Hubspot Marketing

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Although Cyber Monday is described as the biggest online shopping event of the year, more than $7.4 billion in online purchases were made on Black Friday in 2019. While a majority of Black Friday purchases happened online, a Fiserv study found that brick-and-mortar store purchases rose by 4.2% compared to 2018. The same study found that a quarter of people traveled 25 miles or more to stores with Black Friday discounts.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 2, 2020

As you dig in with your SEO strategies in 2020, stick with what you do well and prioritize time for organic search tactics. Here are 20 SEO opportunities you may be neglecting that could boost your rankings. Continue reading → The post 20 of the Best SEO Tips for Keyword Rankings and Google in 2020 appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 2, 2020

No matter how glamorous the glory days of Madison Avenue sound, you wouldn’t dream of going back to doing marketing the way they did it: glitzy, kitschy commercials that blanketed the airways – all three of them. Back then, with only three TV networks and a few magazines that everyone read, you could just “spray and pray” your ads and count on revenue pouring in.

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Search Engine Journal

JANUARY 3, 2020

The perfect solution to create content that leads to conversion involves combining the arts of SEO and writing. The post SEO Writing: Top 47 Tips to Master a Combined Art via @ronlieback appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 31, 2019

How Mobile Has Impacted the Customer Journey written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. The customer journey is influenced by many outside factors. As the use of mobile devices has taken off over the past decade, it’s changed the way that businesses market themselves and how customers interact with businesses. In order to better understand the impact mobile has had on the customer journey, it’s helpful to go through and assess the effect at each stage of the marketing

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 1, 2020

In the new year, how can your business and personal brands get the most out of social media? Here are seven helpful takeaways culled from CMI’s 2019 posts to give you a head start on 2020 social media marketing. Continue reading → The post 7 of the Most Helpful Social Media Tips for 2020 appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Search Engine Journal

JANUARY 2, 2020

Here are 11 useful tips that will help you whip up brilliant headlines. The post 11 Headline Writing Tips to Drive Traffic & Clicks via @KristiKellogg appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The Top 10 Duct Tape Marketing Podcast Episodes for 2019 written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. 2019 was another great year on the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast. I chatted with some incredible guests, I did some solo shows where I could share a bit about the Duct Tape Marketing philosophy, and I got to share excerpts from my latest book, The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur , which was released in October.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Remember when the excitement over an email notification prompted a movie with Tom Hanks and Megan Ryan? Now, email notifications get routinely ignored and funneled into spam folders. And yet, we just can’t quit email. Continue reading → The post Why We Are Still Talking About Email in 2020 appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Moz

JANUARY 2, 2020

Posted by Cyrus-Shepard New year, new you — when it comes to SEO reporting, at least! We're kicking off 2020 with a comprehensive yet gloriously simple recipe from Cyrus Shepard for creating truly effective SEO reports. From tying KPIs to business metrics to delivering bad news effectively, your reports have never looked so good. Click on the whiteboard image above to open a high resolution version in a new tab!

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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

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Being a CMO is an increasingly challenging job. In today’s world, marketing has evolved beyond simply advertising and branding to infiltrate all aspects of how a business is run. The role of the CMO has also had to change to keep up with the broadening definition of marketing. Today’s CMOs are marketers, of course. But they’re also responsible for driving business culture change and innovation.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2019

Weekend Favs December 28 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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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 30, 2019

If you thought 2019 was a struggle, you’ll need all the extra bandwidth you can muster for 2020. This collection of tips, checklists, and templates can help you reclaim some lost time and get more accomplished in the new year. Continue reading → The post Marketers: Reclaim Your Time With These Productivity Tips, Tools, and Templates appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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verse.ai

JANUARY 2, 2020

The business management expert Peter Drucker famously said, “The purpose of a business is to create a customer.” It’s certainly hard to argue with that, but what Drucker neglected to mention is that keeping the customers you have is critical to long-term business success. In fact, it costs 7x more to obtain a new customer than it costs to keep an existing one.

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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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Doug Garnett

DECEMBER 31, 2019

A recent Twitter thread pondered why so few companies dedicate much effort to determining the best price for their products. After all, “Price” is one of the 4Ps — apparently equal in importance to product, place and promotion. (You can view the thread starting here.). Truth is that price IS an equal partner among the 4Ps. Yet marketers spend the most time on the three Ps which aren’t Price.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 1, 2020

Entrepreneurs on Fire Podcast – The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. John Jantsch stops by John Lee Dumas’ podcast, Entrepreneurs on Fire, to discusses his latest book, The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur. Jantsch’s book is designed to help entrepreneurs discover their self-reliance—to believe that their lives are a work in progress, to trust fully in their gifts and follow their dreams without fear of judgement from others, and to l

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 3, 2020

Robert Rose reflects on what to do when people don’t get it, gives a fresh take on content marketing as a life ring for journalists, and talks with Alan Schulman about getting execs to appreciate the real value of content marketing. Continue reading → The post This is What to Do When People Don’t Get Content Marketing [The Weekly Wrap] appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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verse.ai

DECEMBER 29, 2019

If you're trying to promote yourself to the world and grow your business, you have no choice but to market to audiences on mobile devices. Your customers are mobile-- this is the way the world is, as mobile usage is now surpassing that of at-home internet access worldwide. [.] Read More.

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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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