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Building an Email Marketing Funnel: The Definitive Guide

SendX

In the dynamic realm of digital marketing, a meticulously crafted email marketing funnel is not just an asset—it's a necessity. At SendX, we've harnessed years of industry expertise to develop a framework that consistently transforms casual subscribers into brand advocates. This comprehensive guide will equip you with cutting-edge strategies to construct a high-performance email funnel that drives measurable results.

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How to Build a Customer – Centric Organizational Structure: A 12 Step Process

Vision Edge Marketing

There’s a 12-step process for everything and creating a customer-centric organization is no exception. Today the customer experience reigns supreme, so building a customer-centric organizational structure is essential for sustainable growth and success. Does your organizational structure reflect a customer-centric culture and help you create customer value?

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AI Vs. Humans: Who Will Win the Content Creation Game?

Marketing Insider Group

As you might know, AI is revolutionizing how brands generate articles, videos, and even art. Tools like ChatGPT and Jasper are transforming how businesses produce content, offering speed and efficiency that was once unimaginable. The Marketing AI Institute reports that 98% of marketers are using these tools , so they’re incredibly widespread already.

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How to Start a Podcast and Make Money This Year

Webbiquity

Guest post by Vlad Orlov. The podcasting landscape has exploded over the past few years, transforming from a niche hobby into a mainstream content medium with millions of avid listeners. Image credit: Tim Mossholder on Unsplash As their popularity has surged, there’s never been a better time to start your own podcast. Not only does it offer a platform to share your voice and creativity, but also provides various avenues for monetization.

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4 Simple Decisions to Unlock Your Post-Cookie Targeting Strategy

The rise of AI and the fall of the cookie are profoundly changing programmatic advertising. With Chrome’s third-party cookie deprecation looming, the industry must adapt. With an overwhelming array of new and old technologies, many advertisers feel uncertain about how to proceed. Dstillery CEO, Michael Beebe, outlines a straightforward 4-step approach to streamline and enhance your post-cookie targeting strategy: Leverage first-party data.

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5 Steps to Ensure Your Marketing Is HIPAA-Compliant

Act-On

For digital marketers in healthcare, HIPAA compliance is more than just a regulatory box to check — it’s an ever-evolving discipline that demands constant vigilance. This involves mastering the cornerstones, like the data security of your customers’ personal health information (PHI). But it also means mapping out the corners of marketing where HIPAA risks may take you by surprise.

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Who Is a Datablazer? (And 6 Reasons To Become One)

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Are you ready to unlock the full potential of all your data and join a community of like-minded visionaries? Welcome to the Datablazer community, where IT and business leaders, developers, and data practitioners come together to transform data into their most powerful asset. Imagine expanding your network with top leaders, sharing cutting-edge best practices, and getting exclusive access to resources that will elevate your data game.

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How marketers can go beyond random acts of AI and why they should

Martech

I’ve just returned from MAICON 2024, one of the best, if not the best, conferences focused on AI and marketing. MAICON didn’t disappoint: I’m full of ideas to help our clients improve their marketing by applying AI. At the same time, it became evident to me that many organizations are far from being able to maximize AI’s impact on marketing. Let me explain.

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14 Marketing Certifications That Can Help You Earn a Better Salary

CMSWire

Boost your career with top marketing certifications. Learn how these courses enhance skills, increase salary and are often available online and free. Continue reading.

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Is Your Martech Platform Holding You Back? How to Recognize the Signs

Act-On

Are your martech tools helping you, or are they just making your job harder? No one enjoys the thought of asking this question. And even fewer marketers can bear the idea of making changes to their key martech platforms, especially when it comes to something as integral as a marketing automation platform. But kicking the can down the road only leads to more problems.

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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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Harnessing AI for Data-Driven Marketing: Trends, Challenges, and Tips for Success

Convince & Convert

Marketing professionals are inundated with AI technologies and strategies to advance their marketing programs. AI and marketing work hand in hand by leveraging vast amounts of data to optimize campaigns. But how are marketing professionals using AI to support their data-driven marketing? Our friends at Ascend2 consistently provide marketing professionals with research on marketing trends to help them stay competitive.

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Gonzo Content: What Marketers Need to Learn From Hunter S. Thompson

Ahrefs

After thirteen years in content marketing, I think it’s fair to say that most of the content on company blogs was created by people with zero firsthand experience of their subject matter.

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How CX transforms marketing from cost center to revenue engine

Martech

As CMOs, we’re constantly trying to balance driving growth with the fact that marketing is often seen as a cost center. But what if we could change the narrative? What if marketing were viewed as a revenue driver instead of a budget drain? One of the most effective ways to shift this perception is by using customer experience. Below, I’ll share strategic insights on how customer experience can transform your marketing department into a profit center.

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Integrating SaaS eCommerce Solutions: A Comprehensive Guide to Enhancing Online Retail

Roketto

If you want to have a successful e-commerce business, you'll need every edge you can get over the competition. One strategic move you can make is integrating Software-as-a-Solution (SaaS) solutions for your e-commerce platform and taking advantage of the technological advancements made in recent years.

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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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Budget Season Is Coming—Is Your Martech Platform Worth the Investment?

Act-On

Many marketing leaders ask themselves this question as they stare at Excel spreadsheets filled with budgetary numbers: Are my martech tools worth what I’m paying for? Some platforms we once relied on are starting to show their age. What was once considered essential might now be a burden, costing more time, money and sanity than it’s worth. If you’re frustrated with your martech stack, you’re not alone.

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How Customer Service in Financial Services Drives Loyalty

CMSWire

Exceptional customer service in financial services drives brand loyalty, enhances customer perception and fuels growth. Continue reading.

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How to schedule Instagram Stories [2024 Guide]

Sprout Social

Want to keep your brand top-of-mind for your audience using Instagram Stories ? Consistency is key, but when you’ve got a million other tasks, you might not have the time to manually create and publish Stories content throughout the day. Manual publishing also has its challenges. What if an image gets cropped weirdly? Or the sticker link you included doesn’t work?

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6 tips for creating a winning email marketing calendar

Martech

Your calendar is not just a pretty collection of dates and ideas; it’s the blueprint for a successful email marketing program. A strategically built calendar offers a bird’s eye view of your year ahead, ensuring you hit every big sales opportunity and highlight everything that sets your business apart. Below are six tried-and-tested pointers to unlock the full potential of your email marketing calendar. 1.

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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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MAICON Highlights: Determining the Role of AI in Marketing

Content Marketing Institute

Humans gathering to talk about marketing artificial intelligence is an irony too great for CMI’s Robert Rose to resist. Learn what he had to say about the role generative AI should play in your marketing.

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How to Shine on Social with B2B Influencer Marketing

Oktopost

In this episode, Vahbiz Cooper shares her expertise on executing successful and impactful influencer marketing campaigns that are guaranteed to make a splash on social media. Listen to the Podcast: Or subscribe on Spotify , Apple Podcasts , or YouTube Watch the live recording: Episode Summary Influencer marketing has taken the B2B world by storm, and it’s easy to see why.

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HubSpot Bets Big on AI With Breeze Intelligence

CMSWire

At INBOUND 2024, HubSpot dropped its new AI-powered platform Breeze. Continue reading.

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How to master social media for retail in the UK

Sprout Social

In today’s ever-changing retail landscape, brands are divided into two groups. Those who see social media marketing as a key part of their customer engagement strategy and those who view it as a nice to have. The importance of social media in UK retail has only grown. The latest data indicates a notable surge in its use. In a 2022 report, it was found that 78% of consumers in the UK have upped their social media usage in the past year.

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The Resurgence of Direct Mail as a Growth Marketing Strategy

Speaker: Jeff Tarran, COO, Gunderson Direct & Margaret Pepe, Executive Director of Product Management, U.S. Postal Service

Learn the secrets to direct mail success for growth marketers! Industry veterans Jeff Tarran and Margaret Pepe are here to delve into how direct mail has completely evolved in recent years, and has rightfully earned a seat at the table alongside the email and digital marketing plans of SMBs, enterprise companies, and agencies as they look into strategy for 2024 and beyond.

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Salesforce launches new, ‘more trustworthy’ generation of AI bots

Martech

Yesterday, Salesforce launched Agentforce — generative AI bots the company says can be trusted to take action on their own. Agentforce is “the third wave of AI — advancing beyond copilots to a new era of highly accurate, low-hallucination intelligent agents that actively drive customer success ,” Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said during the press conference.

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Shift Happens: 7 Examples of Search Intent Shift (+ How To Identify It)

Ahrefs

But when there’s a major change in search intent for a keyword, the top websites can lose rankings through no fault of their own if they don’t match the new dominant search intent. I call this phenomenon search intent shift.

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Why AI in Demand Generation Is No Knight In Shining Armor [New Research]

Content Marketing Institute

New research sheds light on what works in demand generation today, what doesn’t, and where demand-gen marketers spend their budget and time. Spoiler: AI isn’t helping much yet.

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Giving AI Guidance: Writing for Chatbots

Acrolinx

AI in the workplace: writing for chatbots If you haven’t found yourself writing for a chatbot yet, brace yourself because generative AI chatbots are about to level-up the chatbot game. Chatbots have arrived on the scene and marketing and customer support teams are widely adopting them. Today, you can use them to do everything from booking a flight to finding yourself a date to getting legal advice.

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What Regulations Will Impact Sustainability Comms in 2024?

Navigating the waters of sustainability reporting disclosures and regulations can be intimidating, to say the least. With various measures set in motion in 2023 to keep companies accountable, there is a lot in store for brands’ impact communication in the upcoming year. 3BL is kicking off this January with our Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Capricorn Edition by highlighting the impact of: The U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Climate disclosure rules The European Commission

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7 ideas that marketers say are working in B2B marketing right now

Sword and the Script | B2B

A renewed focus on customer relationships and B2B video content are among the most commonly cited aspects of marketing that those in the trenches say are yielding success B2B marketing has seen better economic times. The challenge of the current environment is stirring debate about what works in B2B marketing and what does not. Such debates can stir passionate responses, but I wanted to know what those in B2B marketing are doing right now that’s working.

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Google adtech antitrust trial: Everything you need to know

Martech

Google is on trial for allegedly abusing its dominance of the $200 billion digital advertising industry. The U.S. Department of Justice claimed that through acquisitions and anticompetitive conduct, Google seized control of the full advertising technology (“adtech”) stack: the tools advertisers and publishers buy and sell ads and the exchange that connects them.

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Demandbase and Salesforce Unite: Introducing a Powerful New Integration for B2B Sales

Engagio

Big news for B2B teams: Demandbase has partnered with Salesforce to deliver our world-class intent data directly into the Salesforce Prospecting Center. This new Salesforce tool provides customers with insights on which prospects to engage, which are most likely to purchase, and which deals to focus on. With real-time insights from over 1 trillion monthly interactions across 650,000+ intent keywords, your team can now prioritize the leads most likely to convert.