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9 Ideas To Boost Your Internal Content Distribution Strategy

Content Marketing Institute

Few marketers tap into this lesser-known, low-cost content distribution channel to exponentially increase the reach of their content with little additional work required.

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Gen Z Marketing: What You Need to Know (Charts Included)

Heidi Cohen

Do you understand Gen Z and what this new buying group means for your marketing? This article contains the information, charts and tips you need to succeed. The post Gen Z Marketing: What You Need to Know (Charts Included) appeared first on Heidi Cohen.

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Entity SEO: The definitive guide

Search Engine Land

This article was co-authored by Andrew Ansley. Things, not strings. If you haven’t heard this before, it comes from a famous Google blog post that announced the Knowledge Graph. The announcement’s 11th anniversary is only a month away, yet many still struggle to understand what “things, not strings” really means for SEO. The quote is an attempt to convey that Google understands things and is no longer a simple keyword detection algorithm.

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Factors Affecting Marketing Experimentation: Statistical significance in marketing, calculating sample size for marketing tests, and more

Marketing Sherpa

Here are answers to questions SuperFunnel Cohort members put in the chat of recent MEC200 and MEC300 LiveClasses for ChatGPT, CRO and AI: 40 Days to build a MECLABS SuperFunnel (feel free to register at that link to join us for an upcoming MECLABS LiveClass).

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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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How to Work Paid Media Into Your Inbound Marketing Efforts

Lynton Web

There's no doubt inbound marketing works — all the content, social media posts, and emails you've created will continue to pay you handsome rewards. The downside? It takes a minute to see results. If you want to boost your efforts, paid media is the way. In this blog, we’ll discuss the benefits of using paid media and share some examples of when to inject paid media into your inbound efforts.

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All of LinkedIn’s latest features and how creators are using them

Buffer Marketing

LinkedIn has a reputation for being a professional networking platform where users can learn about the latest industry trends. This is because, unlike other social channels, LinkedIn revolves around helping its members stand out and attract potential employers. But these days, I’ve found myself scrolling through LinkedIn more than ever before as it has grown from simply a job site into an active and thriving social platform.

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How big is your tech stack, really? Here’s the latest data…

Chief Martec

It’s springtime, in the Northern hemisphere, and tech stacks are blooming. Zylo, a SaaS management platform that manages over 30 million SaaS licenses for its customers — more $30 billion in SaaS spend under management — just released their 2023 SaaS Management Index report. It shares aggregate statistics across all of their customers’ SaaS tech stacks.

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Best Competitor Research Tools to Spy on the Competition

Neil Patel

Do you ever feel like you can’t compete with your rivals? Then I’ve got some good news for you: There’s no need to be afraid of your competitors. I know it’s easy to look at them and their mega-successful campaigns and think you’ll never be like some of these companies. That’s where you’re wrong. Why? Well, their success validates your ideas. If your competitors are doing well, it shows there’s a market, right?

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Take This Step To Get Over Your Fear of Content Collaboration [Rose-Colored Glasses]

Content Marketing Institute

It’s not easy to overcome the collaboration fears that keep teams from working together. But giving everyone visibility into the content plans can help your organization produce more and better content. Robert Rose explains.

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What Does AI Mean for Writers?

Ann Handley

A version of this story appeared in Total Annarchy, my fortnightly newsletter that helps you be a better writer, storyteller, marketer. Get it in your inbox ; you’ll love it. * * * Above is a screenshot of a video I posted recently on LinkedIn announcing earliest-bird pricing for the MarketingProfs B2B Forum. The captions you see below my face are robo-generated.

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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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How to Identify Prospects for Your Webinar

Aspiration Marketing

Webinars have become incredibly popular for businesses to engage with potential customers, promote their brands, and showcase their expertise. They offer an opportunity to educate, inform and entertain your audience, all while increasing your visibility and building your reputation. But before you hit the "broadcast" button, an important aspect to consider is identifying the right prospects to attend your webinar.

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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

Hootsuite

The history of social media is a long and storied one. It’s bursting with pivotal moments like the launch of Instagram Stories, to that one time Zuck was on trial for Facebook privacy issues, to…honestly, let’s just look at the entire social media history timeline. So sit back, relax, and join us while we look back at what once was the future. The 33 most important moments in the history of social media The first social media site was born (1997) On one of the first true social media sites, SixD

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The end of marketing or a new beginning? The truth about AI

Martech

Love it or hate it, the artificial intelligence revolution is here. People can’t stop talking about ChatGPT, OpenAI and how AI will fundamentally change the world. Marketers everywhere are obsessing over the newly discovered power of AI. Amid the jaw-dropping realizations of what AI is capable of, marketers are faced with an existential question that’s a bit daunting to consider: Is this the end of marketing as we know it?

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What Is Marketing Attribution & How Do You Report on It?

Hubspot Marketing

Marketers engage with customers on more channels than ever before. Whether you're working with influencers or posting short-form videos, it makes marketing attribution essential for continued results. This is because the buyer's journey is far from linear. Consumers engage with brands through multiple touchpoints before they make a purchase. For a lot of marketers, getting visibility into the most effective touchpoints can be tough.

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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 Create CSAT Surveys with HubSpot Service Hub

Aspiration Marketing

CSAT (Customer Satisfaction) Surveys are a tool used by businesses to measure the satisfaction of their customers with the products or services they receive. These surveys provide valuable insights into how customers feel about their experience with a company, allowing businesses to identify areas of improvement. The HubSpot Service Hub enables users to easily create and use CSAT surveys, opening them to a world of opportunities.

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How Updating Your Old Content Can Help With Your Rankings

Neil Patel

There’s a strategy that will help you skyrocket those rankings without a lot of extra work. Yes, you could keep writing and producing more content. But this is complicated and it takes lots of time. Instead, you can update old content. It takes less work and delivers faster results which can only be beneficial for your overall content marketing strategy.

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10 Strategic SEO Insights & Tactical Advice For 2023 And Beyond via @sejournal, @gregjarboe

Search Engine Journal

I’ve written about search engine optimization (SEO) for over 20 years. So, I wasn’t shocked when the editors asked me to refresh an article I wrote on October 21, 2020, titled “3 Strategic SEO Insights & Tactical Advice for 2021.” But looking back at what I’d written two-and-a-half years ago, I realized that my actionable insights now need to be thoroughly updated in this era of constant change.

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Career Objective Tips To Get Your Resume Noticed [+ Examples]

Hubspot Marketing

Whether you call it a personal branding statement, experience overview, or resume objective, a career objective statement creates an important first impression. A well-crafted statement lets hiring managers learn about your skills and career highlights in a straightforward way. That’s if a hiring manager even makes it to your resume, of course. With an increasingly competitive pool of candidates, we have compiled steps to help you craft a career objective that will enable your resume to stand ou

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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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ChatGPT under threat from European regulators

Martech

On Friday, Italian regulators imposed a ban on generative AI tool ChatGPT with immediate effect while giving its creator, OpenAI, 20 days to address concerns about the way data is collected and processed under penalty of a fine of $21.7m or up to 4% of annual revenues (whichever is greater). There have been indications that other European regulators may swiftly follow suit.

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How to Do Keyword Mapping Using Ubersuggest

Neil Patel

Every content strategy recipe needs its secret sauce: keywords. Keywords go with everything. They spice up your content and give your site texture to capitalize on traffic. But your recipe falls apart if you don’t align the right keywords with the right content. No matter what other methods you use to drive traffic to your site, you want to use SEO keyword mapping.

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Google & iFrames: Debunking Myths, Understanding SEO Impact via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Search Engine Journal

Google's John Mueller explains the search engine's approach to crawling iframes and provides SEO recommendations for iframe content visibility. The post Google & iFrames: Debunking Myths, Understanding SEO Impact appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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The 4 Biggest Consumer Behavior Shifts of 2023 [According to New Data]

Hubspot Marketing

Your marketing strategy can't stay stagnant if the people you're selling to are changing their behavior — you have to adapt and learn how to cater to them. Marketers should look for observable differences in buyer behavior to continue meeting their needs. To help marketers and other business professionals make more data-informed decisions, we've conducted a bi-annual survey of 600+ U.S. consumers to better understand how adults spend their money.

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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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Authenticity in The Age of AI

Marketing Insider Group

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly changing the way marketers communicate and create content. As AI-generated experiences become more pervasive, it’s getting harder to tell the difference between what’s genuine and what’s automated. Brands need to focus on creating content that feels authentic and is true to their core values and beliefs.

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The power of brand advocacy and its uses

Sprout Social

When a brand is able to create positive buzz around their brand by just mentioning a product enhancement or product drop, you know they have a great marketing strategy behind them. But how are some brands, like Apple, able to attract new customers and elevate their positioning in the market with a simple announcement? One way is through brand advocacy.

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How To Create And SEO Optimize Your YouTube Channel via @sejournal, @seocopychick

Search Engine Journal

Harness the massive traffic potential of YouTube to your advantage with this guide to creating (and optimizing!) your own YouTube channel. The post How To Create And SEO Optimize Your YouTube Channel appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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Everything You Need to Know About Behavioral Segmentation [+ Examples]

Hubspot Marketing

Do you ever ask yourself why you act the way you do? Like why you venture out during a snowstorm to get an iced coffee? For marketers, behavioral insights are not only interesting but key for understanding their audience, going beyond demographic and geographic data. In order to understand your audience's behaviors, marketers can implement behavioral segmentation, an analysis that groups prospects and customers into different segments based on how they behave.

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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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How to Make Your Social Media Content More Accessible

Social Media Examiner

Want to reach more people on social media? Looking for a guide to make your social media content more inclusive and accessible to everyone, regardless of their abilities? In this article, you’ll discover how to produce accessible captions, videos, images, and ads for social media content so you can market to more people. Why Marketers […] The post How to Make Your Social Media Content More Accessible appeared first on Social Media Examiner.

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Conversational marketing: A guide to a key B2B GTM strategy

Martech

Did you know that 91% of business buyers and 86% of consumers consider the company’s experience as important as its products and services? If your B2B go-to-market strategy doesn’t prioritize delivering a personalized and engaging experience for your audience, you could be missing out on potential customers and growth opportunities. Fortunately, conversational marketing can help you create the kind of experience that modern buyers expect.

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Grading 12 marketing predictions about the future

Businesses Grow

A the urging of my website advisor, I did some housekeeping here on the blog. It was time to sweep out some older blog posts that were either irrelevant or ignored by the world. But I came across a gem — An old list of marketing predictions! In 2009, I made 12 marketing predictions about the future of social media. There wasn’t any timeframe specified … they were just predictions about “the future.” I thought it would be fun to give myself a report card and see how

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How to Find SERP Feature Opportunities [+ Free Tools]

Hubspot Marketing

Search engine results pages (SERPs) have become a critical battleground for businesses, with SERP features increasing in visibility and importance. Considering the fact that the top 3 Google search results get 54.4% of all clicks , SERP features eat up a whopping amount of organic traffic — 18.5% for featured snippets alone. With SERP features becoming ever-present, understanding how they work and how to maximize them has never been more essential.

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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.