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User-Generated Content: How to Use It for Good and Avoid a PR Crisis

Contently

Trust When it comes to making a purchase, trust is everything—and nothing builds trust quite like seeing a post from a friend or another customer praising a brand or product. It’s authentic and unbiased, which makes it more likely for a potential customer to trust the brand and consider making a purchase.

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Why Google is Going to Dominate TV Ads

Convince & Convert

Google is Selling Hyper-Targeted TV Spots Google has announced that, starting soon in Kansas City, local businesses will be able to purchase television ads on the Google Fiber network based on household, previous viewing, location. They shut it down in 2009. But, Fiber also has a very robust television offering.

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Video for Financial Services: Banking and Beyond

Vidyard

YouTube is one of the main places, if not the first, people look for “how to” information on a new product. WealthSimple demonstrates this through powerful storytelling, with multiple videos generating over 1MM views on YouTube alone. Since there are over 300,000 wealth advisors and 1.1

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7 Creative Stunts People Used to Land Their Marketing Dream Jobs

Hubspot

After Pasha Stocking was laid off from her job as a marketing and sales director in Connecticut back in 2009, she took all the usual steps to find a new job: sending resumes to prospective employers, going to job fairs, and even registering with temp agencies. My career didn't really start until I launched this [video] in 2009.

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The Rise of the Content Marketer « The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer

The power of marketing automation is the ability to target your marketing database with specific content based on their behavior and stage in the purchasing process. Twitter feeds need updating, Facebook pages need commenting, blog posts need editing, and YouTube videos have to be tagged. What used to be clear roles (i.e.

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Top 7 Customer Experience (CX) Trends for 2020

Martech Advisor

Remember Apple’s ‘Get a Mac’ campaign from 2005-2009? Infact, a recently published 2019 report by Google said that 85% of buyers will check for product/ service information online, even if they make a store purchase. This reinforces the priority on mobile and digital customer experiences.

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Video for Financial Services: Banking and Beyond

Vidyard

YouTube is one of the main places, if not the first, people look for “how to” information on a new product. WealthSimple demonstrates this through powerful storytelling, with multiple videos generating over 1MM views on YouTube alone. Who wants to spend time reading product pamphlets or a list of features when a video is available?