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The Best 14 Website Plugins in 2019

Hubspot Marketing

You've just spent thousands of dollars, countless hours, and have had more organizational nightmares than you'd care to admit, but you're done. The brand new site design you've been working on is finally finished -- and it looks great. However, after a few weeks, you notice something's missing. Maybe it's a simple design error, or perhaps, a feature doesn't work or was overlooked.

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How to Determine the ROI of Account-Based Marketing

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

When it comes to marketing and sales, the more precise and specific you can get with every customer, the better. Customers want to feel important and recognized by brands, and it is exactly why strategies like personalization are so effective. Account-based marketing (ABM) is when you target prospects by identifying a point of contact or persona within an organization which you believe you’ll be able to serve the best, build a lasting relationship with them, and then offer an increasingly wide r

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Must-Have Checklist to Creating Valuable Content

Content Marketing Institute

Successful content marketing strategies take all the guesswork out of execution, letting the creative flourish. To help get the details straight, use this Creating Valuable Content™ checklist. Continue reading → The post Must-Have Checklist to Creating Valuable Content appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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How to Make a Mid-Year Marketing Review Worth Your Time

Marketing Insider Group

We’re big advocates of setting SMART marketing goals at the beginning of the year. If you happen to work with HubSpot, or a HubSpot agency, setting goals can be even more lucrative due to the platform’s extensive set of tools for setting and tracking Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). The tools let you set KPI benchmarks […]. The post How to Make a Mid-Year Marketing Review Worth Your Time appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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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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The Ultimate Guide to On-Page SEO in 2019

Hubspot Marketing

So, you've read dozens — if not hundreds — of SEO articles online. You've digested countless tips and tricks for improving your website's SEO. You've even (over)paid that self-proclaimed "expert" to help you develop an SEO strategy that aligns with your business goals. But after all of the reading and learning and strategizing, it dawns on you: You haven't actually done anything yet.

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Is Your Marketing Data Missing Your Most Powerful Data Set?

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Interactions with prospects and customers before, during, and after an event don’t just offer a chance for engagement, but also a unique opportunity to further customize your follow-up, communications, and their next event experience, which in turn helps accelerate impact, velocity, and conversion. The problem? More often than not, event data is either being forgotten, spread out amongst several tools, or being inputted manually and inaccurately.

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What Type of Links Does Google Really Prefer?

Neil Patel

We all know that links help rankings. And the more links you build the higher you’ll rank. But does it really work that way? Well, the short answer is links do help with rankings and I have the data to prove it. But, you already know that. The real question is what kind of links do you need to boost your rankings? Is it rich anchor text links? Is it sitewide links?

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The Simple Guide to Creating an HTML Email [+ Free Templates]

Hubspot Marketing

When you create an email using a drag-and-drop or module-based tool, you're actually generating an HTML email. There are two main types of email you can send and receive: plain text emails (these are exactly what they sound like -- any email that contains just plain old text with no formatting) and HTML emails , which are formatted and styled using HTML and inline CSS.

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What B2B and B2C Marketers Can Learn From the Women’s World Cup

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

The 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup is in full swing with people around the globe watching to see who will take home the cup. In soccer, each team chooses a formation and employs one goalkeeper and ten field players who fill various defensive, midfield, and attacking positions. At the beginning of the game, it is pretty clear who is in what position—the forwards and strikers are up front; midfielders in the middle of the lineup and defenders holding down the back line.

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27 Instagram Tools Marketers Should Know About in 2019

Hootsuite

There are lots of Instagram tools that can help you with your Instagram strategy , but some of them are sharper than others. With more than two million monthly advertisers on Instagram, marketing with dull tools is not just a waste of time—it’s a competitive disadvantage. Whether you’re looking for scheduling support, analytics aids, or photo and video editing help, we’ve rounded up the essential tools that every social marketer should have in their Instagram toolbox.

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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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Personal branding trends to tap into on social media

Sprout Social

Having a personal brand, whether you’re job hunting, running your own business or at any stage in your career, is essential. It’s what separates you from the rest of the pack and helps build important connections that boost your growth and development. One of the best ways to enhance your personal brand is through social media. Just as social has given rise to the likes of influencer marketing , there are opportunities across a wide variety of networks in which to build and enhance your personal

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10 Tips From Best-Selling Authors That Will Polish Your Content

Content Marketing Institute

What can you learn from those best-selling fiction authors to make your content marketing shine? A lot. They know how to keep readers turning the page. Here are 10 tips from Stephen King, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Orwell, and more. Continue reading → The post 10 Tips From Best-Selling Authors That Will Polish Your Content appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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How Employee Engagement Can Power Up Your Marketing Strategy

Marketing Insider Group

Employee engagement is traditionally a concern of the HR department rather than the marketing department. Employees who are fully engaged at work deliver benefits, including improved productivity, higher retention, and increased employee loyalty. All these things are great for the business as a whole, and it’s true that if your marketing team is fully engaged, they’ll […].

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How to Set Up and Use Twitter Lists: 9 Great Ideas

Hootsuite

With 330 million monthly users , Twitter offers a vast network of potential people and brands to connect with. But with 500 million tweets sent per day , the sheer volume can make it seem impossible to keep up with your Twitter feed. Fortunately, there’s a simple way to organize your Twitter feed into targeted topics, so you can always keep up with the most important conversations in your industry: Twitter lists.

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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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13 Competitor Analysis Tools to Spy on Your Competition

Sprout Social

Let’s talk about a subject that’s honestly a bit uncomfortable to some marketers. Competition. It doesn’t matter what industry you’re in–marketing is a game of competing for the attention of your audience. With so many marketing channels available today, that competition is oftentimes fierce. Think about it. Competition for traffic, ad placement, followers and sales.

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Think Micro if You Want to Do Influencer Marketing Right

Content Marketing Institute

Stop dreaming big when it comes to your influencer marketing program. You don’t have to pay $1 million for Kylie Jenner to post or even $2,500 for Martha Stewart to do one. Design your campaigns around microinfluencers. Continue reading → The post Think Micro if You Want to Do Influencer Marketing Right appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Time To Define Your Internal Content Marketing Strategy

Marketing Insider Group

Your content marketing strategy most likely focuses on your external audience – your customers or followers. This makes sense, after all these people are the ones who’ll spend their money and help your business generate income. However, there is another group of people who can be reached with content marketing that you probably haven’t considered […].

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13 of the Best Social Media Management Tools

Hootsuite

If you use social media, social media management tools can make your life easier. What is social media management? Social media management simply refers to a platform or tools that reduce the amount of effort it takes to use social media effectively. They streamline processes and create better collaboration across teams. They’re particularly useful for complex organizations, but they’re also great for small teams.

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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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Sprout Social’s Justyn Howard named a Glassdoor Top CEO for a third consecutive year

Sprout Social

I’m pleased to announce that Sprout Social founder and CEO, Justyn Howard, has been recognized as a Glassdoor Top CEO for U.S. companies with 1,000 employees or less in 2019. This is the third year in a row that Justyn has been placed on the list and is a reflection of the supportive culture we’ve been able to establish and maintain at Sprout. Recognition from Glassdoor is entirely based on reviews from Sprout employees who share their thoughts about job and company satisfaction, senior leadersh

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AR/VR Storytelling for Marketing: 4 Things to Know

Content Marketing Institute

A select few use augmented and virtual reality in marketing. Allen Martinez is one of them. Learn what he says are the four principals of using AR/VR for successful storytelling in your marketing. Continue reading → The post AR/VR Storytelling for Marketing: 4 Things to Know appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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How Your Content Marketing Strategy Benefits All Departments

Marketing Insider Group

Ask the decision makers of any enterprise-level business which department should have responsibility for content marketing strategy, and they’ll undoubtedly name the marketing department. It makes sense at first consideration. After all, it’s a marketing strategy and that is what the marketing team is for. But restricting the responsibility of developing and carrying out your content marketing […].

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The State of Email Engagement: When, Where, and How People Engage with Email

Litmus

Email engagement is like a black box for many email marketers. Too often, marketers only look at opens and clicks, but have no insight into what happens in between. Like in any marketing discipline, better insights are the foundation to improving campaign performance in email marketing. So it’s surprising how many email marketers heavily rely on metrics that only scratch the surface of the subscriber experience.

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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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At Sprout, all agencies are partners

Sprout Social

You don’t have to look far and wide at Sprout to see someone that has lived the #agencylife. Across our product, marketing, sales and success organizations, we have team members that have experienced the highs and lows of working at agencies, from boutique and startup agencies to large and enterprise agencies … and everything in between. The rush of pitching a new creative campaign, the late nights tweaking copy or putting final touches on a pitch deck and the feeling of accomplishment when the

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Agencies See Growth in Content Marketing Business [New Research]

Content Marketing Institute

Agencies are banking on content marketing. At least half their business comes from those services. That finding and more are in the new CMI 2019 Agency Survey. The report also reveals some fresh opportunities for many agencies. Continue reading → The post Agencies See Growth in Content Marketing Business [New Research] appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Your Top Content Marketing KPIs to Monitor in 2019

Marketing Insider Group

As technology transforms the digital landscape, the top content marketing KPIs you need to monitor often change with it. In 2019, monitoring key performance indicators gets even more complex when you factor in the purpose of each piece of content, as SEO consultant Benj Arriola points out. Profitability, of course, is a constant. Yet when you dig […].

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Trending in Email Design: Going Off-Grid

Litmus

Each year, we see new design trends shaping digital marketing—from the use of color and imagery to typography trends, interactivity, and more. In our “Trending in Email Design” series, we look at the hottest digital design trends—and dive into how they translate into email marketing. Broken grids and overlapping elements have been popular in web design and development in recent years.

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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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How to Craft the Perfect Email

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Craft the Perfect Email written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Some small business owners are intimidated by email marketing. Having to write an individual email is scary enough if you don’t consider yourself a writer. The thought of sending an email out to an entire mailing list can be downright terrifying! Fortunately, the perfect email is about more than just writing.

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Q&A:The future of display advertising

Bannerflow

Display advertising is undergoing a revival! But what is it marketers need to know to stay at the forefront of an evolving digital advertising landscape? In this article, we interview Kevin Lee, Chairman and Founder of US marketing firm, Didit. We discuss the crucial roles which creativity, relevancy, and technology, will have on the future of display advertising.

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5 Reasons Your Enterprise Needs Agile Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

While startups may have an easier time adopting Agile principles, large enterprises can’t afford to be discouraged by the difficulty of introducing new processes into their organization. In fact, enterprises have an urgent need to tackle their process problems or risk disruption by emerging startup competitors. The good news is that leaders of marketing teams […].

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What Makes a Really Good Newsletter: Webinar Recording + Q&A

Litmus

Newsletters—recurring roundups of news, tips, or product updates—are one of the most popular content formats in email marketing. But they’re tough to do right. How do you design a newsletter that’s so dang good it engages your audience week to week or month to month? In this webinar , email geeks from Litmus and Really Good Emails look at the brands that have mastered the art and mad science of sending awesome newsletters.

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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.