Trade Press Services Newsletter

OCTOBER 3, 2024

There’s a generational shift taking place in B2B purchasing. Studies show that younger buyers now represent two-thirds of B2B decision-makers. While traditional B2B marketing strategies have primarily focused on targeting baby boomers, Generation X, and millennials , a new generation is rapidly emerging as a new force in the B2B sector: Gen Z. Born between 1997 and 2012, Generation Z is the first generation to grow up with technology at its fingertips.

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Gen Z Millennials B2C Communications 323

Martech

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Loyalty. What’s emotion got to do with it? That emotional connection to a brand is extremely important to customer loyalty. It’s often been thought to be a key driver of loyalty. It goes beyond a product’s or service’s functional benefits and taps into customers’ feelings, values and identity. True loyalty is about more than transactional convenience or pricing considerations.

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Customer Branding Customer loyalty Transform 134

Aspiration Marketing

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Imagine this: You're a sales rep on the brink of closing a major deal. You've spent countless hours building rapport, understanding the client's needs, and crafting a compelling pitch. But when it comes time to present, something feels off. You fumble for the right data, can't find that crucial case study, and the competitor's messaging is sharper than a tack.

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Search Engine Land

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Are you having trouble finding relevant keywords for your paid search campaigns? It’s time to move beyond only using the Google Keyword Planner and uncover fresh, relevant keywords. Traditional keyword research tools frequently lack depth, offering only limited insights into the complexities of user search behavior. As a result, PPC managers often struggle to uncover new keyword opportunities.

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User-Generated Analytics Advertising Advertisers 91

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Unlock the secrets to building strong communities and sustaining growth with GrowthZone’s “5 Pillars of Community” ebook. In today's digital era, fostering a sense of belonging is more important than ever. GrowthZone’s informative ebook will help you transform your association’s community and discover new opportunities for growth. Explore the importance of personal and virtual communities, the ACHIEVE Model for success, and the key pillars including Direction, Shared Responsibility, Personal Val

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OCTOBER 1, 2024

Although data is easier to track and numbers are more accessible across the board for marketers, not all leads leave a neat breadcrumb trail. When it comes to vanity metrics, marketers already struggle to attribute marketing’s effectiveness. Now add Dark Social to the mix - the sharing of content through private channels like messaging apps, emails, and direct messages - and you’re in trouble.

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Gen Z Energy Customer Journey Digital Marketing 59

Martech

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Google’s pivot on deprecating third-party cookies has caused uncertainty in the digital advertising industry. Originally set for 2022, the plan faced multiple delays since its announcement in January 2020, leading to doubts about Google’s commitment. The move has sparked speculation about the future of privacy-focused advertising and the impact on businesses that have been preparing for a cookieless future.

Transform 134

Transform Advertisers Advertising User-Generated 134

Buffer Marketing

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Your social media success hinges on creating content that makes your audience tick. But.how do you even find content ideas that resonate? And how do you ensure you never run out of them? This article will share nine places to find content ideas — ensuring you never have to stare at an empty content calendar (wondering ‘what should I create?

SEO 125

SEO Place Product Communications 125

Search Engine Land

OCTOBER 1, 2024

We all know there have been many changes in the search results during the last year. AI Overviews. Reddit increases in visibility. Google’s site reputation abuse policy. And the list goes on and on. However, one key topic has been overlooked: Google’s major updates to ecommerce search results, which deserve more attention. March 2022 : They launched product grids that show products directly.

Retail 126

Retail eCommerce SEO Price 126

Martech

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Let’s face it: the marketing world is already complicated. Agile marketing isn’t easy to implement or continuously manage, and the promise of helping teams prioritize work — and say no to some things — remains elusive. But now, marketing processes are shifting even more rapidly, with generative AI emerging as the top catalyst. How do you combine agile marketing and generative AI?

Transform 139

Transform CMO Marketers Marketing 139

Aspiration Marketing

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Picture this: Your ideal customer is online, actively searching for a solution to a problem your business can solve. They're ready to buy, but you're nowhere to be found. Sounds frustrating? It should. This is the harsh reality for businesses without a robust lead generation strategy.

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Quotas need to be hit. Revenue goals need to be met. This reality makes shortening sales onboarding time a top priority. Organizations with a standard onboarding process boost employee retention by 58% and increase productivity by 50%. Unfortunately, many companies struggle with inefficient processes that lead to high turnover and missed revenue opportunities.

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Businesses Grow

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

On vacation in Italy, I visited a lovely wine shop in Florence. So of course, I wanted to talk to the owner about marketing (can’t help myself). The proprietor had a lovely place filled with antiques and art — such an interesting, visual environment! And yet, she wasn’t on Instagram. In fact, she didn’t use social media at all, a personal decision that certainly goes against the grain. “Everyone tells me I should be posting,” she said. “But I don’t

Social Media Marketing 111

Social Media Marketing Marketers Marketing Education 111

Search Engine Land

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The long-awaited and much-anticipated Google AI Overview Ads are going live and will begin showing to mobile U.S. users, Google announced today. We first learned Google would start testing this new AI Overview ad format five months ago (it was one of the big announcements at Google Marketing Live 2024 in May). However, we’ve yet to see the ads in the wild between then and today (as far as I know).

User-Generated 120

User-Generated Advertisers Advertising Product 120

Martech

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Traditional marketing tracking methods like unique phone numbers and coupon codes are becoming less effective. With stricter privacy regulations and consumers gaining more control over their data, marketers have turned to digital attribution using pixel-based tracking. However, this method overlooks the full customer journey by focusing only on the last interaction before conversion.

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Customer Journey Customer PR Marketers 128

Aspiration Marketing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Social media marketing has taken the world by storm in recent years as businesses become increasingly able to use platforms like TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram to interact with customers, increase sales, and drive website traffic. TikTok, in particular, presents big opportunities for brands with its impressive number of users, engaging video formats, and a suite of marketing tools.

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Social Media Marketing Marketers Marketing Marketing Strategy 198

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Hubspot Marketing

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The future of brand tracking is here — and it’s powered by AI. Brand tracking is an essential marketing strategy for measuring brand performance, customer loyalty, and market positioning. Traditionally, companies rely on surveys, panels, and market research to gather this data. But these methods can be slow, often taking weeks or months to deliver insights, which makes it hard for businesses to adapt to market changes in real time.

Branding 105

Branding Customer loyalty CMO Market Segmentation 105

Search Engine Land

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Google is starting to roll out AI-organized search results today, as well as the new links and citations format in the Google AI Overviews. AI-organized search results. The new AI-organized search results, as we covered in May , are now rolling out in the U.S. Google wrote : “We’re rolling out search results pages organized with AI in the U.S. — beginning with recipes and meal inspiration on mobile.” This includes search results organized by web, including articles, videos, forums an

Retail 118

Retail User-Generated Price Product 118

Martech

OCTOBER 1, 2024

In recent years, tech giants like Meta, Google and Amazon tightened their grip on digital media while facing increased scrutiny from consumers and regulators. Beneath the headlines, a key shift is reshaping how brands interact with ad platforms: the growing tension between consolidation and transparency. How consolidation and transparency are redefining digital advertising Consolidation is growing due to several factors.

Branding 122

Branding Advertisers Advertising Retail 122

Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Search engine optimization (SEO) and content marketing are powerful tools that drive online success. SEO focuses on optimizing your website so search engines can discover and rank your content. According to First Page Sage, the first organic result for a search term on Google receives a click-through rate of nearly 40% , pushing immediate traffic to your site.

Content Marketing 106

Content Marketing SEO User-Generated Marketers 106

Speaker: Jesse Simms, VP at Giant Partners

This new, thought-provoking webinar will explore how even incremental efforts and investments in your data can have a tremendous impact on your direct mail and multi-channel marketing campaign results! Industry expert Jesse Simms, VP at Giant Partners, will share real-life case studies and best practices from client direct mail and digital campaigns where data modeling strategies pinpointed audience members, increasing their propensity to respond – and buy.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Do you avoid some content marketing tasks? Do you say you don’t have the time when you really do? Avoidance is often the response when you fear the unfamiliar or unknown. But it’s time to get uncomfortable and do these five things.

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Content Marketing Marketers Marketing 102

Search Engine Land

OCTOBER 4, 2024

When we were young, we all wanted to sit at the adult’s table. But we couldn’t, often, because of our behavior. Growing up, we often thought we were cool, but we weren’t. Look back at your past. There are probably photos or things you did that you find questionable today. This is exactly how we SEOs should be looking at our work. SEO has grown up a lot; we SEOs didn’t.

SEO 117

SEO Energy eCommerce User-Generated 117

Martech

OCTOBER 2, 2024

As September drew to a close, so did Oracle Advertising. The withdrawal from the ad business had been abruptly announced during an earnings call in June this year. Since then, Oracle’s premium customer base has been looking for new ad platforms while talented staff members have been looking for new opportunities. The history of Oracle advertising goes back 10 years, beginning with the acquisition of cloud DMP BlueKai and consumer data platform Datalogix.

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Advertisers Advertising Fashion Analytics 117

Hubspot Marketing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

It’s no secret that AI is driving marketing industry growth. As a writer in the marketing industry, I've seen it myself. AI can help with everything from brainstorming to content creation. But another marketing task that AI excels at? Personalization. I’ve received plenty of personalized marketing assets, and it’s obvious when something uses surface-level personalization and when something is tailored to my specific interests and behaviors — and the latter always grabs my attention.

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Thought Leadership User-Generated Marketers Marketing 105

Speaker: Alex Moore, Co-Founder of Stratagon Marketing & Technology

Ever wondered why sales and marketing teams often struggle to collaborate effectively? Diverging goals, poor communication, and conflicting strategies frequently create silos, leading to a disconnect where marketing efforts fail to translate into substantial sales conversions. Enter Account-Based Marketing (ABM). ABM aligns marketing and sales efforts toward specific target accounts, fostering personalized interactions with high-value prospects.

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Buffer Marketing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The secret to engaging social media posts has been in front of you this whole time.  And it's not about having a ton of followers or decoding a complex algorithm. Instead, it all boils down to your opening words. Copywriters call it a 'hook,' and learning how to write social media hooks can be the difference between your followers scrolling past your post or stopping in their tracks to see what you have to say.

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Copywriting Energy Retail Analytics 105

Search Engine Land

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Phase two of Google’s mobile-first indexing – rendering – is Chrome and has been since 2018, according to SEO expert Cindy Krum. In a newly released video presentation, Krum said: “What I believe is happening here is that Google failed to tell us at this time in 2018, when it launched, that what they were using for the second phase of indexing was not a bot, per se.

SEO 116

SEO Advertisers Advertising Marketers 116

Martech

OCTOBER 1, 2024

My two previous articles on personalized customer experiences focused on the need to embrace AI and the goal of AI that truly understands customer data. I’m going to continue to explore the framework I introduced in those articles here, moving to the lower-right quadrant: Agency. I’m not talking about AI’s impact on marketing and advertising agencies , though that’s a topic getting attention in many circles.

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CRM User-Generated Marketing Automation Platform Marketers 117

Hubspot Marketing

OCTOBER 1, 2024

April Sunshine Hawkins is a StoryBrand workshop facilitator, keynote speaker, and co-host of the Marketing Made Simple podcast (which has 2M downloads). She helps businesses streamline their messaging, and loves teaching business leaders to leverage the StoryBrand framework to simplify what they're trying to say. Keep reading to learn her three tips when it comes to storytelling, selling what you love, and making the customer the hero. 1.

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Are your sellers unsure about using AI in their day-to-day workflows? Or are they eager to try but uncertain where to start? They might be asking: Which tasks are best suited for AI? How will using AI affect my relationship with my customers? With so many tools available, which ones are the most useful to me? To help answer these and other common questions about using AI during the sales cycle, we surveyed B2B sellers who were early adopters to get their insight and advice about how to use gen A

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Buffer Marketing

OCTOBER 1, 2024

This is probably going to age me, but remember when adding a link to an Instagram Story required you to have at least 10,000 followers? Thankfully these days, it's a whole lot easier with Instagram's link sticker — and you can use it no matter how many followers you have. It's well worth doing, too, particularly if you want to monetize your work on Instagram.

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Promotion Social Media Marketing Product Branding 101

Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Keyword research is a cornerstone of SEO success, but many SEOs do it incorrectly. Instead of focusing on keywords that drive revenue, they only chase traffic volume. Instead of focusing on keywords that generate revenue, they often prioritize traffic volume alone. This guide tackles a new approach to keyword research that boosts your online presence and directly contributes to your bottom line.

SEO 115

SEO Education User-Generated Entertainment 115

Martech

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Best of the MarTechBot showcases the MarTechBot’s responses to prompts submitted by readers. See more about how marketers are using MarTechBot here. The language model is based on content from MarTech embedded on top of ChatGPT. The editors of MarTech selected this response for its usefulness and have supplemented it with additional relevant content.

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Management CMO Content Marketing Analytics 117

Zumvu

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Email signatures are probably among the first impressions we make with clients and colleagues. A correctly designed email signature speaks professional but can subtly serve as a marketing tool. Whether you're an entrepreneur, marketer, or business owner, an email signature generator can assist you in creating a visually appealing and brand-consistent signature to enhance communication.

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Communications Branding Marketing Marketers 98

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Tired of your emails getting lost in the noise? Ready to turn subscribers into customers? Our comprehensive toolkit will help you break through the noise and drive business impact. Key Benefits: Maximize Deliverability: Ensure your emails reach inboxes consistently. Personalize at Scale: Craft targeted messages that resonate with every recipient. Optimize for Results: A/B test your way to higher open rates, click-through rates, and conversions.

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