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5 Marketing Plan Examples to Help You Write Your Own

Hubspot Marketing

You did it. You’ve been spearheading your organization’s content marketing efforts for a while now, and your team’s performance has convinced your boss to fully adopt content marketing. There’s one small problem, though: your boss wants you to write and present a content marketing plan to her, but you’ve never done something like that before. You don’t even know where to start.

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8 Ways to Make Your Website More User-Friendly

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Websites have evolved into something so much more than just text and information on a page. Users today expect your website to entertain them, deliver quality and offer an intuitive, comfortable overall experience. Everything from the aesthetic of your site to the placement of your CTAs can impact how long visitors stay on your page. Fortunately, it is easy to make your website more user-friendly.

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How to Use Facebook Ads to Distribute Your Content

Content Marketing Institute

Ever had that sinking feeling? You hit the publish button and … Nothing. Tumbleweed. It doesn’t have to be that way. There are countless ways to get eyes on your content. However, Facebook is one of the most powerful. Best thing? Promoting your content on Facebook doesn’t have to break the bank. You can start from as little as $1 per day. How?

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Why Consistent, Quality Content Is The Only Choice for Marketing Your Business

Marketing Insider Group

Do you remember the days when keyword stuffing was the way to go? People would determine a few keywords and cram it into as many places on their website as they possibly could. If you follow along with the search engine optimization (SEO) world then, of course, you know this is no longer the way […]. The post Why Consistent, Quality Content Is The Only Choice for Marketing Your Business 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 Top 7 Free Alternatives to Adobe Illustrator of 2018

Hubspot Marketing

Adobe Illustrator is a hugely popular tool for designing vector graphics, logos, icons, and more. But when you’re a web or graphic designer with a small budget, you probably can’t afford Adobe Illustrator’s steep $239.88 pricing. Luckily, there are plenty of top-notch free alternatives on the market, some of which even offer features unparalleled by Illustrator.

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Getting Started With an Ecommerce Business

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Starting an ecommerce business is something many people consider, but a much smaller number actually take the plunge. If your idea is strong enough, you’ve tested it, and you’re ready to get up and running, then getting started doesn’t need to be a fraught experience. Key to your ecommerce success and growth is a good grasp of digital marketing, and again, this can seem daunting or overwhelming, but it doesn’t need to be.

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5 Professional Services Marketing Strategies To Attract and Convert More Leads

Marketing Insider Group

While 23% of jobs have been lost in the manufacturing sector in the last 5 years, professional service jobs have increased by 35%. Professional service industries like accounting, consulting and other service industries have traditionally relied heavily on outbound marketing tactics, it’s time for a change. Why? Because creating content that people want is the […].

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Using Human-Centered Design to Create Better Products (with Examples)

Hubspot Marketing

To understand what human-centered design is, let’s start with what it isn’t. Imagine you work at a gaming design company, and one day your boss comes to you and says, “Teenagers these days -- they need to get off their phones. Let’s design a crossword-puzzle board game for teenagers -- they’d welcome the opportunity to get offline.”. Your boss has good intentions, but his intentions don’t match your consumer’s reality.

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5 Benefits of a Strong Sales & Marketing Partnership

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

I spent much of my young life on a baseball diamond, and after experiencing both the highs of championships and lows that were not dissimilar from the Bad News Bears, I noticed one ironclad pattern: Championship teams are united. There are two modalities through which baseball can be understood. Many are of the belief that baseball is an individualistic sport, where one batter is facing one pitcher at a time.

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The Most Important Question to Ask Before Launching a Podcast

Content Marketing Institute

Marketers everywhere are deciding if launching a podcast makes sense for their brands and their goals. There’s a lot to consider, and therefore, a ton of questions to ask. But one question is the most foundational and crucial thing to ponder – and I don’t see marketers asking it often enough: “Are you any good on a microphone?”. That is half the battle.

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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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New Approaches To Understand Customers Needed In A Digital Transformation World

Marketing Insider Group

In numerous surveys of CEOs in the past few years, predictably, you will find growth strategies as one of the top priorities going into any new year. Strikingly, in these same few years, you will also find developing customer understanding also on the list of CEO priorities. What is changing in the past two years, […]. The post New Approaches To Understand Customers Needed In A Digital Transformation World appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Perfecting Your Lead Generation Efforts: A Guide for Service Professionals

Duct Tape Marketing

Perfecting Your Lead Generation Efforts: A Guide for Service Professionals written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. If you own a professional services business, odds are you’re trying to get leads in the door. What I often see is that these types of businesses develop automated lead funnels, because that’s what they’re told to do, and spend a lot of time vetting these leads, but let’s face it, they probably don’t have a ton of time to do that!

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7 Simple Tips to Become a Successful Leader

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

“But I’m not a leader!”. “I’m not qualified enough to lead.”. “I don’t know how!”. Every successful leader at one point or another has had these thoughts enter their brain-space. The bad news? We cannot become fearless leaders by allowing these thoughts to pervade our minds every day. In this blog, I’ll cover seven things that the best leaders do to remain successful. 1) Maintain a Peaceful and Clean Home Environment.

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No Lies: How to Get Content Marketing Right in E-Commerce

Content Marketing Institute

Content marketing is a great, wonderful, powerful way to earn attention and loyalty online … but much of what the industry talks about comes from a B2B perspective. A lot of the rules change when you move to the B2C sector, and still more change when you talk about businesses operating on the online marketplace. I’m not here to tell you that everything you learned about content marketing is a lie and you need to ditch everything.

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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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5 Keys to Analytics: Improve Your ROI with Better Insights

Marketing Insider Group

Take a good look at the graphic above, courtesy of Adobe. In it, you see that data translates into value, such as improved ROI, but only when viewed through the lens of analysis and translated into action. So, what are the keys to analytics that produce ROI? Keys to analytics #1. Deriving insights The #1 key […]. The post 5 Keys to Analytics: Improve Your ROI with Better Insights appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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How to Develop the Right Idea at the Right Time

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Develop the Right Idea at the Right Time written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Allen Gannett. Podcast Transcript. My guest for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is Allen Gannett. He is the CEO and co-founder of TrackMaven , a marketing insights platform. He and I discuss his new book, The Creative Curve: How to Develop the Right Idea at the Right Time.

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Crafting a B2B Marketing Strategy With Flow in Mind

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

I was first introduced to the concept of flow as we reworked our brand story. The brainchild of psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi , flow is the engaged focus in an activity that brings an elevated level of enjoyment and fulfillment. The concept of flow technically consists of eight elements, but we map everything to a subset of five critical components: Create concrete goals for every step.

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AcuityAds Acquires ADman Media, aims to Capture a Larger Share of the Hispanic Advertising Market

illumin

Today we announced the closing of our Adman Media acquisition. This exciting addition to our technology family comes at an important time in our company’s history. You might remember that we joined the Portada Council of the Americas, which was launched during Portada Miami back in April. This council includes more than 70 senior brand marketing, agency and media executives from all over the Americas and being a part of it allows us to offer perspective on the issues that face the modern adverti

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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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Weekend Reading: ?The Fun Formula? by Joel Comm

Marketing Insider Group

For the 179th episode of The Marketing Book Podcast, I interviewed Joel Comm, author of The Fun Formula: How Curiosity, Risk Taking, and Serendipity Can Revolutionize How You Work. Have you ever noticed that when you’ve been successful at something you were also having fun? Joel Comm argues that there’s a connection there – a […]. The post Weekend Reading: “The Fun Formula” by Joel Comm appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Weekend Favs June 9

Duct Tape Marketing

Weekend Favs June 9 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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Assemble your own Avengers to win the influencer marketing Infinity War | Traackr

Traackr

In honor of the release of Infinity War, some tips for assembling your very own band of super-duper influencers.

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Shifting to Online Marketing Platforms for Thriving Business?

Zumvu

With the continuous change and evolution of modern technologies, both small and medium businesses are doing everything possible to stay in line.

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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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GDPR: The Biggest Gift to Content Marketers in a Decade

Content Marketing Institute

“We’ve updated our privacy policy.” Seen much of that sentence lately? I’m writing this May 28, three days after the enforcement date of new European data privacy regulations – commonly known as the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). One of the unintended and more humorously ironic consequences of the much buzzed about May 25 deadline was the deluge of email everybody received in the week leading up it.

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Transcript of How to Develop the Right Idea at the Right Time

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of How to Develop the Right Idea at the Right Time written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. John Jantsch: Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast. This is John Jantsch, and my guest today is Allen Gannett. He is the CEO and founder of TrackMaven, a marketing insights platform.

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Digital Transformation and Influencer Marketing with Yann Gourvennec | Traackr

Traackr

We sat down with Yann Gourvennec, CEO of Visionary Marketing, to discuss the stakes of digital transformation and the role influencer marketing has in it.