The Marketing Operations Leader

JANUARY 8, 2025

In this edition: The 7 Roles of an Effective Operations Leader GTM Technology Red Flags to Watch out For Interviewing Martech Expert Austin Hay on AI Agents and The Future of Martech For Paid Subscribers: The Pros and Cons of Working in Enterprise Marketing Operations Reminder! Join the Marketing Ops Interview Bootcamp for free on Jan 15. Level up your marketing operations career I’ve partnered with Mike Rizzo and the team at Marketing Ops Community to bring you a live workshop that’

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 6, 2025

Inbound marketing focuses on drawing prospects toward your brand through meaningful content, and blogs often take center stage in this approach. They act as a bridge between potential customers and your website, giving readers the information they seek while introducing them to your products or services. Quick Takeaways Blog writing attracts organic traffic by addressing audience questions and optimizing for search engines, boosting visibility and engagement.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 8, 2025

Does your title accurately describe your role? Has the ubiquity of content creator in the creator economy made things problematic? Explore the identity crisis for content marketers, for job seekers, employers, and the employed.

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Martech

JANUARY 7, 2025

Were still in (very) early days for LLM (large language model) search, but fast-increasing user adoption is helping us draw insights on effective tactics for brands to deploy to appear in results on platforms like Perplexity , ChatGPT search , Gemini, and more. This article looks at those tactics from a B2B lens, broken down by the following SEO initiatives: Content strategy.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.

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Businesses Grow

JANUARY 6, 2025

The AI tsunami isn’t comingit’s here. And it’s serving up more jaw-dropping “holy cow” moments than a magician’s convention. One thing is clear: The balance of traditional marketing work is rapidly and permanently shifting to the bots. If you’re immersed in this AI world as I am, you’ve probably gone through the mental gymnastics of trying to figure out how this will sort out.

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Aspiration Marketing

JANUARY 9, 2025

In the ever-evolving landscape of Google Search, one thing remains constant: the importance of trust. Google's E-E-A-T guidelines emphasize Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness as crucial ranking factors. This blog post delves into the "T" in E-E-A-T, exploring why trustworthiness is paramount and providing actionable strategies to demonstrate it on your website.

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Buffer Marketing

JANUARY 7, 2025

Artificial intelligence is transforming digital marketing by empowering us to do our best work. The right AI marketing tools will help you automate repetitive tasks, make data-driven decisions, and unblock your creativity. They ultimately let us get back to the work we find more meaningful, like strategy, creativity, innovation, and relationship-building.

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Martech

JANUARY 7, 2025

As we begin 2025, I’ve been reflecting on my own journey with AI anxiety. Ive been waking up at 5 a.m. for months, eagerly trying to catch up on all the AI news by reading newsletters and testing the latest marketing tools. Even so, I feel. like I’m falling behind. My students, colleagues and friends have similar worries, from doomsday scenarios to job loss and dramatic changes in daily life.

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Aspiration Marketing

JANUARY 8, 2025

In this edition of our Leadership Spotlight series, we interviewed Stefania Nicolau about her role as the Marketing Manager for iSTYLE CEE. iSTYLE is the Retail branch of MIDIS group with 50+ years of experience representing technology vendors in 70+ countries across the Middle East, Europe, and Africa regions, ensuring long-term exposure and growth.

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Backlinko

JANUARY 6, 2025

Want to know the most effective ecommerce growth strategy? I studied successful online stores to find out what works best. While every store’s path is unique, clear patterns emerged. Here are some examples: BrandAnnual Revenue *All figures in USD Hush Blankets $48M Product Validation Mid Day Squares $20M Content Marketing TBH Skincare $6.5M Content Marketing MX Store $65M Search Marketing Who Is Elijah $13M Operational Efficiency Whether your goal is to do $1M or $100M, it comes from execu

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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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Hubspot Marketing

JANUARY 8, 2025

A whopping 60% of marketers feel that the way they spend their budget and the ROI it produces is being scrutinized more now than in the past. So, its no surprise you landed here to discover how you can better optimize your social media budget this year. As a content pro (and former social media manager), Ive got you covered. Lets talk about what a good social media marketing budget looks like, who should be involved, and how you can data-charge your approach.

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Martech

JANUARY 9, 2025

For many marketers, handing over customer interactions to an automated genAI-powered process requires a leap of faith. The good news is that as more AI agents come to market, the use of this technology to improve engagement and drive revenue will become clearer. Adoption is already underway. During the 2024 holidays , traffic to retail sites from genAI-powered chatbots increased 13X over the previous year.

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Aspiration Marketing

JANUARY 7, 2025

Account-based marketing (ABM) is a powerful strategy, but many businesses believe it's out of reach due to cost and complexity. The truth is ABM can deliver exceptional results for businesses of all sizes. HubSpot, a leading marketing automation platform, offers an affordable and user-friendly ABM solution that simplifies the process. This allows businesses to target, engage, and convert high-value accounts without breaking the bank.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 7, 2025

As you know, your business needs a strong online presence to reach its goals. For many organizations, outsourcing web development has become a go-to strategy to achieve high-quality results without the challenges of building an in-house team. IBISWorld estimates the web design industry in the United States will generate about $43.5 billion in revenue in 2024 as more companies look to outsource these tasks.

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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

JANUARY 8, 2025

The first place a potential customer may hear about your brand could be from your social media, a passing ad, or even a friends recommendation. And if youre one of the lucky ones, they may even seek out your brand's landing page looking for more. Easy, right? You got them on your website, they're sure to buy now! (Except its usually not that simple.

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Martech

JANUARY 9, 2025

With consumers feeling squeezed by rising prices and dealing with too many choices when shopping online, brands are turning to artificial intelligence to help consumers make better decisions. Rising prices and the paradox of choice As people try to be smarter with their money, they’re running into another problem: too many choices when shopping online.

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Customers.ai

JANUARY 6, 2025

If youre still relying on the same old targeting tactics from five years ago (we see you broad demographics and generic email blasts) youre leaving dollars on the table. Customers expect more now. And guess what? The ecommerce brands delivering that more are winning big. In fact, companies that use advanced targeting strategies see 60% higher conversion rates compared to those that dont.

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yorCMO

JANUARY 6, 2025

Discover how AI and machine learning are revolutionizing marketing technology. Learn how it helps optimize campaigns, and enhance customer experiences. The post How AI and Machine Learning Are Transforming Marketing Campaigns appeared first on yorCMO.

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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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Hootsuite

JANUARY 10, 2025

Once upon a time, there was this magical beast called data that social media managers slayed. And that time is now, because data storytelling isnt a fairytale: its an effective visual marketing strategy that can help you build trust, engagement, and sales for your brand. We sat down with Vancouver-based digital marketing manager Leeann Froese of Town Hall Brands for expert insight on every chapter of data storytelling.

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Martech

JANUARY 6, 2025

AI is transforming martech by automating tasks, providing real-time insights and scaling operations more effectively. However, a number of issues make integrating AI into martech stacks very challenging. Here are actionable strategies to resolve these and other common AI issues. Dig deeper: AI readiness checklist: 7 key steps to a successful integration Common challenges in AI integration and how to overcome them Here are the top reasons why integrating AI into existing martech stacks poses a ch

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The CMO Survey

JANUARY 7, 2025

The post US CMOs’ Budget Plans for the Year Ahead appeared first on The CMO Survey.

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Social Media Examiner

JANUARY 9, 2025

Want to know how top marketers are getting hundreds of thousands of newsletter subscribers on LinkedIn? Wondering why LinkedIn newsletters are outperforming traditional email marketing right now? Learn the exact strategies successful creators use to grow massive LinkedIn newsletters, including how to optimize for subscribers, create engaging content, and turn your newsletter into a lead […] The post How to Use LinkedIn Newsletters: A Guide for Businesses appeared first on Social Media Exam

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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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Hootsuite

JANUARY 10, 2025

For commitmentphobes, the word engagement might be a terrifying and loaded one but for social media marketers, Facebook engagement is the holy grail. Of course, were not talking about popping the big Q: were talking about growing your interactions (reactions, shares, comments) and audience for your Facebook Page. Facebook engagement matters because it can help extend organic reach.

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Martech

JANUARY 8, 2025

Whether you are a small startup with a simple ecommerce system or a global retailer with a complex sales process, clear dashboarding and insightful reporting are key for teams to work effectively. However, reports often take significant time and effort to create, only for the data to be questioned or ignored. Maintaining these reports also uses valuable resources that would be better spent reviewing results and making informed decisions.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 7, 2025

Choosing a word for the year ahead gives your intention a name that forms the foundation for all your actions and interactions. Best of all, theres no implied rule to break as the year progresses. Robert Rose shares his word for 2025. Whats yours?

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SocialPilot

JANUARY 6, 2025

The importance of good Google reviews cannot be overstated. According to Forbes, about 90% of customers read online reviews before visiting a business. Glowing reviews from satisfied customers can boost your business credibility, attract new customers, and increase your chances of showing up in local rankings. That said, acquiring and managing these reviews isnt easy.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

In today’s ultra-competitive markets, it’s no longer enough to wait for buyers to show obvious signs of interest. Instead, sales teams must be proactive, identifying and acting on nuanced buyer behaviors — often before prospects are fully ready to make a purchase. In this eBook from ZoomInfo & Sell Better, learn 10 actionable ways to use these buyer signals to transform your sales strategy and close deals faster.

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Buffer Marketing

JANUARY 8, 2025

Building your presence across multiple social media platforms is incredibly valuable for brands and creators — but it doesn't have to mean spending all day creating unique content for each channel. In fact, many successful creators and brands have a secret: they crosspost across platforms to get more mileage out of their content. Our data shows this approach is remarkably common — 59% of posts created in Buffer are posted to more than one social media platform.

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Martech

JANUARY 6, 2025

Who, what, when, why and how? Journalism students learn to answer these questions to ensure the most important information is conveyed first in an article. Depending on their backgrounds, marketers may not be familiar with this structure. Even as someone who studied journalism, Im guilty of forgetting my roots. We all get busy trying to promote this product or that service.

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Social Media Examiner

JANUARY 7, 2025

Want to improve your marketing content? Wish you could more easily extract meaningful insights from your analytics? Learn step-by-step how to use AI tools to analyze your marketing data and content, helping you make data-driven decisions that improve your content performance across all channels. Why Marketing Should Use AI for Content Analysis The key advantage […] The post Using AI as a Content Analyst: How to Plan Your Next Steps appeared first on Social Media Examiner.

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Customers.ai

JANUARY 7, 2025

Heres a fun fact: 81% of businesses say email is their primary customer acquisition channel. Surprising? Not really, considering the ROI potential when youre sliding into inboxes with the right message. But before you start picturing your email list exploding, lets pause for a reality check getting those emails in the first place is where most brands fumble.

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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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