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Marketing ops today: Who are these people?

Martech

A new report packed with data describes the state of MOPs today — who they are, where they sit in their respective organizations, the technology and tools they use, and the future of MOPs. Here’s the current state of play: “With constant requests for reports, growing responsibilities, and being siloed from other departments, ops professionals don’t have the support and resources they need to scale and empower others with data.” But that doesn’t mean the outlook is gloomy:

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Influencer Marketing Guide: How to Work With Social Media Influencers

Hootsuite

Influencer marketing—also known as branded content or working with creators—is a surefire way to expand the reach of your brand on social media. There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to making this strategy work, but with the right planning and research, just about every business can benefit. Let’s look at how to make a social media influencer program work for you.

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Why Testing the Rendering of Every Email You Send Increases Your ROI

Litmus

Email design is a moving target. Whether marketers like it or not, it’s impossible to create a single email design because the rendering of any individual email changes depending on the email client and screen size used to view it, on top of many other factors. Recent research shows up to 300,000 different potential renderings for each email you send.

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10 Social Media Tips for Restaurant Marketing

Neil Patel

If you own a restaurant and aren’t leveraging social media, you are missing out. Think about this: you can reach thousands, if not millions, of viewers using popular restaurant marketing hashtags like #foodporn and #foodphotography. Platforms like Instagram and Facebook let you upload attractive images with location tags, making them ideal for restaurant marketing.

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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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4 Calls-to-Action Proven to Increase Lead Generation

Marketing Insider Group

Calls-to-Action (CTAs) are everything in B2B marketing. They direct your audiences’ next step in the buyer’s journey and determine the success of your campaign. Well-crafted CTAs encourage prospects to click and convert to a marketing qualified lead (MQL), or possibly to a sales qualified lead (SQL), depending on which type of CTA you present. The first step in developing any marketing campaign is to determine its goal and this includes pinning down the action we want our audience to take.

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Don’t Let a Poor Customer Experience Derail Your Content Results

Content Marketing Institute

Content marketers know how hard it is to attract and win customers. But what happens when your content promises fall apart in the customer experience? Andrew Davis offers a cautionary tale. Continue reading → The post Don’t Let a Poor Customer Experience Derail Your Content Results appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Internal Site Search is Killing Your Conversion Rate (Here’s How to Fix It)

Neil Patel

An internal site search is a must-have. However, it’s often viewed as an afterthought rather than a true conversion optimization tool – and that could be killing your conversion rate. So what should you know about improving your site search? Here are a few tips on making the most of site searches. What is Internal Site Search and Why Does it Matter?

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What to Look for in a Copywriting Service: The B2B Marketer’s Guide

Marketing Insider Group

A copywriting service can feel like a nice-to-have luxury. Anyone can write content, right? There are so many other important places to allocate your budget. If you’ve gone down this line of thinking you’re not alone, but we’re here to tell you that it’s a trap. A copywriting service for B2B companies is one of the most worthwhile investments you can make for your business.

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Try these Storytelling Structures To Build, Strengthen, or Repair Your Brand

Content Marketing Institute

A slick logo, tag line, and mission can make the claim your brand is the most distinctive. But if you don’t deliver on that, your audience will make their own conclusion. Nowhere does this play a bigger role today than in your content. Continue reading → The post Try these Storytelling Structures To Build, Strengthen, or Repair Your Brand appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Page Speed and Google June-July 2021 Core Algo Updates via @sejournal, @martinibuster

Search Engine Journal

Google's John Mueller explains how ranking changes can be attributed to page speed but core updates were separate things The post Page Speed and Google June-July 2021 Core Algo Updates appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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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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The Ultimate Guide to Google Ads Campaign Management

Neil Patel

We’ve all seen Google Ads. Whether you call it Google AdSense, AdWords, or Ads, they’re the ads displayed in the search results on Google. Learning how to set them up is important, but learning how to manage and maintain their performance is a whole different ball game. In this guide, we’re pulling back the curtain and looking at what steps you’ll want to take after you have the ad set up.

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3 free social media campaign templates you can use right now—and why you need one

Sprout Social

There’s nothing more intimidating than a blank page (or spreadsheet, depending on your preference). A strategy can be crystal clear in your head, but documenting it to share with others always feels like a hurdle, especially when it comes to campaign planning. Luckily, that’s where templates come in. A social media campaign template can help you speed through the documentation process so you can focus on bringing your team’s vision to life.

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What Influencers Wish Brands Knew About Sponsored Content Partnerships

Content Marketing Institute

Publishing sponsored content through bloggers and influencers requires you to do some homework. Here’s what they want you to know about the best way to work with them on your sponsored content partnerships. Continue reading → The post What Influencers Wish Brands Knew About Sponsored Content Partnerships appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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A Complete Guide to the Google Fred Algorithm via @sejournal, @beanstalkim

Search Engine Journal

Google's Fred update saw some sites shed up to 90% of their traffic and sought to rid the SERPs of thin, ad-heavy content. The post A Complete Guide to the Google Fred Algorithm appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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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 Market a Book: 7 Strategies

Neil Patel

It might feel like you’ve already done the hard work. You’ve spent hours with a keyboard or notebook in your hands, writing away. You’ve edited, edited, and edited some more—and may have even struggled through the complicated process of self-publishing. Now you have to go to the next step: marketing your book. This entails getting your book “out there,” earning an audience, and generating sales.

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Will the promise of true marketing automation finally be realized?

Martech

Circa 2004, the marketing world was buzzing with a new trend: marketing automation. Robust new platforms burst onto the scene, opening up a world of possibilities for marketers to get more done in less time. What was the promise of this new category? That marketing automation would take away all the tedious, repetitive marketing tasks that marketers hated, freeing them up to focus on more creative and strategic projects.

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How Video Email Affects Your Audience (and More Content Examples)

Content Marketing Institute

New research into video email shows how it gets audiences’ synapses firing. A content collaboration taps into the drive to create. And a helping hand in the greeting card aisle turns into a savvy way to promote a new service. Continue reading → The post How Video Email Affects Your Audience (and More Content Examples) appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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How Does Web Hosting Affect SEO & Which One is Best? via @sejournal, @RyanJones

Search Engine Journal

Does web hosting impact your SEO, and which host is best? We go through the misinformation and get the facts straight here. The post How Does Web Hosting Affect SEO & Which One is Best? appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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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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22 Marketing Techniques That Cost You Time, Not Money

Neil Patel

Here is a common situation many startups face. They have no money, but they have to do marketing. What can they do? Instead of focusing on costly marketing methods, such startups must focus on low-budget marketing hacks. The beauty of growth hacking is that it engages alternate methods of growth, methods which are sometimes lower cost. Where marketing and engineering meet, growth hacking happens.

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Top social media monitoring capabilities for brands

Martech

Social media has become a valuable resource for consumers to interact with the brands they love and discover new ones. New users across the globe are flocking to social media platforms in record numbers and adding their voices to your brand’s narrative. With social media tools, brands can capture a wealth of measurable insights from the consumer data that social networks provide.

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Successful events start with social

Sprout Social

What do events teams and social teams have in common? Both are called upon to “work their magic.” But for both teams, that perceived magic is action rooted in strategy, data and user experience. Listen below and read on to hear Sprout’s Manager of Events, Alysha Daytner, and Senior Manager of Social Media, Rachael Samuels talk about how they partner to produce outstanding experiences. .

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Here’s What a Comprehensive Paid Search Program Looks Like via @sejournal, @GrpTwentySeven

Search Engine Journal

Discover the main components of a comprehensive paid search program and decide which elements you should include in yours. The post Here’s What a Comprehensive Paid Search Program Looks Like appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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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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How to Run Law Firm Marketing Campaigns That Work

Neil Patel

Law firm marketing is essential to attracting clients and sharing what your law practice offers. It can also set you apart from other practices in your area. The goals and the practical details of law firm marketing are not as obvious and straightforward as marketing for other brands. Rather than pushing a product or service upon them, you want to draw people to your law firm.

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Dare to be less-same: Marketoon of the Week

Martech

In today’s Marketoon, we put differentiation to the test. Fishburne’s take: When I worked on the Method brand from 2006-2010, we often talked about about trying to stand out in a “sea of sameness.” Like many aisles in the grocery story, household cleaning was dominated by brands that looked and sounded alike — same stock bottle packaging, same messaging, same product benefits, same designs, same claims.

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Do You Realize YouTube Stole Your Traffic?

Calvyn Lee Blog

Do you know as a business owner, marketers, blogger, we most afraid is our hard earn traffic been diverted away from our website? If you embed YouTube video in your website, you will definitely face this issue. This is a very crucial issue, a lot of business owner have been struggling with this issue for a while. They have been embedding their sales video in the website, but YouTube always suggests other video at the end of the vide and the traffic being diverted to YouTube.com instead of viewin

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LinkedIn Launches Native Video Meetings via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Search Engine Journal

LinkedIn is rolling out native video meetings, which lets users have one to one calls directly within the LinkedIn app. The post LinkedIn Launches Native Video Meetings appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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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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Geo-Targeting: How to Use it to Increase Conversions

Neil Patel

Websites allow users to access your website from anywhere in the world. A small eCommerce site in Florida can just as easily reach a businessman in India as a family in South Carolina. Even if you have a “.com” com” English-only site, you may very well be an international business by default. The problem? Those people live very different lives.

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CTV growth continues and 30-second ads remain dominant

Martech

We know that with the successful launch of new streaming apps, as well as the growth among platforms like live sports channel fuboTV, that viewers are flocking to the medium to watch live as well as on-demand content. For instance, fuboTV hit records in revenue and new subscribers in Q2. Ad revenue grew 281% YoY, and they now have close to 700,000 total subscribers who pay for the service.

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How To Plan A Successful In-Person Events

Calvyn Lee Blog

In this seminars marketing guide, I’ll share you tips as you plan and execute your own in-person seminars. Let’s begin by talking a bit about what events marketing is and why it’s beneficial for your business. Then, let’s look at two common types of events: traditional seminars and networking seminars. Next, I’ll share you through important activities to do before, during, and after a seminar to ensure success.

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Google Recommends Adding Author URL in Article Schema via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Search Engine Journal

Google recommends adding an author's URL to article schema to help with disambiguating the correct author when multiple writers have the same or similar names. The post Google Recommends Adding Author URL in Article Schema appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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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.