Neil Patel

DECEMBER 13, 2022

With the economy up in the air due to inflation kicking into high gear, war, interest rates rising, and other factors that we can’t control we decided it would be great to see how other marketers are reacting. And we didn’t want to know how marketers were reacting just in the U.S., we wanted to know on a global scale what businesses of all sizes in all major industries (and for both B2B and B2C) are doing.

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Martech

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Nearly every marketing organization uses marketing automation platforms these days. However, just having a MAP isn’t enough. You have to understand how to use and extract value from it. That starts with optimizing the data intake process. Justin Sharaf, vice president of marketing operations at data intelligence company Collibra, shares four easy ways to do that.

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Hubspot Marketing

DECEMBER 12, 2022

When it comes to marketing, almost nothing is more important than knowing your target audience. But what if I told you over half of marketers are missing critical information on their consumers? In our annual survey of over 1,200 marketers , we found that just 42% know the basic demographic information of their target audience, like their name, gender, and location.

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Search Engine Land

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Think LinkedIn is just for business networking and job hunting? Think again. The platform is a great destination for both of those things, no question, but it’s also a smart place to focus at least some of your content marketing efforts. Why? LinkedIn enjoys a wider audience than you might think, with 66.8 million monthly active users in the U.S. alone, with a total reach of 849.6 million users globally.

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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.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Have things changed since the brand created its content marketing strategy? Probably. Then you probably need to consider a content pivot.

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yorCMO

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In companies of all sizes, marketing and sales teams often aren’t fully integrated, but this issue is significantly more prevalent in small businesses and startups. Here are 7 actions you can take to begin achieving marketing-sales alignment within your small business today. The post Marketing and Sales Tips For Starters appeared first on yorCMO.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 13, 2022

B2B buyers don’t want to talk to sales until they’re ready – or ever, in some cases, even for expensive services. Yet they have more people to convince before they buy. And that means they need more of the right content at their fingertips. Here’s how to figure out what “the right content” means.

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Kuno Creative

DECEMBER 15, 2022

By 2023, it’s estimated that 25% of organizations will have a Chief Revenue Officer. While a nod to making revenue growth a priority, the rise of this role is a testament to analyzing and optimizing a company’s full revenue cycle to achieve sustainable growth.

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CMO Network

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Amazon One can be as important for retail as One-Click was for ecommerce.

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Jeff Bullas

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Generating leads is the lifeblood of any company. Leads are the backbone of a SaaS startup because the number and quality of leads influence all key metrics like revenue, churn and retention rates, cost per customer acquisition, etc. All SaaS companies understand this. An idea of how important lead generation is runs through their DNA. It is ingrained in their brains.

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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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Aspiration Marketing

DECEMBER 13, 2022

When you first launched your business, you may have focused more on the nuts and bolts of tasks such as team member onboarding, production, distribution, and other essential elements that keep the business going. But, while marketing certainly is part of your business plan, you may need to devote more time to develop a solid marketing campaign. But you should also recognize that no matter how great your products or services are, you can't expect many people to buy what you have to sell if you fa

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Hubspot Marketing

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Effective email and newsletter marketing is crucial for a nonprofit organization’s (NPO) success. With scarce resources, limited staffing, and divided leadership attention, investing in marketing efforts can often take a backseat to more urgent matters. Luckily, email marketing is both cost-effective and less time-consuming than other NPO marketing strategies.

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Hootsuite

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Facebook Lookalike Audiences is a sophisticated matchmaker between your brand and new fans — and a powerful advertising tool. You tell Facebook the characteristics of your favorite customers, and Facebook recommends a new target audience filled with prospects that meet your criteria. Ready to find the audience of your dreams? Read on to learn how to create a Lookalike Audience for your Facebook ads , plus tips that will help you find the best match.

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Businesses Grow

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Uses of ChatGPT image courtesy Frank Prendergast. Our RISE community has been on fire, exploring the breathtaking possibilities of ChatGPT. The uses of ChatGPT are simply endless and intoxicating. It’s still early days. Companies are trying to figure out the legal and ethical implications of a content world suddenly turned on its head by artificial intelligence.

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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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Aspiration Marketing

DECEMBER 15, 2022

We all know that social media is a powerful tool for businesses - it allows you to reach a large number of people with your message and can help build brand awareness and loyalty. But what many companies need to realize is that social media can also convey your brand personality, which is a highly effective way to connect with your customers on a deeper level.

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Search Engine Journal

DECEMBER 10, 2022

What if there were a better and faster way to engage your organic search traffic and your social media content all at the same time? The post 6 Ways To Engage Your Organic Search Traffic On Social Media appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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Hubspot Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Whether you're completing recurring tasks or creating a new program, process documentation can help you formalize your business endeavors. In fact, creating documentation helps improve coordination, structure, and consistency in your organization. This post gathers best practices for process documentation. Here, you’ll learn: What is process documentation?

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Buffer Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Watch out Google: TikTok is coming for your crown! Or at least that’s what the Senior Vice President of Google thinks , as the company shared in July that TikTok is becoming more like a search engine, especially among Gen Z. And TikTok is investing in maximizing users’ habits with new features like suggested searches at the bottom of videos and in the comments section.

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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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Sprout Social

DECEMBER 15, 2022

If you’re tired of reading generic advice on how to create effective sponsored content, you’re in the right place. You already know that the first step for creating sponsored posts is to know your audience. There’s no need to repeat it. It’s time to expand your knowledge into something more actionable. In this comprehensive guide about sponsored posts, you’ll learn best practices, discover strategies, get resources and find inspiration for your social media campaigns.

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Search Engine Roundtable

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Google began rolling out a revised link spam update on December 14, 2022 named the December 2022 link spam update. This update is new in that it uses SpamBrain AI to "detect both sites buying links, and sites used for the purpose of passing outgoing links," and not just "detect spam directly," Google said.

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Hubspot Marketing

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Taking the risk with any new platform is daunting. After all, no one wants to dedicate their time, energy, or budget into something with little return. That said, it's hard to ignore the hype around TikTok, its fantastic engagement rate , and its massive user base. If you're willing to get creative, TikTok could be the perfect home for your short-form videos.

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Buffer Marketing

DECEMBER 13, 2022

We recently launched a new feature at Buffer, called Ideas. With Ideas, you can store all your best ideas, tweak them until they’re ready, and drop them straight into your Buffer queue. Now that Ideas has launched in our web and mobile apps, we have some time to share some learnings from the development of this feature. In this blog post, we’ll dive into how we added support for URL highlighting to the Ideas Composer on Android, using Jetpack Compose.

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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.

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Martech

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Marketers don’t have to be overwhelmed by technology if they stick to basic principles when assembling their marketing technology stack. These three steps will come in handy when navigating the complicated landscape of over 10,000 martech companies. Bad stack features to avoid. But first, what does a bad stack look like? “Number one, an ineffective martech stack is incomplete,” said Darrell Alfonso, global marketing operations for Amazon Web Services at The MarTech Conference. ”You don’t h

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Search Engine Roundtable

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Google's John Mueller repeated it, the time spent on a page by your users is not a factor Google uses for ranking. Time spent on the page is not a Google ranking factor, he said, "It doesn't," meaning Google doesn't care about time spent on the page for ranking purposes.

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Hubspot Marketing

DECEMBER 13, 2022

If you're a marketer, it's likely been a very – odd – Q4! On top of racing to the finish with end-of-year reports, campaigns, and project memos, you're also in the thick of annual planning for the new year. And, to add one more complicated layer to the mix, many marketing teams are waiting in the balance to see how our uncertain economy and the continuance of unprecedented global events will impact their work.

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Sprout Social

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The metaverse is the new internet frontier and popular brands are taking advantage of this evolving technology. Once companies finally understand what the metaverse is , how can they stand out among the many multiverses of metaverses (try saying that two times fast)? In this article, we’ll discuss how top brands are approaching metaverse brand activations and industries making the largest strides.

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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

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Social Media Examiner

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Want your content to rank higher in search? Looking for a proven strategy to follow? In this article, you’ll discover how to improve your Google search rank. Why Do Social Marketers Need SEO? Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube, and Pinterest all have their own in-platform search tools. If you’re a social marketer, you already know […].

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Search Engine Roundtable

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Google Search Console is testing a new feature named "content ideas." It is labeled as an "experimental" feature that brings Question Hub-like concepts directly into Google Search Console.

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Hootsuite

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Are you using Instagram alt text? If not, you should be. Alt text , or “alternative text” on Instagram, is an important tool for increasing accessibility and improving user experience. And it’s especially important when it comes to reaching new audiences. It’s also important for Instagram’s own algorithm, which uses alt text to understand what a post is about.

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Search Engine Journal

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Understand success and fail signals, as well as how to establish them for your brand. The post How To Understand If A PPC Test Is A Failure appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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