Martech

AUGUST 13, 2024

This new era of skeptical consumers requires a radical shift in marketing strategy. Marketers must adapt to a world where survival requires a deep understanding of consumer needs; innovation; and a relentless focus on delivering value. The rapid evolution of the digital landscape undeniably disrupted traditional marketing paradigms.

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Hubspot Marketing

AUGUST 26, 2024

I worked with this week’s master of marketing some years ago out of The Onion’s HQ, so we’ve both been behind the scenes. A business is still a business, and marketing is still marketing. What can I tell our readers that will make them funnier marketers? The more we can focus on that, “the better we’ll be as marketers.”

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Martech

AUGUST 20, 2024

The hype cycle’s rapid pace is unsettling many companies and their marketing departments. It’s reasonable to infer that many of those laid off were in marketing and customer service roles, where AI is handling many more tasks. Example : Mary Marketer, the marketing operations manager at ACE Corp.

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Martech

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

One day, I imagine I’ll feel the same amazement watching a fully autonomous marketing campaign unfold — from inception to optimization — without human intervention. This vision of an autonomous marketing pipeline represents the future of AI in marketing. How AI augments a traditional marketing campaign workflow.

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Martech

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The digital landscape is evolving rapidly, and marketers are feeling the shift. Generative AI is redefining how people search and engage with content, reshaping traditional marketing strategies. This transformation poses both challenges and opportunities for marketers. This shift gives marketers a unique advantage.

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Martech

JANUARY 14, 2025

Marketing budgets are down 15% year-over-year. This sparked doom-and-gloom predictions about marketing’s diminishing role in 2025. While many CMOs are stressing over shrinking percentages, the smartest are rewriting how marketing delivers and proves value. Theyre redefining marketings role in driving revenue.

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Transform CMO Marketers Marketing 121

Martech

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Artificial intelligence is heavily disrupting marketing teams, particularly in medium to large companies. In fact, its estimated that up to 40% of traditional marketing spend is under incredible pressure to be reallocated – if it hasnt already. This session will be of particular value to medium and large businesses.

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Aspiration Marketing

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In the age of digital disruption, where attention spans are shorter than ever and traditional marketing channels are evolving rapidly, one tool has stood the test of time: email marketing. But email marketing isn't just a modern phenomenon. It has a rich history that dates back decades.

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Email Marketing Traditional Marketing Marketers Marketing 264

Martech

JULY 26, 2024

While 99% of marketers say they’re personally using AI, 67% say a lack of training remains a barrier to its adoption at work — three percentage points higher than in 2023, according to a new survey by The Marketing AI Institute. Source: Marketing AI Institute’s 2024 State of Marketing AI Report More AI, fewer jobs?

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Marketers Marketing Traditional Marketing Management 119

Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 16, 2024

B2B social media marketing builds connections between businesses through platforms like LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook, helping companies reach key decision-makers and industry influencers. In fact, eMarketer reports that 60% of B2B marketers say social media is their most effective channel for generating revenue.

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Martech

DECEMBER 18, 2024

As they do, their impact is fundamentally transforming what we market and why. Gen Z: The new powerhouse in the consumer market Consider this: Gen Z overtook Baby Boomers in full-time roles this year. They prefer raw, unfiltered content over highly produced marketing materials. AI-powered personalization will evolve.

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Hootsuite

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

If you work in social media marketing, odds are you’ve been told (or haunted by) this one phrase. Hootsuite’s 2025 Social Trends Report The question is, is viral marketing still the ticket to social media stardom in the last bit of this quarter-century? Download now What is viral marketing? Make us go viral.

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Martech

MARCH 4, 2025

B2B tech marketing is shifting from a traditional, product-centric approach to a data-driven, AI-powered, customer-first model. But data is more than just a tool it’s redefining marketing itself. Marketing is no longer a support function but a strategic growth driver, influencing everything from brand to demand.

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Transform CRM Analytics User-Generated 119

Martech

MARCH 3, 2025

For decades, the marketing qualified lead (MQL) has been the centerpiece of B2B go-to-market (GTM) strategies. It has shaped how marketing teams operate, how sales teams prioritize outreach, and how executives measure marketing’s contribution to revenue. However, the MQL no longer fits this purpose.

Transform 119

Transform Finance Marketers Marketing 119

Hubspot Marketing

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

I remember once sitting in a quarterly marketing review meeting, watching competitors‘ video campaigns flash across the screen. My initial skepticism turned to curiosity as I saw how they were connecting with audiences in ways our traditional content never had. In this guide, I'll walk you through the evolution of B2B video marketing.

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Video Marketing Marketing Strategy Transform B2C 129

Martech

JANUARY 29, 2025

Google on Wednesday officially launched Meridian, its open-source marketing mix model (MMM) designed to help marketers allocate budgets more effectively in a dynamic digital landscape. Meridians open-source structure offers complete transparency, allowing marketers to adapt the code and model parameters to their specific needs.

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Sprout Social

MARCH 27, 2025

Influencer marketing will be pivotal in most brands’ marketing tactics in 2025. Recent research reveals a remarkable increase in Australian influencers, prompting digital marketers and brands to pour significant resources into this approach. You’ll also find the latest growth rate trends and preferred platforms.

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Jeff Bullas

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

This comprehensive guide will teach you everything you need to know about how to build a social media marketing strategy that delivers value to your audience and helps your business grow. Table of contents The importance of social media for business But what is Social Media Marketing? What are the benefits of Social Media Marketing?

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Social Media Marketing Marketers Marketing User-Generated 306

Martech

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Consumers feel besieged by pervasive and invasive marketing. With data collection at an all-time high, some marketers cross the line, using personal details (e.g., The solution is “un-marketing.” ” That’s marketing that delivers fresh, unique experiences without crossing privacy boundaries.

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Hubspot Marketing

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Tackling marketing without a solid plan is like putting together a puzzle without all the pieces — I know this firsthand. Before using a marketing strategic framework, my efforts often felt scattered, with no real direction. Table of Contents What is a marketing strategy framework?

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Price Marketers Marketing User-Generated 117

Buffer Marketing

JULY 16, 2024

As a marketer, small business owner, or creator, you might be tempted to brush Reddit off as the domain of internet trolls and cat memes.    Whether you're a seasoned marketer, a social media pro, or someone who thinks Reddit sounds like a color, this guide is for you.    What is Reddit?

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Hootsuite

OCTOBER 18, 2024

A social media marketing strategy is a summary of everything you plan to do and hope to achieve on social media. In this post, we’ll walk you through a nine-step plan to create a winning strategy for social media marketing. We’ve even got expert insights from Amanda Wood, Hootsuite’s Senior Manager of Social Marketing.

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Customers.ai

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Enter relationship marketing. Relationship marketing is the not-so-secret strategy behind turning one-time buyers into lifetime fans. Reactive marketing? Proactive marketing? The truth is, to win at relationship marketing, you need both working together. Proactive Relationship Marketing : This is all offense.

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Martech

MARCH 19, 2025

Today, marketing faces its own shift. The traditional, assembly-line model of campaign executionwhere data, creative, and deployment are handled in rigid stepsis no longer fast enough for real-time customer engagement. Positionless Marketing follows this same philosophy. Positionless Marketing applies the same principle.

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Transform Manufacturing Key Performance Indicator Marketers 71

Hubspot Marketing

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Each week, Laura, Caroline, and I get to sit and chat with some of todays most innovative marketing masters. If you could smoosh all of their combined wisdom into your head, it would be like getting your well masters in marketing. (Oh, But marketing thrives on standing out, which demands taking chances.

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Fashion Marketers Marketing Entertainment 91

Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Surprisingly, many of these ideas hold up to this day, as marketing leaders still need to shift their mindset to keep up with the times and reach potential customers in the most efficient ways. Image Source Applying some ideas from this event can help you change your marketing mindset, so you can rise above the e-commerce industry’s 1.5%

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Martech

JULY 19, 2024

Dig deeper: How to harness storytelling’s impact in B2B marketing The Marketing Accountability Council: Cultivating expertise and building a movement Six months ago, the Marketing Accountability Council embarked on a mission — a parallel journey to the one many B2B companies are missing. The most rewarding part?

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Solving the Marketing Leadership Gap for Small Business written by Jarret Redding read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I tackle a critical topic that small businesses face today: the marketing leadership gap.

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The Marketing Operations Leader

JANUARY 27, 2025

Traditional marketing technology stacks aren’t optimized for speed or agility, creating complexity for marketing and campaign ops teams. Future-proof your email marketing operations in 2025" addresses these core struggles and provides actionable insights to overcome them.

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Martech

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

In B2B SaaS, efficiency can make or break a company’s financial health, and in today’s economic climate, GTM (go-to-market) efficiency has become a key indicator of overall stability. Marketing, sales, customer success and operations — all elements of GTM — work together to drive revenue growth across these areas.

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Martech

JULY 25, 2024

Traditionally, marketers focused on the buyer journey as if a single person handled research, evaluation and final selection. By structuring your digital marketing strategy around that sole buyer, you’re cutting your brand out of the key research phases and missing the opportunity to get your brand into the vendor evaluation phase.

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Martech

JULY 12, 2024

The only constant in marketing is change. Specifically, two connected areas in the marketing world have seen rapid evolution over the last few years: privacy and technology. The evolving landscape: Privacy regulations and technological advancements Privacy has become a growing concern in the global marketing landscape.

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SmartBrief - Marketing

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

The ROI on influencer marketing is undeniable. This high return isn’t limited to traditional companies; it’s a gold mine within the creator economy. So, why should you invest in influencer marketing? Stats show businesses can earn nearly $6 for every $1 spent. Let’s break it down.

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Businesses Grow

JANUARY 6, 2025

One thing is clear: The balance of traditional marketing work is rapidly and permanently shifting to the bots. Looking at the future through these filters, we could make some assumptions about where our marketing careers might go. Here are truths I hold on to as I think about the future of my own career in marketing.

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Transform Traditional Marketing Education Branding 128

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 15, 2020

Let’s start this with a statistic that should by itself be enough to have any small business owner invest in digital marketing. It’s a massive market size to not be a part of, and definitely, the biggest reason why you should invest in digital marketing. It relies on solid market research to inform the next course of action. .

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Martech

JANUARY 22, 2025

Change is the only thing you can rely on in digital marketing. The zero consumer: A new breed needs a new approach Today’s consumers, particularly the younger generations, defy conventional marketing wisdom. So, traditional marketing, relying on broad targeting and impersonal messaging, won’t work.

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Hubspot Marketing

JANUARY 23, 2025

Im sure her being a millennial, thus closer to Gen Z than the average CEO, helps her keep in step with younger consumers, but I also think how intentional she is as a marketer sets her apart. Novoselsky says the current push model approach to marketing is a little too aggressive for Gen Z consumers. Yeah, I'm not reading all that.

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