Hubspot Marketing
AUGUST 2, 2018
44 percent. That was the click-through-rate of the first ever banner ad , purchased by AT&T on HotWired.com in 1994. Nowadays, this ad would be considered the scum of clickbait. No sane person would ever click on it. Fortunately, online advertising has rapidly evolved since the 90’s, so you don’t have to rely on attention-repellent banner ads anymore.
Content Marketing Institute
AUGUST 2, 2018
Henry Ford didn’t invent the car. He made cars accessible and affordable to the masses through an innovative process. Marketers didn’t invent the technology to build bots, mobile apps, games, and productivity tools, but they can make them entertaining, delightful, and helpful to entice their audiences to use them. And marketing tech tools once available to enterprise-level brands with big budgets are now viable for small and medium-sized businesses too.
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Sprout Social
JULY 30, 2018
As social marketers, we’re always looking for new approaches to identify and reach likely buyers. Which social networks do our likely buyers use most? What kind of messaging and CTAs will resonate with them? What do they care about, and how do your brand’s offerings fit into that equation? Here’s how using a social media listening solution can help. 1.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
AUGUST 1, 2018
If you have ever been in a dilemma deciding where to go for dinner and you end up choosing the more popular restaurant of the options you have: congratulations, you are living, breathing, evidence of social proof. Social proof is the psychological concept that people will conform to the actions of a group under the assumption that those actions are “correct.
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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.
Hubspot Marketing
JULY 31, 2018
For now, augmented reality (AR) is still largely a novelty -- AR's newness alone contributes to its ability to surpass print, online, and television advertisements in terms of shock-factor. As The Drum reports , AR can capture people’s attention for over 85 seconds, increase interaction rates by 20 percent, and improve click-through rates to purchase by 33 percent.
Content Marketing Institute
JULY 31, 2018
Marketers have used psychology to influence the behavior of customers for years – often with great success. Being aware of psychological principles is helpful whether you’re building a website, composing a tweet, or writing a blog post. Psychology indicates what colors are most likely to draw the attention of prospects or how long someone is likely to maintain interest in your message.
Marketing Pro Pulse brings together the best content for consumer marketers from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
JULY 31, 2018
If you’re a B2B marketer, odds are that creating content is an integral part of your inbound strategy for attracting prospects. After, all inbound marketing costs 61% less than traditional advertising, while producing 54% more leads. Because of this, however, everyone is investing more in content marketing. This raises the bar, meaning that creating more content is not enough.
Hubspot Marketing
AUGUST 3, 2018
The business world often uses the terms machine learning, deep learning, and artificial intelligence as interchangeable buzzwords. The problem? Each is uniquely different from its siblings. With so much terminology describing different pieces of the same AI puzzle, it’s easy to misunderstand various components. AI has been around for decades in business and government, but it’s still a relatively new addition to many sectors.
Content Marketing Institute
AUGUST 1, 2018
When you look at the library of content you publish, is it a string of somewhat-related blog posts, videos and more — or do all the pieces work together to tell a better, broader story? Of course (to poorly paraphrase Robert Rose), you want your editorial to tell one story instead of each piece being disconnected from the rest. Your editorial should tell 1 story instead of many disconnected pieces, says @MicheleLinn.
Sprout Social
JULY 31, 2018
Instagram has grown to over 800 million users , adding over 100 million since April 2017. For businesses, Instagram marketing is not only a no-brainer, it’s incredibly valuable in terms of conversions, customer happiness, and brand awareness. In this post, we’re going to cover the gamut of Instagram marketing hacks. You’ll learn both paid and organic methods of generating new business, followers, and engagement.
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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.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
AUGUST 3, 2018
Back in 2016 , we surveyed the retargeting landscape and gave some tips on how to get started. For the uninitiated, retargeting is an online marketing strategy that keeps your brand in front of users who have bounced out of your site. By placing a tracking pixel on your website, you can follow them when they leave and place an ad on another unrelated website, just to remind them of how awesome your products or services are—and persuade them to come back over.
Marketing Insider Group
JULY 31, 2018
Small businesses are the lifeblood of the economy. In the United States, small businesses make up 99.7% of all employer firms and accounted for 63% of net new jobs created between 1993 and 2013. Why am I telling you this? Because for some strange reason, when we think “economy” we think of the Amazons, Googles […]. The post 4 Ways Small Businesses Can Take on Behemoths and Win appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.
Content Marketing Institute
AUGUST 3, 2018
Editor’s note: Venetta Linas Paris is a finalist for 2018 Content Marketer of the Year. We’ll share insight from CMY finalists in the blog before the winner is announced at Content Marketing World in September. We talk a lot in content marketing about how stories can engage, educate, and win over audiences. Yet many of us struggle to measure the impact of the stories we tell.
Sprout Social
JULY 30, 2018
Pinterest, in a nutshell, is a social media network where users create boards and “pin” items of interest to their created boards. Since its launch in 2010, it’s grown to over 100 million monthly active users. Pinterest users are unique from other social media platforms. The majority of its users are women, and the majority of those users earn an income of over $50k per year.
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!
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
JULY 30, 2018
A train barrels down, rattling the small theatre. Women scream, men shout, and children fall to the ground in fear. Then, silently the train disappears, and only a small silver screen is left. Film, when seen through the eyes of those unfamiliar with the tricks of photography, was a frightening affair. The train audiences saw move ever closer in French theatre in 1896, the now-famous The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station , was lifelike and so real that it caused a panic.
Marketing Insider Group
JULY 30, 2018
When your internal experts become a part of the industry conversation, your audience will pay attention. But, in order to gain this marketing advantage, you need the right climate for activation. You need an engaged team. Once you do successfully motivate your employees to share branded content, create their own, and to build their reputations as thought leaders […].
Duct Tape Marketing
JULY 31, 2018
How Cloud-Based Accounting Software Can Benefit Your Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. As a business owner, you are all too aware of the many moving pieces it takes for a business to run smoothly. One area that business owners know is important is accounting and bookkeeping, although it’s often the last area they want to spend time on.
Sprout Social
JULY 30, 2018
Quick question: how does your brand’s social presence stack up against your competition? Because if you’re looking at little more than followers and Likes as a measuring stick, you might be in the dark. The reality? While these surface-level metrics can be valuable, they don’t tell the full story of your social presence. Think about it.
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.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
AUGUST 2, 2018
“Why are you playing that Nintendo?”. “You ought to be learning a real skill with your time.”. “Go play outside like they did in the good ole days.”. Do any of these statements sound familiar to the gamers out there? Growing up, it was preached by the older generation that video games were a waste of time and even demonized by the media to be a cause of the violence in the world.
Marketing Insider Group
AUGUST 2, 2018
Content is a great way for a brand to demonstrate their relevance, personality, and value. Your content marketing strategy will often need some tweaking, or all out revamping, to remain effective. Here are seven ways to reboot your brand’s content marketing strategy. Your Value Proposition Your value proposition is basically a summary of your brand’s […].
Zumvu
AUGUST 2, 2018
When we project a simple square into 3D space, what we get is a body that is capable of expressing new kinds of relationships with other mathematical entities.
Sprout Social
JULY 31, 2018
Instagram influencers are flooding the feed, but which trendsetters are the best advocates for your brand? And whose popularity translates into better results? Here are eight ways to measure and benchmark your performance when using Instagram influencers. Before brands plan their social media marketing budgets, it’s important for them to question their own performance and ask how they want influencers to meet their goals. 1.
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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.
Duct Tape Marketing
AUGUST 2, 2018
How to Transform Your Company Into an Inbound Organization written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Todd Hockenberry. Podcast Transcript. My guest for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is Todd Hockenberry. He is the founder of Top Line Results , a management consulting firm, and the co-author of the book Inbound Organization: How to Build and Strengthen Your Company’s Future Using Inbound Principles , which we discuss today.
Marketing Insider Group
JULY 31, 2018
Think you have internet usage figured out? Think again. According to the new Internet Trends Report for 2018, the way consumers, businesses, regulatory bodies, and the tech titans are interacting with or leveraging the internet is radically different than what was going on just a few years ago. And some of it’s a little alarming. About […]. The post New Report Reveals Internet Usage Is Changing Faster Than You Think appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.
Zumvu
AUGUST 2, 2018
When we project a simple square into 3D space, what we get is a body that is capable of expressing new kinds of relationships with other mathematical entities.
Sprout Social
JULY 31, 2018
In the social marketing world, our unrelenting hunt for ROI stems from fear. The fear is that there is one definition of ROI for social media, but we’re just not advanced enough to know about it. If we haven’t found it yet, it’s coming. And we’d better be here to catch it when it does show up. I’m here to tell you the fear is unwarranted.
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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
Duct Tape Marketing
JULY 28, 2018
Weekend Favs July 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.
Marketing Insider Group
AUGUST 1, 2018
It’s that time of the year – when all marketer’s stop to evaluate the performance of their brand and retool for the second half finish. How’s the awareness? What about your brand’s share of voice? How’s the customer experience during each stage of the purchasing journey? Do you feel like the brand resonates at each […]. The post CMO Insights: Putting People Before Data appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.
Zumvu
AUGUST 1, 2018
Facebook is continuously changing their algorithm to offer new features to the users. The latest of it is Facebook stories that are identical to Snapchat and Instagram stories.
Sprout Social
AUGUST 3, 2018
Summer might be coming to an end, but that doesn’t mean the fun has to stop. This August we’re tackling deep topics that social media managers everywhere come across regularly, from developing true connections and optimizing content to self care and marketing conferences! See a topic that interests you? Use the “add to calendar” button for a calendar reminder.
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