Hubspot Marketing

JUNE 22, 2018

Whether you’re working for a small agency or a major marketing firm, you’re probably eventually going to need to fill out a Request for Proposal, or RFP. Your company can’t do everything internally, and when your business needs to purchase a product or service from elsewhere, you might need to shop around. An RFP allows you to collect offers from various vendors and select the vendor that best meets your criteria, both in regards to skill and budget.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 22, 2018

By now, marketing automation is nothing short of mainstream in the digital are we find ourselves in, but we may only be at the beginning of the revolution. According to Grand View Research , the marketing automation industry could be valued at $7.63 billion(!) by 2025, which means there’s no better time than now to adopt an automation solution in your own practices.

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Adams & Knight Marketing

JUNE 18, 2018

Adams & Knight, an integrated digital marketing agency in Avon, Connecticut, won 43 awards across all categories at the 63 rd Annual Advertising Club of Connecticut Awards Show, including two best of industry awards. On behalf of its clients, Adams & Knight won more awards than any other agency in the state for a variety of TV, radio, digital marketing , out-of-home, video, photography and integrated marketing campaigns for regional brands to national innovators, including the New Englan

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Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 18, 2018

Video options abound, particularly given its growing influence on content marketing success. If you’re thinking video is best done on social media channels, you may not reap the biggest benefits. You need to create videos for your website. To make that pitch to your brand’s executives, read on and grab some stats to support your case. Plus, explore a way video can become a revenue stream for your business.

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Hubspot Marketing

JUNE 21, 2018

Understanding the difference between UX and UI can get confusing -- the roles work closely together, and sometimes the terms are used too ambiguously to firmly understand either one. To understand the difference between UX and UI, let’s start with an example: YouTube. Take a look at the YouTube home screen. Everything you’re seeing -- the search bar at the top, the “Trending” and “Subscriptions” and “History” categories on the left, the “Recommended” videos below -- is all the work of a UI desig

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

Account-based marketing is the ultimate personalization tool. Instead of incurring the unnecessary expense of marketing to broad swaths of the population, an account-centric strategy isolates key business accounts and markets directly to these individual units. By appealing to specific leaders and stakeholders who can benefit from what your company has to offer, you can make marketing efforts simultaneously more tailored and more effective.

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Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 21, 2018

“These buyer personas will help you craft killer content for our client’s audience,” they told me. They were wrong. You see, “Marketing Agency X” (unnamed for reasons which will soon become clear) would send us four-page buyer persona descriptions. Each one delved deep into the fictional lives of the characters they had created for their clients – describing a day in the life of that character in Dickens-like detail.

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Traackr

JUNE 21, 2018

How Sipsmith harnesses the power of influencer marketing and word-of-mouth to scale its hand-crafted gin globally.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 18, 2018

While having thousands upon thousands of social followers is certainly something to brag about, the number means little if those followers largely ignore your brand. Engagement is the key to success for social media marketing—brands that drive more engagement from their audience are generally rewarded with better visibility and organic reach. All of these things—a large number of followers, an engaged audience, and a boost in organic visibility —are lofty achievements in today’s tough social med

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 19, 2018

Content marketing, when you peel away all the layers of techniques, trends, and possibilities, is a business opportunity. At its core, it’s a tool businesses can use for growth. Unlike other methods, there is something special that makes content marketing stand out as the golden boy of modern marketing. It’s sustainable. When done well – […]. The post Marketing 101: What Is Content Marketing?

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Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 19, 2018

To produce reliable and scalable results, think beyond the content you write. Look at the structure and targeting of your content. Here’s a crash course on three advanced SEO techniques to help you get more conversions and better ranking from content you’re creating. You won’t need the help of your IT department to use these techniques, but you will need to think like a strategist.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 22, 2018

Voice Search: What Small Business Owner’s and Marketers Need to Know written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch About Voice Search. An increasing number of people are turning to search devices, but not necessarily search engines per se. We have laptops and our phones, and then, of course, we’ve got these Alexa and Google Home devices.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 19, 2018

Content marketing can be a time-consuming endeavor, especially for small business owners or marketing teams that only include a few people. While compiling personas is a vital part of the process, many people choose to skip this step because they don’t see the value. This can save time in the long run, but the content you produce isn’t likely to drive the kind of conversions you’re hoping to see.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 20, 2018

Businesses invest in employee advocacy to expand the reach of their brands on social media, increase employee engagement, and generate new leads. When employees use their personal social networks to promote and publicize their company on social media they help to drive brand awareness, improve the brand image, build a loyal audience, and drive traffic […].

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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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Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 22, 2018

Editor’s note: In case you missed this post last year, we’re bringing it back and adding some fresh content too. I’ve heard there are people who believe that “getting there is half the fun.” But to me, everything that happens between my decision to leave my house and my lying on a beach chair with a fruity drink in my hand is just stress-inducing static and delayed gratification.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 19, 2018

Your Guide to Google Search Console written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. The video above is a replay of a recent live webinar I conducted. Combined with the text below you should have a pretty good feel for how to use the new Google Search Console. There is a tremendous amount of interest in Google tools, especially for small business owners because these are important tools and they change a lot, making them difficult to stay on top of.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 21, 2018

Launching an agency means challenges are bound to arise, and these challenges often revolve around money and perspective. When the two collide, that’s when most agencies stumble a bit. As soon as the words “revenue” and “loss” appear in the same sentence, many agencies understandably freeze with fear. It’s easy to lose objectivity and the ability to stay focused on the big picture.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 18, 2018

“Hello. We would like to inform you that we’ve updated our privacy policy that will go into effect June 8…” How many emails have you gotten in the last month that start like that? Inboxes across the world are getting flooded with emails all about updated privacy policy. It’s important for businesses to do that […]. The post How To Get Your Emails to Stand Out When Everybody Else is Sending Spam appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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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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Zumvu

JUNE 17, 2018

There is no shortage of data on the internet when referring to SEO backlinking, with numerous articles teaching people what can be done to increase rankings in a highly organic manner.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 16, 2018

Weekend Favs June 16 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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Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 20, 2018

Does your online content have an expiration date? Is it only good for 30 days? A year? Two years? Thanks to search engines – whether you like it or not – your content is evergreen. But while your content’s always discoverable technically, you need to think strategically about how it can be valuable all years round for searchers and Google’s algorithm.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 18, 2018

Want to run a more effective organization? Employee activation is the key to driving your business into the future with the resilience required to move further into the post-digital era. When your employees are activated, they are engaged, more productive, and will help to establish your business as a trustworthy, authentic brand with whom your […].

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 19, 2018

Treatment for addiction continues to be a growth industry in the United States. It is no exaggeration to say that the continuing increase in alcohol and drug addiction is having a devastating effect on the lives of tens of thousands of people, and is a crippling source of lost income and productivity not just in […]. The post How The Healthcare Industry Is Slowly Becoming Better At Ethical Marketing Practices appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 20, 2018

Getting inside the marketing mind means not only understanding your customers and how they make decisions but understanding your own marketing efforts to ensure they align with your customers and prospects. Marketing Mind Take a look at the infographic at the bottom of this post (if you have trouble reading it, simply click on the […]. The post Marketing Mind: Understand Your Customers to Optimize Performance appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 22, 2018

For the 180th episode of The Marketing Book Podcast, I interviewed Bernadette Jiwa, author of Story Driven: Your Don’t Need to Compete When You Know Who You Are. In her newest book she explains that every business is driven by one of two philosophies – a company is either competition driven or story driven. The […]. The post Weekend Reading: “Story Driven” by Bernadette Jiwa appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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