Neil Patel
MAY 27, 2021
According to BrightEdge, 68 percent of all online experiences start with a search engine , and 53 percent of website traffic comes from organic search. Yet, only 0.78 percent of these searchers click results on the second page of Google. That means if you’re not showing up on the front page of the SERPs, you aren’t getting traffic. It’s clear why SEO is a top priority for marketers.
Hootsuite
MAY 26, 2021
Social selling — maybe you’ve heard of it, but you aren’t entirely sure what it means. Think it’s the same as social media marketing ? (Spoiler: It’s not.). Or maybe you think it’s basically just social media advertising ? (Second spoiler: Also no. That’s something else altogether.). In short, social selling allows your business to zero in on business prospects on social media and build rapport with a network of potential leads.
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Hubspot Marketing
MAY 25, 2021
In more ways than one, branding is a pillar of success. It helps you develop a set of features unique to your business, like a logo and brand name, which allows customers to come to know your brand and associate it with what you have to offer. Branding is impactful in and of itself, but co-branding brings additional opportunities and benefits to businesses that engage in it.
Content Marketing Institute
MAY 27, 2021
When you need to fill your editorial calendar, you have two choices: Wait for inspiration or develop a system to seek out stellar ideas. This post is for everyone ready to roll up their sleeves and get building. Continue reading → The post 6 Content Calendar Strategies That Work Better Than Waiting for Inspiration appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.
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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.
Neil Patel
MAY 28, 2021
Having multiple-location SEO enables businesses to attract website traffic from various states or countries across the globe. It brings a lot of benefits to e-commerce businesses that offer worldwide or international shipping. If you have it in place, you can expand your customer base and quickly grow your business. How to do multiple-location SEO? Here are some of the tips you need to know.
Marketing Insider Group
MAY 25, 2021
As a marketer, creating and publishing the right content in the proper context is essential. Many marketers can waste precious time, energy, and resources producing the wrong content for the wrong audiences. That’s why we consider buyer intent to help our clients hone into their target audience to understand their needs better and give them what they’re seeking.
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Hubspot Marketing
MAY 25, 2021
Ever click on a website, take one look and say "Hm, that's going to be a no" while you look for the exit button? For me, it's usually because of three reasons: the site looks outdated, crowded, or hard to navigate. Bad design can keep your target audience from gaining any interest in your brand. That's why it's important to understand the key design principles that will help you draw your audience in, keep them on the page, and generate conversions.
Neil Patel
MAY 26, 2021
With more than a billion unique monthly visitors , Bing is a hugely popular search engine. Sure, it’s nowhere near as popular as the world’s biggest search engine, Google , but it’s an impressive and powerful platform in its own right. In fact, if you’re running a paid ads campaign, it could be a mistake to ignore Bing and all the possibilities it can offer you.
Marketing Insider Group
MAY 24, 2021
Content marketing has grown exponentially over the past few years. That’s because companies are finally getting the message that great content is the key to business success along the entire customer journey. A career in content marketing is now one of the hottest jobs on the planet. Content Marketing spend is projected to grow $269 billion or so by 2024, to over $600 billion in 2024. 75% of that budget is spent on outsourced content creation with agencies like ours.
Content Marketing Institute
MAY 24, 2021
If you want to build a loyal and trusting audience consistently over time and believe by doing that you can accomplish your marketing goals. The Content Inc. model is for you. Continue reading → The post 7 Steps to Build a Successful Long-Term Content Model appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.
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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.
Hubspot Marketing
MAY 26, 2021
When it comes to email marketing, there's no denying how powerful this channel can be. According to a 2019 Campaign Monitor report , for every $1 you spend, you earn $42 – an astonishing return on investment. If you're scaling a business, you may have relied on personal or business email providers like Gmail and Outlook in the past. However, they're not equipped to manage large volumes of email and provide the data needed to track performance.
Neil Patel
MAY 24, 2021
You’ve worked hard to perfect your ad campaign, create action-inducing landing pages, and win sales. Your ads have just gone live, but there’s one big problem: People are out there clicking your ads over and over with absolutely no intention of buying anything. It sounds dramatic, but click fraud is something advertisers should be aware of (advertisers lose around $5.8 billion a year globally), and it can make a difference to the success of your ads.
Marketing Insider Group
MAY 26, 2021
If you’re in the initial stages of building a new business, you may feel overwhelmed and underprepared to manage your ever-growing marketing to-do list. We’re here today to help simplify what can be a complex process: building a successful content marketing program. In our step-by-step guide, we’ll walk through what you need to know to develop a sophisticated content marketing plan to hit your goals and win new customers for your business.
Content Marketing Institute
MAY 25, 2021
Every content marketer knows there’s so much more to content creation than thinking up ideas and writing them down. This guide will help you gather the resources and skills you need to create content that delivers for your audience and your brand every time. Continue reading → The post Discover the Secrets to Successful Content Creation appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.
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!
Sprout Social
MAY 25, 2021
Social media is all about engagement and interacting with your audience. This means that when your followers and customers actually leave social media comments on your posts, you need to be responding – even if they’re not necessarily the nicest comments. It can seem a little daunting to know the best way to interact with customers as your brand, so we’ve put together this guide on the different types of social media comments you’ll face and how to respond to them.
Hubspot Marketing
MAY 27, 2021
Knowing the ins and outs of Excel is essential for organizing data, understanding analytics, and getting the most from your marketing efforts. The tool is great for quickly processing vast amounts of data, but it can be overwhelming if you don't spend the majority of your workday whipping up spreadsheets. Fortunately, a few basic skills are all you need to put together an easy-to-read spreadsheet.
Marketing Insider Group
MAY 23, 2021
Online attendees can be difficult to engage in your event due to a higher presence of distractions and a potentially shorter attention span in the virtual event environment. Event organizer s need to recognize this reality and create a solid engagement strategy to keep attendees immersed in the event experience. Your team should build such a strategy into your virtual event plan from the outset.
Content Marketing Institute
MAY 26, 2021
If SEO is important to your brand, now is the time to improve the user experience. Starting in June, your Core Web Vitals (aka the user experience) will become a Google ranking factor. Not on the tech side? You still need to know this. Continue reading → The post Don’t Know Code? You Still Need to Know Google’s Core Web Vitals appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.
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.
Sprout Social
MAY 26, 2021
If you want to tell your brand story to a variety of audiences, look no further than LinkedIn. LinkedIn is home to job seekers, hiring managers, sales teams and consumers alike. As one of the only social media platforms established for the sole purpose of professional networking, it offers a unique opportunity to support your business beyond marketing.
Neil Patel
MAY 26, 2021
If you have a website, you need to know what bots are and how they can find your site, as well as what they can do (either intentionally or indirectly) to cause frustration to your online marketing efforts. Blocking bots may be a necessity to protect your site’s speed, users, and security. Let’s talk about what bots are and how you can put up some defenses to start protecting your website.
Litmus
MAY 26, 2021
Email inboxes get filled with any number of different types of communications. From transactional emails, personal conversations, business memos and promotions, inboxes are a mess of messages. So it’s no surprise you might still hear the question, “Is email marketing dead?” Trying to stand out in the crowd can be overwhelming. How do you talk to your audience in a way that makes them pay attention?
Content Marketing Institute
MAY 28, 2021
Gillette Venus tries to destigmatize pubic hair. A new digital series from L’Oréal Professionnel aims to outdo traditional product marketing. Constant Contact reveals eye-opening email response-rate data. Take a closer look at what you can learn from these examples. Continue reading → The post 3 Hair-Raising Content Marketing Stories to Read This Week appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.
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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.
Sprout Social
MAY 25, 2021
As a Virgo, I often blame my perfectionism on my astrological sign. Ever since I could remember, I have been a naturally competitive person—whether that was in the classroom, playing video games or even choosing which college I attended. That competitive spirit carried over into my job search, too. After applying for over 100 social media associate jobs, I was only invited to interview for three companies.
Neil Patel
MAY 27, 2021
Memorial Day means many things to many people. At its heart, it’s a day to commemorate the brave American soldiers who died fighting for this country. For many, the Memorial Day weekend also marks the start of summer and a chance to grab a deal in the annual holiday shopping event. The shopping event is no longer the preserve of brick-and-mortar stores.
Litmus
MAY 24, 2021
Email marketers—and especially the designers that build campaigns—are constantly looking for ways to improve the production process. Whether it’s embracing automated previews and quality assurance (QA) tools or hunting around for faster ways to code emails, efficiency is the name of the game. Combined with the need for speed is the need to scale. Especially with the onset of COVID-19 and people working and buying from home, companies are sending more emails than ever. 54% have increased email vo
Duct Tape Marketing
MAY 26, 2021
The Incremental Approach To Innovation? written by Sara Nay read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Agency Spark Podcast with With Chris MacLeod. The Agency Spark Podcast, hosted by Sara Nay, is a collection of interviews from thought leaders in the marketing consultancy and agency space. Each episode is designed to spark ideas you can put into practice for your agency today.
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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
Search Engine Journal
MAY 27, 2021
A warning of penalties for User Generated Content (UGC) spam was published by Google. Publishers encouraged to follow these tips The post Google Warns of Manual Actions for UGC Spam appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Neil Patel
MAY 25, 2021
Whether you run a YouTube channel, blog, or social media empire, it pays to know how many subscribers you have on each platform. Not only do subscriber counts show you which channels are working and which aren’t, but you can also leverage them to build stronger and more profitable partnerships with brands. Checking your subscriber count isn’t always easy, though.
Industrial Marketer
MAY 25, 2021
Much like the larger world around us, the industrial information ecosystem has become very fragmented. People consume information in all sorts of ways through all sorts of channels. But everyone uses search engines, which represent an opportunity to connect fragmented audiences around a common marketing message. Why Search Engines Matter So Much Right Now Why.
Backlinko
MAY 25, 2021
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