Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Using quizzes in your marketing strategy is one of the most underrated marketing moves. Seriously. They are incredibly effective at generation leads, engaging your audience, and much more. But, it isn’t enough for me to just convince you to implement quizzes in your marketing strategy, so I’m going to show you exactly how to create an effective quiz, how to distribute it, and how to follow it up with marketing automation.

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Hubspot Marketing

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Whether your focus group is there to give feedback on a product or service or help you assess how your brand stands out in your competitive landscape, thought-provoking, open-ended questions are essential to a productive discussion. However, it's easier said than done. What can you ask beyond " What do you think of our product?" that can provoke the most useful answers?

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Within the past 5-10 years, B2B marketing has undergone extensive amounts of change. Marketers have switched their focus from sales and cold calling to digital content marketing strategies and search engine optimization tactics to attract new customers to our business. Digital content is now the driving force of every B2B strategy and it is important for your business to stay ahead of the marketing curve in 2021.

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Hootsuite

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Considering TikTok marketing for your business or organization? You’re not alone. We polled more than 800 professionals on LinkedIn, and the results reveal that many are still thinking about it. The video app may not be a good fit for every brand, especially if your customers and TikTok user demographics don’t overlap. But many businesses have found success marketing on TikTok—from Nike to Universal Pictures to the San Diego Zoo.

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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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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Let’s talk about meta tags — what they are, why they matter, and how to do them better. First things first — what made you click on this article to read it? Maybe the title caught your eye , or perhaps it was the short blurb you saw. You might have clicked simply because this article comes from a source you trust. If you found this article via a search engine, though, there’s a good chance you found and clicked this article because of meta tags.

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Hubspot Marketing

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

According to a recent U.K. survey , bloggers have ranked as the third most trustworthy source of information, following only friends and family. That's right -- bloggers are trusted more than celebrities, journalists, brands, and politicians. But how do you get people to fall in love with your blog in the first place? (Aside from remarkable content, of course.).

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Sprout Social

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

When creating and sharing videos, you want to make sure your content can be consumed by as many people as possible. Whether they’re hard of hearing or simply in a setting where they can’t have their volume turned on, viewers should be able to enjoy your videos. This is why adding subtitles to videos is such an important step when publishing your content on YouTube.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Every minute, 500 hours of videos are uploaded to YouTube. With that much competition, you might have counted yourself out and accepted that getting enough Youtube subscribers isn’t worth the effort. But what if you’re making a social media mistake ? What if you could break through the noise and become popular on YouTube? One of the best ways of measuring popularity on YouTube is by looking at the number of subscribers.

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Hubspot Marketing

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Editor's Note: Spam filters have become much more sophisticated than the subject line triggers listed in this post. For a more up-to-date guide to email marketing, check out our free guide to creating email newsletters people actually read here. Writing the subject lines for your emails can be one of the most stressful steps of email marketing. Is it engaging?

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

A winning meal on MasterChef must be so delicious, so tantalizing the judges would want to eat it every day. How can you do that to keep readers consuming your blog posts? Here’s a step-by-step recipe. Continue reading → The post Whip Up a Tantalizing Blog Post With These 9 Ingredients appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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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

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

How well do you know your audience? Audience research is a critical part of developing any marketing strategy but it’s not always given the time and attention it really needs. According to a survey of 1,600 marketers , a shocking 65% never or rarely conduct audience research. Source: [link]. But why is audience research so important? The same study showed that those that do research their audience are over 3x more likely to achieve their marketing goals.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Disclosure: This content is reader-supported, which means if you click on some of our links that we may earn a commission. Buying a domain name is one of the first steps to launching a website. But finding the perfect domain for your site and registering that domain can feel like a tall task if you’ve never been through this process. Fortunately, domain registration isn’t that difficult—you just need to follow a few simple steps.

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Search Engine Journal

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

On-page SEO best practices are constantly evolving. Here are eight old-school SEO techniques that you should avoid – or else risk getting penalized. The post 8 On-Page Optimization Techniques That Google Hates via @kristen_vaughn appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

A digital-first content marketing strategy doesn't mean digital only. That lesson comes from TD Ameritrade Institutional and its content agency, Imagination. Learn how they incorporated print into their award-winning strategy. Continue reading → The post How a Digital-First Content Strategy Can Help Print [Winning Example] 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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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

As I discussed earlier this year in my BLOG “ Executive Insights: World-Class Demand Generation and Corporate Social Responsibility Converge at Televerde ”, I was very fortunate to work with some tremendous partners during my nearly 19 year tenure with SAP Global Marketing. One I enjoyed working with was Televerde , a company headquartered in Phoenix AZ that combines lead generation and corporate social responsibility with an outstanding business model with proven results.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

As a digital marketer, you know just how important the tone and message of your blog are to the overall success of your business. A cohesive approach to your digital content, especially the content on your blog, is critical to your brand. The best way to ensure your site is editorially cohesive is with an editorial style guide. This article will walk you through the basics of an editorial style guide.

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Search Engine Journal

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Better content starts with knowing what your audience cares about. Understanding these three key concepts will help keep you on the right track. The post 3 Steps to Better Content: Power up Your SEO with Audience Understanding via @marktraphagen appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

What’s in a name? In the data game, it could be a lot or nothing at all. Robert Rose sets the record straight on audience data origins, why it matters, and what it means for your content marketing future. Continue reading → The post What You Need to Know About the Data Party Game appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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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.

Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Are you feeling pressure on your marketing budget? If you think you can’t stretch your dollars to meet all your marketing needs, you may actually need better allocation, not more money. The objective of marketing is to attract, engage, convert, and retain customers. And we have found that most small to midsize organizations can do all that and more by focusing on content marketing.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

With the ability to take a lot of guesswork out of conversion rate optimization, eye-tracking software and heat maps can reveal some startling insights into increasing conversions (and avoiding sales killers) that can benefit every business. Here are 7 important eye-tracking studies that give a sneak peek into common browsing patterns and elements of human behavior that all marketers need to know. 1.

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Search Engine Journal

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Is your content getting crickets? You may be committing these deadly no-nos of online writing. Learn what they are and how to avoid them. The post 5 Content No-Nos That Will Scare Off Your Readers (Avoid at All Costs) via @JuliaEMcCoy appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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Rock Content

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

How many WordPress plugins should you install? Once WordPress is a robust software, no matter what you want for your site, you can do that with code extensions. So, if the feature is not available by default, there certainly is a plugin for that. Plugins add functionalities to WordPress. They are written in the PHP programming language just as the CMS (Content Management Software).

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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

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Content is the rallying point of every great event, and a top-notch assembly of great content and presenters is essential to delivering and amplifying the core message of your event. However, putting together great content for sessions at your event won’t come easily. It will require understanding the needs of the audience and curating a message that resonates with those needs.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The problem with selling your startup is the long exit time. Sometimes it can take as long as seven years before you can sell your business and hop on the next idea. And the investors? They feel the same way. Who wants to wait almost a decade to buy a startup when the face of tech is evolving at such a rapid pace? Plus, the price tag on those more established businesses often run into the billions.

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Litmus

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Newsletters are the cornerstone of our email marketing strategy here at Litmus. They’re key to helping us build trust among our subscribers and customers. And, we have a lot of fun with them! But earlier this year, one of our once top-performing newsletters— Litmus Weekly —hit a bit of a slump. Engagement rates were dropping—open rates dipped by 29% and click-to-open rates (CTOR) had sunk by 44%.

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Rock Content

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Promoting brands or new products is part of the possibilities that Digital Marketing offers. Companies can go beyond social media posts and search engine optimization. For this, it is essential to consider Event Marketing as an option. In this strategy, events are the main focus. They will be the platform for attracting customers or connecting companies and business partners.

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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

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Marketers have spent most of the last year scrambling. No one had neat workshops or helpful guides prepared on how to rearrange a strategy to account for a global pandemic. Many development opportunities assumed participants could travel (or at least that they would not be forced to work from home indefinitely). Obviously, things turned out differently.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

No matter how great the content on your website is, your hard work could amount to nothing without proper technical SEO. Technical SEO gives your site structure, makes it super easy for search engine bots to crawl and index, and helps Google understand what each page is about. URL structuring, robots.txt, redirect codes, canonical tags,htaccess files, load time, and many others.

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Litmus

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Getting everyone on board with a new initiative or tool is hard—even in the best of times. These days, many teams are now remote, and there are plenty of world distractions on top of normal business activities. But by knowing where to look and how to help your team, you can start realizing the value of tools like Litmus faster. Once you’ve learned the keys to using Litmus in your workflow, you might end up like VSP, who saves 100 hours per month building emails.

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Traackr

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

We had the opportunity to chat with Morgan Crumpley, Senior Marketing Communications Specialist, Sony Electronics about their influencer program for Sony.

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