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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 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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Who Are B2B Creators and Why Do They Matter?

Marketing Insider Group

The creator economy has really changed everything. It’s affected what we watch, how we shop, and the paths we choose in our careers. We’ve all seen the impact of YouTube stars and TikTok influencers. But now, there’s something new on the scene: B2B creators. We’re not just talking about any influencers. These are B2B creators, and they’re changing the rules of how businesses talk to their audiences and make choices.

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WorkCast's Ultimate Webinar Handbook 2024

Elevate your webinar game with WorkCast's Ultimate Webinar Handbook! Packed with insights from our seasoned webinar experts, this comprehensive guide is your go-to resource for mastering the art of B2B webinars. Learn the fundamentals, from defining webinars to exploring their benefits and diverse use cases. Discover the key elements of running a successful webinar, avoiding common mistakes, and making your sessions more engaging.

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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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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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Mastering Social Media ROI: Steps to Empower Your Team

Convince & Convert

The struggle is real for social media leaders, managers, and teams. Whenever you mention that you work in social media, from the outside looking in, people think that you take a photo and/or video and just hit “post” to make the magic happen. Nevertheless, we know it takes much more work to manage a brand on social media. This includes the importance of social media for discovery, reputation management, community building, and brand awareness and engagement.

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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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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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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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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 Marketing Book Podcast: “Immersion” by Paul Zak

The Forward Observer

Immersion: The Science of the Extraordinary and the Source of Happiness by Paul Zak About the Book No one raves about boring movies, bland customer service experiences, or sleep-inducing classes. The world is rapidly transforming into an experience economy as people increasingly crave extraordinary experiences. Experience designers, marketers, entertainment producers, and retailers have long sought to fill this craving.

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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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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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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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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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Choosing Marketing KPIs that Matter and Work with Patrick Barbera

Oktopost

Patrick Barbera, Director of Product Marketing at IntelyCare, and named in the Top 100 Product Marketing Influencers by Product Marketing Alliance reveals why picking the right marketing KPIs to track and measure can significantly impact the direction and success of your marketing efforts. Listen to the podcast: Or subscribe on Spotify , Apple Podcasts , or YouTube Watch the live recording: Episode summary Intent data helps you to prioritize accounts by capturing customer activities and gauging

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Harnessing Customer and Employee Feedback for Better Experiences

CMSWire

In this era of ever-increasing competition and evolving consumer demands, businesses that embrace the power of feedback gain a significant advantage. Continue reading.

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Why Marketers Should Care About Google’s Potential HubSpot Acquisition

Content Marketing Institute

Google’s may buy HubSpot. But how likely is it the deal will get done? Why would Google want HubSpot? What would it mean for HubSpot customers? Understand the possibilities and take away the one reality for every marketer.

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What Questions Are Brands Asking About Their ESG Initiatives Ahead of 2024?

Temperatures are rising (and not just metaphorically) as key stakeholders anxiously anticipate the outcomes of COP28. While companies reconsider their 2024 environmental sustainability strategies, there is another aspect of ESG that deserves exploring, the social sector. In the latest edition of "Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Sagittarius Edition", 3BL hones in on this sign’s bold quality of asking questions others are burning to know the answers to.

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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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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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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 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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What's Working Now: ABM + Demand Gen

Speaker: Paul Slack, Vende Digital CEO

Are you struggling with a stagnant pipeline? Discover how combining ABM and demand generation can help you get more qualified opportunities and grow your pipeline. Learn the latest trends and tactics for 2023 and gain the confidence to implement a successful strategy that aligns with sales to drive revenue growth. Join this interactive live session with Paul Slack and learn how to: Identify the best accounts for ABM Personalize at scale Run paid campaigns that actually work Tackle and optimize r

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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?

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Internet advertising up 7.3%, reaching record high in U.S.

Martech

U.S. internet advertising reached a record $225 billion in 2023, a 7.3-percent increase year-over-year, according to the latest IAB report on U.S. ad revenue, conducted by PwC. Digital ads boomed in the fourth quarter when the growth rate spiked to 12.3% — in 2022 the growth rate for the quarter was 4.4%. Top channels included CTV, retail media and audio, which all saw double-digit growth in 2023.

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How To Use Testing To Create a Competitive Advantage

Content Marketing Institute

Knowing which creative assets compel your audience to act can bring big success for marketers. But how do you figure that out? You must start testing, and here’s some help to get going today.

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Why Invest in Case Studies: What They Are and Why They Matter

Optinmonster

Have you ever wondered why businesses invest in case studies? Not sure if case studies are worth the investment? At OptinMonster, you’ll notice that we spend a lot of time conducting case studies and highlighting them on our blog. This isn’t a coincidence or a random occurrence. In fact, we make a regular effort to communicate with our customers to produce great case studies.

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Sales Effectiveness: The B2B Sales Leader's Guide

This guide is designed to help today’s B2B sales leaders ramp up their effectiveness in any economic environment.

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Taking Hyper-Personalization to the Next Level

CMSWire

Hyper-personalization can allow brands to meaningfully engage customers resulting in appealing marketing, customer satisfaction and business upticks. Continue reading.

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Anyword Analytics: Your Marketing Command Center – All Copy In One Place

Anyword

Data-driven marketing requires a clear understanding of what resonates with your audience. Our new analytics feature empowers you to do just that, by providing a centralized platform to analyze and optimize your marketing copy across all channels. Unified View of All Your Marketing Channels Efficiency in marketing is largely about visibility and control.

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What does ‘Real-Time Marketing’ really mean? by Salesforce

Martech

If you’re like most marketers, you’ve been hearing the term “real-time” a lot lately. And you’ve probably been wondering, what is real-time marketing? Are we delivering content in seconds? Milliseconds? Even faster? It can sound like marketers need to live in the world of the Oscar contender Everything Everywhere All at Once. Not necessarily. What matters is that you reach your customers when they need to be reached, with the right experience.