Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Adobe’s recent Experience Maker’s Live two-day online event was insightful, thoughtful, and informative, just as I predicted. While I knew what kind of high-quality content I could expect from one of their events, I headed into the virtual conference with one pressing question: what exactly is an experience maker? It didn’t take long before the question was answered. .

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Content Marketing Institute

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Aristotle was right. Quality is not an act, but a habit. Over 20 content marketing experts echo that thinking with their advice on what you should be doing to create quality work. (Hint: There isn’t a one-and-done idea in the bunch.) Continue reading → The post 8 Habits You Should Have for Quality Content Marketing appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Disclosure: This content is reader-supported, which means if you click on some of our links that we may earn a commission. 82% of businesses fail because of poor cash flow management and subpar accounting practices. Yikes. It’s no secret that accounting is hard — and there’s a reason people spend their entire lives learning how to do it well. But there’s good news.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

With new trends, customer behaviors, and technologies transforming the industry at top speed, there has never been a better time to be in marketing. While marketing has frequently fueled big consumer product enterprises, its influence is now growing through B2B companies, start-ups, new products, and more to create long-lasting customer relationships.

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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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Hootsuite

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

As we enter the final stretch of this unforgettable year, it’s a good time to check in on the trends impacting the social media landscape. 2020 changed everything: the way we communicate, the way we shop, the way we greet one another. It also changed how we use social media. This blog post summarizes: Our 2020 social trends predictions that came to pass.

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Unbounce

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

What’s the difference between a window shopper and a customer? I’ll give you a hint: It’s the same thing that separates a scroll-by from a click-through. Or an anonymous lurker from a known lead. The one thing that all your leads, clickthroughs, and customers have in common is that they’ve taken action. More specifically, they responded to a call to action (CTA) on your landing page, website, or ad and actively made a choice to advance through your sales funnel.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 31, 2020

Everyone wants to convert more leads. Statistics say over 80% of leads will never convert into a sale. Hear that? Never. If a secret formula to convert leads existed, companies would never go bankrupt or struggle to meet sales goals. Sorry to say, you still need to follow the tried-and-true strategy of understanding your audience, delivering a stellar product, and providing an optimized experience.

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Hootsuite

AUGUST 31, 2020

For a human being, there are times when being short is patently not helpful: for example, reaching the infuriatingly high top cabinet in the kitchen where your partner keeps all the best snacks. (Popcorn! Just! Out! Of! Reach!). But if you’re a URL, shorter is better, pretty much every time. That’s why URL shorteners are such handy tools. Any long and unwieldy website address can be reduced to just a few characters in the click of a button.

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Content Marketing Institute

AUGUST 31, 2020

Over 500 million Instagram users post Stories every single day. But how can brands stand out in the crowd? Here are nine design-focused, lesser-known font hacks to help. Continue reading → The post 9 Little-Known Font How-Tos for Instagram Stories appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Hubspot Marketing

AUGUST 31, 2020

When I first started working remotely, I quickly realized that I didn't like the available backdrops in my house. First, there's the cluttered living room. Then, there's the rarely spotless kitchen. Or I could go with the yellow wall. That's when I started looking into Zoom backgrounds. I found a few funny ones, some professional ones, and even a couple of creative options.

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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

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

It’s the element of surprise. That moment three minutes into his hit single, “In the Air Tonight”, when Phil Collins explodes into a groundbreaking drum solo that inspired a decade of imitators. It’s something that content marketers should keep front and center in their toolbox. It’s the point at which a story turns from despair to hope.

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Hootsuite

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Wondering how to manage your Instagram followers? Not sure what it even means to manage your Instagram followers? You’ve come to the right place. But before we get started, know that managing your followers doesn’t mean trying inauthentic growth hacks like Instagram automation or buying followers. Those are just a bad idea. Always. Managing Instagram followers means: Interacting with your current followers consistently.

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Sprout Social

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Video is taking over social media at large. And Instagram is no exception. In fact, the average consumer on the ‘gram now spends over half of their time on the platform watching videos. This might not seem like breaking news, but it’s telling given Instagram’s reputation as a photo-centric network. As video platforms like TikTok and YouTube continue to boom, consumers’ cravings for video content are only going to grow.

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Content Marketing Institute

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

How the heck are we ever going to get organized around content? It seems overwhelming. The answer? Be strategic using a combination of these four operating models. Continue reading → The post Think Strategically About Your Content Model 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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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Google may lead the search engine ranks, but they’re not the only player in the game. Bing holds 11.22% of the global search engine market share. Compared to Google’s 72.94%, that may not seem like much — but with upwards of a third of US desktop searches coming from Bing (and Bing-backed AOL and Yahoo), it’s pretty huge. For ecommerce businesses, that makes Microsoft Shopping Campaigns (formally known as Bing shopping campaigns) a killer opportunity to boost your bottom line.

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Search Engine Journal

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Discover the three types of "shows" you need to be producing in social media nowadays that can get you better and more targeted results. The post Get More from Social Media: Why You Must Think Like a TV Network via @brentcsutoras appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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Sprout Social

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Trying to wrap your head around Twitch marketing? If so, you’ve got the right idea. Beyond the major social media platforms, Twitch represents a booming community with millions of daily active users. Although Twitch is primarily associated with gaming, it’s quickly becoming the go-to place for livestreaming content at large. And slowly but surely, brands are finding fresh ways to get on board with Twitch and engage its rabid user-base.

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Content Marketing Institute

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

If your content is all or heavily text based, you’re missing an opportunity to attract audiences, make them stay, and remember your content. You need to think visually too. Check out CMI’s top five articles on visual content. Continue reading → The post 5 Tips From CMI’s Most Popular Visual Content Articles 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.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

According to Investopedia , a silo mentality is “a reluctance to share information with employees of different divisions in the same company… reducing the organization’s efficiency.” In other words, if different people or teams in your company aren’t on the same page about everything that’s going on, they might end up doing a worse job. Silos can make your company seem less innovative and damage your employee engagement , resulting in lowered productivity.

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Search Engine Journal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Is content syndication worth a shot? How will it affect the performance of your content? Here are some of the SEO ramifications of syndicated content. The post How Content Syndication Affects the Performance of Your Original Content via @tonynwright appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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Sprout Social

AUGUST 31, 2020

With the COVID-19 pandemic limiting travel and crowded in-person gatherings, virtual conferences and events have replaced their in-person counterparts. Rather than these disruptions slowing planning down, it seems like there are more events than ever, between webinars and launch events and industry conferences. Because of how common these virtual events are now, preparation and an established strategy are key to standing out from the crowd.

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Content Marketing Institute

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

This week, Robert Rose asks if brands should be more controversial and chats with CMI founder Joe Pulizzi about whether Google should replace universities. Continue reading → The post Should Your Brand Enter Controversial Conversations? [The Weekly Wrap] appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

According to Unbounce, half of the people who click on your ads are more likely to make a purchase than those who came from an organic link. That’s a bit surprising. You’d think with 600 million devices running ad blockers —advertising would be less effective. Google Ads commands 73.1 percent of search advertising, roughly $40.3 billion.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Agile software development teams measure their progress by delivering useful features and functionality. The Agile Manifesto , in fact, explicitly values “working software” as “the primary measure of progress.” But what happens when you don’t create software? How do we accurately measure the progress of other kinds of Agile teams? Each individual team will work out their own precise success metrics, but overall Agile teams need to focus on regular value delivery.

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Sprout Social

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Ever experienced this? . You attend an amazing conference. Maybe it’s a live, in-person event at a conference center, like in the olden days, or maybe it’s online. Wherever it’s located, the content and speakers are so riveting you don’t want to leave your seat, not even to grab your UberEats lunch order ( I’m looking at you, Sprout Sessions attendees).

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Hootsuite

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

It’s been a busy few months here at Hootsuite and I’m excited to share the updates to the Hootsuite product that have been achieved while we also adapt to our new world of remote work. For starters, our customers will know that we recently released a whole new user interface. It was a key part of delivering a modern, cohesive, and seamless user experience – we listened to what our customers were wanting and I feel we’ve achieved that and more, but it’s not the only change we’re excited to launch

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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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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Disclosure: This content is reader-supported, which means if you click on some of our links that we may earn a commission. There are many touchpoints along the customer journey. The transaction is of course one of the most important, if not the most important. So, the way in which you accept payments matters for both you and the customer. You need to have the right software and/or hardware in place to make sure transactions are simple and secure for both parties.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Retargeting – sometimes referred to as re-marketing – is an effective form of online promotion that helps businesses reach people who have previously visited their website. Typically, most websites convert 3% of users on their first visit. Retargeting allows brands to get in front of the 97 percent of visitors that haven’t yet converted – whether they weren’t ready to buy or got distracted during the checkout process.

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Litmus

AUGUST 31, 2020

You may have heard us talking about the 3 pillars of email marketing at different points, but may not know how to put them into practice. We’ve got you covered in our ebook, The 3 Pillars of Email Marketing. Email delivers a consistently high average ROI, but there are ways to make your efforts go even further. By moving email to the center of your marketing machine and using efficient workflows and tools, you can turn email into an indispensable source of marketing insights. .

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Why reviews are so much more than social proof written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Online reviews are a crucial part of marketing these days. The presence of lots of great reviews provides a layer of proof that you keep your promises. But often overlooked in the obsession for 5-star reviews is the actual words used by the reviewers.

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