Sat.Oct 05, 2019 - Fri.Oct 11, 2019

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How to Create a Wikipedia Page for Your Company

Hubspot Marketing

If you're anything like me, you probably mainly consider Wikipedia a good source for a behind-the-scenes look at the production of Game of Thrones , or a collection of random facts on Zebras. In short, you likely haven't given it much thought as a channel for brand awareness. But, if you think about it, Wikipedia is one of the best third-party sources for ranking on page one of Google.

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How to Determine the ROI of Account-Based Marketing

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

When it comes to marketing and sales, the more precise and specific you can get with every customer, the better. Customers want to feel important and be recognized by brands, which is exactly why strategies like personalization are so effective. Account-based marketing (ABM) is a B2B strategy in which sales and marketing teams work together on a clearly defined set of target accounts to serve personalized campaigns uniquely designed for each individual account.

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CEO insights on marketing metrics featured in HBJ

Adams & Knight Marketing

CTRs. CPCs. ERs. CPMs. It's an alphabet soup of marketing analytics out there. Which ones should you pick to track the performance of your campaigns? CEO, Jill Adams gives sound guidance for marketers—and clears up confusion—in the Hartford Business Journal. Read the article here.

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15 Tips to Building a Better Social Media Presence

Sprout Social

If you’re a brand today, there’s a non-zero chance you’re on social media in some way, shape or form. But how many brands have an active, thriving social media presence? And how much of them are just sort of there ? Reality check: you can’t expect much from social when you post random links, @mention a few folks and call it a day. You need some structure.

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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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27 Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Website

Hubspot Marketing

You know you're a marketer when you're sitting in traffic on the highway, it's completely bumper to bumper, and all you can think about is " Why can't I drive traffic to my website like this? ". If you've struggled with driving traffic to your website, you're not alone. According to 2019 research done by Content Marketing Institute , 61% of content professionals are challenged with knowing what is most important to their audiences, 50% are challenged with knowing the goal of the audience at a pa

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Social Media in Higher Education: 8 Essential Tips

Hootsuite

Social media in higher education provides an indispensable resource to students and alumni — not to mention the school itself. But it’s not enough to just tweet out events happening at your school. You need to engage your audience. Doing so encourages more people to follow you, and increases your brand awareness. And yes, I mean brand awareness. Remember: Your school — like a business — is a brand.

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10 Ways to Increase Facebook Engagement that Work

Sprout Social

Have you noticed your Facebook engagement has been on a downward spiral lately? There’s no need to panic. Although the recent changes to the Facebook algorithm have many marketers sweating, the update isn’t as scary as it seems. The short of it? Facebook is asking brands to rethink how they earn likes, comments and shares on their posts. For example, Facebook is explicitly fighting against engagement bait and spammy tactics which they see as undercutting their algorithm.

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Employee Advocacy on Social Media: How to Make It Work for Your Business

Marketing Insider Group

Employee advocacy is the new influencer marketing. By activating your employees to be passionate about their work and your company, you can grow them into your most dedicated and authentic brand ambassadors, which boosts your brand reputation and attracts new talent. Employee advocacy on social media is essentially the promotion of your brand, products, services, or even better your expertise, by your employees on their own social media channels, as well as your official brand accounts.

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LinkedIn Etiquette Fails: 7 Mistakes That Will Make You Look Unprofessional

Hootsuite

Your LinkedIn page and profile is your online billboard. It’s your chance to show and share your personal brand. That is, if you do things right—not wrong. Because too many people make too many mistakes when it comes to self-promoting on LinkedIn. You want to show up as your very best on LinkedIn—the most ‘professional’ of all networks. So you can look like a pro.

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How to Stop Creating Content That Disappoints Your Audience

Content Marketing Institute

It was to be a good read. From the email to the title, the messaging indicated the content offered valuable insights. She handed over her information. Now, she feels cheated. Why do brands produce content that lets their readers down? Continue reading → The post How to Stop Creating Content That Disappoints Your Audience appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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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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Twitter Marketing: Strategies and Tips to Try Now

Sprout Social

With over 313 million monthly active users and a young demographic to boot, Twitter is a great platform for most marketers. Starting up a Twitter page for your company is easy. Anyone can come up with a Twitter handle, upload their profile photo, fill out their bio and send out their first Tweet. What’s not so simple, however, is growing your Twitter account and turning it into an actual tool that generates leads and builds up your brand.

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How To Growth Hack Your Content Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

“Growth hacking” is one of those buzzwords that’s started popping up in digital marketing circles over the last few years. But what exactly is growth hacking and how can you use it to benefit your content marketing efforts? The clue is in the name – growth hacking is all about growing your business rapidly with a limited budget. The term came about from start-ups who needed to grow their fledgling businesses as quickly as possible with limited resources.

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The Ultimate Holiday Marketing Calendar for 2020 [Free Templates] via @annaleacrowe

Search Engine Journal

This marketing calendar includes a breakdown of all the holidays, big events, and inspiration campaigns for 2020. The post The Ultimate Holiday Marketing Calendar for 2020 [Free Templates] via @annaleacrowe appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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5 Techniques to Build a Better Content Platform

Content Marketing Institute

Does your brand’s site offer the equivalent of a dilapidated hotel in a beautiful vacation destination? Are some parts just OK (or worse), while other parts are brilliant? Here’s the remedy you need. Continue reading → The post 5 Techniques to Build a Better Content Platform appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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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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How to Get Started with LinkedIn Ads

Sprout Social

LinkedIn has proven itself to be a powerhouse for over 500 million professionals looking to network and uncover new career opportunities. The platform has also a hub of activity for marketers looking to land talent, build authority and signal themselves as the go-to pro within their niches. For marketers looking to take full advantage of what LinkedIn has to offer, they should look at LinkedIn advertising not as a matter of “when” or “if,” but rather understand “how” to go about it.

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3 Music Promotions That Broke Through the Noise And What Can Teach Content Marketers

Marketing Insider Group

At least once since 2014, you’ve almost certainly turned the key in your car’s ignition, only to hear U2’s “Songs of Innocence” album ring out. It happens to the best of us because it’s happened to almost all of us. Although Apple’s stunt of throwing the album in every iTunes user’s library without permission was widely known, it wasn’t widely loved.

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How to Create a Holiday Content Strategy via @seocopychick

Search Engine Journal

Want to get a head start and create a content “advent” calendar of your own? Here’s how. The post How to Create a Holiday Content Strategy via @seocopychick appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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How to Adopt a Growth Mindset for Your Content Marketing

Content Marketing Institute

Growth teams often include content creation and promotion in their actions. But how can content teams integrate the growth mindset in their daily routine? Here’s how to create a content idea pipeline. Continue reading → The post How to Adopt a Growth Mindset for Your Content Marketing appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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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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How to write a social media case study (with template)

Sprout Social

You’ve got a good number of social media clients under your belt and you feel fairly confident in your own service or product content marketing strategy. To new clients, you’ll tell them how you’ve tripled someone else’s engagement rates but how do they know this is true? Enter the case study. Social media case studies are often used as part of a sales funnel: the potential client sees themselves in the case study and signs up because they want the same or better results.

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14 Books That Inspired “Mean People Suck”

Marketing Insider Group

With the launch of Mean People Suck coming up here on October 25 (get your copy now on pre-sale and get my last two books free), I thought I would share 14 of the books that inspired Mean People Suck the most. But first, what is Mean People Suck all about? The fact is that most people are unhappy in their careers. And they point their finger at a negative work culture, a mean boss… co-worker… or customer.

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The Most Useful Ways To Utilize Google Search Console

Duct Tape Marketing

The Most Useful Ways To Utilize Google Search Console written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Even if you don’t have much marketing experience, you understand how critical a presence on Google is to getting your business name out there. It’s the world’s largest search engine, and it’s often the place people go to discover new brands that can solve the problem they’re facing.

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Get the Audience Greenlight: A Lesson From a 19th Century Nurse

Content Marketing Institute

How did a British nurse get a greenlight, while a Hungarian doctor got a red light for the same lifesaving remedy in the 1800s? It’s a lesson all marketers should heed for their smart, capable, and good audiences. Continue reading → The post Get the Audience Greenlight: A Lesson From a 19th Century Nurse appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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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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Social Spotlight: A lesson in social storytelling from The New York Times

Sprout Social

Welcome to the Social Spotlight, where we dive deep into what we love about a brand’s approach to a specific social campaign. From strategy through execution and results, we’ll examine what makes the best brands on social tick — and leave you with some key takeaways to consider for your own brand’s social strategy. The New York Times is considered by many to be the greatest general interest publication in the world, but until recently lagged behind its digital-first peers in terms of innovation

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Introducing the New, Redesigned Litmus

Litmus

Whether you’ve been with us since day one or you’re a new fan, you know that we’re committed to constantly innovating and improving our solution with new features and integrations. We love hearing what you think about Litmus and how it helps you with your email workflow, but we also love hearing how we can make it even better. So when we heard your feedback that our tools were disconnected and you lacked visibility into the status and deadlines of campaigns, we listened. .

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Finding Stillness in the Modern World

Duct Tape Marketing

Finding Stillness in the Modern World written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Ryan Holiday. Podcast Transcript. On today’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I sit down with writer and media strategist Ryan Holiday. Holiday is the author of 10 books, including The Obstacle is the Way , Ego is the Enemy , and his latest, Stillness is the Key.

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Weekly Wrap: Are You the Most Interesting Voice in the Room?

Content Marketing Institute

This week, Robert Rose talks on the heart of thought leadership and publishers who don’t have their hearts in the subscriber game. He talks to the Duct Tape Marketing author and points to an article to give your content heart and soul. Continue reading → The post Weekly Wrap: Are You the Most Interesting Voice in the Room? appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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How to Prove Marketing Value: Demonstrate Content ROI and Contribution to Sales

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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Most Viewed Video Ads: Guy Fieri and LeBron James Are Here!

illumin

We love this week's chart because it features 4 brand new videos!! Most importantly, there are robots. and has anyone not seen that Boston Dynamics video yet because if you haven't, prepare to be blown away! Our other favorite is the Luis Vuitton content series launch, since they obviously got the point with a 60-second video spot that is dominating this week's chart and we bet it'll be there for at least a few more weeks.

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3 Best Practices for Repurposing Your Content to Save Time and Money

Rock Content

When you’re creating a new piece of content, the possibilities seem endless. Your finished product could go viral, could inspire thousands of conversions, and could serve as the foundation for your next marketing campaign. On the other hand, it could fall flat. We’ve all been there. The fact of the matter is that content creation isn’t easy. With so many competing deadlines to consider, and often limited resources on a marketing or content team, it’s tough to justify a net-new content piece with

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How to Focus on High-Value Work

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Focus on High-Value Work written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with David Finkel. Podcast Transcript. Today on the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I speak with business coach and author David Finkel. He is the founder of Maui Mastermind and the author of several books, including his latest, The Freedom Formula: How to Succeed in Business Without Sacrificing Your Family, Health, or Life.

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How We Grew Blog Traffic by 650% in Two Years — Organically

Moz

Posted by DaisyQ As a digital content marketer, your job is to grow traffic that converts into leads and sales. Some of us in this field are lucky to work with companies that sell sexy products. It makes it a little easier. But that’s not always the case. This post is for the other marketers that work in the not-so-sexy fields. I can speak to this audience because up until the spring of this year, I was the Digital Content and Marketing Manager at a synthetic oil company.

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Accelerate Your Marketing with Automation: A Quickstart Guide

Ready to streamline your marketing efforts and achieve more with less? Our guide provides a step-by-step roadmap to: Build a Strong Foundation: Set up your automation infrastructure for success. Execute Proven Tactics: Implement effective strategies to nurture leads and drive conversions. Measure and Optimize: Track your results and make data-driven adjustments.