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How to take smart risks with lo-fi social content

Sprout Social

In late 2009, Domino’s released a brutally honest commercial, publicizing customers’ overwhelmingly negative feelings about their pizza—and asking folks to give them a second chance. It was a massive risk, but one that paid off. The quarter following the campaign’s release, same-store sales were up 14%. No matter how you slice it, risk-taking has always been a hallmark of strong brand marketing.

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Marketing Audit 101: How to Conduct a Marketing Review and Make Adjustments to Boost Performance

Marketing Insider Group

Marketing becomes more complex every day. As new technology and concepts surface, promoting brands, products, and services has become a complicated activity for small and large companies alike. As marketers craft and implement their strategies, it can be difficult to understand what is working and what isn’t. Sure, you can monitor the results of a Facebook ad campaign.

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Artificial intelligence + human intelligence = success

Martech

When responding to questions about AI replacing humans in certain roles, most “experts” claim that AI will replace some jobs but will be a much more valuable tool for augmenting human intelligence and ability. What if they are wrong? In all of the hype associated with this latest technology wave, a significant trend is occurring across industries that could significantly change the impact of AI — the retirement of the knowledge worker.

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Google rolls out brand restriction settings to all advertisers

Search Engine Land

Google is broadly rolling out brand exclusions in Performance Max and broad match brand restrictions in Search to all advertisers. Following successful pilots for both, the search engine announced that the move would help marketers with guiding Google AI and where their campaigns appear online. Up until now, both features were only available in beta.

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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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Using AI in Content Marketing: How AI Revolutionizes Content Creation

Aspiration Marketing

With the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI), the content marketing landscape is undergoing a profound transformation. AI offers unparalleled opportunities for content marketers, from analyzing vast amounts of data to generate compelling ideas to automating content creation and optimizing for search engine visibility. Join us as we unravel how AI reshapes the content marketing landscape and drives unprecedented results.

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Crash Course on How I Use Interviews to Drive Marketing Success

Rock Content

Over the past decade in marketing, content formats have undergone significant transformations. The shift from static to interactive content and from PNGs to MP4s demonstrates the dynamic nature of the industry. According to the 2023 State of Marketing Report, 25% of marketers are planning to incorporate interviews into their strategies for the first time this year.

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How marketing automation empowers your team, and whole org

Sprout Social

For today’s marketing teams, it’s nearly impossible to do your work and stay agile without marketing automation. In fact, teams that don’t adopt automation and AI-powered software throughout their tech stack risk falling behind. There has never been more customer, competitor or industry data available to marketing teams. And yet, with shrinking bandwidths, having the time to uncover insights from that vast sea of data is becoming less realistic.

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When it’s time to abandon a strategy and listen to the world

Businesses Grow

One of the challenges I enjoy most is the one-hour coaching calls people schedule with me. I get to meet so many interesting people! Today, I will discuss a common problem I see with entrepreneurial businesses — knowing when it’s time to abandon a strategy … at least for a little while. Let me tell you a story about my own lesson, when it made sense to abandon my own strategy.

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Marketing Experimentation: How to determine what to test next

Marketing Sherpa

Every Wednesday, we hold a free Marketing LiveClass as part of ChatGPT, CRO and AI: 40 Days to build a MECLABS SuperFunnel. Everyone is welcome to join and learn, as we build marketing funnels with members of the MECLABS SuperFunnel Research Cohort. In the LiveClass, marketers and entrepreneurs can ask questions in the webinar chat.

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7 Essential Recruitment Marketing Strategies for Recruiters

Aspiration Marketing

As a recruiter, you understand that finding top talent is vital for your organization's success. However, with fierce competition among companies for the same pool of candidates, it can be challenging to stand out. That's where recruitment marketing comes in. In this article, we'll explore effective recruitment marketing strategies that can help you attract and retain the best talent.

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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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How the HubSpot Blog Generates Leads [+ How Yours Can, Too]

Hubspot Marketing

It's hard to believe that if the HubSpot Blog were a person, it would currently be in high school. That's right – for well over a decade, content has been published on the HubSpot Blog to help hundreds of millions of readers discover best practices in the areas of marketing, sales, customer service, website development, agency work, and general business best practices.

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How to analyze customer reviews for brand insights

Sprout Social

There’ll always be a competitor trying to outperform you. The only way to grow and stay ahead is a keen eye on what your customers are saying about their interests and pain points. In a world where star ratings can make or break a brand, review analysis is your north star. It gives you deep insights from customer feedback so you can uncover trends, make targeted improvements to your business and build a richer brand management strategy.

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How to Collaborate with AI to Get the Best Out of Your Content

Buffer Marketing

Welcome back to Creators Unlocked , a series where we interview creators about their best practices. Today, we’ve got Stew Fortier, a more unconventional creator, as his day job is CEO of Type.ai , an AI content writing tool. 💡 To keep up with Stew, check out his newsletter , Twitter and LinkedIn. The rapid advancement of AI has spurred debates among creators of all types.

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What is the HubSpot Marketing Hub?

Aspiration Marketing

In the fast-paced digital era, marketing managers face many challenges that require effective solutions. From generating leads to tracking performance, the demand for a centralized platform to streamline marketing activities has never been more vital. That's where HubSpot Marketing Hub comes in, a comprehensive solution designed to tackle these pain points head-on and empower marketing managers.

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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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9 Disadvantages of AI You Never Thought About

Marketing Insider Group

Robots and artificial intelligence have fascinated people for decades. Some have predicted amazing advancements and a world like “The Jetsons,” while others fear the disadvantages of AI. The reality is probably somewhere closer to the middle. Still, anyone who wants to use AI in marketing (or business in general) should be fully aware of its pros and cons.

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Dark Social in 2023: Here’s Why (and How) You Should Track It

Hootsuite

You text your partner a pic of the chocolate bar you want from the store. You mention your fave new shampoo in a WhatsApp message. You share an amazing Hootsuite blog article to your work Slack (hint!). Welcome to dark social. Don’t worry, dark social isn’t the same as the notorious “dark web” trying to lure you into evil. Dark social is the oldest social network in action: private, untraceable human-to-human communication.

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Experimenting in Marketing: What I’ve Learned Running 25 A/B Tests on Ads for Buffer

Buffer Marketing

Just over a year ago, my role at Buffer shifted, and I became a Growth Marketing Manager working on Buffer’s Growth Marketing team. This change happened at a time when we needed to quickly scale how we run experiments to start looking for improvements to their performance.   Experiments are an important component in marketing teams and are a proven method for understanding the causal impact of a change and improving marketing strategy iteratively and quickly.

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Content Amount—How Many Blogs is Enough For Your Law Firm's Blog?

Aspiration Marketing

When it comes to creating a blog for your law firm (or any business), the question of how often to post may arise. It's important to keep your blog's objectives in mind when determining the ideal posting frequency. Consistency is key to keeping readers engaged with new and exciting content. But don't forget to consider other important factors when scheduling your blog posts.

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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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How to find innovative ideas to fuel your marketing decisions

Martech

Marketers are known as the “creative ones.” They always come up with tag lines and quirky campaigns. However, creativity doesn’t always mean innovation, especially if that helps the business move forward. Innovation doesn’t need a pitch deck. Organizations have been discussing the need to be innovative since the end of World War II when technological innovation was seen as the catalyst for economic growth.

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Omnichannel customer experience: exploring seamless customer journeys

Sprout Social

Enhanced customer satisfaction, high customer engagement, and increased revenue are good reasons to develop an omnichannel customer experience. Still, it takes more than integrating multiple channels to build a successful one. It takes a strategic approach, continuous optimization, a customer-centric mindset and a well-planned omnichannel strategy to make it all possible.

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How We’re Successfully Repurposing Content at Buffer

Buffer Marketing

Everyone says you should repurpose your content these days. But why? And how do you actually go about it? How do you decide what to repurpose, and how do you actually execute? These are all questions we hope to answer for you today. If you haven’t given repurposing content a try yet, you really should. Repurposing content can increase engagement, save you a lot of time and energy, and gives people a chance to see your best content they may have missed the first time you posted.

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How to Perfect Your Resume Headline (+Examples)

Hubspot Marketing

Picture this: A busy hiring manager is sifting through dozens, if not hundreds, of resumes. How can you make yours stand out in a sea of sameness? Enter the resume headline, your secret weapon to grab their attention and keep them hooked. In this comprehensive guide, we'll share everything you need to know about resume headlines, from what they are to how to craft the perfect one.

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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.

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The 7 B2B website essentials: What customers want

Martech

A company’s website is the single most important media channel in the marketing communications toolkit. Your website is the perfect “owned media,” infinitely flexible, with global reach and easy to keep current. Just a few years ago, while teaching in Buenos Aires, I was taken aback when a grad student said, “We don’t visit company websites anymore.

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Use These 3 Agile Fixes To Keep Your Marketing Operations Humming

Content Marketing Institute

You can’t afford to waste your marketing budget by working the wrong way. Yet, process improvement probably isn’t at the top of your to-do list. Change that today and use these three ideas to make it happen.

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Buffer vs. Sked Social: Nine Key Differences

Buffer Marketing

Selecting the perfect social media management tool can be an overwhelming task. There are dozens of options available and hundreds of features to compare. But don't worry, we at Buffer are here to help you make an informed decision by comparing our platform with another popular choice: Sked Social. To assist you in finding the right solution for your social media management needs, we've compiled a list of key differences between Buffer and Sked Social.

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The role of AI in creating a more human customer experience

Sprout Social

In a world where social media and technology have leveled the playing field between brands large and small, leaders know the only true differentiator is customer experience (CX). They know it’s one of the most human aspects of running a business—and they’re exploring innovative technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) to enrich it. Besides workflow efficiencies, AI tools provide nuanced insights that can transform your customer journeys to become more engaging and supportive.

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How to Prove Marketing Value: Demonstrate Content ROI and Contribution to Sales

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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15 low-cost alternatives to GA4

Martech

One of the attractions of Google Analytics 4 (GA4) is getting a sophisticated web analytics tool free. However, there are a lot of other analytics tools that can compete with it in both features and price. Here’s a list of the best known. Matomo is an open-source analytics platform that provides similar features to Google Analytics. It offers real-time analytics, customizable dashboards and detailed reports.

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How to Showcase Hard Skills on Your Resume [+ List of 50 Skills]

Hubspot Marketing

Today, 87% of employers have difficulty finding the right employees. That’s a significant percentage, and it’s all because of skill gaps. Hiring managers aren’t entirely sure if someone fits the job well because the crucial information isn’t exactly front and center. Sometimes, it’s not there, making it even worse. Good thing this article breaks down the best hard skills for resumes, explains why they matter, and tells you how to showcase them best.

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5 SEO Techniques To Grow Organic Traffic via @sejournal, @JuliaGeekPack

Search Engine Journal

Looking to grow your online business? Try these 5 beginner-friendly techniques to grow your organic traffic and gain visibility online. The post 5 SEO Techniques To Grow Organic Traffic appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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Instagram insights demystified: How to access and analyze your metrics

Sprout Social

Optimizing your Instagram presence doesn’t have to be a guessing game. You can find most of the answers you need within the app itself. Anyone with an Instagram Business account can use the network’s in-app reporting feature, Instagram Insights. While it may not provide the same level of detail as an advanced Instagram analytics tool, it’s still a valuable resource for conducting on-the-fly analysis.

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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.