Sat.Nov 10, 2018 - Fri.Nov 16, 2018

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14 Unforgettable Color Palettes to Help You Design Your Own

Hubspot Marketing

It's a well-known fact that colors can influence mood -- consider how you feel differently when you enter a bright orange room, versus a muted gray. But did you know color also plays a major factor on your customer's first impressions of your brand? People generally make up their minds on how they feel about a product within the first 90 seconds -- and about 62-90 percent of their assessment is based on colors alone.

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Increased Email Clicks Might Not Be Due to Your Marketing Prowess

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Email marketers are reporting an increase in click volumes. Is this because marketers are just that good now? Unfortunately, not so much. The most common were instances of user behavior where all the links within an email have been clicked. Often, these were narrowed down to specific business targets at the same corporate domain within a customer’s database.

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The Future of Digital Marketing: Content Marketing Predictions for 2019 and Beyond

Marketing Insider Group

The digital marketing landscape changes so much and so frequently that it’s almost impossible to imagine what the future of digital marketing may offer in terms of opportunities. During the last year or two, we’ve seen new technologies, a backlash of sorts in social media, and influencer marketing maturing from its early days as a viable […]. The post The Future of Digital Marketing: Content Marketing Predictions for 2019 and Beyond appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Digital out-of-home (DOOH) advertising trends 2019

Bannerflow

Digital out-of-home (DOOH) is developing at speed. Yet, like every advertising channel it is undergoing disruption. There are new players challenging established brands, and out-of-home (OOH) networks are expanding digital signage as fast as they can. The trends defined in this article are some of the most important. Building on the success of OOH. Out-of-home advertising offers a brand safe environment, with unparalleled viewability.

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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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Wordpress.org vs WordPress.com: What’s the Difference?

Hubspot Marketing

Year after year, WordPress ranks as one of the top website building tools available. This easy-to-use CMS (content management system) software is beginner-friendly, offers a variety of plans, and allows you to quickly create and manage a unique and functional website for your visitors. If you’re looking to build a site on WordPress, one of the first questions you may find yourself asking is, “What’s the difference between WordPress.org and WordPress.com?”.

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Why Both Data & Relationships are Essential to Personalized Marketing

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

As the importance of customer retention and customer lifetime value (LTV) become more popular in the world of marketing and sales, personalized marketing is also popping up in more and more marketing team discussions. Today’s advanced marketers are touting the benefits of personalized marketing campaigns, which range from landing page headlines that adapt to the copy on the ads that were clicked, to email newsletters tailored to a specific segment of subscribers.

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Traackr Integrates Twitch Expanding Influencer Discovery & Analytics

Traackr

With the integration of Twitch, Traackr provides influencer discovery and influencer analytics for game developers seeking to build relatinoships with gamers.

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Build a Great Brand: Align What You Think, Do, and Say

Content Marketing Institute

“Content marketing is becoming marketing.” That’s the first item John Hall cites in his Forbes article about 2019 content marketing trends to watch. Once a radical idea (despite its historical roots), the concept of replacing one-sided information pushes with two-way conversations and relationships with audiences is now commonplace with marketing teams.

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What Do Your Customers & Prospects Want from Your Website?

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEO, marketing campaigns, and customer loyalty programs are just a few of the techniques you’ve likely used to draw customers in and keep them coming back for more. You’re competing against a lot of other things vying for your customers’ attention. It’s hard to pinpoint an exact number of small businesses because the number is forever changing, but there are over 28 million small businesses in the United States alone.

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The Role of Marketing in Prototyping: Creating Prototypes with POP

Marketing Insider Group

Pictured: Students at JMU Prototyping using POP The role of marketing in prototyping and other technical aspects of new product development is often very small. There are many reasons underpinning this, but the biggest reason is that marketing students aren’t taught technical skills. I am to fix that and I started with my class at […]. The post The Role of Marketing in Prototyping: Creating Prototypes with POP appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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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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Get to connection faster: social customer care powered by HubSpot and Sprout

Sprout Social

Social media has evolved from a nascent marketing channel to an integrated part of all business functions. It’s become critical for businesses to develop a sophisticated approach for how they find, communicate with and support their customers on social. Gone are the days when brands could broadcast discounts, deals and product information and “go dark” when a customer raised a complaint.

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3 Easy Ways Content Marketers Can Provide Instant Value to the Sales Teams

Content Marketing Institute

Editor’s note: Pam Didner recently authored the book Effective Sales Enablement for marketers. In this article, she shares that perspective with three ways content marketers can provide value to the sales team. Most content marketers focus on meeting marketing’s needs to build brand awareness, drive demand, or nurture prospects to convert them to qualified leads.

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What Is Privacy Forward and Why Does it Matter for Marketers?

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

When I worked as a webmaster at AOL in the early days, every employee had visibility into every member’s account. Then in 1999, a naval officer was outed by one of the employees after he logged into an alternate profile with a different screen name. AOL’s course of action was to immediately shut down access to all members’ data and hire an integrity assurance officer.

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Battling Back Against Marketing Malpractice

Marketing Insider Group

Have you ever been sitting in the doctor’s office, waiting for her to come in and solve whatever ails you? Of course. We all have. So, how does that interaction go? As you sit on that ungodly crinkly white paper reading last July’s People magazine, you have a basic understanding of what will happen when […]. The post Battling Back Against Marketing Malpractice appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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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 Build A Website that Generates Leads

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Build A Website that Generates Leads written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. In today’s day and age, every business owner knows they must have an online presence to be competitive. But not everyone understands how to optimize that online presence. Your website is the heart of your business’s online existence, so ensuring that it’s designed to maximize lead generation is critical to securing long-term success for your company.

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How to Survive the Ongoing Confusion With SEO

Content Marketing Institute

Search is one of the most vital – and misunderstood – components of a content distribution strategy. The ongoing algorithm shifts initiated by the search engines make it hard to be confident that you’re doing everything you can to optimize content performance. As part of CMI’s new Mastering Content Marketing video series, we asked Courtney Cox Wakefield , digital marketing manager at Children’s Health, to share her view on trends shaping the search landscape, and the challenges and opportunities

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The Automated Agency: Taking Care of Business in Marketing’s New Age

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

When it comes to marketing, times have changed. From advertising to public relations, digital has taken over. Hiring and keeping talent is more difficult and the use of consultants has risen, making capacity planning hard. The growth of project-based work is complicating team utilization and pipeline forecasting for in-house marketing teams and agencies.

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The Impact Of Buyer Transformation On Marketing 2020

Marketing Insider Group

A hot buzzword during the past couple of years has been digital transformation. It has branched off a few more in the world of marketing and sales: Martech Transformation Sales Transformation CX Transformation Customer Engagement Transformation I am sure there are more. At the risk of being a buzz killer, there is something amiss about […]. The post The Impact Of Buyer Transformation On Marketing 2020 appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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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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How Human Connection Elevates Marketing

Duct Tape Marketing

How Human Connection Elevates Marketing written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Seth Godin. Podcast Transcript. This week on the Duct Tape Marketing podcast, I welcome back Seth Godin. A marketing expert and best-selling author of 19 books, Godin stops by to discuss his latest title, This is Marketing: You Can’t Be Seen Until You Learn to See.

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Data Privacy Law: Ignorance Is No Excuse

Content Marketing Institute

From the Cambridge Analytica and Facebook scandal to the arrival of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), 2018 has pushed data privacy into the headlines. Ruth Carter – internet, intellectual property, and business attorney – talks to CMI’s Chief Content Officer magazine about how marketers should adapt to a world far less forgiving and far more skeptical of the ways we capture and use data.

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3 Mega-Trends from Litmus Live 2018

Litmus

Our yearly series of conferences on all things email—Litmus Live—has come to an end. It’s been a whirlwind across three cities, with dozens of speakers and over a thousand attendees. While it’s always bittersweet to close out Litmus Live for the year, it’s exciting to get back to work and start implementing some of the amazing ideas seen on stage. The talks at Litmus Live 2018 ran the gamut.

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Transform Your Customer Success Journey and Accelerate Growth

Marketing Insider Group

Growth for B2B is hard. It used to be that you could accelerate growth with huge customer acquisition. Ramping up your sales and marketing is not enough to sustain growth. Today, the best companies are growing through customer success. That’s why I interviewed Kia Puhm (@kiapuhm), CEO at K!A CX Consulting to talk about customer success. […]. The post Transform Your Customer Success Journey and Accelerate Growth appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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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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Transcript of How Human Connection Elevates Marketing

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of How Human Connection Elevates Marketing written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. This transcript is sponsored by our transcript partner – Rev – Get $10 off your first order. John Jantsch: You’re never gonna get your message across until you understand the problems and the challenges and you empathize with those people that you’re trying to get the message across to.

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Slow Page Load Time Not Always the Culprit in Poor SEO Rankings

Content Marketing Institute

? ?. If you’re concerned about your Google rankings and website page load speed, you should keep them in perspective. Website developers and marketers buzz about page load time, especially because Google announced beginning this past July that speed is a keyword ranking factor for some mobile versions of websites. In a Google Webmaster Central Blog post , Zhiheng Wang and Doantam Phan write: The ‘Speed Update,’ as we’re calling it, will only affect pages that deliver the slowes

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YouTube SEO: Top Factors to Invest In - Whiteboard Friday

Moz

Posted by randfish If you have an audience on YouTube, are you doing everything you can to reach them? Inspired by a large-scale study from Justin Briggs, Rand covers the top factors to invest in when it comes to YouTube SEO in this week's episode of Whiteboard Friday. Click on the whiteboard image above to open a high-resolution version in a new tab!

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Emerging Opportunities for Digital Marketers to Work Smarter & More Efficiently in 2019 & Beyond

Marketing Insider Group

“There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.” – Napoleon Bonaparte If there’s one area where you can gain agreement across the entire c-suite, it’s in initiatives that save the organization time and money. Unemployment, at the time of this […]. The post Emerging Opportunities for Digital Marketers to Work Smarter & More Efficiently in 2019 & Beyond appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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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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Weekend Favs November 10

Duct Tape Marketing

Weekend Favs November 10 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.

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7 Awesome Offline Marketing Tactics That Benefits Your Online Business

Zumvu

The fact that we live in the digital age has made a lot of marketers focus all their efforts on online marketing tactics. There is no denying that your website is your storefront and the main source of relevant content.

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The Advanced Guide to Keyword Clustering

Moz

Posted by tomcasano If your goal is to grow your organic traffic, you have to think about SEO in terms of “product/market fit.” Keyword research is the “market” (what users are actually searching for) and content is the “product” (what users are consuming). The “fit” is optimization. To grow your organic traffic, you need your content to mirror the reality of what users are actually searching for.

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10 creative Christmas advertising campaign ideas

Bannerflow

It used to be that December marked the beginning of the Christmas period (those were the days!). Now, it seems planning for festive campaigns begins December 26th and the marketing soon after. Yet, using a creative management platform (CMP) for your display advertising means there’s no hurry to join the herd. Design, scale, and publish campaigns in days rather than weeks.

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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.