this question in more detail when Joe asked me to speak about creating the ultimate content marketing team at Content Marketing World 2017.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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12 Awesome Directories For Promoting Your Online Business

Marketing Insider Group

I remember fifteen years ago opening up a store online was a big deal. It was insanely complicated, promotion was non-existent and unless you were on a platform like eBay you probably weren’t going to get that far. Today we see a very different landscape. Online businesses are just a standard part of selling a […]. The post 12 Awesome Directories For Promoting Your Online Business appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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6 Pains That Come with Brand Growing and How to Avoid Them

Duct Tape Marketing

6 Pains That Come with Brand Growing and How to Avoid Them written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. While everyone wants to venture into an entrepreneurial career, only a brave brand endure the growing pains and get to reap its much-praised benefits. In fact, that’s the one thing a multi-billion corporation and a small retail shop have in common— the challenge that comes with expanding a business.

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How to Run A Scaleable Holiday Marketing Program

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

The holidays can be a stressful time for marketing teams tasked with running the company’s holiday gift programs. The holiday season is a can’t-miss opportunity to recognize and thank customers, partners, and employees with gifts and rewards. But managing holiday gifting programs is not for the faint of heart! There are recipient lists to be made. There are addresses to be collected, and then there is the race against time to get gifts selected, purchased, and mailed before looming deadlines for

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What to Do After You Press Record: A Formula for Videos People Love

Content Marketing Institute

People are flocking to Amy Schmittauer’s YouTube series, Savvy Sexy Social. As of this writing, she has 75,947 subssacribers. Wait, 75,948 … 949. Wouldn’t you love to know why? Hint: It’s not because her brand name includes the word “sexy,” a word she chose because she advises marketers on how to bring out the sexy in whatever they sell. Her popularity comes, at least in part, from her discovery of a formula for making videos that people love.

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Making the Moment: The Art of Creating Events That Drive Results

Speaker: Aja Bradley Kemp, Founder & Chief Experience Officer at Conversate Collective

In a world where every brand is vying for attention, how do you make your events stand out? ✨ From creative swag strategies to immersive brand experiences, the key lies in fostering real connections that inspire action and leave a lasting impression. Whether you're planning a large-scale conference or an exclusive executive gathering, this session will explore how to elevate event engagement, strengthen brand perception, and maximize ROI.

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How to Come Up With Content Ideas Nobody Else Has Written About

Marketing Insider Group

How many marketing articles have you seen around the idea that “content is king?” You’ve probably seen dozens of them, all following the same basic structure, sharing the same statistics, and basically saying the same thing over and over. Hundreds of these articles exist on hundreds of different marketing sites. Coming up with new ideas […]. The post How to Come Up With Content Ideas Nobody Else Has Written About appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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A Comprehensive Guide on How and Why to Use Google Search Console

Duct Tape Marketing

A Comprehensive Guide on How and Why to Use Google Search Console written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. We do strange things for love, and when you love your business you find yourself making all sorts of little weird changes to your website to boost that Google Search ranking slightly higher. The thing is, in a world where search results are customized for each individual user, it’s sometimes tricky to tell whether or not your efforts are really paying off.

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Top Tips on Outsourcing Your Content Writing Needs

Zumvu

Writing new content is a mammoth task that any serious business today will face. Whether it’s informational content for your website, product descriptions for your e-commerce store, terms and conditions.

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This Week in Content Marketing: Blogging Research – Longer and Less Frequent for the Win

Content Marketing Institute

PNR: This Old Marketing with Joe Pulizzi and Robert Rose can be found on both iTunes and Stitcher. If you enjoy our show, we would love it if you would rate it or post a review on iTunes. In this week’s episode. This week, Robert ponders the nature of beginnings. I make a big announcement about my future – and the future of the podcast – while the future of advertising itself is still up in the air.

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The Intersection of AI and Sales: Personalization Without Compromise

Speaker: Jesse Hunter and Brynn Chadwick

Today’s buyers expect more than generic outreach–they want relevant, personalized interactions that address their specific needs. For sales teams managing hundreds or thousands of prospects, however, delivering this level of personalization without automation is nearly impossible. The key is integrating AI in a way that enhances customer engagement rather than making it feel robotic.

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10 Types of Online Forms (and How to Use Them)

Marketing Insider Group

The use of online forms has been getting a bit of a bad rap lately, but truth be told, online forms are still the easiest way to collect user information and make premium content exclusive. In one way or another, every website utilizes forms, whether it’s to capture lead data, gate premium content, or to […]. The post 10 Types of Online Forms (and How to Use Them) appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Weekend Favs November 4

Duct Tape Marketing

Weekend Favs November 4 written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you to check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from an online source or one that I took out there on the road.

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Bell Media Executes Digital Experiences With Engage

Rock Content

Bell Media is Canada’s leading media company with premier assets in television, radio, out-of-home advertising, and digital media. They own 30 local television stations led by CTV, Canada’s #1 television network, as well as 30 specialty channels. Bell Media’s Entertainment and Lifestyle digital team was encountering two recurring challenges when it came to executing their on-site content executions: (1) Strapped internal resources during seasonal upswings and (2) Not having enough time to create

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The Rare White Squirrel Who Eats Pumpkins (and Other Stories of Creativity)

Content Marketing Institute

I’ll get back to the white squirrel in a minute …. We hear from content creators all the time about the struggle to be creative day in and day out. We understand. The struggle is real. So are the excuses: My company sells boring products. My budget is starving. I have writer’s block. My legal team has rules, rules, and more rules. But creativity is critical when it comes to standing out among the screaming noise that distracts your audience daily.

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Relevance, Reach, Revenue: How to Turn Marketing Trends From Hype to High-Impact

Speaker: Alexa Acosta, Director of Growth Marketing & B2B Marketing Leader

Marketing is evolving at breakneck speed—new tools, AI-driven automation, and changing buyer behaviors are rewriting the playbook. With so many trends competing for attention, how do you cut through the noise and focus on what truly moves the needle? In this webinar, industry expert Alexa Acosta will break down the most impactful marketing trends shaping the industry today and how to turn them into real, revenue-generating strategies.

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How to Reach Your Audience with Content Distribution

Marketing Insider Group

No matter how great or valuable your content is, it won’t be worth anything if nobody reads it. However, with all the content being published online, getting your message in front of the right people is a critical factor in how well a piece of content performs. Before you think about promoting that blog posts […]. The post How to Reach Your Audience with Content Distribution appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Get Rich Today by Teaching

Duct Tape Marketing

Get Rich Today by Teaching written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Danny Iny. Podcast Transcript. Teaching is the new selling – has been for about ten years now. But, something has changed in the last year or two. Used to be that people could place some information online and as long as that info was useful, they were teaching.

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Ready for Black Friday 2017? Here’s a 13-Step Checklist

Rock Content

As trick-or-treaters head home with their candy, eyes inevitably turn to the remaining 2017 holidays. And that, of course, includes the retail extravaganza that is Black Friday. Marketers likely began their preparations long ago, but with about four weeks remaining (at least as of publication), here’s a checklist – not of who’s been naughty or nice, but how to ensure your brand is optimized for Black Friday 2017.

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7 Tech Trends in Email for Marketers

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Four decades after its inception, email is still considered a top channel—fiercely competing with social media and organic search when it comes to delivering ROI. In the Email Marketing Industry Census 2017, conducted by Adestra in partnership with eConsultancy, 73% of email marketers considered the performance of email campaigns either ‘excellent’ or ‘good’ while SEO came close at 72% and social media at 44%.

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!

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Weekend Reading: “The Business of Expertise” by David C. Baker

Marketing Insider Group

For the 148th episode of The Marketing Book Podcast, I interviewed David C. Baker, author of The Business of Expertise: How Entrepreneurial Experts Convert Insight to Impact + Wealth. At the heart of this brilliantly-written manifesto is the concept that expertise flows from focus, which flows from positioning. And the more deep and narrow your […].

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How to Create Offline Activity Custom Audiences for Facebook Ads

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Create Offline Activity Custom Audiences for Facebook Ads written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Do you want to retarget your offline event customer in Facebook? Do you know how to create the offline event custom audience? This article will help you discover how to create the offline events and new offline activity custom audience for your Facebook ads.

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A Quick-Start Guide to Paid Content Promotion

Content Marketing Institute

No brand can exist in a vacuum. To thrive and grow, it needs a constant influx of supporters who buy into its perspectives, points, and purposes, and customers who purchase its products. Of course, this is why marketing was invented – to draw interest by disseminating information about a brand’s favorable attributes, building desire for its products and services, and providing a clear pathway to make a purchase.

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How to Keep Your Branding, Voice, and Style Intact No Matter Where You’re Selling

Marketing Insider Group

As the world of ecommerce continues to get more and more competitive, companies are finding it increasingly difficult to differentiate from competitors, connect with their target audience, and convince people to actually buy from them. Without clear and established guidelines about brand personality, voice, and style in place, new ecommerce companies seem to struggle to […].

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How to Build a Winning B2B Video Strategy in 2025

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Think creating impactful B2B video is intimidating, boring, or requires a Hollywood-level budget? Think again. Join our "B2B Growth Show" to uncover the secrets of building video strategies that drive ROI, captivate your audience, and leave your competition in the dust. What you’ll learn: Why video is non-negotiable for B2B in 2025 Storytelling tips to engage your target audience and keep them coming back Case studies from printing companies to telecom giants with jaw-dropping results Practical