Aspiration Marketing

OCTOBER 11, 2022

If you’re a small business owner or if you work for a startup or if you simply haven’t been living under a rock for the past few years, you’ve likely heard the buzz words “inbound marketing”. It’s hard to believe that inbound marketing is a relatively new marketing strategy because its popularity has grown exponentially since it was introduced. Almost everyone implements inbound marketing as part of their marketing strategy.

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Slick Text

OCTOBER 10, 2022

With open rates as high as 98%, texting is one of the most effective marketing methods you can use. Still, around ? of marketers aren’t using SMS marketing as part of their strategy. Broadcast messaging refers to sending one […]. The post What Is Broadcast Messaging in SMS Marketing? appeared first on SlickText.

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Martech

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The CEO and CMO are talking about investing in the marketing team to develop their skills. The CEO asks, “What if we invest in our people, and they leave?” The CMO replies, “What if we don’t and they stay?” Legend has it that this conversation is real and may have even happened at your company. Marketing is about people.

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Zumvu

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Do you feel overwhelmed with creating a marketing plan outline? Or maybe you just don't know where to begin with your mission statement?

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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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Aspiration Marketing

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Contrary to what seems to be a commonly held belief, content marketing is not a one-and-done operation. Just as content marketing is itself a long game, you have to be in it for the long haul to see the kinds of amazing results you’ve read about. But then, we hope most of you already know this part.

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Hubspot Marketing

OCTOBER 14, 2022

As inbound marketers, we care about creating frictionless experiences for our website visitors that will also generate leads. Most of the time we can do both but in the case of pop-up forms , conflict does emerge. Over the past few years, pop-up forms have re-emerged as a popular marketing tactic for promoting content, driving blog subscriptions, growing email lists , and fueling lead generation.

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Search Engine Roundtable

OCTOBER 13, 2022

It has been a while since I reported on an unconfirmed Google search ranking algorithm update but it seems over the past 24 hours or so, we are seeing one. It probably started yesterday and is now continuing throughout today. There is some SEO chatter and the tools are now starting to light up.

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Search Engine Journal

OCTOBER 14, 2022

WordPress 6.1, scheduled for Novemember 2022, is packed with performance improvements some of which are said to be massive. This is what to expect. The post WordPress 6.1 Is Jam-Packed With Performance Upgrades appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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Hubspot Marketing

OCTOBER 12, 2022

When it comes to Q4, Halloween isn't the only spooky thing haunting marketers. In fact, the most intimidating part of Q4 is the pressure to end the year with great results, while also taking on immense annual planning to start the new year off right. And, on top of the normal stressors of Q4, businesses are also dealing with concerns about inflation, uncertain economies, and how a potential recession could impact their bottom line.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 12, 2022

To be a great marketer, you must know the people you’re trying to sell it to. Clear, robust marketing personas are an effective and time-tested approach to reach that goal.

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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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Search Engine Roundtable

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Google has replaced the Google Webmaster Guidelines with the Google Search Essentials. The name change is Google's ongoing efforts to remove the term "webmaster" so that these tools and documentation do not narrow the focus to just "webmasters," but expands it to publishers, site owners, developers, creators, and so on.

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Search Engine Journal

OCTOBER 12, 2022

In this piece, we’ll dig deeper into CRO, discuss why you should care about it, and provide some best practices for maximizing your conversion rate. . The post Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO): How To Get Started appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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Hubspot Marketing

OCTOBER 11, 2022

For many brands, TikTok is a scary, unknown place. What do you post? How do you use the trending sounds? I’ve rounded up small businesses that have generated thousands of likes and followers on their TikTok profiles alone. In this article, we not only list successful small businesses on TikTok with a breakdown of their strategies but also hear from some directly on what influenced their success.

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Businesses Grow

OCTOBER 12, 2022

I am endlessly fascinated by Gen Z. Of course they are different. Every generation is different. But what astonishes me most is their oversized impact on culture and business. Like digital campfires. In the latest episode of The Marketing Companion, Sara Wilson and I discuss one aspect of the Gen Z impact — Young people are folding up their social media tents and barricading themselves in online sites (digital campfires) where we might not be able to find them.

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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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Practical eCommerce - Marketing

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Here is a list of tools for editorial flow, multimedia content, social media distribution, and more. The post 20 WordPress Plugins for Content Marketing appeared first on Practical Ecommerce.

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Search Engine Roundtable

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Google's John Mueller said that pinging Google that your sitemap file has been updated can help Google index your new content quickly. He said it is simply Google practice to ping Google with when your sitemap file is updated.

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Hubspot Marketing

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Research has shown that it takes around eight touchpoints to make a sale. This can be daunting for any salesperson as follow-ups take time and effort. This is one of the many reasons that email marketing is such an efficient strategy. Having the ability to contact your prospects or your current customers in a relatively unintrusive way (especially compared to phone calls), is essential to increasing your sales, customer engagement, and retention.

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Sprout Social

OCTOBER 11, 2022

In the face of limited resources, changing algorithms and congested feeds, an employee advocacy program is a social team’s greatest asset. Advocacy programs help social marketers extend their brand’s reach beyond their bandwidth—without additional paid spend. This year, Sprout Social expects to reach 10 million impressions from our Employee Advocacy platform alone.

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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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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 14, 2022

New tools and tech seem like reasonable investments to set your content program for success next year. If that’s the extent of your plan, though, you might be creating the roadblock that delays (or, worse, derails) your vision.

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Search Engine Roundtable

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Google's John Mueller recently confirmed again that Google Search does not use the HTML lang attribute. He said many screen readers do and Microsoft Bing might use it as well, but Google Search still does not.

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Hubspot Marketing

OCTOBER 12, 2022

It's almost here. Thanks for your interest in our upcoming Executive Leadership Report and its corresponding pillar, " Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader: Data from 300+ Marketing Directors on How to Take Your Team to the Next Level ". If you've arrived on this page, we know our content so far has made you eager to see the full report. Check back on this same page on November 1, 2022 , for our full report and corresponding blog posts.

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Search Engine Journal

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Steer clear of the common link-building pitfalls. Our newest ebook outlines steps you can take to build your links safely without risking your site’s rankings. The post Link Building: Reduce The Risk, Maximize The Reward appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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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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Martech

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Although 60% of B2B marketers report budgets being cut or staying flat 2021 through 2022, more than half (52%) claimed to be optimistic, or very optimistic, about their team’s performance. 21% were pessimistic or very pessimistic. The data comes from a survey of 539 B2B marketers conducted by research and advisory firm Demand Metric for Integrate, the precision demand marketing platform.

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Search Engine Roundtable

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Google has added some new features around attraction and tour operators including the ability to edit your ticket prices directly in Google Business Profiles.

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Hubspot Marketing

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Nobody wants to sit there pinching, poking, and squinting at their phone just to view your website. So it should come as no shock that 50% of people will use a business less often if their site isn’t mobile friendly , according to Google. But how can you be sure that your website is mobile friendly? Sure, you could check it on your own smartphone. But what about the hundreds of other kinds of phones and tablets that your visitors are using?

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Buffer Marketing

OCTOBER 13, 2022

As an entirely remote team of more than 80 people, how we communicate is critical to how we operate as a company, collaborate, and build a solid remote culture. As they say, clear is kind. So we aim to be clear in our communication with each other across the team, and clear as a company what those expectations for communication best practices are so everyone can be aligned.

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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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Martech

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Marketing is a requirement for growing organizations. It’s not optional. And it makes sense to have a savvy individual in the driver’s seat to ensure that your marketing efforts dovetail together, connect with your KPIs and overall business goals and move the organization forward. However, most likely, you don’t need a CMO. At least, not yet. . Why argue against hiring such a pivotal figure in your C-suite?

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Search Engine Roundtable

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Google has added support for image credits for image metadata. Previously, image credit information was only supported with IPTC photo metadata.

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Hubspot Marketing

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Are you feeling anxious about your job search ? You're not alone. The competition for jobs is fierce and the search can be grueling. In this article, we’ll cover the warning signs that you may be experiencing job search anxiety and the ways to reduce it. What is job search anxiety? Job Search Anxiety Warning Signs. How to Deal with Job Search Anxiety.

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Aspiration Marketing

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Business, marketing, SEO. What do they have in common? Goals. Review how to set smart goals and examples of smart objectives to achieve your business objectives.

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