SMEI

DECEMBER 20, 2022

As we approach the end of 2022 and look towards 2023, it’s clear that the world of marketing is constantly evolving. Here are a few significant aspects of marketing that will be advancing in 2023. Digital Transformation and its Importance in 2023. Digital transformation in marketing refers to the integration of digital technology into marketing processes and strategies to improve customer engagement and reach, gather and analyze customer data, and streamline marketing workflows. .

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Digital Marketer

DECEMBER 19, 2022

It’s getting harder to remember a time when the internet didn’t dominate the business landscape. In retail, entertainment, and many other industries, ecommerce and digital services have long surpassed their high-street counterparts. So, how exactly has ecommerce changed the way we do business? And, in turn, how has that changed the way we market? First, let’s look at how ecommerce affected the balance of the economy.

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Businesses Grow

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In the latest episode of The Marketing Companion, Mark Schaefer and Mathew Sweezey of Salesforce select the most impactful marketing moments of 2022 and peer into what’s ahead for 2023. Highlights include: The best commercial of the year. What the crypto collapse means to marketing. Will AR overwhelm VR as the metaverse champion? The phenomenal impact of having 2 million people on ChatGPT.

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Hubspot Marketing

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Few marketing trends last forever. In reality, they come and go at rapid speed — and marketers must adapt. Because marketing is always evolving, your marketing playbook should, too. But if your strategy looks the same as years prior, it's time to do some housekeeping. Here, we'll cover five marketing trends that are losing steam and how marketers can respond. 1.

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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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Digital Marketer

DECEMBER 19, 2022

With more people using ad-blocking software to shut out unsolicited ads, the future looks bleak for marketers. But content marketing is the silver lining. And there are many reasons why the future is bright. Traditional marketing relies on outbound systems. It’s about reaching out to consumers to interest them in your product. This approach subjects consumers to marketing messages they don’t want.

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Jeff Bullas

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Productivity and efficiency are easily among the most used keywords among business leaders and organizations. No matter which industry they operate in, organizations are obsessed with improving productivity or efficiency to become more successful. However, the question remains. Is productivity the same, or is it different from efficiency? Are they simply two sides of the same coin?

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Search Engine Journal

DECEMBER 17, 2022

From increasing likes to posting high-quality images, here are 22 strategies to build followers on Instagram. The post How To Get More Followers On Instagram: 22 Tips To Try appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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Hubspot Marketing

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Staying productive is a goal many of us have, but finding a strategy that works can be challenging. We can also have certain periods where staying focused isn’t an issue, but others where it can feel impossible to stay on task. This is why reading about productivity is helpful, especially when the content helps you develop your own tactics for dealing with it.

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Jeff Bullas

DECEMBER 22, 2022

I carry my phone with me everywhere. This small device has become my augmented self, a second brain and an always-on connection with the world. My phone is my Metaverse. Mark Zuckerberg hasn’t realized that the Metaverse is already here and Apple has been working on it since 2007. We are already living in a virtual world and have augmented reality all around us.

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Aspiration Marketing

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Generating leads is the lifeblood of your business. Whether you've been an established company for some time or are a startup looking to dramatically improve your customer base, devoting sufficient time and effort to lead generation should be a top priority for you and your team. When your lead generation tools aren't working, you likely need to figure out how to use your inbound marketing to better effect.

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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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Search Engine Journal

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Generate images and text to scale your content by writing great prompts. Tackle each issue with text and image using this comprehensive guide. The post Why SEO Pros Need To Master Prompts: The ChatGPT Revolution appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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Hubspot Marketing

DECEMBER 19, 2022

As a marketer, you know digital content like blogs, videos, and social media are integral to your marketing strategy, but figuring out the frequency you should post digital content can be tricky. Fortunately, HubSpot surveyed over 1,200 marketers to determine how often you should publish content across various channels. Here's what you need to know.

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Jeff Bullas

DECEMBER 21, 2022

‘I’ve got a great idea!’, you think to yourself. From a distance, all our ideas look good. We have a feeling they are going to work. Some of us even sit down and write a simple business plan , and share it with our partner, friends or even family. But as the dream and thought bubble takes form our humanity and fear show up on our shoulders, taking on the shape of demons in the center stage of our minds.

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Sprout Social

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Let’s cut to the chase: It’s not organic vs. paid social media—it’s organic and paid social media. As social becomes even more of a pay-to-play game, “organic social is dead” has become a popular catchphrase for marketing thought leaders. While organic social media definitely isn’t what it used to be, it certainly isn’t dead. The truth is you need an effective organic social media marketing strategy if you even want to succeed with ads.

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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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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Most marketers tout the top content performers and scrutinize the biggest duds. But what about the content assets that did OK but didn’t quite get all the love you think they deserve? We found a set of those from CMI – and we’re resharing them to help you in 2023.

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Martech

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This is the second of a three-part series on the ROI of personalization. The first part (audience measurements) can be found here. While doing personalization well poses challenges to even the most sophisticated brands, offering personalized customer experiences is increasingly becoming a distinguishing factor in high-performing companies. Companies excelling at personalization can generate up to 40% more revenue than those deemed average at it, according to McKinsey.

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Hubspot Marketing

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Influencer marketing has become more integral to marketing campaigns as brands try to reach audiences on platforms geared toward community building and creating content than companies. When you think of influencer marketing, you probably think of influencers with large followings collaborating with brands; however, smaller influencers (also called micro-influencers) are gaining traction among marketers.

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Search Engine Journal

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Learn how expert digital marketers adapted to changes within the digital landscape in 2022, as well as what's new in marketing for 2023. The post Digital Marketing In 2023: 600 Marketing Agencies Share Expert Insights appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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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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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Emotional headlines are one of the most powerful marketing tools. A correctly-used emotional headline will make an immediate impression on readers and spark interest in your content. By using specific language in content marketing and copywriting, you can nudge your audience towards engaging with and sharing your content, ultimately driving more traffic to your site.

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Businesses Grow

DECEMBER 19, 2022

A short observation on brand preference. Think of a soft drink brand. There is a good chance you named a Coke or Pepsi product because of their profound brand strength. They have a top of mind awareness. Now, think of your favorite soft drink. Perhaps it’s something different. For me, it’s Fresca. That product that has my top of mind brand preference.

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Econsultancy

DECEMBER 20, 2022

It has been a tumultuous year in social advertising, as brands and advertisers pulled back on paid social amid macro-economic challenges and iOS privacy updates. So, as we head into 2023, can we expect a different story? We spoke to industry experts to get some insight into what’s to come, with brand safety, first-party data, and TikTok’s ad platform all predicted to shape the year ahead.

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Search Engine Land

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Google is testing the ability to search for spoken words in a video through a new “Search in video” feature. This is officially being piloted in India, but some are also seeing this feature being tested in the United States. The announcement. Google posted this news on the Google India blog, writing, “besides images, videos are also a rich source of visual information but it’s often hard to find something buried inside a long clip.

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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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Search Engine Roundtable

DECEMBER 22, 2022

As you know, the December 2022 helpful content update and the link spam update are rolling out now. In fact, it seems like the helpful content update needs more time to do its thing. Taking a look at the past few weeks, the Google Search results, it has been pretty volatile.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 19, 2022

How do you measure content's impact? Learn to prove the value of your content campaigns with these metrics pointers.

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Aspiration Marketing

DECEMBER 22, 2022

All marketing is multi-channel at this point, with needs to be addressed in social media, SEO, PPC, email, and more. Marketers and business owners need to follow what's trending, or they'll fall, possibly hopelessly behind. There is no shortage of digital marketing tips, tools, tricks, and trends across all industries. Here are our suggestions for the trends to watch as the year progresses.

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The CMO Survey

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In this webinar, Christine Moorman, Founder of The CMO Survey and the T. Austin Finch Sr. Professor of Business Administration and Suzanne Kounkel, Chief Marketing Officer of Deloitte discussed findings from the latest editions of the survey to offer marketing leaders insights on the opportunity to take a leadership position at this pivotal post-pandemic moment.

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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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Search Engine Roundtable

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Here is another study from Joy Hawkins and friends. This study says that upvoting reviews tend to keep the reviews on the local listings up for a longer period of time.

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Martech

DECEMBER 22, 2022

“Data is an asset.” We hear that phrase in countless vendor presentations, conferences and advertisements. And for some companies, data is, indeed, an asset. For example, high-tech companies like Google are built on the value of their data. Google began by analyzing data from the web. With its search engine at the heart of data collection, it could offer data gathering of adjacent fields and analysis from that data.

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Search Engine Journal

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In response to a thread on Reddit, Google Search Advocate John Mueller says there’s no inherent SEO advantage to WordPress over coding a website yourself. The post Google’s John Mueller: WordPress Not Inherently Better For SEO appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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Hubspot Marketing

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Social Media Sara starts her day scrolling through TikTok. She is an avid fan of podcasts and handles social media strategy at her company. This is a snapshot of what a buyer persona looks like. You may have a great product or service, but without understanding your target customers, you might as well just market to the void. Buyer personas are the antidote to that.

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