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5 Videos to Improve Your Marketing Skills in 2018

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

By now, your budget is mostly set, your planning has wrapped up , and you’re likely settling on a personal New Year’s resolution for 2018. As you check these things off of your to-do list for the year, I’d like to challenge you to think about how you’re going to grow as a marketer this year. Do you want to hone your skills when it comes to landing pages ?

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6 Content Marketing Ideas to Steal From the Awards Finalists of 2017

Content Marketing Institute

You’ve almost certainly heard this quote: “Good artists copy. Great artists steal.” But do you know who said it? Turns out, a lot of people. Steve Jobs attributed it to Pablo Picasso. A quick Google search shows variations attributed to many thinkers of varying levels of fame, including: Igor Stravinsky – “A good composer does not imitate; he steals.”.

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5 Bloggers Who Started a Blog in 2017 and Survived

Marketing Insider Group

When you start a blog, you understandably look for advice from experts to help get you started. You look at countless blogs in your niche – ones that have probably been going for a while and enjoying various types of success. It can be quite overwhelming, and sets you up for the comparison game and ‘perfection paralysis’ – not wanting to hit publish until your blog looks perfect.

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How to Create Local Content for Local SEO

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Create Local Content for Local SEO written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Pre-internet days, it didn’t take a lot for local businesses to notify a prospect that they are located in the same city. Handing them a flyer with business details and an address was pretty much a giveaway as to where you did business. Running an ad in the local daily newspaper or the Yellow Pages was how you got found in your town.

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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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5 Tips to Achieve Stellar Sales Success in 2018

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

It’s the end of the year. It’s crunch time for 2018 planning. Almost everyone is evaluating what worked and what didn’t and building goals and plans for the year ahead. If you’re not, it’s time to take a long, hard look at your own performance over the last year and find ways to not just hit your goals but to exceed them for 2018. There are many questions you must ask yourself to prepare: What are you going to do differently?

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The Zen of Content Marketing: Higher Consciousness, Better Performance

Content Marketing Institute

Week after week since January 2015, CMI has sent a Content Strategy for Marketers e-newsletter written by CMI Chief Strategy Advisor Robert Rose. In this newsletter, Robert delivers marketing insights through a zen sensibility, leaving many of us inspired as businesspeople and as people. (Since December, the Content Strategy Newsletter merged with the weekly newsletter, bringing Robert’s thoughts to even more subscribers.).

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Why Link Building is the New Networking

Duct Tape Marketing

Why Link Building is the New Networking written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch About Link Building. Despite what you may have heard, link building is not some technical SEO-type of under-the-hood tactic. It is the new networking, and no matter what Google does to try to devalue backlinks, they remain an important factor in terms of your site showing up when people search for the things that you want them to find you for online.

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How to Get a Handle on Rising Unsubscribe Rates

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

You checked the report and confirmed it: your email unsubscribe rate is creeping up. You noticed it rising slightly in the past few months, but it’s really starting to get out of hand. What do you do? One thing you can’t do is ignore it. A high unsubscribe rate can seriously hurt your reputation as a sender and could even impact your ability to hit the inbox.

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Unsolicited Advice: How to Avoid 4 Content Marketing Blunders

Content Marketing Institute

Have you hit that moment in the holiday season yet? You know, when the fairy dust has settled to the floor next to bits of dried pine needles, crumbs of joyously consumed (now vaguely regretted) treats, and the hair of the dog that may or may not have bitten you (but almost certainly needs a walk). I tend to get that bah-humbug feeling a couple of days before the new year brightens things again.

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Top 10 Content Marketing Predictions for 2018

Rock Content

Content marketing is constantly evolving. From the growth of mobile platforms to the shifts in which content is seen as ‘in favor,’ the landscape has changed considerably over the past few years. It will continue to shift in 2018, presenting companies with many opportunities to win with high impact content. To help you thrive in 2018, we surveyed our own pool experts here at ScribbleLive and checked in with content marketing thought leaders around the world to give you the top ten content market

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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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A Systematic Approach to Creating Meaningful Goals

Duct Tape Marketing

A Systematic Approach to Creating Meaningful Goals written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Colin Gray. Podcast Transcript. My guest for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is Colin Gray. He is a speaker, teacher, podcaster, and founder of The Podcast Host , among other things. He and I discuss his effective approach to goal setting.

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22 Places to share your Blog Posts for more exposure

Zumvu

Most bloggers share their blog posts in the social media platform like Facebook and Twitter, they are unaware of the other effective platforms.

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A Year Full of ‘No Way!?’ Moments for CCO Magazine

Content Marketing Institute

2017 will go down as the year contributors to the magazine repeatedly blew my mind. Most editors like to think they have at least a modest (if not better) grasp of the industry they cover. After all, to be a good editor you must be able to tease out the ideas that will educate or delight your readers most – and identifying those requires a baseline of subject matter expertise.

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Teach Students to Write for Real-Life Contexts

Content Marketing Institute

Today's students have to learn to shift their writing styles to meet different real-life purposes, says ELA teacher-author Jeremy Hyler. Teachers should understand the different contexts (school, work, and personal) and help students learn to "code switch" as needed.

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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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Transcript of A Systematic Approach to Creating Meaningful Goals

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of A Systematic Approach to Creating Meaningful Goals written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. John Jantsch: Everybody loves to set new goals for the New Year. Depending upon when you listen to this show, I have got a very systematic approach, that might help you not only create meaningful goals for the new year, but also break them down into monthly, weekly, and even daily activities.

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Weekend Favs December 23

Duct Tape Marketing

Weekend Favs December 23 written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you to check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from an online source or one that I took out there on the road.

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Merits of Traditional Marketing and how to Benefit from it

Zumvu

Traditional marketing defines to any kind of promotion, advertising or campaign and which has been use by organizations for years, and which has a established success rate.

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Fallacy of the Day

Content Marketing Institute

Estimation is pretentious rationalism, where rationalism does not serve us well (extremistan)(sic) Take only risks you can survive. Pretentious rationalism is defined as a type of ultimate explanation—announced at one time as final truth—which is termed a system. This is a term used by Taleb in the context of macroeconomic models. The use of estimating in software development project mandates those estimates be updated with actual performance data to have any credibility in the construction of

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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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Best of the Podcast: The Process of CX Hiring and Transformation at Volkswagen Group Australia

Duct Tape Marketing

This year, I’ve had the opportunity to interview a multitude of CX leaders on my podcast, The Chief Customer Officer Human Duct Tape Show. I’m thankful to have interviewed over 40 leaders who are transforming customer experience within their organizations — some are even creating shifts in their respective industry. As 2017 comes to an end, I’m thanking all of you who have taken the time to listen to my podcast.

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2018 Content Marketing Toolkit: Tips, Templates, and Checklists

Content Marketing Institute

Ready or not, 2018 is on its way. If you happened to catch our collection of content marketing predictions for the upcoming year, you may think you’re in for a bumpy ride. There are lots of big changes to manage on the horizon – the increasing impact of voice-activation, AI automation, and tighter consumer data regulation among them. But just because you likely need to work a bit harder to keep your content marketing maturity level on track with your competition and on pace with innovation