Hubspot Marketing

MAY 23, 2023

Welcome to HubSpot Marketing News! Tap in for campaign deep dives, the latest marketing industry news, and tried-and-true insights from HubSpot’s media team. In most cases, the pursuit of good vibes isn’t enough to overturn a trademark — but Taco Bell is certainly trying. The popular fast-food chain set its sights on the term “Taco Tuesday” which it wants to use freely to promote sales happiness among taco lovers.

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Aspiration Marketing

MAY 24, 2023

The online marketplace is a competitive battlefield, and staying ahead requires more than basic SEO knowledge. We dive into five advanced SEO techniques to help achieve higher search rankings, attract more traffic, and ultimately win more business.

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Hubspot Marketing

MAY 24, 2023

Successful empathetic marketing is about connecting your audience and your brand. That doesn’t mean just throwing ads at your audience. It means creating truly valuable assets — content that serves customers’ needs and addresses their most significant pain points. This type of content is much easier to create when it's informed and driven by empathy.

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Martech

MAY 23, 2023

Customer journey orchestration (CJO) uses different tools to provide seamless experiences for customers and increase revenue. Because customer journey orchestration casts a broad net across the entire customer lifecycle it’s essential to have a strategy for your technology. “When we talk about customer orchestration, we’re talking about much more than just a buyer’s journey,” said Carlos Hidalgo, CEO of martech consultancy Digital Exhaust, at The MarTech Conference.

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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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Search Engine Land

MAY 23, 2023

A unique new tool – chat – will let you create Google Ads campaigns. Using Google AI, a new interface will help users set up campaigns directly within the online editor in a conversational format, Google announced today at Google Marketing Live 2023. The best part: it’s optional, not required. Chat or not, it’s entirely up to you and your accounts.

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Buffer Marketing

MAY 23, 2023

If you’ve ever sat through a 90-minute YouTube video essay about a random obscure topic — like this one about Disney channel’s theme — you may find the stats about humanity’s reducing attention spans jarring. It’s easy to see why people are worried, but if a video about the theme song of a network that creates content for kids and tweens has four million views, then we might not be approaching the topic of short attention spans correctly.

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Hubspot Marketing

MAY 23, 2023

Artificial Intelligence continues solidifying itself as a crucial tool within the marketing industry, especially regarding automation. In fact, the market for artificial intelligence in marketing is expected to grow to more than $107.5 billion by 2028 — a huge leap from $15.84 billion in 2021. So, marketers must stay current on the many ways AI marketing automation can and should be used to remain competitive.

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Sprout Social

MAY 23, 2023

Every new advancement in tech sparks new possibilities—and new fears. This new era of artificial intelligence (AI) naturally has social teams thinking: Is an AI social media manager about to take my seat? When it comes to AI social media tools, I’m optimistic…and this is coming from someone who regularly thanks her Google Home to keep it happy. Rather than replace social media pros, the adoption of AI in marketing has the potential to make human creativity and strategic thinking more important.

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Martech

MAY 24, 2023

Email marketing is a fundamental element of marketers’ toolkits. New Gartner research shows it as the most effective channel across multiple stages of the buying journey, from demand generation to driving conversions and customer loyalty. And yet, this critical channel is too often left unloved, with more focus going to the fast-changing advertising or social media landscapes.

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Aspiration Marketing

MAY 23, 2023

With the marketing world constantly evolving, data-driven marketing has emerged as a game-changer. However, with the increasing amount of data available, it can be challenging to sift through it all and make sense of it. This is where AI comes in. Artificial intelligence technology, such as machine learning and natural language processing, can help marketers analyze large amounts of data quickly and accurately, leading to better decision-making and, ultimately, more successful marketing campaign

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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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Hubspot Marketing

MAY 26, 2023

Content offers, like ebooks, can convert your existing traffic and even attract new traffic. However, if your ebook isn't getting too many downloads or leads, your marketing might be the problem. In order to be successful, your offer must be compelling enough that it practically begs users to opt-in. Read on to discover the best techniques for marketing your ebook, whitepaper, guide, or other lead-generating resource. 1.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 24, 2023

No matter what tools you have, you probably do a lot of your marketing research on good old Google. The search engine giant stomps the competition with over 90% of the market share, while the closest challenger barely gets 3%. As a result, combing for data on its billions of pages can be harder than finding a needle in the proverbial haystack. That’s the reason you need advanced Google search strategies.

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Search Engine Journal

MAY 22, 2023

MonsterInsights Google Analytics plugin XSS vulnerability affects up to +3 million websites The post Vulnerability in WordPress Google Analytics Plugin Hits +3 Million Websites appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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Aspiration Marketing

MAY 25, 2023

To thrive, organizations must prioritize recruitment. And in this digital age, content marketing has emerged as a powerful tool for attracting and retaining the best talent in the industry. Through creating and disseminating compelling and informative content, organizations can captivate and inform prospective candidates, establish their employer brand, and optimize their recruitment endeavors.

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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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Hubspot Marketing

MAY 26, 2023

As marketers, we're always looking for ways to improve our game plan. But with so many tactics and channels available, knowing where to focus our efforts can be challenging. Ultimately, no marketing strategy is perfect. A marketing audit gives you a holistic view of your marketing efforts, including what's working, what could be improved, and where new opportunities are present.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 22, 2023

If we weren’t testing out the best ChatGPT prompts for digital marketing, could we really call ourselves digital marketing experts in 2023? With a good bit of trial and error, we’re pretty sure we’ve mastered the language model and its preferences. More specifically, we understand the importance of crafting effective ChatGPT prompts for digital marketing to receive a well-rounded, quality response.

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Search Engine Journal

MAY 21, 2023

Migrate your site to HubSpot CMS successfully when you learn about its SEO functionality, integrations, and gaps in this detailed guide. The post Migrating To HubSpot CMS: An SEO Walkthrough For New Users appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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Businesses Grow

MAY 22, 2023

Have you ever bought a new car and then become hyper-aware of other cars on the road like yours? That’s the way it’s been for me about community-based marketing since I published Belonging to the Brand a few months ago. New ideas about community seem to be popping for me everywhere, and I thought I would share a few post-book observations with you today!

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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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Hubspot Marketing

MAY 25, 2023

Today, the bar for personalized customer engagement is higher than ever. As a marketer, you know that customer data is key to delivering personalized experiences that drive growth. A whopping 82% of marketers say having high-quality data on their target audience is important to succeeding in their role – but more than half of them say they're missing key information.

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Martech

MAY 23, 2023

Marketing operations can be chaotic, and mastering leadership skills in such a dynamic environment can be an uphill battle. While the web is overflowing with leadership listicles, these suggestions must be taken further to determine what skills are needed and why. It’s time to move beyond advice like “become a better communicator” and use language that makes this actionable for everyone.

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Orbit Media Studios

MAY 24, 2023

Marketing is based on empathy. And empathy comes from research. The best research comes from interviews. But… stakeholder interviews take a lot of work. They’re hard to schedule and time intensive. It’s tough to connect with the right people. It takes skill to get them to open up. Often, you have just one chance. Wouldn’t it be nice if you had unlimited time to talk?

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Content Marketing Institute

MAY 24, 2023

With the economy in flux, the only certainty is uncertainty. As your audience reacts to the ups and downs, you must evolve your content strategy to deliver what they need now. Use this advice to help figure out how.

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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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Hubspot Marketing

MAY 22, 2023

Email marketing is integral to any marketing strategy because it’s a great way to generate leads and convert audiences. Whether you’re creating your first strategy or looking to modify your process, AI email marketing tools can help you save time, optimize your strategy, and meet your email goals. In this piece, we’ll go over how AI email marketing tools work, new data about how marketers currently use AI for email marketing, and a list of tools you can leverage in your role.

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Martech

MAY 22, 2023

I’m amazed at how fast ChatGPT has progressed from “It’s the coolest thing ever” to “It’s going to take our jobs” to “We have to tweak it because it doesn’t have enough information” to “It’s ‘Terminator Genisys’ all over again.” Dig deeper: Three things ChatGPT needs which only you can provide Many marketers are using ChatGPT to write subject lines.

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Hootsuite

MAY 25, 2023

Let’s all welcome our robot overlords, as AI has proven to be an unstoppable force in digital marketing. With our beloved robots here to stay, it’s high time you kitted out your marketing toolbox with the best AI tools for social media! This blog post will cover 15 of the best tools AI social media marketing offers. We’ll look at tools to help you write, create videos and imagery, prompt the best hashtags and times to post, and much more.

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Content Marketing Institute

MAY 26, 2023

Gartner released a new survey of CMOs that indicates a shift from search advertising and a lack of budget to achieve strategies in 2023. Consider what that means for the rest of this year and beyond.

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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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Hubspot Marketing

MAY 24, 2023

Courage and hope reside at the heart of building a business. Hope for a better quality of life, financial stability, and, if we’re lucky, generational wealth for our families. However, for Asian American and Pacific Islander entrepreneurs, spinning an idea into a profitable business requires startup funding that is often difficult to access because of systemic barriers.

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Martech

MAY 22, 2023

Marketing budgets remain flat in 2023 having failed to climb back to pre-COVID levels. That’s one takeaway from Gartner’s latest CMO Spend and Strategy survey unveiled at the Gartner Marketing Symposium and Xpo in Denver. Another key finding was that 71% of CMOs believe they lack the budget successfully to execute this year’s strategies.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 26, 2023

Google will look much different in 2033 – where conversation is the interface rather than the search box. That’s according to Mustafa Suleyman , cofounder of DeepMind (which Google bought in 2014 ), in an interview on the No Priors Podcast. Why we care. ChatGPT , the new Bing and Google’s new Search Generative Experience are all huge signals of a major shift in search.

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Buffer Marketing

MAY 25, 2023

For the latest installment of Creators Unlocked , we speak to Josh Ho, a SaaS founder and creator – the latter a term he doesn't instinctually use, though it definitely applies. Josh earned his founder title with Referral Rock , a software company that eases the process of collecting referrals. But he also hosts two podcasts, writes a newsletter, and tweets to more than 17,000 followers on Twitter.

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