Content Marketing Institute
JANUARY 23, 2023
Turn a job loss into a content marketing journey to create a personal brand that helps land your next job. Dennis Shiao tells how he did it and what he wished he knew then and what he knows now.
CMO Network
JANUARY 25, 2023
No matter what your particular role in marketing, chances are you will need to learn new ‘critical skills’ to do your job brilliantly. Consider these 5.
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Econsultancy
JANUARY 25, 2023
What are the overarching trends that will define how marketers will think and act in 2023, and the challenges and opportunities they will face? We explore four key trends. For some more channel-specific predictions, see our previous expert roundups on ecommerce, personalisation, retail media, influencer marketing, SEO, and social ads. Our trends for 2023: Resisting short-termism New privacy norms.
Kuno Creative
JANUARY 26, 2023
Over the past several years, business leaders have been beating the sales enablement drum, constantly seeking new ways to empower their frontline sales forces. And that’s for a good reason: sales enablement is essential to long-term success. But to be truly effective amid our rapidly changing market and shifting buyer demands, organizations have to support all revenue functions across the entire cycle — not just the last mile.
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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.
Martech
JANUARY 23, 2023
Search marketing is a very big deal. Consider: While Google doesn’t disclose exact figures, numbers are estimated to be anywhere from 3.5 billion to a truly staggering 8.5 billion per day. Any way you slice it, it amounts to millions of searches per minute , all day, every day. And a huge percentage of those users are researching products to buy, deciding whether to buy those products, looking for options from multiple sellers and so on.
Jeff Bullas
JANUARY 24, 2023
Social media trends come and go… From MySpace to Periscope and beyond, the life of a social media network is often unknown. But there is the odd social media unicorn that breaks the trend. Facebook did it. Instagram and Snapchat did it. And now, TikTok is on track to take over them all! TikTok began its life as musical.ly and then went through a drastic rebranding to give us what we have come to know today.
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Aspiration Marketing
JANUARY 25, 2023
Backlinking, also known as inbound or incoming links, are links from other websites that point to your website. While Google is beginning to de-emphasize the significance of a backlink, they remain important in a holistic SEO strategy and in being helpful to guide users to additional, potentially more detailed information.
Spiralytics
JANUARY 25, 2023
You create a well-strategized content marketing campaign with some fancy design, and it feels like you are on the right track. You expect your conversions to go through the roof, but time passes and you’re not seeing the numbers you anticipated. So what can you do to generate more traffic via your content marketing campaigns? Usually, the problem is not about the content you present, but how you present it.
Jeff Bullas
JANUARY 22, 2023
Spotify now has a substantial reach as one of the most popular music-sharing platforms on the internet. However, this doesn’t mean that it’s a walk in the park. In fact, if you’re trying to be seen by more of your target audience, you’ve got nothing but challenges ahead. This is because standing out from the crowd with unique music is nearly impossible.
SMEI
JANUARY 24, 2023
Are you a marketer looking for a quick and dirty way to boost sales? If so, then shame marketing may be right up your alley. Shame marketing is a cynical form of advertising that involves exploiting the insecurities of young people in order to sell them products. It’s an effective technique, but it comes at a cost. Shame marketing not only reduces customer loyalty, but it also creates harmful feelings of low self-esteem in its victims.
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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.
Aspiration Marketing
JANUARY 24, 2023
In a world where the internet has become the lifeblood of commerce, having the proper web presence is essential for marketing, outreach, and a company's survival. Relying on the traditional outbound marketing approach of yesteryear is insufficient in today's e-commerce environment. Today's most successful businesses have mastered inbound marketing, tailoring experiences to current and prospective customers rather than flooding the market with the content of little or no interest.
Hootsuite
JANUARY 23, 2023
They say you never get a second chance to make a first impression. That’s why making sure you’ve nailed your brand’s social media profile isn’t optional — it’s critical. But a good social media profile goes beyond a first impression. It can also reinforce your brand to existing customers and bring new ones aboard by offering a succinct version of your brand story.
Jeff Bullas
JANUARY 26, 2023
Knowing where you can source the best Google reviews is what you need for really good online growth. Over the last few years, more companies out there have started to transition from having a physical store that you can walk into, to being online. As a result, competition to be ranked in search engines is increasing, which makes it harder for your brand to come up whenever somebody searches within your industry.
SMEI
JANUARY 23, 2023
ChatGPT is quickly becoming a must-have tool for marketers who want to maximize their audience engagement and effectiveness. With its ability to provide personalized AI conversations, marketers can easily create an engaging dialogue with customers, prospects and even leads in order to nurture relationships and drive conversions. Here are 10 ways that marketers can leverage ChatGPT technology to increase their visibility, build trust, and generate more leads for their business. 1.
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!
Aspiration Marketing
JANUARY 23, 2023
Employer branding promotes a company's reputation as a great workplace to attract and retain top talent. There are many different strategies that businesses can use to establish and maintain a strong employer brand, including developing a compelling employer value proposition, creating a consistent and comprehensive branding strategy, and investing in team member development and engagement programs.
Buffer Marketing
JANUARY 23, 2023
Social media is always evolving – as should your strategies for creating content. While you may have tried and tested methods when it comes to your social media posts, testing out something different is a great way to stay on top of trends and potentially grow your following. Here are four examples from small businesses and content creators who’re implementing new social media strategies in 2023.
Jeff Bullas
JANUARY 24, 2023
Sure, working from home has its perks, but it can also be really challenging to stay productive! When working from home, it’s easy to fall into bad habits that lead to less-than-stellar productivity. And I speak from experience! To avoid falling into the abyss of procrastination, be sure to set a regular schedule, take breaks, and create a dedicated workspace.
Neil Patel
JANUARY 22, 2023
Is SEO pagination on your technical SEO site audit checklist ? If you publish loads of content or have a specific type of site, like an e-commerce store, then perhaps it should be. As I’ll discuss in this article, pagination has immense advantages, such as the SEO boost it may give. However, it might not be the first thing marketers and SEO developers consider when optimizing a site.
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.
Aspiration Marketing
JANUARY 27, 2023
Identifying your target audience is crucial for any business or marketing campaign. Once you understand who your ideal customers are, you can create more effective marketing strategies, increase conversions, and ultimately, drive more revenue. Regarding identifying your target audience, there are two key tools: ideal customer profiles (ICPs) and buyer personas.
Animalz blog
JANUARY 23, 2023
AI is a force multiplier for great writers. It took us a long time to say that. Two years of experimenting with a host of generative writing tools — GPT-3, Copy.ai, Writer, Jasper, and ChatGPT. But our decision is: it’s an advantage. And because we think it’s an advantage, we’re incorporating it — in thoughtful, measured ways — into the work we do for ourselves and for customers also interested in experimenting.
Jeff Bullas
JANUARY 27, 2023
Writing is both an art and a science. The “art” of writing involves discovering your unique “voice” and having fun incorporating creative wordplay that is both meaningful and engaging. The skill of storytelling is also crucial in holding readers’ attention. The “science” is correct grammar and spelling. Using data to discover what titles and sub-topics work and what doesn’t is also important.
Martech
JANUARY 26, 2023
As we enter 2023, it’s time to look ahead and plan your digital marketing priorities for the rest of the year. Surely, it will be a year filled with innovation and creativity as technology brands worldwide strive to stay competitive in a rapidly changing landscape. Reaching buyers today is difficult. With the many platforms and apps, it can take time to understand where your audience spends time online.
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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.
Aspiration Marketing
JANUARY 26, 2023
Do you want more traffic, more leads, and more sales? You can optimize your website performance regularly to facilitate search engine optimization (SEO) or a website redesign. An improved website design will increase your marketing performance, get you more traffic, higher conversion, and, ultimately, a better return on your efforts. One of the factors is First Input Delay.
Buffer Marketing
JANUARY 27, 2023
Empathy is a powerful way to build trust, but leaning in too far can also backfire. Something I’ve come to wonder after 3.5 years at Buffer as a Customer Advocate is how can we use empathy effectively to enhance the customer support experience? "The action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communica
Jeff Bullas
JANUARY 25, 2023
Thomas Edison was an idea generator but what set him apart was he was also an activator. This skill led him to become a superstar inventor and by the end of his life he had been granted 1,093 patents. Edison had a unique method for generating ideas. He would take short naps throughout the day, holding a small ball in his hand. As he drifted off to sleep, he would release the ball, and the sound of it hitting the floor would wake him up.
Martech
JANUARY 27, 2023
Whew! We made it to 2023! As we closed in on the end of the year in December, the finish line seemed awfully far away. Many marketers told me they were busier than ever. I myself was fielding calls for strategy help, working on business deals and managing the chaos all the way to the eve of Christmas Eve, something that rarely happens in my 20-plus-year career.
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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
Hubspot Marketing
JANUARY 24, 2023
The use of artificial intelligence in business is growing, and marketers are eager to learn how to leverage it for new and unique campaigns. Creating high-quality imagery and collateral is a time-consuming and expensive process, but with the introduction of AI imagery, businesses can save money and time. However, the sudden popularity of the software has raised concerns about its ethicality in the creative community — questioning if its use should even be encouraged in the first place.
Search Engine Roundtable
JANUARY 27, 2023
A new Twitter poll shows that most SEOs do not yet feel comfortable recommending using AI to write client content. The poll asked, "Would you recommend using an AI writer to your clients?" Most SEOs said no.
Content Marketing Institute
JANUARY 26, 2023
Scaling your content strategy doesn’t require hiring more people to produce more stuff. It involves building systems to produce more effective content with fewer resources per unit. Here are five ideas to get started.
Businesses Grow
JANUARY 23, 2023
I don’t believe anyone can truly be an expert any more. Any hope of expertise has been overrun by the malignant complexity of our world. There is no single human who understands the internet or the economy or teenagers. I recently read an article about a new scientific discipline devoted to understanding how Artificial Intelligence is making its decisions.
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