Mon.Feb 22, 2016

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12 Marketing Trends Every Top Brand Needs To Know In 2016

Marketing Insider Group

If there’s one thing we learned in 2015, it’s that in 2016 marketers are increasingly moving away from a “Mad Men” advertising era to a digital marketing age focused on the customer experience and journey. So what strategies, technologies, and tactics do marketers need to understand and learn to better engage, entertain, and delight their […].

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Why 34 clear facts on Viewable Impressions matter

Biznology

Impressions are a metric used in advertising to measure media delivery. In digital media, an impression occurs when an ad is called by a web browser. Each time an ad is served, it counts as an impression. It is counted whether the viewer is able to see the ad or not. Viewable Impressions are an improvement. Because not all ads served are able to be viewed, the IAB established a definition and standard for viewability.

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How To Create An Effective Content Marketing Strategy For 2016

Marketing Insider Group

Content marketing is an intimidating, but necessary, part of raising brand awareness now. It’s easy to get lost in the whirlwind of SEO elements, content guidelines, audience interests and promotional strategies. But at the heart of it, content marketing has one simple central tenet: Deliver fresh, unique and informative content that taps into the interests […].

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Water Security Influencers: Top Individuals and Brands

Onalytica B2B

Faced with a growing population and climate change, the UN has warned that by 2030 the demand for water is expected to exceed supply by about 40%, with half the global population facing water scarcity. At Onalytica we used our proprietary Influencer Relationship Management (IRM) Software to analyse the social media debate around water security, in order to identify a list of influencers and stakeholders who hold critical authority over the conversation on water security.

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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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Why Your Business Stories Are a Joke (or Should Be)

Convince & Convert

Make ‘Em Laugh. What’s the one thing that business leaders forget when crafting their brand identity and business stories? Humor. A little lightheartedness can go a long way when forging connections with your consumer base, and who better to learn this skill from than the Social Media Lead of The Onion, “America’s finest news source”?

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Social Media’s Response to Apple vs. The FBI

Convince & Convert

Business: Virgin America Launches #LetModFly. Calling all Mad Men fans! Time to pull out your best mid-century look and book a flight with Virgin America. In an effort to promote the airline’s expanded year-round service to Palm Springs from San Francisco and New York, Virgin America is asking customers flying to and from PSP to play dress-up.

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Breaking Down the Buyer’s Journey for SMB Marketers

SugarCRM

If you feel like discussions about the buyer’s journey have suddenly popped up all over the place, you’re not imagining it. While it’s easy to dismiss these conversations as nothing more than the latest buzzword, that would be a mistake. As a matter of fact, the buyer’s journey plays an integral role in today’s digital, multi-channel marketing world and even SMB organizations can’t ignore it.

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Should You Be Fired for Honesty?

Convince & Convert

As Convince and Convert readers know, Jay Baer has written Hug Your Haters , a guide to help businesses embrace their detractors and build a more healthy relationship with them. And like it or not, sometimes employees can be haters too. . Case in point: Talia Jane, a customer service rep for Yelp, recently took to the Internet to complain about the lack of a sustainable wage from her employer in San Francisco.

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PureIncubation Named to 2016 Inc. 5000 List

PureB2B

Topsfield, MA –. For the second consecutive year, Pure Incubation has been included in Inc. Magazine’s annual Inc. 5000 list, an elite ranking of the country’s fastest-growing private companies. The list names Pure Incubation at 985, recognizing the company’s 446% growth over the past three years. “It felt like a big accomplishment when we were on the list last year at #170, but making the list for a second consecutive year is incredibly validating,” says President and CEO Melissa Chang. “ That

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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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The Essential Guide to Branding Your Company [Free Kit]

Hubspot

A brand gives a business its unique identity -- from the way content looks and feels to how it sounds and resonates. Think about some of the most iconic brands out there, and then picture their branding. I bet you can come up with it right away. GoPro? Excitement. Prada? Sophistication. Band-Aid? Sincerity. When establishing your own company's brand, you have to dig deep into its roots and determine what your product really means to your customers.

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PureIncubation Named to 2016 Inc. 5000 List

PureB2B

Topsfield, MA –. For the second consecutive year, Pure Incubation has been included in Inc. Magazine’s annual Inc. 5000 list, an elite ranking of the country’s fastest-growing private companies. The list names Pure Incubation at 985, recognizing the company’s 446% growth over the past three years. “It felt like a big accomplishment when we were on the list last year at #170, but making the list for a second consecutive year is incredibly validating,” says President and CEO Melissa Chang. “ That

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Businesses See 500% Lift in Email Conversion with Personalized Video from Vidyard

Vidyard

Personalization helps Act-On, Cetera Financial Group, Lenovo and Tradeshift get – and keep – audience attention in crowded email inboxes . KITCHENER, Ontario – February 22, 2016 – Getting your audience to pay attention to marketing emails is difficult in this era of crowded inboxes, but businesses including Act-On, Cetera Financial Group, Lenovo and Tradeshift are standing out from the crowd by using personalized video from Vidyard , the video platform that helps businesses turn viewers into c

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Content2Conversion 2016 - My B2B Marketing Utopia

SnapApp

As an event marketing manager, sometimes you look at your calendar and just think that you're crazy. Is it even physically possible to get everything done and travel to all these weird obscure places? . And that becomes even more relevant in the early spring and fall time periods, where everyone under the sun decides it’s appropriate to have an event. .

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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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Businesses See 500% Lift in Email Conversion with Personalized Video from Vidyard

Vidyard

Personalization helps Act-On, Cetera Financial Group, Lenovo and Tradeshift get – and keep – audience attention in crowded email inboxes KITCHENER, Ontario – February 22, 2016 – Getting your audience to pay attention to marketing emails is difficult in this era of crowded inboxes, but businesses including Act-On, Cetera Financial Group, Lenovo and Tradeshift are standing out from the crowd by using personalized video from Vidyard , the video platform that helps businesses turn viewers into custo

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Why Some Things Go Viral — And Others Don’t [Video]

Hubspot

Today, internet users have more control over what they look at online than ever before. To earn their attention, marketers like us have to create content that's worthy of our audience's time and emotional investment.But what's the best way to cut through the clutter to make sure our content gets seen? Well, it helps to create content that's poised to go viral, of course.

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Businesses See 500% Lift in Email Conversion with Personalized Video from Vidyard

Vidyard

Personalization helps Act-On, Cetera Financial Group, Lenovo and Tradeshift get – and keep – audience attention in crowded email inboxes KITCHENER, Ontario – February 22, 2016 – Getting your audience to pay attention to marketing emails is difficult in this era of crowded inboxes, but businesses including Act-On, Cetera Financial Group, Lenovo and Tradeshift are standing out from the crowd by using personalized video from Vidyard , the video platform that helps businesses

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2016 Social Media Marketing Trends: Better, Faster, Stronger

Content Standard

In many (sometimes frightening) ways, social media marketing can be like a high school cafeteria. Some brands make rounds at all the tables, itching to hear the slightest scrap of a story or piece of gossip on which to capitalize. Some brands spend so much effort on pursuing influencers (read: popular kids) that they never actually create unique content of their own.

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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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Associations Now: Apply Psychology to Meet Attendee Needs

The Freeman Company

A review of our research on using Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs to engage attendees on a deeper level

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How Data Is Used to Refine Marketing Messages

Convince & Convert

Image via BigStockPhoto.com. By now, we’re all aware that the campaign-centric model of marketing is over—at least, if you want to be a company that remains viable and visible in the minds of consumers. Instead, most of us are using data to inform our campaigns and listening to our consumers on a regular basis. Or at least we should be. The “Tent Pole” Marketing Model.

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Understanding the Data: The Warriors and Basketball Analytics

LeanData

You can learn a lot about what happened in a basketball game from a basic box score. Which team won, of course. How many points, rebounds, assists that players accumulated. Shooting percentages, fouls and so on. But for real basketball junkies, a box score is only the starting point of understanding what happened. It doesn’t tell the complete story.

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5 Smart Ways to Use Email Signature Marketing

Convince & Convert

Every marketer, and especially those in software marketing, understands the power of “filling the funnel” with prospects that are interested in what your companies has to offer, whether products or services. Marketers across many industries have relied upon the trusty “paid, owned, earned, and shared” channels that have proven to be successful for years on end (with a few new channels introduced along the way): boost website traffic with SEO, attend trade shows and host field marketing events, u

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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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How to Edit Instagram Photos: A Step-by-Step Guide to Using Instagram Filters & More

Hubspot

Have you ever looked through your Instagram feed and wondered how some people make their photos look so darn good? Whether I'm looking at drool-worthy photos posted by food brands or crisp, gorgeous shots of full-time Instagrammers ( yes, that's a real job ), I've had my fair share of photo envy. When it comes to posting on Instagram, photo quality is everything.

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Should You Be Asking for Referrals? The Answer May Surprise You

Hinge Marketing

Is Asking for Referrals Right for You? For professional services firms that are trying to increase business, referrals are the go-to source. In fact, our 2015 Marketing Priorities Study discovered that 62 percent of firms cite generating referrals as their highest marketing priority. So how do you get more referrals? The business development pundits give the impression that, if you simply ask for referrals, they’ll come tumbling in.

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Understanding the Data: The Warriors and Basketball Analytics

LeanData

You can learn a lot about what happened in a basketball game from a basic box score. Which team won, of course. How many points, rebounds, assists that players accumulated. Shooting percentages, fouls and so on. But for real basketball junkies, a box score is only the starting point of understanding what happened. It doesn’t tell the complete story.

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Understanding the Data: The Warriors and Basketball Analytics

LeanData

You can learn a lot about what happened in a basketball game from a basic box score. Which team won, of course. How many points, rebounds, assists that players accumulated. Shooting percentages, fouls and so on. But for real basketball junkies, a box score is only the starting point of understanding what happened. It doesn’t tell the complete story.

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The AI-Enabled CMO: Practical Tips for Today's B2B Marketers

Speaker: Paul Slack, Vende Digital CEO

On October 11th, understand how to navigate the AI landscape confidently, turning insights into groundbreaking strategies that set you apart. Why attend? You'll learn: Practical applications/Use cases How to find and assess the right AI technology Prioritizing quick wins Mastering prompt engineering Solving marketing challenges efficiently Strategies to launch pilot programs Case studies of B2Bs building smarter businesses with AI Exclusive bonus content: Actionable frameworks to get started qui

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Understanding the Data: The Warriors and Basketball Analytics

LeanData

You can learn a lot about what happened in a basketball game from a basic box score. Which team won, of course. How many points, rebounds, assists that players accumulated. Shooting percentages, fouls and so on. But for real basketball junkies, a box score is only the starting point of understanding what happened. It doesn’t tell the complete story.