Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 26, 2020

Marketers must always be evolving and adapting to markets and consumer trends, and digital marketing to Gen Z is no different. We’ve seen Generation Z coming for a while. But it’s still important to understand what makes them tick. Where do they hang out? Maybe most important: what do they value? Sure, it’s easier said than done, as many things are, but if you plan to market effectively to Gen Z it’s time to get to know your audience.

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Hootsuite

MARCH 27, 2020

On a regular day, connecting with your audience on social media requires tact, care, and forethought. In the epicentre of a major crisis, the pressure skyrockets. What should your brand say when the facts and the future are uncertain? And how should you say it when new developments are coming in by the hour, or minute? Social media crisis communication for brands comes down to one reassuringly simple question: how can you help?

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 23, 2020

The battle for customer attention is real. Even more so now, with everything going on in the world, we are seeing a massive spike in new client requests for thought leadership content. While some companies chase people around the web with ads and fill their sites with product promotions, we believe in the power of consistent content marketing to reach, engage, and convert relevant audiences to your business.

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Sprout Social

MARCH 26, 2020

In the last decade, social media has rapidly evolved and become a major element of marketing in all industries. As a result, social media practitioners now play a role in more business initiatives than ever. They are key players in managing their company’s reputation, deploying customer service, acquiring customers, spotting trends and navigating breaking news. .

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 25, 2020

Live webinars are a powerful lead generation and engagement tool. Successful webinars drive revenue and establish your organization as a thought leader in its space. However, maximizing webinar attendance takes effort. Nothing is more disheartening than spending time and advertising money promoting your webinar—only to have a handful of folks attend.

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Hootsuite

MARCH 26, 2020

Virtual events still sound a little futuristic, but they’ve been happening since 1993 when the world’s first livestream brought us nail-biting webcam footage of a coffee maker in mid drip. The streaming pot brewed up millions of views. In some ways little has changed in 2020. On TikTok, teenagers have gone viral with sleep feeds , raking in crypto coin as they catch some zzz’s.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 27, 2020

In times like this, it helps to name what we’re feeling: fear, anxiety, uncertainty, grief. But we also have to stay positive and prepared in order to survive and thrive. If you’re a regular reader of our content, you may have noticed that in light of my own feelings, I’ve been focused on basically a “business as usual” approach.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 25, 2020

Marketing automation has played a significant role in making our time at work more efficient. This is not a revolutionary or surprising statement – after all, it’s not hard to imagine that technology capable of automating repetitive tasks would be a time saver. What once took days now takes hours, and what once took hours now takes minutes. The revolution is that organizations are using the time that platforms like marketing automation have given them to rethink their workplace culture.

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Hootsuite

MARCH 26, 2020

Social media in government is a game changer. After all, not many things have changed the way the public interacts with governments more than social media. On social, people can engage in direct dialogue with politicians, civic officials, and even entire government agencies. It also gives them a chance to engage back. At Hootsuite, we’ve worked with local, state, and federal governments all over the world.

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 23, 2020

Let’s make this simple. Factually wrong content is bad. Accuracy is a necessity for trust from your audience. Welcome to the content creators’ and editors’ fact-checking checklist. Continue reading → The post Get an A for Accuracy With This Fact-Checking Content Checklist appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Sprout Social

MARCH 23, 2020

Remote employees are becoming the new norm for companies across the globe. According to research from Global Workplace Analytics , employees benefit from the flexibility and mix of environments that facilitate both collaboration in-office and stronger focus on tasks when remote. However, shifting to remote work isn’t always an easy transition. Individuals’ personality types and working styles must be taken into account, and maintaining a healthy balance and separation between a work mindset and

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Hubspot Marketing

MARCH 23, 2020

I love to travel. My husband and I try to spend our vacations becoming immersed in a culture. It's one of our favorite things to do together. As a content creator, I'm predictably an avid content consumer as well. With my love of content and travel, I often find myself pouring through travel blogs looking for the best way to plan a trip and the best activities to do in a country.

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Traackr

MARCH 23, 2020

We’re living in isolation and on our phones more than ever. What does distancing mean for influencers, brands and how we communicate?

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 27, 2020

This week, Robert Rose talks which kind of content marketers will do well in the future. He discusses a non-pandemic moment that may offer a new model for content monetization, ponders when we can “say when.” Continue reading → The post Which Content Marketers Will Do Well in the Post-Shutdown World? [The Weekly Wrap] appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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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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Neil Patel

MARCH 24, 2020

Please read the whole post as I have a few surprises for everyone and it affects all member types. A month or so ago, I blogged about the future of Ubersuggest and how there will still be free plans along with paid ones. But as you probably noticed, the free plan wasn’t as generous as you were hoping for. And with Coronavirus growing at a rapid pace and affecting so many people and businesses, I thought I would do my part and help small businesses out.

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Hubspot Marketing

MARCH 27, 2020

When I was younger and I listened to Hannah Montana sing " The Best of Both Worlds ," I didn't fully understand what she meant. Now, as a marketer, I get it. Having the best of both worlds is the feeling you have when your company's marketing automation software and CRM work in tandem. But it's not just about how much easier it makes your job. When the two software work together, your company will convert more MQLs to SQLs and make more sales.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 24, 2020

The phrase “culture eats marketing strategy for breakfast” was coined by management consultant Peter Drucker 20 years ago and remains as true today as it ever was. If anything, culture has become even more important in recent years. The millennial workforce of today value company culture more than any other generation , and are more likely to put work-life balance, corporate values, and engagement and purpose over salary.

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Sprout Social

MARCH 26, 2020

Welcome to the Social Spotlight, where we dive deep into what we love about a brand’s approach to a specific social campaign. From strategy through execution and results, we’ll examine what makes the best brands on social tick — and leave you with some key takeaways to consider for your own brand’s social strategy. Overview. Though we’re all adjusting to the new reality of working from home and managing new best practices for our businesses, few in marketing are on the very visible front l

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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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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 25, 2020

Visual storytelling isn’t as hard as it was when cave people etched their narratives into rocks. But it does require a deliberate and thoughtful approach. See the five core elements come alive in these three examples. Continue reading → The post 3 Stunning Examples Show Visual Storytelling at Its Best appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Hubspot Marketing

MARCH 27, 2020

As a marketer, it's undeniably critical you're fully aware of your own budget and resources, and use that information when making decisions. For instance, let's say you're a marketer at a startup, and have decided to propose investing in Twitter Ads to the decision-makers at your company. Of course, one of the biggest questions you'll be asked is, "How much is this going to cost?".

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 25, 2020

If you want to scale up your content marketing efforts, you need to create more content. For most businesses, that will mean investing in outsourcing. Outsourcing all or part of your content marketing is more cost-effective than employing a full-time in-house team. But, how do you make sure external contractors and freelancers produce content with a consistent brand voice ?

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Moz

MARCH 23, 2020

Posted by Roger-MozBot The well-being of our community — from our customers to our readers to our team members — is of the utmost importance to us here at Moz. The ongoing situation around the spread of COVID-19 is ever-changing. Many of you are experiencing the impact of this pandemic, and we want to address the difficulties you’re facing and acknowledge how you might be feeling.

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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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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 24, 2020

Using original data in your content marketing can deliver big results. It doesn’t have to cost you a thing. The catch? You need to be clever just like these six marketing experts who share seven examples. Continue reading → The post 7 Free Ways to Get Original Data for Your Content appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Hubspot Marketing

MARCH 25, 2020

There are few times more exciting in a company than during a product launch. Anticipation brews and a sense of optimism emerges around the prospect of a growth in market share. Still, a question always arises when a new product launches: do enough people know about this product launch for it to be successful? There are multiple avenues to communicate through during a product launch — ads, social media, PR, and blog promotion, to name a few.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 21, 2020

Weekend Favs March 21 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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Sprout Social

MARCH 24, 2020

If you’re a marketer today, anything that helps you refine your social media goals is a plus. Because the opportunities and marketing channels available to brands today are staggering. Simply put, social media marketing today is about creating goals that solve challenges, not simply investing in social “just because.” Not sure what your next move should be?

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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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Bannerflow

MARCH 23, 2020

In-house marketing and martech is helping brands to cut costs and become ever more efficient. Which in testing times, is essential to remain competitive and reach business goals. It’s a proven fact too: Bannerflow and Digiday’s State of in-housing 2020 report found that 58% of brands state positive ROI is a direct outcome of in-housing marketing functions.

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Hubspot Marketing

MARCH 23, 2020

According to our 2020 State of Marketing report , blogging is the third most utilized form of content marketing, just behind video and infographics. Like any successful strategy, many brands, publishers, and individuals have jumped on the blogging bandwagon. Currently, there are 600 million active blogs globally. Meanwhile, the number of active U.S. bloggers rose from 22 million to 32 million between 2014 and 2020.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 26, 2020

Finding Success and Whole-Life Wealth written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Rock Thomas. On this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I visit with motivational speaker, best-selling author, and podcaster Rock Thomas. After achieving great financial success himself, Thomas began to think about what true success really meant.

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Search Engine Journal

MARCH 25, 2020

Here are a few main things to consider when optimizing your content for Google Discover. The post Optimizing for Google Discover: Key Areas to Focus On via @TaylorDanRW appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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