Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 29, 2023

Change is the only constant in the world of digital marketing –especially when it comes to social media trends. Gone are the days of generic, one-size-fits-all content. The current expectation of users leans heavily towards authentic, community-driven campaigns. As we navigate these shifting sands, understanding the latest social media trends is more important than ever.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 31, 2023

The parameters that make an online resource “authoritative” are always changing. Google uses a variety of factors to decide what makes a source worth displaying on its search engine results pages (SERPs). The search engine’s developers also admit that online content is constantly changing, and “we continuously measure and assess the quality of our systems to ensure that we’re achieving the right balance of information relevance and authoritativeness.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 31, 2023

Let’s face it: nothing is ever one-size-fits-all. Your favorite coffee order? Definitely not the same as your coworker’s triple-shot, half-caff, oat milk latte with a dash of cinnamon. Your ideal weekend plans? Probably not the same as your friend who loves skydiving. And when it comes to choosing the right software for your business? You guessed it–not one-size-fits-all, either.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 3, 2023

It’s no secret that artificial intelligence is quickly transforming the field of content marketing and search engine optimization. While AI tools can make the content creation process more efficient and less time-consuming, businesses still need to be aware of the potential risks and pitfalls of using AI-generated content. In hopes to make the B2B world a better place, Brody Dorland, co-founder of DivvyHQ , and I hosted a webinar to discuss our experiences and cautionary tales of using AI tools

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 2, 2023

Sometimes creating content for your audience can feel like throwing spaghetti at a wall– hoping something will stick. But what if you could trade in your old approach for a strategy that’s more reliable (and a lot less messy)? Image Source: Giphy Our secret weapon for success is to include zero-party data. Savvy marketers and content creators who want to level up their ROI know that harnessing the power of zero-party data translates into content that your audience wants to engage with– ultimatel

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 3, 2023

Almost 8 years ago, SEO expert, Brian Dean, revealed a game-changing strategy called the Skyscraper Technique. This technique introduced a new approach to gaining organic traffic, and reportedly helped Dean increase his own traffic by 110% in only two weeks. If you’ve had your hand in the SEO game for more than 24 hours, you know those are some pretty impressive results.

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 3, 2023

Marketers today have advantages that their predecessors wouldn’t have dreamed possible. Take real-time campaign tracking and monitoring, for instance. Marketing teams can see what’s happening live, enabling them to make instant adjustments. Yet marketing employees can’t take advantage of opportunities if their team efficiency is lacking. The cost of being inefficient in such a fast-paced environment is substantial.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Email isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, and making sure your message stands out is becoming harder and harder to do. The average person receives 121 emails per day. That’s a lot of stuff to comb through, and the trash button is typically the quickest way to declutter. One third of email recipients open an email based on the subject line alone and 69% of email recipients report email as spam based solely on the subject line.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 10, 2023

The pandemic thrust digital marketing into the limelight. Marketers saw their budgets increase by nearly half in 2021. Many forecasted that 2022 would see even further growth, as well. Even for those looking to balance minimal spend for optimal returns, the magic marketing number stood at $8,000 per month (a sizable budget for many SMBs). With so much money pouring into the world of online marketing, it’s important for marketing professionals to maintain control over their budgets and strategies

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 10, 2023

Your content marketing strategy isn’t going to reach new heights without a carefully curated content marketing funnel. A well-crafted content marketing funnel helps drive traffic , generate leads and secure conversions. All you need is an effective plan and high-quality content. Luckily, we’ve outlined everything you need to know to understand the content marketing funnel.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The past few years have brought some exciting developments in the events industry. And you might be surprised to hear that some of the biggest event trends are here to stay. By keeping an eye on some of the top event trends expected for next year, you can make sure you plan an event to remember. Quick Takeaways: Sustainability and corporate responsibility will be key for events run in 2023 and the foreseeable future.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Sometimes, even companies providing content expertise for their own clients lose sight of doing the very same for themselves. That’s the predicament this Marketing Insider Group client was facing. A marketing services agency providing lead generation and custom content for technology companies, they knew the important role content plays in driving website traffic, leads, and ultimately new business.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Don’t miss an opportunity to maximize your profits by neglecting to optimize your blog page for conversion. Converting site visitors into paying customers is key to growing your business. By making your blog page engaging and easy to navigate, you’ll increase visitors’ time-spent on your page and heighten your chances of making a sale. Increase visibility, build trust with your target audience and turn more visitors into leads with these simple ways to optimize your blog page for conversion.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Careless content marketing mistakes are costing businesses more than their monthly budget. Blindly navigating your marketing strategy can cause your content to capsize. An ineffective strategy will both pause a business’s growth and decrease their probability of sales by 40%. If your strategy ship is sinking, it’s not too late to anchor into a new method.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 20, 2021

In 2021, 82% of businesses use content marketing as part of their larger marketing strategy, but only about half feel that their efforts are successful. Why? I would venture to guess that this problem is largely due to the fact that brands focus so much on new content that they forget to assess what they’ve already published. Fortunately, there’s a solution that brands can use to solve this predicament called a content audit.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 28, 2021

There’s a perpetual game of tug-of-war going on between CEOs and their CMOs. CEOs want results. CMOs want to deliver results. So, what’s the issue? The most critical role of a CMO, according to CEOs, is to grow the business. CMOs want to deliver ROI and show real proof that what they’re doing works. Image Source. The problem is when CEOs ask CMOs to work on trivial tasks (like rebranding or a multitude of paid digital ads that won’t work ) and then get upset when there’s no business growth.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Your digital content strategy is the key to driving some of your biggest success factors: organic web traffic, brand awareness, lead generation, and ultimately sales. The thing is, there’s a lot to consider when it comes to actually creating your strategy. Content, audience, schedules, channels, KPIs — where do you even start? Our advice: take it one step at a time.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

With the global pandemic shifting the way groups of people meet, connect, and communicate, many association professionals feel as if they’re fighting an uphill battle just to keep their members engaged. After all, there’s no novelty left in hosting meet-ups on Zoom or Microsoft Teams, with many members already struggling with digital burnout in a year that feels as if it’s been entirely online.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Distributors have a unique position in the supply chain, managing and marketing to manufacturers and retailer partners at both ends. Content marketing for distributors is a way to engage these multiple audiences at once while growing your brand visibility. Sounds awesome, right? But what if you’ve never done content marketing before, or your current strategy just isn’t working?

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 9, 2021

A copywriting service can feel like a nice-to-have luxury. Anyone can write content, right? There are so many other important places to allocate your budget. If you’ve gone down this line of thinking you’re not alone, but we’re here to tell you that it’s a trap. A copywriting service for B2B companies is one of the most worthwhile investments you can make for your business.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 15, 2021

Influencer marketing has been on the upswing for years, defying predictions that it’s yet another digital marketing fad. Although the pandemic reshuffled the space and sorted some clear winners and losers, expansion remained the name of the game in 2020 and 2021. Actually, that’s an understatement. According to a Business Insider report on the state of the influencer marketing industry, a staggering 96% of U.S. and U.K. consumers said they were engaging with influencers “more or to the same exte

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 15, 2021

When you hear the word “pruning,” you might think back to when you were a kid – your mother working out in the yard, chopping away at unruly bushes with an old pair of garden shears. The whole point of pruning is to remove old stems and uncover younger ones – letting the light in and stimulating new growth. The same concept goes for your website. Content pruning is an essential part of every content marketing strategy.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 5, 2021

Over the last year, the pandemic forced many organizations to shift from in-person to all-virtual marketing events. As a result, businesses have had to become more innovative to figure out how to deal with never-before-seen problems on the fly. It’s been challenging, no doubt, but it’s also taught us a lot about our ability to think outside the box and adapt to unforeseen circumstances.

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 27, 2021

Healthcare content marketers have a heavy burden. They deal with complex subjects and topics and strive to connect with sophisticated buyers. With all the challenges they face, they still do their best to create value for audiences and generate leads for their businesses. So, how can you do healthcare content marketing right? We’ve got some ideas and examples to help you strategize and optimize your content.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 30, 2021

When you hear the phrase “product marketing,” what are some of the first brands that come to mind? You might think of Coca-Cola, Apple, Nike, or Dove – each one a giant in its respective industry. Product marketing is all about the consumer. To be a successful product marketer, you must pull the consumer into your narrative. They must see themselves as the protagonist in your story and feel like you’re speaking directly to them through marketing and advertising.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Digital transformation progression means diverse pools of users will want to use your website to learn and shop. To ensure those with disabilities can do this, you need to improve site accessibility. While you may assume that your site is accessible to those with impairments, the reality is, most are not. For example, a study found that 70 percent of websites in several industries were “unavailable” to blind users.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

At this point, there’s no denying that content marketing is being used by most companies. As companies realize it’s a proven way to attract audiences and convert them, its adoption continues to trend up. I’m still amazed at the companies that still don’t even have a blog, let alone publish on it frequently enough to get the attention of the google bots and search gods we all must honor if we want to show up on for the keywords our customers are searching for.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

If you’re like most content marketers, you want to get the maximum value out of every blog post you create. Evergreen content is a collection of content that is relevant to your target audience for years to come. In other words, evergreen content is timeless. Think of it as the Shakespeare of content marketing, minus the flowery language and complex tragedies.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 18, 2021

The internet is a necessary part of everyone’s daily lives – even more so today than ever before. So it needs to be accessible to everyone, including those that are differently-abled. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) protects disabled people from discrimination and it has released guidelines to help you create a website that is easily accessible to all communities.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 18, 2021

Misalignment between your marketing and sales departments can cost your business money, waste valuable B2B content, and cause lead-to-sale conversions to fail. Conversely, aligning your sales and marketing can lead to increased marketing revenue, better close rates, and higher customer retention. Source: SuperOffice. Modern marketers have adopted many of the sales team’s past responsibilities.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 14, 2021

As every B2B marketer knows, getting traffic to your website is only half the battle. You also have to make sure that those visitors actually do something when they land on your site – this is where landing page optimization comes in. Optimizing your landing pages means making the most of the traffic you already have. These visitors have already shown they have some kind of interest in your business by clicking through to your content so now you have to convince them to stick around for longer.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Is digital transformation just a buzzword? Does it seem unattainable for your small business? SMB business owners are wrestling with these questions and seeking clarity. B2B SMBs can achieve digital transformation; it takes work, commitment, and the right strategy. To help you get started or keep progressing, we’ve designed a roadmap for B2B SMB digital transformation.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Cinema acts as an effective resource for visual learners because it enables them to comprehend ideas without the obstacles that hinder learning. It is said that nearly 65% of most audiences are visual learners. As a marketer or B2B business owner, it is extremely important to take advantage of visual communications to accommodate this portion of society.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The annual performance review has become something employees and, as it turns out, managers dread. Stories abound on the Internet of people complaining about the dreaded annual performance review. A recent study found that only 8% of companies believe their performance management drives business value. More so, 58% report it is not an effective use of time.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 26, 2020

This year has disrupted the economy and changed the way we work on a global scale. While much of this change is negative and the long-term consequences are yet to be fully understood, it has also introduced many new opportunities for businesses and marketers. Within the space of weeks, many organizations were forced to adapt, shifting from a traditional sales strategy including brick-and-mortar stores and meeting customers face-to-face to running their businesses completely online.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Email marketing campaigns are nothing new but are still a favorite among savvy marketers. The right content at the right time landing in someone’s inbox can break through the noise, capture their attention, nurture their interest, and convert. The question, then, is this: Do you know how to run a successful email marketing campaign? If not, it’s time to learn.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 4, 2020

What do Francis Bacon and Japanese manufacturers have in common? They both came to the conclusion that validating your assumptions before acting on them was a good idea. All versions of the cycle of experimentation and improvement are based on a scientific method that was first introduced in the work of Francis Bacon, which he explained as “hypothesis–experiment–evaluation” or, in simpler terms, “plan–do–check.”.

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