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How Email Marketing Platforms Help Authors Sell More Books

SendX

Discoverability is a top challenge for authors these days. Know why the smartest way to overcome that and to sell more books is leveraging email marketing.

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The Marketing Book Podcast: “The Unsold Mindset” by Colin Coggins and Garrett Brown

The Forward Observer

The Unsold Mindset: Redefining What It Means to Sell by Colin Coggins & Garrett Brown About the Book This Wall Street Journal bestseller is captivating readers of Adam Grant, Dan Pink, and James Clear and has been called “a life-changing book as much about life as it is about selling.” What if the greatest salespeople on the planet are the opposite of who you think they are?

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Email Marketing Tips for Brick-and-Mortar Stores

SendX

It's no secret that physical stores today are up against significant challenges. With the rise of online shopping, attracting customers to your store and offering them a compelling reason to choose in-person shopping over clicking a button at home requires creativity and strategy. One often overlooked tool that can provide a significant boost to brick-and-mortar businesses is email marketing.

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Better Together: Digital Transformation and Advantageous Excellence

Vision Edge Marketing

The digital transformation has reshaped the business landscape. When coupled with the principles of advantageous excellence (AdvEx), digital transformation becomes a catalyst for continuous improvement, agility, and long-term success. This powerful combination offers unprecedented opportunities for organizations to enhance their processes, innovate their products, create customer value, and quickly adapt to dynamic market conditions.

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How to Leverage Behavioral Science Insights for Direct Mail Success

Speaker: Neal Boornazian, President and Nancy Harhut, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer - HBT Marketing

Direct mail has consistently remained a powerful tool in the marketer's arsenal, but in an age of digital dominance, its effectiveness hinges on the strategic integration of behavioral science. 💡 When you incorporate powerful behavioral science principles into your direct mail marketing strategies, you can prompt the hardwired decision-making shortcuts your audience relies on — and that automatically unlocks new avenues for engagement, conversion, and brand loyalty.

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Maximizing Efficiency with B2B Marketing Automation: Key Strategies

Webbiquity

Guest post by Eduard Klein. Business process automation is, hands down, one of the best technological innovations to come along in decades. Humans have spent way too much time doing repetitive tasks that do not require our expertise. These tasks take time away from the value we could potentially be adding in our business. Image credit: Mikael Blomkvist on Pexels This also applies, of course, to B2B marketing.

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How Email Marketing Platforms Help Increase Shopify Sales

SendX

If you’re on Shopify, odds are you’ve got making money on the brain. The question is are you using your email marketing platform to increase Shopify sales? If not, you’re leaving money on the table as the saying goes.

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Decoding generative AI: Top LLMs and the app ecosystems they support

Martech

I’ve been writing about marketing tools for over a decade, and some of my earliest published articles were about the new breed of social media monitoring tools. Looking at those pieces today, two insights struck me: The basic approach and strategy of selecting technology tools to help us with marketing tasks hasn’t changed much (the good news). Everything else has changed dramatically (the not-so-good news).

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7 Practical Tips to Generate Leads With Content Marketing

Optinmonster

Are you not seeing the expected results from your marketing efforts? Want to learn how to generate leads with content marketing ? Smart marketers know that having a clear content marketing strategy is key to generating more leads. But publishing content that isn’t yielding results is a wasted opportunity. In this guide, I’ll show you how to generate leads with content marketing, even if you’re not seeing the desired results with it right now.

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How to Become an SEO Lead (10 Tips That Advanced My Career)

Ahrefs

In this article, I’ll share ten tips to help you climb the next rung in the SEO career ladder. Helping new hires in the SEO team is important if you want to become an SEO Lead.

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Sales & Marketing Alignment: How to Synergize for Success

Speaker: Carlos Hidalgo, Co-Founder & CEO of Digital Exhaust, Author, International Keynote & TEDx Speaker

Recent research shows that only 50% of B2B organizations state that they have good alignment between their marketing and sales teams. This lack of alignment tremendously impacts the ability to meet business goals, and is a limiting factor for building and maintaining customer relationships. While many B2B organizations continue to struggle with aligning their marketing and sales teams, they can take practical steps to unify both teams and simplify their overall approach.

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Not just ChatGPT: AI workflows & tools for marketers

MKT1

One of our 2024 goals at MKT1 is to help marketers stay up to speed on all things AI. Many of you are wondering if you’re “doing enough”, “getting left behind”, or “using AI for the right things” So, we recently held our second AI Showcase event for marketers. In parallel, we ran a survey to determine what AI workflows you’re using daily, weekly, or monthly—and also which workflows you’ve tried and stopped or never tried at all.

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It’s time to turbocharge our path to email innovation

Martech

Back in 2017, I wrote an article for MarTech, “ Message to email marketers: Show me something different in 2018.” It popped up again while I was preparing a presentation, so I scrolled through to see if anything I advocated back then had become standard practice. The answer is, sadly, not much. Here’s what I was looking for: Stop depending on batch-and-blast.

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10 Profitable Solopreneur Business Ideas Anyone Can Start

CopyBlogger

The drawback of freelancing is that you’re trading your time for money, so you have to raise your prices or. Continue Reading The post 10 Profitable Solopreneur Business Ideas Anyone Can Start appeared first on Copyblogger.

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HARO Has Been Dead for a While

Ahrefs

I know nothing about the new tool. I haven’t tried it. But after trying to use HARO recently, I can’t say I’m surprised or saddened by its death. It’s been a walking corpse for a while.

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The Top 3 Tips for Writing Successful White Papers

In the B2B marketing toolkit, white papers can be a powerful option for reaching decision-makers and experts, presenting them with interesting information that improves their perception of your organization's competence and thought leadership. That said, a poorly executed whitepaper will not only be unable to influence your desired audience but will also come with significant costs that other assets won't incur.

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9 Chatbot builders to enhance your customer support

Sprout Social

Chatbots are strategic assets that enhance your customer care and marketing strategies. The technology has come a long way from being simply rules-based to offering features like artificial intelligence (AI) enabled automation and personalized interaction. Integrating chatbots can transform your customer relations by automating responses to common queries and collecting feedback, freeing your team to focus on more complex issues.

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Simplify Your Marketing Tech Stack: A Comprehensive Guide

Full Circle Insights

Your tech stack may have redundancies or just not suit your needs. Simplify your marketing tech stack and improve efficiency with this guide.

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Adopting consent-based analytics for long-term marketing success

Martech

It’s important to start monitoring consent management as part of your digital analytics strategy. Apart from the EU, various privacy laws in the U.S., Canada, UK, Australia and other regions require notifying users about using cookies at least in your privacy policy or through an opt-out banner if any personal information is being collected. Users are becoming increasingly aware of their privacy rights, opting out of tracking cookies more than ever (call it the fear of being stalked).

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Early stage B2B tech startups don’t invest enough in marketing [peer-reviewed study]

Sword and the Script | B2B

Those companies that are in the early stages of a startup building a product stand to gain “the greatest” valuation benefit from marketing About half (45%) of all B2B technology startups make no effort to market their products. As a business function, marketing does not exist in those companies: “…we find that investments in systematic marketing by early-stage B2B start-ups increase firm valuation, yet more than half of early-stage B2B start-up firms choose not to invest in systematic marketing,

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21 Advanced ChatGPT Prompts To Take Your Social Media to the Next Level

Upgrade your social media game with our in-depth playbook: "21 advanced ChatGPT prompts for social media managers". These powerful prompts are tailored to supercharge your content creation, strategy development, and results analysis. Say goodbye to writer's block and hello to endless creativity as you effortlessly generate engaging posts, come up with original strategies, and optimize your social media performance - all in a fraction of the time.

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Which Social Media Channels Should Your Brand Focus On?

Content Standard

When Meta launched its Twitter look alike, Threads, in summer 2023, social media managers scrambled to learn everything possible about what some were deeming “the Twitter-killer.” They hopped on the platform and did their best to make a splash. More than six months later, was the rush worth the payoff? This is a familiar story in marketing.

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Should Your Brand Shout Its AI and Marketing Plan to the World?

Content Marketing Institute

To use AI or not — it's the question on every marketer's mind. But there's a more practical follow-up: Whether to share the answer. Dove and Brandtech Group tried that approach. Was it the right choice?

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Consent and transparency need to be top data privacy concerns for marketers

illumin

Data privacy is critical to successful marketing. Effective marketing requires the collection and analysis of user data across digital platforms. Customer data lets marketers impactfully speak to their audience – driving conversions or brand awareness for their clients without annoying their customers. Data can be used to compile lists of potential buyers, track customer behavior through the marketing funnel, and understand the effectiveness of campaigns to adapt them.

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Why the shift from ‘conversions’ to ‘key events’ in GA4 is a game-changer

Martech

The recent shift from “conversions” to “key events” in (GA4) represents a significant change that digital marketers, especially SEO professionals, need to understand and act on. This article explores the implications of this change and insights on how to leverage it to elevate your marketing reporting. Understanding key events in GA4 On March 21, I got an email from a former student who said he’d logged into Google Analytics 4 (GA4) that morning and saw, “Analytics conversions have been rename

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Are Your Impact Comms Resonating With Stakeholders?

Whether your organization is at the start of its sustainability and impact journey or years into it, many brands share a common concern: the uncertainty of whether they are sending stakeholders mixed messages. Creating content that speaks to your audience's “love language” can be a tricky dance. But, worry not! 3BL has put together tips to ensure that your content not only finds its rhythm but also resonates with your target audiences.

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The State of Email Marketers’ Tech Stack

Litmus

The journey of an email from creation to sending takes hours of behind-the-scenes effort. Email marketers need to consider not only crafting, designing, and developing individual emails but also strategy, planning, operations, and deliverability—and of course, coordinating these efforts with the rest of your team. That’s why the MVP of any email marketing team is an integrated marketing tech stack.

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How to Craft Brand Stories that Sell with The Message Design Institute’s Tamsen Webster

Content Standard

A Content Disrupted podcast with Tamsen Webster, Founder of The Message Design Institute. Access this and more Content Disrupted episodes on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or Google Podcasts. Struggling to cut through the noise and reach your ideal audience? Your brand message might be the culprit. In this episode of Content Disrupted, Tamsen Webster, Founder and Chief Message Strategist of The Message Design Institute, shares the power of the Red Thread Method in brand marketing, revealing why trad

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PPC Pest Control Strategies that attract customers

Go Beyond SEO

Running a pest control business has its challenges. Standing out to attract new customers is hard. PPC Pest Control advertising is a proven strategy that works. PPC Pest Control means you pay for each click on your ad. You can target specific keywords. Your ads reach people looking for pest control services. This increases your online presence and brings in leads more likely to use your services.

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Into the Multiverse: How to Repurpose Content

Square 2 Marketing

You published and shared some new content, and now you’re seeing great engagement and conversion rates exceeding your expectations. Congratulations! The work you put into your content strategy to develop valuable assets is paying off. This great performance means you’ve hit on a topic that’s relevant and important. It’s time to take that value and use it to reach an even broader audience.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Advertising in local markets: A playbook for success

Martech

Many brands, such as those in the home services industry or a local grocery chain, market to specific locations, cities or regions. There are also national brands that want to expand in specific local markets. Regardless of the company or purpose, advertising on a local scale has different tactics than on a national scale. Brands need to connect their messaging directly with the specific communities they serve and media to their target demo.

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How to create better social listening queries

Sprout Social

Contrary to popular belief, you don’t need to be a data analyst to craft social listening queries that drive results. Social listening has always been a powerful tool for brands that know how to wield it effectively. Even just one solid query can give a brand a rich, unbiased view of consumer sentiment. These insights build stronger messaging, campaigns, product lines—the opportunities are endless.

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How Top Brands are Accelerating SEO Content Creation with AI

Content Standard

With organic search re-emerging as a cornerstone strategy for CMOs, top brands are harnessing AI to accelerate their search engine optimization (SEO) efforts and bring more efficiency to a traditionally cumbersome and resource-intensive practice. This article explores how AI can streamline the process without sacrificing quality or strategy. What’s driving the renewed focus on organic search?