Hubspot Marketing
AUGUST 30, 2018
When you're trying to grow a following on Instagram, you depend on hashtags and engagement to expand your audience and reach. So it can feel more than a little disheartening when it suddenly seems like your content isn't showing up anywhere. If you feel like your posts are receiving fewer likes and comments, or aren't appearing for certain hashtags, you might be shadowbanned.
Sprout Social
AUGUST 27, 2018
Twitter hashtags help make posts from disparate posts and conversations connected around the same topic easier to find and search. Hashtags are formed by using the # pound sign in front of a word with no punctuation or spaces. Using hashtags, users can find all the posts around a certain event, theme, mood or more. This also makes it a great tool for marketers to gather ideas and join in on wide-ranging conversations.
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Marketing Insider Group
AUGUST 30, 2018
Human brains are hard-wired to seek connection with other humans. Here are a few ways to utilize this principle and bring consumers to your brand. Have you ever wondered why, for decades upon decades of marketing, we still see images of families or friends bonding with each other in our ads? It’s fairly simple, really. […]. The post Why CMOs Should Care About Psychology appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.
Content Marketing Institute
AUGUST 28, 2018
More than once, I’ve had to stop reading a poorly edited book because I couldn’t take off my editor’s hat. Professionals in any industry observe others’ work and silently critique it. That analysis often leads you to one of two results: insight into what you could do better or a welcome relief because you are doing it better. Some of the presenters at Content Marketing World offer their out-loud critiques of what could be done better in content marketing.
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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.
Hubspot Marketing
AUGUST 28, 2018
One of the worst feelings in the world is forgetting a great idea. All you had to do was write it down, but you were confident that you’d never be able to forget such a compelling idea. When the idea slid out of your mind, though, the easy loss of such an insightful thought nearly crushed your soul. Taking the time to jot down your ideas right when they pop into in your head is one of the best ways to remember them and, ultimately, bring them to life.
Sprout Social
AUGUST 28, 2018
What are your top performing Tweets? What time of day do your Instagram posts get the most engagement? Is your Facebook marketing strategy translating to traffic and leads? If you’re not using social media analytics tools, you’ll probably have a hard time answering these questions. By now, most marketers understand the need for tools to measure their efforts.
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Traackr
AUGUST 31, 2018
Identifying which influencers to partner with can be challenging, but making the right choices is essential for successful influencer marketing results.
Hubspot Marketing
AUGUST 27, 2018
Nowadays, Instagram is often someone's initial contact with a brand, and at least 30% of Instagram users have purchased a product they first discovered on the platform. If it's the entryway for one third of your potential sales, don't you want it to look clean and inviting? Taking the time to create an engaging Instagram feed aesthetic is one of the most effective ways to persuade someone to follow your business's Instagram account, or peruse your posts.
Content Marketing Institute
AUGUST 30, 2018
More people are making their voices heard when they need to search for something. They’re ditching their keyboards for the convenience of “OK, Google.”. For brands, this raises an important question: How do you become the default answer for a voice search query? You know the recent buzz around “ featured snippets ” – the boxes that appear at the top of some Google search result pages, providing a brief answer that, brands hope, leads the user to click for more detail.
Marketing Insider Group
AUGUST 27, 2018
Build a plan. Create your content. Publish, measure, refine, repeat. Seems straightforward enough. But this is the bare bones of content marketing. It’s creating a plan, not a strategy and it’s missing out on the impact potential of a goal-focused, personalized, purposeful approach to your brand’s content. It’s one thing to have an appealing, educational lineup of […].
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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.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
AUGUST 29, 2018
Will getting a marketing automation certification help advance your career? Will you make more money? Promoted faster? What is the quickest way to get certified? I’ll answer these questions and more in this blog post. Supply and Demand. Are recruiters and hiring managers looking for certified marketing automation experts? Marketing automation certifications are among the premier skill qualifications in the MarTech industry.
Hubspot Marketing
AUGUST 31, 2018
Have you been tasked with the job of creating a request for proposal, or an RFP? Whether you have no idea what that is or haven’t written one in awhile, today’s guide can help. We’re diving into the specifics of what an RFP actually is, why you might need one, and how to create your very first one today. To start, you should understand what all these letters even mean.
Content Marketing Institute
AUGUST 27, 2018
While the Content Marketing Institute doesn’t have that Kardashian/soda brand relationship or actor/automobile manufacturer combo, we use influencers to create an e-book to market Content Marketing World. While you may not be promoting a live event, you likely can learn more about how to create an influencer-based piece of content from the lessons we’ve learned producing this e-book over the years, including the 2018 Ultimate Guide to Content Marketing.
Marketing Insider Group
AUGUST 28, 2018
Guest post by Mark Nardone, PAN Communications “We would like to believe we’re logical creatures. But it turns out we’re not. It turns out like 95% of our decision making is actually emotional,” says Alicia Hatch, CMO, Deloitte Digital. Marketers have been working to appeal directly to their customers’ emotional states, needs and aspirations since […].
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!
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
AUGUST 27, 2018
It’s something you may not even realize, but as a consumer, you’re getting served personalized experiences left and right. From your Netflix recommendations to your suggested Spotify playlists, nearly everything we interact with online has some kind of personalization attached to it. Until recently, this high level of personalization has existed almost exclusively in the B2C world, and it’s really only been within the past couple of years that personalization in the form of account-based marketi
Duct Tape Marketing
AUGUST 30, 2018
How to Create a Morning Routine That Breeds Success written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Benjamin Spall. Podcast Transcript. This week on the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I chat with Benjamin Spall. Spall is co-author of the book My Morning Routine: How Successful People Start Every Day Inspired and co-founder of the website by the same name.
Content Marketing Institute
AUGUST 31, 2018
Editor’s note: Beverly Jackson is a finalist for 2018 Content Marketer of the Year. We’ll share insight from CMY finalists in the blog before the winner is announced at Content Marketing World in September. When was the last time you went to a casino? When was the last time you went to Las Vegas just for the gambling? Though plenty of people do, a much larger set of people don’t put gambling or Las Vegas at the top of their what-to-do-for-fun lists.
Marketing Insider Group
AUGUST 29, 2018
Getting Agile to scale is tricky in any context, and scaled Agile marketing is no different. Complex models like SAFe feel overwhelming and impossible to marketers who are still struggling to translate the core components of Agile practices to their unique environments. I mean, just look at this diagram: Recently, however, one of the co-creators […].
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.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
AUGUST 31, 2018
First came the inventors and founders, fueled by steam and created with cast iron, changing society from agrarian to industrial. Then came electricity, steel, and oil and the rise of the company, followed by the move from analog to digital. Now we’re at the start of the fourth industrial revolution; a revolution that’s being powered by data. And who’s in control of data?
Duct Tape Marketing
AUGUST 28, 2018
Facebook and Google Ads – The Keys to Small Business Paid Search written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. If you want to run a business today, you need to be advertising on Facebook and Google. These two tech giants dominate the online advertising market, and their reach is so incredibly broad (both have billions of users each month) that to leave them out of your strategy is to not have an online strategy at all.
Rock Content
AUGUST 28, 2018
HubSpot reports that the less companies know about their KPIs, the less likely they are to meet their revenue goals. Seventy four percent of companies that weren’t exceeding revenue goals did not know their visitor, lead, MQL, or sales opportunities. That’s an alarming statistic—and one that can be combated with the adoption of interactive content.
Marketing Insider Group
AUGUST 29, 2018
Although we live in the world of social media, email isn’t going anywhere. It’s still one of the most popular forms of online communication, and there’s no reason to believe this will change. For marketers, this is exciting news. A digital newsletter is an excellent opportunity for you to connect with your audience to drive […]. The post How to Create a Digital Newsletter That Really Generates New Sales appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.
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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.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
AUGUST 30, 2018
Today, email is not just about promoting your brand offerings. It is about giving your subscribers and customers a personalized and relevant experience and creating accessible emails to reach out to each and everyone, including people with disabilities. The email address is an asset that needs to be used thoughtfully. Gone are the days of batch-and-blast emailing; email marketing is about delivering value to the subscriber.
Zumvu
AUGUST 28, 2018
The essence of starting any business at all is to see it thrive and yield profit. It is important to have a proposed business plan which contains in detail the business objectives, both long and short term.
Duct Tape Marketing
AUGUST 25, 2018
Weekend Favs August 25 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.
Marketing Insider Group
AUGUST 30, 2018
Digital marketing has really come a long way in the last decade. Once, it was merely banner advertising and social media, digital marketing is now an integrated set of tactics requiring a diverse skill set, making it distinctly different from marketing that came before it. Marketing before the Internet In the prehistoric age before the […]. The post Digital Marketing Requires Mastery of Multiple Skills appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.
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Every marketer knows how important it is to prove their efforts drive sales opportunities, but that’s easier said than done. When problems like sales and marketing misalignment, lack of data, and wasted efforts persist, marketers can’t measure, prove, or increase their impact on revenue at a time when demonstrating marketing value is critical. Using analyst and expert data, this guide to marketing impact and content attribution explains: How B2B buyers use content The most common types of conten
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
AUGUST 28, 2018
The age of Myspace is long gone. People claim Twitter is dying. Facebook is under scrutiny by the government, and Instagram has quickly become overrun with advertisements, scams, and an algorithm to overcome. As a marketer, it’s up to you to know what’s out there in the digital world, what your competition is doing, and how you can utilize the tools and technology available to reach your customers and prospects where they are.
Bannerflow
AUGUST 28, 2018
In this article we explain why HTML5 responsive banner ads are a must for all digital advertisers. From designers to digital specialists, from agencies to in-house teams, HTML5 display advertising is now the the default banner format. In particular, with an ever greater number of devices, and platforms to cater for, being able to adapt to the behaviours of viewers is crucial.
Duct Tape Marketing
AUGUST 30, 2018
Transcript of How to Create a Morning Routine that Breeds Success written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. This transcript is sponsored by our transcript partner – Rev – Get $10 off your first order. John Jantsch: There’s a lot of people that believe how you start your day is how your day is going to pretty much unfold.
Marketing Insider Group
AUGUST 28, 2018
Companies with engaged employees outperform those without by up to 202 percent. This stat alone should be enough to gain buy-in for an employee activation program. Even though you and I know your engaged, activated employees are worth their weight in gold, your organization’s budget decision makers and managers may need some convincing. After all, we are […].
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