Mon.Jan 04, 2016

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Top 16 Digital Trends of 2016

Marketing Insider Group

Marketing has undergone a major transformation in the last few years, responding to new technologies and changes in consumer behaviors and attitudes. Digital marketing and automation are just some of the new skills and technologies successful marketers need to learn today to better understand and help their consumers. So what do marketers must know to […].

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Are you using social media for search keyword research?

Biznology

Google took away your keyword data. I know how awful that was. But what are you doing about it? Yes, you can bemoan your fate, but you must also dust yourself off and find alternatives. Are you using social media listening as one of them? If all you’ve ever done with social listening is detect PR crises, you are missing a lot. If you’ve used only free tools, you might be wondering how they can help you with search keyword research.

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The Science of Storytelling

Kaon

4 Benefits Of Using Storytelling In Marketing. As more brands make the move towards content marketing, cutting through the noise is more vital than ever before. But our brains are built to connect with compelling stories. The Kaon v-Brief® interactive storytelling application, communicates your unique value story through a variety of real-world scenarios that solve a customers’ business challenge.

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Why the Rebirth of Email Is Coming in 2016

Convince & Convert

Image via BigStockPhoto.com. Email marketing was ignored, under-resourced, and declared uncool and dead during the rise of social media. Now that leased media is morphing into paid media, and paid media is morphing into blocked media, brands are returning to permission-based email marketing to find that it has new synergies, powerful new capabilities, broader integration, and fresh blood.

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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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Elements of a Successful Brand 4: Brand Promise

Hinge Marketing

A brand is a complex organism. This is part four in a series of articles in which we examine a successful brand's component parts. Any time you buy a product or a service, you probably have a mental picture of what your purchase will do and how it will improve your business or life. Often, these expectations are based on presumptions, which can lead to real disappointment when you put an unfamiliar product or service into action.

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The Brand Resolution That You Can’t Skip

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Ellen Gomes It’s a new year, which means it’s time to get started on making your resolutions a reality (both personally and professionally). If you’ve set personal goals already (like seeing the inside of 24 Hour Fitness more than once a week), but you’re looking for a professional goal that will make a tangible impact on your brand and organization, you’ve come to the right place.

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EAT, YMYL, & Beneficial Purpose: What Do Google’s Quality Standards Mean for Search?

SEMrush

Google offers two measurements, E-A-T and YMYL, which are important for marketers looking to create better pages in the new year. Let’s discuss what you need to know about both of them.

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10 Little Ways to Sneak in Exercise at Work (Without Looking Silly)

Hubspot

Although we hear about the health benefits of regular exercise all the time, hectic schedules can make it seem impossible to fit workouts in. The prospect of packing a gym bag, trudging to your local gym, working out, showering, changing, and trudging back to where you came from takes an awful lot of time. But you aren't doing yourself any favors by disregarding your health.

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Getting Started with A/B Testing: What, Why and How

SugarCRM

Do your leads respond better to a red button or a blue button? Do you see higher open rates on emails whose subject lines ask a question or those that make a statement? Are conversions higher when your form is on the left side or the right side of the page? In the digital world, even the most minute details can make a big difference. And the responsibility of making decisions about those details typically falls to marketers.

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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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How to Do Account-Based Marketing at Scale

Leadspace

You’ve likely heard a lot about the philosophy of account-based marketing (ABM) lately. Perhaps you’re also wondering: how do you actually do ABM? In this post we’ll talk about the fundamentals, then we’ll show you how Leadspace customer BloomReach has succeeded with ABM. According to Wikipedia, ABM is “a strategic approach to business marketing in which an organization considers and communicates with individual prospect or customer accounts as markets of one.

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11 Brilliant Tools for Organizing, Developing & Sharing Your Ideas

Hubspot

Having an idea is one thing; executing on it is another entirely. Ideas come to us in all shapes and sizes, in all levels of importance, and at all different times of day. Sometimes, we get inspired by something we read online and want to capture it and comment on it. Other times, we come up with an idea out of nowhere and want to jot it down, or say it out loud into our phones before we forget it.

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Top 5 Articles of 2015 to Get You Ready for the New Year!

The ROI Guy

As we look forward to a great 2016, what lessons can we learn from the past year? Here's a round-up of the top five most popular articles from the Alinean team, all with significant guidance for the New Year: 1) Death of a Salesman? Forrester says Yes (at least 1 in 5 at risk)! [link] 2) End Death by PowerPoint and a 1,000 White Paper Cuts [link] 3) TCO is so 1990s.

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Check out the next MarTech agenda and save $500 this week only

chiefmartech

Welcome to 2016! This is going to be a terrific year for marketing technology — and marketing technologists. As I pseudo-predicted last month , I believe this will be the year that we see significant “mainstreaming” of a wide range of marketing technologies — a lot more companies are going to be leveraging more advanced martech capabilities in their day-to-day operations.

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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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4 Challenges Facing Nonprofit Marketers in 2016 (And How To Beat Them)

Hubspot

Nonprofits have two goals: to win supporters to their cause, and to convert those supporters to donors or members to support their work. To achieve both in 2016, marketers will need to become more savvy than ever. But where should you start? The first step is to take a look at the marketing landscape at large to see where it’s moving — and what obstacles could be a roadblock to your success.

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How Demandbase Uses LeanData

LeanData

Account-Based Marketing has emerged as the smart strategy for companies to navigate the complex B2B sales journey. And Demandbase is establishing itself as one of the trend leaders in the growing industry space. The firm helps customers scale their ABM programs by using innovative technologies. “And we truly are big believers in drinking our own champagne,” said Nani Jansen , the senior manager of marketing operations.

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Publishers Strike Back Against Ad Blockers By Refusing to Show Web Content

Content Standard

In the effort to thwart users who block ads, publishers are trying an aggressive tactic: refusing to show Web content until users turn off their ad blockers. Forbes is leading the bandwagon by hiding content from some users of ad blocking services, Digiday reports. Ad block-wielding users who try to access Forbes’ content are presented with a polite-but-firm message to disable it: With the stick comes a carrot: Forbes promises users an “ad light” experience when they turn off t

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How Demandbase Uses LeanData

LeanData

Account-Based Marketing has emerged as the smart strategy for companies to navigate the complex B2B sales journey. And Demandbase is establishing itself as one of the trend leaders in the growing industry space. The firm helps customers scale their ABM programs by using innovative technologies. “And we truly are big believers in drinking our own champagne,” said Nani Jansen , the senior manager of marketing operations.

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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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Terminus Account-Based Marketing Report – January 2016

Terminus

2016 will be the year of account-based marketing (ABM). 2015 was a great year for Terminus. We launched our account-based marketing (ABM) platform in March and ended the year with $1 million in annual recurring revenue. Now that 2016 has arrived, we have set our sights on bigger goals — ones that could only be accomplished with a full-fledged commitment to executing ABM within our organization.

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How Demandbase Uses LeanData

LeanData

Account-Based Marketing has emerged as the smart strategy for companies to navigate the complex B2B sales journey. And Demandbase is establishing itself as one of the trend leaders in the growing industry space. The firm helps customers scale their ABM programs by using innovative technologies. “And we truly are big believers in drinking our own champagne,” said Nani Jansen , the senior manager of marketing operations.

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By: 101+ Kick-Ass 'Internet Marketing Guides' Roundup (Free PDF)

i-Scoop

[…] Content marketing: the complete online guide – I-Scoop […].

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How Demandbase Uses LeanData

LeanData

Account-Based Marketing has emerged as the smart strategy for companies to navigate the complex B2B sales journey. And Demandbase is establishing itself as one of the trend leaders in the growing industry space. The firm helps customers scale their ABM programs by using innovative technologies. “And we truly are big believers in drinking our own champagne,” said Nani Jansen , the senior manager of marketing operations.

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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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4 Brilliant Ways to Diversify Your Content in 2016

SnapApp

Have you ever had a salad with just lettuce? You open up a to-go container to find a pile of wilted romaine and a packet of oily dressing. Pretty unappealing, right? . A salad is only as delightful as the ingredients that add flavor, color, and depth to the plate. Even the most beautiful greens still need other vegetables and some protein to jazz them up.

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7 Essential Skills Marketers Need to Succeed This Year [Infographic]

Hubspot

From changes in consumer behavior to evolving social media algorithms, the marketing world is constantly progressing. To be successful, today's marketers need to have an advanced skill set that covers everything from content creation and social media to web behavior and analytics. What skills do marketers need most to keep up with the industry and do their jobs well?