Hubspot Marketing

JULY 24, 2023

Good things happen when you create killer calls-to-action. I would even argue that your website can't be successful unless you produce great calls-to-action. The ideal CTA, however, isn't always easy to think of. Sometimes, you need a little nudge in the right direction. If you're sick of "click now" CTAs that aren't working, improve your game with these  surefire call-to-action formulas. 1.

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Buffer Marketing

JULY 24, 2023

Ever scrolled through TikTok and wondered why certain videos gain meteoric popularity while others, seemingly of equal quality, barely get a glance? The answer isn't just in the dance moves or catchy tunes. It's in the mysterious underpinnings of the TikTok algorithm. The uncannily accurate recommendations are powered by an algorithm that delivers hyper-relevant content that’ll make you wonder if they’re tracking you.

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Content Marketing Institute

JULY 26, 2023

The days of the basic marketing funnel are over. Adding an overlay of empathy lets you walk with your prospects on their never-quite-linear journey. And that’s when you’ll start seeing real, long-term relationships.

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Martech

JULY 25, 2023

In a content-driven era, marketers continue to revolutionize themselves, creating a vibrant spectrum of stories that need to be told. Every day, content creators, social media managers and industry professionals spend significant resources on generating unique, high-quality content to attract, engage and inspire. Yet, as the volume of content grows, the challenge of managing these diverse assets effectively becomes increasingly critical.

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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.

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Digital Marketer

JULY 24, 2023

In 2023, the renowned toy company Mattel , famous for creating the iconic Barbie doll , faced challenging times amidst a competitive market. However, a recent development has the potential to reshape the company’s trajectory and revitalize its brand presence: the release of the much-anticipated Barbie movie. This article explores how this cinematic venture has impacted Mattel’s stock performance and discusses the potential implications it may have for the company’s survival.

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Search Engine Land

JULY 24, 2023

Content marketing is crucial for brand awareness and engagement in the digital landscape. Generating compelling ideas consistently can be daunting, but generative AI like ChatGPT offers solutions. This article explores top AI tips to boost your content marketing efforts. What is an AI prompt? AI prompts are any type of text, data, or question that tells the AI the desired response you seek.

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Hubspot Marketing

JULY 26, 2023

Earlier this month, Kim Kardashian’s apparel company Skims made headlines after closing a $270 million fundraising round, reaching a valuation of $4 billion. In a business climate where VCs are pulling back investment from direct-to-consumer brands, this accomplishment is quite the feat for a four-year-old business. Skims initially launched in 2019, offering shapewear and intimates.

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Martech

JULY 25, 2023

Marketing work management platforms help marketing leaders and their teams structure their day-to-day work to meet their goals on deadline and within budget constraints, all while managing resources and facilitating communication and collaboration. Functions may include task assignments, time tracking, budgeting, team communication and file sharing, among others.

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Businesses Grow

JULY 24, 2023

Today I present a trove of little topics that are too short for a full blog post but too important to ignore. A radical idea about AI and marketing Obviously, AI is here. It’s the new gold rush, setting off feverish activities in every corner of the marketing world. And, there is a lot of debate about marketers learning these tools and new skillsets.

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Aspiration Marketing

JULY 26, 2023

Are your employer's branding efforts yielding the desired results? If you're unsure, fear not because you're in the right place. Understanding how others perceive your company and how that perception impacts your overall success is crucial. Your employer brand affects the team members you hire and the companies that choose to work with you. That's why it's essential to measure the success of your branding efforts.

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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.

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Sprout Social

JULY 25, 2023

Brands need the context social media metrics provide to meet today’s dynamic consumer space and take their business to the next level. That’s why leaders from more than 700 companies surveyed in the 2023 State of Social Media Report revealed that 85% of their business decisions were strongly informed by social data and insights. And 56% claimed they soon planned to invest more resources in social media data analysis.

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Martech

JULY 28, 2023

The data privacy landscape is changing rapidly, driven by legislation like GDPR and CPRA , plus consumer pressure on big tech companies. Marketers can no longer use personal data without restrictions. This affects not only digital advertisers but also email marketers. Here’s how these changes impact email marketing, including open rates, and why measuring direct engagement is crucial for success.

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Search Engine Land

JULY 27, 2023

“Broad match gives you the most relevant reach and conversions within your performance goals.” – Google Marketing Live 2023 This is how Google describes broad match in their Google Marketing Live 2023 recap. Wait, what? Broad match gives the most relevant reach? PPC marketers know it inherently can’t be the most relevant – or at least that was the conversation within our team at the time.

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Aspiration Marketing

JULY 25, 2023

Are you a marketer or customer service manager looking to enhance your customer service skills? In today's competitive business landscape, delivering exceptional customer experiences has become crucial to successful customer management and retention strategies. Fortunately, HubSpot Academy makes obtaining and improving these skills easier than ever.

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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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Buffer Marketing

JULY 27, 2023

🤔 Question : I want to improve the quality of my social media content, but the most popular advice is to create high-quality content to satisfy Google and other search engines. What advice do you have for consistently generating high-quality content for social media? Or better yet, how do I improve the quality of my content? This is a question I often have to ask myself: how do I create (and improve) high-quality content?

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Martech

JULY 28, 2023

The big tech companies’ earnings reports this week showed mixed results in digital ad revenues. Meta had double-digit growth in the second quarter of 2023, while Microsoft and Alphabet were both close to flat. Meta The winner. Meta’s ad revenue increased 12% to $31.5 billion YoY, beating analyst expectations and returning it to double-digit growth for the first time since 2021.

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Rock Content

JULY 28, 2023

In today’s fast-paced and highly competitive digital landscape, capturing and retaining the attention of your target audience is no small feat. One approach that has proven to be highly effective is the use of interactivity. In fact, 79% of marketers surveyed by the Content Marketing Institute (CMI), stated that interactive content improves messaging retention.

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Use Insider

JULY 28, 2023

Omnichannel vs multichannel vs cross-channel: What’s the difference? Across different theories of marketing, the terms omnichannel , multichannel , and cross-channel marketing are often used interchangeably. After all, these strategies all involve multiple channels meant to acquire, engage , and retain customers. Here’s the difference in how they’re connected: In multichannel marketing , all the communication channels work in isolation with no connection between any of them.

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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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Buffer Marketing

JULY 26, 2023

For one week in July this year, the full Buffer team did something rather unconventional. All 80 of us paused our day-to-day work, cleared our calendars, and dedicated a whole week to projects outside of our usual tasks. It’s Buffer’s annual Build Week. Why did we do this? At Buffer, we believe that the most exceptional ideas often emerge from outside the confines of conventional work structures.

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Martech

JULY 27, 2023

Before we get to this week’s round-up of AI-powered martech platforms, solutions and features, here’s an interesting survey about marketers and AI. Even though marketers have doubts about its output and accuracy, 72% use AI tools at least once a month, according to a new survey. The survey by Basis Technologies was done in July 2023 and had more than 200 respondents from agencies, brands and publishers.

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Search Engine Land

JULY 25, 2023

Google is rolling out two new upgrades to Performance Max. Dynamic Search Ads (DSA) and Google Display Ads (GDA) campaign upgrades are now available to all advertisers. Opting in is voluntary. If you decide to upgrade, you can do so via a self-serve tool that will appear in their accounts. A new, separate PMax campaign will be created for each upgraded campaign, using a combination of settings and learnings from existing campaigns to maintain consistent performance, Google said.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 24, 2023

Google’s tech gurus have been busy working on understanding language and how words connect on a webpage. They’ve come up with tools like ‘neural matching’ and ‘BERT’, and with every Google update , the search engine is becoming more and more sophisticated. But just because Google’s getting smarter, doesn’t mean businesses are keeping up. A lot of website owners are still stuck using outdated tactics, optimizing their websites with just a handful of keywords.

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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.

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Buffer Marketing

JULY 25, 2023

Newsletters, as we know them, have been around for a really long time (even longer if you think back to pre-email times). They’ve also been a mainstay of the Internet since its inception. Newsletters have become a major content format among creators, partly due to their appeal to targeted interest groups and because email is the next best thing to social media for reaching audiences.

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Martech

JULY 27, 2023

CabinetM has released its Q2 2023 MarTech Innovation Report, a quarterly summary of new technology introductions, feature updates and acquisitions. Key findings. In Q2 2023, there were 128 new product announcements, an uptick from previous quarters driven partly by new AI tools. Investment in martech companies was spread across 24 categories and decreased from $13.2 billion in Q1 2023 to $3.1 billion in Q2.

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yorCMO

JULY 24, 2023

Social media has become vital for businesses. But as a growth-minded CEO, you may wonder if it's better to do it in house or outsource it.

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Search Engine Land

JULY 24, 2023

Google has confirmed an issue with the link report within Google Search Console. The issue seems to be impacting the number of links shown in that report. John Mueller, a Google Search Advocate, said “To update here, we did find something” with the link report. He added, “Hopefully it’ll be resolved this week.” Link report issues.

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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

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 24, 2023

Your B2B marketing strategy can only succeed with accurate data capturing your efforts and how well they worked for you—and all that information needs to be stored and analyzed somewhere. That’s where Google Analytics 4 (GA4) comes in. As the replacement for Universal Analytics (UA), GA4 offers new features, including better data collection, upgraded privacy controls, and predictive capabilities.

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Martech

JULY 27, 2023

In this new series, we dig deeper into the stories of our expert contributors. This interview has been edited for clarity and length. Jen Bergren has been breaking down HubSpot releases for us since May 2022. As head of operations at a HubSpot RevOps and WebOps agency and a teacher at the HubSpot Academy, she’s the ideal person to explain HubSpot innovations in a language everyone can understand.

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Rock Content

JULY 24, 2023

Since its release in November of 2022 , ChatGPT has changed the landscape of content creation as we know it—and as new artificial intelligence (AI) technologies continue to emerge, the lines between human-generated and computer-generated content have become increasingly blurry. Yes, it’s true that AI has changed not only the way we write—but the way we think about content.

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CMO Network

JULY 25, 2023

Threads, the Twitter-like app created by Meta, has seen a sharp drop in activity. Is this the beginning of the end for Threads?

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