Hubspot Marketing

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Braden Becker ’s journey to becoming an SEO specialist at HubSpot is a slightly unconventional one. In college, he studied Writing & Rhetoric, which helped him land his first job as a copy editor at a B2B trade publication. As he progressed through his career, Braden pivoted to content marketing, where he worked as an editor at a SaaS company and then as a content manager at the world’s largest environmental services firm.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 1, 2019

Demand generation and thought leadership are both terms you need to know if you’re a B2B marketer. But do you actually know what they mean and how they work, or are you using them in a “fake it till you make it” way? We’ve all been there, including me. When I first got into the marketing game, I can honestly say I didn’t know the difference between the two.

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 1, 2019

Images are crucial to ensuring that your content is more accessible, attractive, and engaging to users, but they're equally important in terms of SEO. Follow these nine steps to make progress with your image optimization. Continue reading → The post 9 Steps to Optimize Images for SEO appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

A successful marketing strategy can mean the difference between business success and failure, but what is marketing exactly? How should you best approach it in today’s digital world? Many business people consider marketing to be the same thing as advertising and lump it in with sales. However, while sales and marketing are closely related, they […].

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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

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

LinkedIn is a highly valuable tool to network with like-minded professionals. But here's something we don't talk about as much as we should: LinkedIn is also a highly useful inbound marketing platform. It might seem a little bit intimidating. You have enough on your plate … do you really need to figure out another way to create targeted content? Actually, yes.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

You’ve got a loyal following of delighted customers. Now it’s time to grow. But to do that, you need leads. The question is, how do you go about getting them? What techniques and approaches will help you generate a consistent stream of leads this year and beyond? In this blog, I’ll share five simple lead generation methods and the techniques that will help you generate new customers over time.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Content Marketing agencies like ours exist for one simple reason: to attract potential customers. Content marketing does this by creating the content your audience wants, using the keywords they use. So if you are looking to grow your business, increase website traffic, rank for important keywords, improve your SEO, or deliver revenue or qualified leads, […].

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Hubspot Marketing

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Even if you're not sure what a blog is, you've no doubt come across one at some point in time. Perhaps you've stumbled across a blog when you've searched "healthy dinner recipes". Alternatively, maybe you used a blog to get more information on SEO strategies. In fact, if you're reading this, guess what? You're on a blog. (Very meta, I know.). If your business doesn't have a blog, you might want to reconsider -- B2B marketers who use blogs receive 67% more leads than those who do not, and blogs h

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Automated marketing tools have evolved over the last few decades, giving generations of marketers new and innovative ways to engage with their customers. That’s not going to stop anytime soon. Automated marketing technology continues to advance rapidly. And over the next few years, it’ll change the way people experience your brand and interact with your company.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

I started young. At the ripe age of 15 and a half, I started my first online business. Can you guess what it was? It was a job board. I created it because I couldn’t find a high paying job at that young of an age. Heck, I struggled to find even a low paying job! As you probably can guess, it failed and, eventually, I went on to do other stuff. From creating an ad agency to a few software companies… the list goes on and on.

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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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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

As digital marketing methods go, email marketing is somewhat of a dinosaur. Email has been around since the 1970s and people have been using it for commercial purposes for almost as long. While email marketing may not be as exciting as some of the newer options available in digital marketing, it’s still one of the […]. The post 6 Examples of AI in Email Marketing appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Hubspot Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

In Simon Sinek ’s famous Ted Talk “ How great leaders inspire action ”, he fleshes out a concept that some of the most inspiring leaders and organizations -- specifically Apple, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Wright Brothers -- leveraged to build loyal followings. It’s called Start With Why. Start With Why suggests that if your brand truly wants to inspire an audience to follow you, your core message should focus on your organization’s purpose -- not how you make your product or what your produ

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Content Marketing Institute

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Counting headlines is an antiquated skill. But the sentiment should live on: Writing a headline that best fits its environment is what makes it great. Follow this checklist for headlines that work for your audience and your brand. Continue reading → The post How to Write Headlines That Get Your Brand What It Wants [Checklist] appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Sprout Social

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

In October 2018, Google announced that it will be shutting down the consumer version of Google+ owing to insufficient usage. The company announced that it was too challenging to keep maintaining a product that could not meet consumers’ expectations. The initial announcement also stated that Google would complete the Google+ shutdown in 10 months. This wasn’t too surprising to a lot of social media marketers and experts who had been anticipating the downfall of the platform for a while.

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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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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Imagine the impact on your business if you were able to meet with your target audience in person, develop real life connections, and as a result propel your content marketing strategy. This does not have to be a figment of your imagination as live events are quickly becoming a top marketing priority for businesses. In […]. The post How Live Events Boost Your Content Marketing Strategy appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Hubspot Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

I remember sitting in one of my career classes in college listening to my professor tell the class how long it can take to find a job. “Sometimes you’re completely qualified for the positions in which you’re applying for, yet it can take several months to find the right position,” he said. My professor wasn’t kidding. I started applying for my first job six months prior to graduation, and it took me all six months to find one I was excited about accepting.

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Content Marketing Institute

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Timing content marketing to a special day often is a good idea. You catch the peak of the interest in a topic and amplify your content assets in a more effective way. But how do you organize and scale the process? Use these five tools. Continue reading → The post Step-by-Step Planning for Well-Timed Content Marketing Campaigns appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Traackr

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Discover the key gaming trends and influential gamers and get insights to power your influencer marketing programs.

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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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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

A pervasive belief that social media marketing is only for B2C companies keeps B2B companies from getting the most from this effective channel for communication and collaboration. When we talk about B2C companies, we’re talking about those selling directly to consumers, while B2B companies sell to other businesses. Despite the advantages of social media marketing, […].

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Hubspot Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world , so keyword-optimizing your videos on the platform is just as important as keyword-optimizing your blog posts for Google. Even if you’ve just created the next “ Charlie bit my finger ” video, you must remember that an algorithm dictates which videos YouTube will serve to its audience -- and which ones it won’t.

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Content Marketing Institute

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

How can you pitch a high-quality article in 280 characters? You probably can’t. The real question is, “How can you use Twitter to build authentic relationships with journalists, writers, and editors?” Read on for the answer. Continue reading → The post How to Use Twitter to Connect for Link-Building appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Sprout Social

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Outside of the day-to-day responses to posts and messages, how often do you take a step back and look at the big picture of your strategy? Listening on Facebook is a step up from monitoring and taking action. It’s used by companies around the world to understand their customers better and inform their next marketing step. When you pair both monitoring and listening tools, you find trends that you might not have noticed before.

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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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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

A pervasive belief that social media marketing is only for B2C companies keeps B2B companies from getting the most from this effective channel for communication and collaboration. When we talk about B2C companies, we’re talking about those selling directly to consumers, while B2B companies sell to other businesses. Despite the advantages of social media marketing, […].

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

How to Make Your Content Less Boring written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Think about the number of websites you visit on a given week. It’s a lot, right? We spend so much time consuming content online that after a while, it all starts to blend together. Even if your website technically ticks all of the boxes, it will quickly fade into the background if the content is not designed to reach out and grab the viewer.

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Bannerflow

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Producing all the banners you need for a travel campaign is critical. By 2020, global ad spending on mobile alone is set to reach $247.4 billion. So being able to scale all your messages, from the smallest screen to the biggest is essential. In this blog, we detail how a creative management platform (CMP) takes the pain out of scaling your ads by: Removing repetitive processes.

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Litmus

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Getting a great email out the door isn’t easy. Not just because mastering the channel itself is hard—mastering the process is, too! You need the right copy and creative from your team. You need to communicate with your developer and QA team. All stakeholders must be kept in the loop. You must manage client requirements, email approvals, and deadlines.

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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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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Intelligent tools are taking over. With the proliferation of chatbots, marketing automation, and machine learning, we marketers have opened up ways to send our messaging at scale. We’ve reduced human capital and data is changing the way we do business. But should machines replace humans? And how do brands use these tools while still keeping […].

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

How Businesses Can Survive the Latest Marketing Rebellion written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Mark Schaefer. Podcast Transcript. Today on the podcast, my guest is marketing expert, speaker, author, and college educator Mark Schaefer. Schaefer is a globally-recognized speaker and author. He’s contributed extensively to major publications including The New York Times , CNN , NPR, Wired , the BBC , and CBS News.

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Moz

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Posted by TheMozTeam With the new year in full swing and an already busy first quarter, our 2019 predictions for SEO in the new year are hopping onto the scene a little late — but fashionably so, we hope. From an explosion of SERP features to increased monetization to the key drivers of search this year, our SEO experts have consulted their crystal balls (read: access to mountains of data and in-depth analyses) and made their predictions.

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Litmus

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

The email industry is constantly changing, and keeping up with what’s new can feel like an impossible task. That’s why in this webinar, we brought together leading industry experts to break down key insights from Litmus’ 2019 State of Email report , explain the trends that are changing the industry, and provide practical advice on what those changes mean.

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