Businesses Grow
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
At the end of Marketing Rebellion , a bestselling book that served as a wake-up call for the state of marketing, I predicted what might be the next consumer rebellion. I believe I got it right, and the revolution could be coming sooner than I expected. Let’s take a look at what’s going on, and the implications for marketing and our AI future.
Trade Press Services Newsletter
OCTOBER 3, 2024
There’s a generational shift taking place in B2B purchasing. Studies show that younger buyers now represent two-thirds of B2B decision-makers. While traditional B2B marketing strategies have primarily focused on targeting baby boomers, Generation X, and millennials , a new generation is rapidly emerging as a new force in the B2B sector: Gen Z. Born between 1997 and 2012, Generation Z is the first generation to grow up with technology at its fingertips.
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Businesses Grow
JULY 17, 2024
The two most important “soft skills” in marketing are empathy and curiosity. I realized that I’d written more than 3,000 blog posts and had never written about curiosity. How un-curious of me. Curiosity is the spark that ignites innovation in marketing. It’s the fuel that propels us beyond the mundane and into the realm of the remarkable.
Vertical Response
DECEMBER 21, 2024
Conversion in email marketing means turning email recipients into paying customers. High conversion rates drive the success of your campaigns. This article outlines ten practical tips to boost your email marketing conversion and help you achieve better results. Key Takeaways Understanding your target audience through segmentation and behavior analysis is essential for effective email marketing and improved engagement rates.
Advertiser: ZoomInfo
Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.
Content Marketing Institute
APRIL 26, 2024
Tesla dismissed its marketing team this month. The layoffs come only a year after a mandate to “try advertising” that Elon Musk later said was “too generic.” But is marketing really to blame? Is there a takeaway for other companies?
Backlinko
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
What are the 4 Ps of marketing? Product. Price. Place. Promotion. For over 60 years, these four elements have been the cornerstone of many successful marketing strategies. But do these classic principles hold up even as AI transforms whole businesses and industries? Absolutely. Why? Even with AI’s growing influence, the fundamental customer needs haven’t changed.
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Practical eCommerce - Marketing
MAY 17, 2024
Matt Ragland has been creating marketing emails for a decade. Storytelling drives performance, he says. The post The Best Email Marketing Tells a Story appeared first on Practical Ecommerce.
SmartBrief - Marketing
JUNE 3, 2024
Thanks to AI, machines can meticulously analyze and optimize your every click, every scroll and every query. Its impact on search engine optimization strategies cannot be overstated. But what does the future look like for AI SEO tools? Will it continue to help you climb the SERP? Or search engines will penalize your site for abusing it. Let’s discover what lies ahead for AI-driven SEO, and how you can effectively use it to keep the top spot on the search results.
CopyBlogger
MARCH 14, 2024
Mastering email marketing takes years, but focusing on just a few key tips can significantly improve your ROI. This post. Continue Reading The post 10 Email Marketing Tips That Drive 80% of Email Revenue appeared first on Copyblogger.
Aspiration Marketing
DECEMBER 23, 2024
Small businesses are adopting new technology more frequently in the fast-paced digital age of today in an effort to improve client engagement, streamline operations, and spur growth. Digital tools have completely changed the way small businesses run, from sales to marketing, by facilitating the creation of individualized, successful marketing strategies and reaching their target audience.
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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.
The CMO Survey
APRIL 24, 2024
The 32 nd edition of The CMO Survey examines reoccurring questions related to marketing spending and performance, marketing leadership, and marketing jobs. In addition, managing marketing technology, generative AI, growth, and sustainability are special topics covered in this edition. Here are top takeaways, based on a sample of 292 marketing leaders at for-profit U.S. companies, 94% of whom hold positions at VP-level or higher.
Trade Press Services Newsletter
DECEMBER 5, 2024
With new technologies, strategies, and challenges constantly emerging, today’s professionals need to stay on top of the latest trends and best practices. From newsletters and blogs to webinars and podcasts, there’s no shortage of insights shaping the future of B2B marketing. As 2024 comes to a close, we’re taking a look back at the B2B marketing content that made the biggest impact over the past year.
Calvyn Lee Blog
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
The email marketing landscape is dramatically changing in 2024. Google, Yahoo, and other major email providers have announced strict new regulations around authentication, opt-outs, and allowable spam rates. While aimed at reducing spam from unscrupulous emailers, these new rules create huge obstacles for legitimate email marketers. In this comprehensive guide, I’ll break down the new 2024 email regulations, explain how each type of email marketer will be impacted, and provide actionable t
SMEI
APRIL 23, 2024
In the world of sales, it’s a common misconception that a great product is enough to guarantee success. As the excerpt from “Open the Mind and Close the Sale: The secret to success in Selling!” reminds us, building a better mousetrap doesn’t necessarily mean the world will beat a path to your door. In reality, many potential customers may never even hear about your product, and others may find alternative solutions or get used to doing without.
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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.
Ann Handley
AUGUST 29, 2024
A version of this story appeared in Total Annarchy, my fortnightly newsletter that helps you be a better writer, storyteller, marketer. Get it in your inbox ; you’ll love it. Pearl is 8 years old but seems much more mature. Maybe because she’s so quiet. At first, I don’t even notice her there, sitting still and silent. Or maybe it’s the way she meets my gaze directly when I do.
Buffer Marketing
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
After digging into millions of posts sent through Buffer in 2023, we’ve pinpointed the best time to post on all major social platforms for maximum engagement. Discovering the best time and the best day to post on LinkedIn was particularly fascinating. While most other social media platforms can be pretty unpredictable, with ebbs and flows in activity happening at random times of the day, LinkedIn’s high-engagement time slots are like clockwork.
Hubspot Marketing
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
Let’s play a game: Tell me how old you are without telling me how old you are. Not sure how to respond? Well, chances are your content consumption habits give you away. For instance, I love Instagram and Netflix but have left my Snapchat stage behind and don’t understand Roblox. (If you’re scratching your head, don’t worry. By the end of this article, you’ll be able to pinpoint my age, like the label on a wine bottle.
Marketing Insider Group
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
As you might know, AI is revolutionizing how brands generate articles, videos, and even art. Tools like ChatGPT and Jasper are transforming how businesses produce content, offering speed and efficiency that was once unimaginable. The Marketing AI Institute reports that 98% of marketers are using these tools , so they’re incredibly widespread already.
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!
The Marketing Operations Leader
DECEMBER 23, 2024
The live workshop unlike any other is here 👋 Hey, it’s Darrell. If you’re ready to level up your marketing ops career, this is for you. I’ve been working behind the scenes with Mike Rizzo and MarketingOps.com to bring you something I’m really excited about: 👉 Lead with Confidence: A Practical Workshop for Marketing Ops Mastery Why this workshop?
Martech
OCTOBER 30, 2024
Far too many content marketing programs fail to connect the brand to customer problems before the customer starts looking for a solution. At this crucial and overlooked point in the customer journey, most brands provide content about the product and the industry, when they should address specific customer pain points. There’s “a gap that exists in almost every program … when it comes to how to position your brand to put it into the consideration set,” said Liam Moroney at The MarTech Conference
Aspiration Marketing
DECEMBER 26, 2024
Want to rank higher in Google search results? You need to master EEAT! This quality framework, which stands for Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness, is how Google determines if your content is worthy of a top spot. And while all the elements are important, today we're putting the spotlight on "Expertise." Keep reading to discover actionable strategies that will establish you as a true authority in your field.
The CMO Survey
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
Marketing leaders’ optimism about the U.S. economy lost strength, as a three-year-high in confidence levels recorded last spring was dampened by election uncertainty and lingering inflation worries. But despite macroeconomic and political concerns, marketing spending at U.S companies grew by 5.8% during the last year, up from a growth rate of 2.5% in the last survey with projected growth of 8.6% over the next 12 months.
Advertiser: ZoomInfo
In today’s ultra-competitive markets, it’s no longer enough to wait for buyers to show obvious signs of interest. Instead, sales teams must be proactive, identifying and acting on nuanced buyer behaviors — often before prospects are fully ready to make a purchase. In this eBook from ZoomInfo & Sell Better, learn 10 actionable ways to use these buyer signals to transform your sales strategy and close deals faster.
Trade Press Services Newsletter
JULY 11, 2024
Influencer marketing is the practice of collaborating with recognized experts or popular social-media users to drive brand awareness, engagement, and revenue. From viral tooth whitening products to the latest fitness gadgets, influencer marketing is a staple in the B2C marketplace. By partnering with industry influencers, brands can reach new audiences while deepening trust with existing ones.
Calvyn Lee Blog
JANUARY 28, 2024
Reddit can be a great platform for promoting your business, but because many subreddits prohibit direct self-promotion, it’s important to use Reddit wisely. In this in-depth guide, we’ll cover how to effectively promote on Reddit without getting banned. By understanding Reddit’s rules, building credibility through engagement, and providing value to the Reddit community, you can position your business for organic growth and exposure.
SMEI
APRIL 24, 2024
The idea that “salespeople are born, not made” has long been a prevailing notion in the sales industry. However, this outdated belief has been disproven by the authors of “Open the Mind and Close the Sale: The secret to success in selling!” This book sheds light on the misconceptions surrounding sales and highlights the skills and strategies required to succeed in this field.
Search Engine Land
JULY 29, 2024
Change is the only constant in today’s rapidly evolving digital marketing landscape. Keeping up with the latest innovations isn’t just a choice – it’s a necessity for survival. Generative engine optimization (GEO) is the latest major development revolutionizing the way people search and interact with information online. As GEO and its effects on SEO and digital marketing continue to evolve, we’ll cover the basics to equip you with the knowledge to navigate these dynamic changes and stay ahead.
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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.
Buffer Marketing
OCTOBER 23, 2024
When it comes to growing your Instagram following, it’s no secret that Instagram Reels can be a powerful tool. The Meta-owned platform has been doubling down on video content in recent years, with CEO Adam Mosseri candidly sharing that , “People are more interested in videos — they’re just more engaging.” Now, that may be true — but it depends on how you define, “engaging.
Hubspot Marketing
JULY 16, 2024
Everyone knows that ChatGPT can generate content on nearly any topic you can imagine (some information might be made up, but that’s a story for a different article). So, while I’m not a fan of using it to create articles, I must say that I’m impressed with how helpful it can be for SEO. In this post, I put together different ways you can use ChatGPT to improve your search rankings – whether it’s through keyword improvements, proper linking, or other tactics.
Marketing Insider Group
OCTOBER 7, 2024
Today’s marketing world is much more interesting than it was ten years ago. Among all the changes, the debate between paid media vs. organic media is still going strong. Both methods have unique advantages and challenges, but how do you know which is better for your brand? Whether you’re working on increasing traffic, boosting engagement, or driving conversions, understanding the difference between paid and organic media can help you make decisions better aligned with your business.
MarketingOps
DECEMBER 4, 2024
Of course every business wants to close more deals, but the cold, hard truth is: gaining a customer you can’t keep isn’t scalable. According to FirstPageSage , the average customer acquisition cost (CAC) for B2B tech companies is $720. And, if your organization leans heavily into PPC and SEM, it’s even higher at $841. With the cost of new customer acquisition so high, it can take years to pay back the money you spent to acquire that customer.
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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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