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How to Build a Community With an Email Marketing Platform

SendX

Building a community is about more than just gathering people together. It's about creating a space where connections can flourish, ideas can be shared, and relationships can grow.

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B2B Customer Experience: Balancing the Human Factor with Technology

Vision Edge Marketing

AI. AI. AI. Are your email boxes overflowing with information extolling the benefits of, and promoting, AI tools? Mine sure is! But this post is about a bigger category – technology. From chatbots to self-service platforms, technology is reshaping customer interactions, enhancing efficiency, improving EBITA, and steering decisions with data. Gartner’s survey reveals a whopping 75% of B2B buyers prefer self-service, versus interacting with sales representatives, during the initial stages of

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How Email Marketing Platforms Increase YouTube Views

SendX

If you’re anything like most content creators, you want to know how to increase YouTube views. It’s understandable when you consider how much work goes into the creation of a video.

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What Is a Marketing Database? (Hint: It’s NOT Your Audience)

Marketing Insider Group

Let’s face it: In the grand chess game of marketing , your marketing database is the queen. Neglect her, and your strategy is as good as checkmate. But wield her wisely, and you’re playing to win. Having a marketing database isn’t just about hoarding data like a digital dragon sitting on a pile of gold. It’s about using that data to outsmart the competition and capture your audience’s attention.

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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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Book Review: Smart Brevity

Webbiquity

I rarely write book reviews anymore. And I’ll bet you rarely read them. But this one will be brief, and worthwhile for both of us. Promise. Smart Brevity: The Power of Saying More with Less by Jim VandeHei , Mike Allen , and Roy Schwartz is a must-read for communicators generally, and writers specifically. It’s worth a review. Plus, this gives me an opportunity to try writing in Smart Brevity style.

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The Marketing Book Podcast: “MKTG STINX” by Bob Hoffman

The Forward Observer

MKTG STINX by Bob Hoffman About the Book From the Author: There have been thousands of books and articles extolling the virtues of marketing and advertising. But I don’t think there has ever been one about how stupid and wasteful most of it is. Well, now there is. About the Author Bob Hoffman is the author of several best-selling books about advertising.

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The Winning Formula in Sales

xiQ

The Winning Formula in Sales In the high-speed world of Formula 1 racing, precision, strategy, and agility are paramount. It’s a world where every millisecond counts and victory hinges on the seamless integration of man, machine, and method. These principles also lie beneath all sales, where professionals navigate the fast-paced market, leveraging insights and technology to cross the finish line ahead of their competition.

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MarTech Salary and Career Survey: More promotions and more layoffs

Martech

For martech professionals salaries are good and promotions are coming faster, unfortunately, layoffs are coming faster, too. That’s according to the just-released 2024 Martech Salary and Career Survey. Another very unfortunate finding: The median salary of women below the C-suite level is 35% less than what men earn. The last year saw many different economic trends, some at odds with each other.

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Top 50 B2B Thought Leaders, Analysts & Influencers You Should Work With In 2024 (EMEA)

Thinkers360

Here’s the Thinkers360 annual leaderboard for our top 50 B2B thought leaders, analysts and influencers you should work with in 2024 (Europe, Africa & Middle East). Congratulations to all who participated! Top 50 B2B Thought Leaders, Analysts & Influencers You Should Work With In 2024 (EMEA) 2024 Annual Ranking Find and work with the World’s Premier B2B Thought Leaders, Advisors, Analysts, Authors, Influencers & Speakers (100M+ followers combined).

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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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5 Great Email Signature Examples to Follow

SendX

On average, more than 300 billion emails are sent and received on a global scale every day. The email marketing industry is set to reach $17.9 billion by 2027. Despite these amazing statistics, many still treat their email signatures like an afterthought, which is a big mistake!

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Assessing the Impact of AI-Driven Web Browsing on SEO and Marketing

CMSWire

Understanding search engines’ operational mechanisms and its implications on user behavior, click-through rates and marketing effectiveness is crucial. Continue reading.

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Beginner’s Guide to Content Marketing Reporting

Ahrefs

In this guide, you’ll learn the three best practices of reporting and eight types of information that make a solid content report, including the actual KPIs used by content marketers.

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Job dissatisfaction up sharply: The 2024 MarTech Salary and Career Survey

Martech

Fewer resources and more stress cut into martech professionals’ job satisfaction this year, according to the 2024 Martech Salary and Career Survey. Job dissatisfaction jumped by 9% for managers and staff and 5% for those at the director level and up. Overall job satisfaction remains high — two-thirds of martech professionals at every level say they are “extremely” or “somewhat” satisfied.

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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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11 Effective Emotional Advertising Examples Brands Are Using

Bannersnack

10 minutes read Everyone knows that emotional marketing is difficult to do right. Marketers tend to focus on conversion rate, impressions, bounce rates, and bids, and we forget about the emotional appeal in the advertising. According to the research from PsychologyToday, people respond to the emotional part of the ads a lot more than the text itself.

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How to Use Emojis in Your Marketing Emails (With Examples)

SendX

Understand the transformative power of emojis in email marketing, and how these tiny digital expressions are strategic tools that can amplify your message.

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Collect Customer Feedback on Your Website With These 7 Tips

Optinmonster

Did you know that collecting customer feedback can help you transform the success of your business? Customer experience is one of the top factors in gaining new customers and building brand loyalty. In fact, research by PwC has found that companies with a strong focus on customer experience see 5x the revenue growth as those who don’t prioritize customer satisfaction.

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Top 50 Global Thought Leaders and Influencers on Legal & IP 2024

Thinkers360

Here’s the Thinkers360 annual leaderboard for our top 50 global thought leaders and influencers on Legal & IP for 2024. Congratulations to all our Legal & IP influencers who participated! Top 50 Global Thought Leaders and Influencers on Legal & IP 2024 2024 Annual Ranking Find and work with the World’s Premier B2B Thought Leaders, Advisors, Analysts, Authors, Influencers & Speakers (100M+ followers combined).

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How to Improve Email Deliverability and Optimize Each Send

Learn how to optimize email deliverability and drive greater email ROI. What lands your email in the customer’s inbox? Understanding those factors, otherwise known as email deliverability, is critical to getting the most return on your campaign investments. But the “rules” around which factors land you in the spam folder aren’t always easy to keep up with.

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Digital advertisers still looking for recipe to thrive in cookieless world by Stirista

Martech

Marketers can’t call Google’s bluff anymore. The company finally removed cookies for 1% of Chrome users (or around 30 million people) back in January. And as the conversation around PAIR, Google’s new identity solution that allows publishers and advertisers to match first-party data to deliver personalized ads, gathers more and more momentum each day, there’s one thing we can be sure about — when it comes to the deprecation of cookies, this time, it’s for real.

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AI Bias: Overcoming Challenges in Generative AI Platforms

CMSWire

AI bias will continue to be a challenge for generative AI platform providers. It's up to these platforms to build in truth mechanisms from the get-go. Continue reading.

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5 Tips To Craft Great Email Greetings And Closings (With Examples)

SendX

Have you ever wondered why some emails receive prompt responses while others just get ignored? The secret lies in how you begin and end your email. Crafting the perfect email greeting and closing sets a positive, professional tone for your message.

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What Is Enterprise Content Marketing? Strategies You Need To Be Successful

Ahrefs

When enterprise content marketing is done well, it can drive tons of leads, conversions, and, ultimately, revenue. In addition, it can help with things like brand perception and awareness. There’s a misconception that big enterprise websites rank for everything.

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The Silver Lining to Corporate DEI Challenges

In our latest edition of Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Scorpio Edition, 3BL embraces the perspective of one of the zodiac's most misunderstood signs: Scorpio. While this sign often has a darker view of the world, they do not shy away from shining a light on controversial topics. This month we take a deep dive into corporate pullback of DEI and how companies can utilize astrological advice to reinvent its social impact communication.

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The Power of Inner Strength Lies on Life’s Steepest Slopes

Televerde

What fuels the human spirit to persevere against all odds? That’s a question that many people ask themselves when faced with a seemingly impossible challenge. Whether it’s a personal goal, a difficult workout, a loss, or another life obstacle, something within us gives us the strength to keep going. As someone who has been working out for the past 14 years, I’ve experienced many moments of grit, perseverance, and the pure will to carry on when everything in my body screams, “Stop!

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Beyond multichannel and omnichannel: Understanding the optichannel approach

Martech

There’s a newcomer to the customer experience discussion: designing and delivering an “optichannel” experience. What is that? How does it differ from multichannel and omnichannel? Hold tight. I’ll answer those questions and a few more, but let’s start with some definitions to set the stage. What is multichannel? Multichannel means the company interacts with customers through multiple channels, both online and offline.

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Retail Trends: Crafting an Adventurous Shopping Experience

CMSWire

How can your brand tap into the “treasure hunting” shopping concept, specifically if you’re operating in both a physical and digital world? Continue reading.

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How to Use Email Promo Codes to Great Effect

SendX

Email promo codes are a great way of boosting your product’s sales. Leverage them to great effect by following these eight steps. (Includes examples).

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Solving the Biggest Tech Challenges in RevOps

In this eBook, we’ll run through real-world examples that show how RevOps teams can benefit from modern solutions for the access, management, and activation of their GTM data. Whether you need to improve lead response times, boost adoption of core tools, improve lead qualification, or target and automate your GTM motions, you’ll find examples of how revenue teams are solving some of the toughest problems in modern business.

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Content Pruning: Why It Works, and How to Do It

Ahrefs

Content pruning sounds pretty appealing: delete a ton of content and see your organic traffic improve. But pruning has risks (like deleting useful pages and useful backlinks), and benefits are not guaranteed: So how does pruning actually work?

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Find UK TikTok Influencers for your brand

Sprout Social

Looking to build buzz for your UK-based brand? There’s never been a better time to invest in influencer marketing —especially UK TikTok influencers. The platform, known for its fast-moving trends and authentic content, is often tough for brands to break into. However, working with local UK TikTok influencers provides you with plenty of opportunities to reach a wide range of people and niches.

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Harnessing martech insights: A roadmap to customer-centric business strategies

Martech

The digital era has revolutionized how organizations interact with consumers and transformed the role of martech teams. Once perceived primarily as technical support, martech teams are now central figures in strategic decision-making. Their ability to assess and analyze vast data sets lets them provide critical insights into customer behaviors, market trends and the overall effectiveness of marketing strategies.