Neil Patel
JANUARY 22, 2021
Marketers have been thinking about, arguing over, and implementing personalization tactics for the last few years. So why in the world would I promote depersonalized marketing? If you’re like most eager marketers, you’re are trying to keep up with personalization. You may have tried retargeting, creating highly-targeted landing pages, and using dynamic ads.
Hubspot Marketing
JANUARY 20, 2021
Facebook groups have helped me find roommates in Boston, potential dog breeders for a family pet, and women's networking opportunities in the nearby area. In short: Facebook groups are undeniably valuable. Recently, companies have taken advantage of groups for their own benefits, as well — Peloton, for instance, uses groups to connect its users and facilitate a space where people can share exercise plans, training methods, and workout schedules with one another.
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Marketing Insider Group
JANUARY 19, 2021
“Does content marketing work? How long does it take to start seeing the results I want?” We get these types of questions a lot. And yes, content marketing works. It can take around six to nine months to start seeing substantial results. Keep in mind that the answer for your business could look very different. You might see results more quickly, depending on how much effort you put into strategy, production, and promotion.
Content Marketing Institute
JANUARY 21, 2021
Content marketing often is a messy, haphazard process. But it doesn’t have to be. Establishing deliberate methods using Agile values can bring order – and help your content team deliver better results. Continue reading → The post 5 Agile Marketing Values to Sharpen Your Content Process appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.
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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.
Neil Patel
JANUARY 22, 2021
If you’re like most business owners, you’ve invested resources in creating a Facebook business page that engages your customers. You may have spent years growing your following and building trust. What if something leaves your business page vulnerable to a Facebook hack? Here is what you need to know to protect yourself—and your business—from a Facebook hack.
Hubspot Marketing
JANUARY 22, 2021
via GIPHY. … Not exactly the message you want your customers inferring from your website's Thank You Pages, is it? Thank You pages are effective opportunities to demonstrate appreciation towards your leads, prospects, and customers for taking a desired action — and even potentially convert users or increase sales through additional CTAs. Here, we'll explore six different purposes of a Thank You page, along with six stunning examples of Thank You pages to inspire your own designs in 2021 and beyo
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Content Marketing Institute
JANUARY 22, 2021
Don’t hide your content behind a bland headline. This week in content marketing, we share an example to prove the rule, plus new research into the search performance of marketing terms and a sweet ( but overlooked) content opportunity. Continue reading → The post Disguises Are for Superheroes – Not Great Content [The Weekly Wrap] appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.
Neil Patel
JANUARY 20, 2021
Facebook organic reach is down. Way down. In the past, posting a link on your Facebook or Instagram page could drive hundreds of clicks. Not any more. Social media referrals have stagnated around 5 percent of all traffic for years. The average Facebook post will reach just over 5 percent of your followers. The encouraging news is social media reach is still massive.
Marketing Insider Group
JANUARY 21, 2021
Your employees are your most valuable assets. That’s true for the value they bring, the work they do, and the relationships they build. They can also be your most influential fans on social media. When your people do this, it’s called employee advocacy. When they do it well—amplifying the reach of your social media posts and content marketing efforts—they become thought leaders and trusted advisors.
Hubspot Marketing
JANUARY 22, 2021
With over two billion monthly active YouTube users, YouTube is an undeniably powerful channel for advertising — which means, if you're a YouTube creator, there are plenty of opportunities for you to make money off the platform. For instance, if advertisers pay to display ads on your videos, you can increase revenue in the form of CPM. Along with increasing your revenue, CPM is a strong indicator that your content is valuable, and helps you identify businesses with whom you may want to partner do
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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.
Content Marketing Institute
JANUARY 20, 2021
Catch the first episode of CMI’s new video and blog series – Marketing Makers. Each month, Robert Rose explores a foundational marketing concept and explains how it applies to content marketing. First up? Reach and frequency. Continue reading → The post Fine-Tune Your Reach and Frequency for Modern Marketing [Video Series Debut] appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.
Neil Patel
JANUARY 21, 2021
Disclosure: This content is reader-supported, which means if you click on some of our links that we may earn a commission. What do sites like Bloomberg, Disney, BBC America, MTV, and Facebook have in common? They all use the WordPress content management system (CMS) to power their websites. Honestly, we aren’t surprised. WordPress is awesome. But while it does offer lots of flexibility in features, there’s still a certain extent of functionality missing from the core software.
Marketing Insider Group
JANUARY 20, 2021
Everyone knows how important PR is for building your brand reputation and attracting new customers. But traditional PR can be time-consuming, expensive, and limited in its reach. Digital PR offers several advantages for the businesses of today, but brand managers often overlook its effectiveness. The good news is that anyone can get started with digital PR.
Litmus
JANUARY 19, 2021
As far as marketing channels go, email remains a powerhouse with 4 out of 5 marketers preferring to give up social media than email marketing. Why? Businesses drive more revenue—$36 for every $1 spent—and brand awareness with email than ever before. However, we all know your strategy needs to adapt to your customer’s preferences. If you want to keep up with the latest consumer expectations , you need to find the right email marketing platform for your business.
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!
Pam Didner
JANUARY 20, 2021
Facebook. Twitter. LinkedIn. As a marketing professional, successfully supporting sales takes tact, experience, perseverance, conviction and imagination. . I learned that lesson early in my corporate career at Intel during my first encounter with sales. . In one of my various marketing roles, I worked very closely with the sales team, even though I reported to the marketing group. .
Neil Patel
JANUARY 18, 2021
About two-thirds of companies find it tough to produce engaging content. If you’re one of them, there’s a good chance your problems stem from the ideation phase. In other words, you’re struggling to come up with enough engaging blog post ideas. Now, if you’re a regular visitor to my blog, you’ll know I write a lot of content (also, thanks for reading!).
Marketing Insider Group
JANUARY 18, 2021
Misalignment between your marketing and sales departments can cost your business money, waste valuable B2B content, and cause lead-to-sale conversions to fail. Conversely, aligning your sales and marketing can lead to increased marketing revenue, better close rates, and higher customer retention. Source: SuperOffice. Modern marketers have adopted many of the sales team’s past responsibilities.
Search Engine Journal
JANUARY 21, 2021
When done properly, guest posting will help amplify your brand awareness and build reputable links. Here's how to guest post in 2021. The post Guest Posting in 2021: Amplify Brand First, Build Links Second via @ronlieback appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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.
Rock Content
JANUARY 18, 2021
Content Marketing continues to be a successful way for marketers to increase lead attraction and conversion. And no other year showed how important it is to quickly adapt strategies as 2020. With the Covid pandemic keeping people at home, the surge of new and competitive ways of connecting with the audience has brought the need for richer and more customized experiences.
Neil Patel
JANUARY 19, 2021
With roughly 350,000 new tweets appearing on the platform every minute , building engagement via Twitter can feel like an uphill struggle. To increase engagement on the platform, Twitter rolled out voice tweets, which let users share snippets of audio to their profile. Learn more about voice tweet options and how it’s transforming the ways digital marketers can use Twitter to their best advantage.
Marketing Insider Group
JANUARY 18, 2021
The internet is a necessary part of everyone’s daily lives – even more so today than ever before. So it needs to be accessible to everyone, including those that are differently-abled. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) protects disabled people from discrimination and it has released guidelines to help you create a website that is easily accessible to all communities.
Diggity Marketing
JANUARY 17, 2021
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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.
Content Marketing Institute
JANUARY 19, 2021
Struggling to balance those big content marketing ideas with those ad-hoc requests? It’s time to do something about content governance. No, it’s not too big an idea or above your pay grade. Start with this idea. Continue reading → The post Get Your Content Governance in Order With This 1 Thing appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.
Neil Patel
JANUARY 21, 2021
The Clubhouse app is the newest social media network taking the internet by storm, one exclusive invitation at a time. Ever since its beta release on iOS and endorsement by some of the world’s biggest celebrities, people are scrambling to get into the app. Even Silicon Valley has jumped in on the hype, valuing the social media app at $100 million and receiving a reported $12 million investment from venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.
Sprout Social
JANUARY 20, 2021
Knowing your audience is a lesson from effective marketing 101. Businesses can better market and sell their product or service when they have a clear understanding of customers’ pain points, business needs, goals, constraints and concerns. Achieving that understanding can be challenging, especially when you’re selling to other businesses and their buyers.
Rock Content
JANUARY 20, 2021
Years ago, a company’s salesforce was exactly what the name implies: many people actively reaching out to potential customers and offering products and services. Yes, this is still a viable and necessary effort, but the internet is leveling the playing field, and the competition is rising. So, businesses need to find new, innovative, efficient ways to combine Digital Marketing and sales into something more: the sales machine.
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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
Litmus
JANUARY 22, 2021
In this episode of Delivering, host Jason Rodriguez interviews AutoNation’s Shazad Beharry—winner of the Litmus Email First Excellence Award—about how AutoNation prioritizes email in their omnichannel efforts while taking the lessons learned from email to other channels. Show Notes. Topics. Shazad’s journey into email marketing (1:10). His work at AutoNation (2:30).
Neil Patel
JANUARY 19, 2021
If you’re looking to take your Instagram marketing game to the next level, it may be time to start experimenting with Instagram Reels. Instagram Reels are short 15- or 30-second videos that play on a loop and can be dubbed with music or videos. The videos play on a loop when someone scrolls, repeating until they scroll away. These short, catchy videos tend to be shared, become earworms, and hopefully go viral.
Sprout Social
JANUARY 19, 2021
If we can all agree on one thing, it’s that 2020 was a rollercoaster of a year. Through all the ups and downs, brands wrestled with how they could—and should—pivot their marketing strategies to stay connected with their customers. What emerged for many was a new appreciation for the power of social media. Social data helps marketers stay on top of cultural trends and gain a deeper understanding of their audiences.
Rock Content
JANUARY 19, 2021
When times are good, businesses can emerge, grow, and thrive. There’s plenty for all, and it’s just a matter of claiming your piece of the pie. But when times are tough, we begin to see what those businesses are really made of. Without marketing resiliency built into the business model, marketing departments can’t adapt and continue to grow despite the ripples and undertow of troubling waters.
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