May, 2019

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Content curation for social selling; how to get even better results

Scoop.it

Content curation is a great asset available for marketers to maximize the impact of social selling programs. Scoop.it recent integration with social selling solutions such as GaggleAMP, unleash the power of content curation + social selling. But why is curation such a nice tool to leverage employee advocacy? All the answers below, and also in our common webinar with GaggleAMP.

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Trending in Email Design: Bold Colors and Gradients

Litmus

Each year, we see new design trends shaping digital marketing—from the use of color and imagery to typography trends, interactivity, and more. In our “Trending in Email Design” series, we look at the hottest digital design trends—and dive into how they translate into email marketing. Bold colors & gradients: Standing out. The use of bold color in design is an ongoing trend that has steadily grown in popularity in recent years.

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Sales Operations: The Guide They Never Gave You

InsightSquared

“What was your first job?”. It’s one of my favorite questions to ask a fellow professional in sales operations. Some of the answers include: Elementary school teacher. SDR. Recruiter. Pharmacy Tech. Insurance sales rep. Cosmetics consultant. Account Manager. Financial analyst. Why the wide range? Sales Operations is Still Developing. Sales operations as a profession is growing, yet it is a comparatively new function in businesses.

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5 Critical Signs It’s Time to Revamp Your Content Marketing Strategy

Marketing Insider Group

If you’re like most businesses, it took you a long time—and a lot of hard work to knock out a successful content marketing strategy. Just thinking about revamping it is a challenge. But it’s a must if you want your strategy to succeed. Think about the revenue you’ll miss if you don’t at least evaluate […]. The post 5 Critical Signs It’s Time to Revamp Your Content Marketing Strategy appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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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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How AI is Reshaping Email Marketing

Webbiquity

Guest post by Jess Andriani. Technologies like big data, machine learning, business intelligence, and cognitive computing are made possible or practical by artificial intelligence (AI). One aspect of digital marketing where AI has been most helpful is in email, and businesses are recognizing this significance. By 2020, it is believed that more companies will be using AI for at least one of their sales processes.

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25 Useful Content Marketing Stats That Are Actually Credible

Contently

As an avid crime fiction reader, I can assure you that marketers and detectives have little in common. We’re more like cops on desk duty, sitting in front of a computer and enjoying the occasional donut in the kitchen. But if there’s one part of our jobs that calls for investigative skills, it’s when we’re looking for content marketing stats.

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Demand Generation and Distribution: 4 Must-Try Digital Marketing Channels

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Our previous blog post looked at how important strategic content is for your demand generation campaign. But it’s vital to remember that if you don’t get it in front of the right set of eyes, your content is useless. That’s why we’re going to focus on another essential part of your campaign: distribution. Every successful demand gen campaign starts with a final goal in mind.

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What are the Main Challenges of Marketing Financial Services? (And How You Can Solve Them)

Brandpoint

The main challenges of marketing financial services are very unique to the industry. Strict regulations, complicated subject matter, a lack of consumer trust and constantly evolving technology are just a handful of roadblocks scattered throughout the financial services landscape. However, as we dug into the research in our 2019 State of Content Marketing for Financial Services report , we saw some common trends bubble up.

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How Voice-Activated Tech Will Change Content Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

Once nothing more than an entertaining novelty, voice-activated technology is now big business and is fast becoming part of everyday life for many people. There are now almost 120 million smart speaker devices in US homes – a growth of 78% in just one year. The use of mobile devices has also grown. 60% of Google searches are […]. The post How Voice-Activated Tech Will Change Content Marketing appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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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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Do’s and Don’ts For Personalized Marketing

Webbiquity

Guest post by Stefan Debois. Marketing is evolving rapidly, and the use of big data is increasingly important. Customers and prospects have higher expectations than ever before for relevance and personalization, and marketers need to be prepared to meet those needs. According to a study from Infosys , 86% of respondents say personalization has at least some impact on their purchasing behavior.

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7 Ways to Run More Efficient Business Meetings

Zoominfo

If you’ve worked in business for any length of time, you’ve attended two very different types of meetings. First, there are effective business meetings, where employees share necessary information, collaborate efficiently, and develop next steps to solve their shared problems. And then there are the meetings where to put it simply, nothing gets done.

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Should Your Marketing Team Care About TikTok?

Contently

My favorite TikTok meme is a bit called “ I smell pennies.” Every video begins with someone holding a bunch of pennies. The person says, “Finally. Now I can keep these pennies to myself.” The camera tilts up to reveal some kind of disturbing monster in the doorway. Sometimes it’s a person stuffed into an Amazon box. Sometimes it’s a person in a penguin costume.

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Marketing and Web Security: How Marketers Can Mitigate Risk

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Think site security and performance are mutually exclusive? Think again. Having proper protections behind your site not only keeps it secure but also improves its reliability. The more reliable your site, the more your visitors trust you can keep their information secure and the greater their trust in your brand—and your marketing. Organizations across industries and regions are becoming increasingly digital.

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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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NEW: Boost Credibility through Social Advocacy with Brandpoint’s Expert Series Videos

Brandpoint

Brandpoint’s Expert Series is a new way we can help companies demonstrate knowledge of their industry and business via thought leadership videos and bylined articles. These high-quality editorial videos will include an interview with an expert from the company and will be distributed to select prestigious news sites for placement. These placements will also feature a bylined article about both the interview and the message the brand is conveying.

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5 Ways to Improve the ROI of Your Content Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

Content marketing can produce great results for your business. However, it can also take a lot of content, and therefore time and money, before you start to see those results. With a smart approach, you can improve the ROI of your content marketing campaigns and get more out of the content you’re already producing without […]. The post 5 Ways to Improve the ROI of Your Content Marketing appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Seven Tactics to Delete From Your Email Marketing NOW

Webbiquity

By Kipp Bodnar. A major culprit of the inbound marketing time-suck is email marketing. When doing email marketing , it’s easy to lift your head up from your computer and discover that you’ve reached the end of the day, but not the end of your work. Image credit: ijmaki on Pixabay. Let’s make today the day where we stop spending time on the aspects of email marketing that don’t work, and instead use the time we save to test new email marketing tools and tactics.

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Why A B2B, Account-Based, Marketing (ABM) Strategy Must Be A Priority

Hinge Marketing

Let’s face it, marketing resources—whether part of a large or small team—only have a certain amount of bandwidth each month to build or strengthen their brands, generate leads or demand, enhance their customer experiences, or to reach all of these goals. For many, the ultimate goal is to help increase/improve opportunity engagement throughout their funnels or pipelines.

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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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Contently Explains: How Content Marketing Makes Money

Contently

A businessman named John Wanamaker famously said, “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted. The trouble is I don’t know which half.” When Wanamaker made that clever quip 100 years ago, he never could’ve predicted the rise of martech. Today, thousands of solutions promise to help marketers track all kinds of data in sleek dashboards.

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How to Advertise on Social Media—A Marketer’s Quick-Start Guide

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

In the not-too-distant past, businesses relied heavily on network television and terrestrial radio to connect with buyers and tout their products. But with more people fleeing traditional TV and radio for ad-free streaming services like Netflix and Spotify Premium, advertising on those once-powerful mediums has lost much of its luster. Today, there’s another place your company can go to reach the masses.

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Mobile vs Desktop Traffic: What's the Difference?

Spiralytics

Much of today's market is expanding rapidly onto mobile platforms. It's no surprise that close attention to mobile traffic is now more important than ever for a successful enterprise. In order to maximize profits and exposure, you must keep an eye on both your desktop and mobile metrics. Optimizing your user experience is crucial, and this process can be very complex since design can be quite different between the two.

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How to Choose the Right Martech Tool for Your B2B Tech Brand

Marketing Insider Group

Martech evangelist Scott Brinker’s 2018 marketing landscape supergraphic shows there are more than 6,800 technologies out there for marketers. With more than a 27% increase from 2017, the amount of solutions is only growing. How can marketers possibly choose between all of them when the offerings are seemingly endless? While traditionally marketers have been known […].

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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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Best Brand Monitoring Tools – At Any Price

Webbiquity

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Takeaways from the 2019 MN PRSA Classics Awards

Brandpoint

Beth Wellman , Assistant Account Executive at Brandpoint, attended this year’s MN PRSA Classics Awards along with other members of the Brandpoint team. She is a member of Minnesota PRSA, and she volunteers as part of the chapter’s Communications committee. The Classics Awards is undoubtedly the biggest event of the year for the Minnesota chapter of the PRSA.

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Content Marketing and the Future of Sales Enablement

Contently

At Contently, we talk about the audience a lot. Audience, in this case, usually refers to the outside world—the group of people who read, watch, and listen to your content. If your content resonates, you’ll be able to build a relationship with the right people who can buy your product. Ultimately, though, your total audience consists of more than just those people.

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7 Social Media Activities You Can Do in Under 15 Minutes

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Success with content on social media can be simple if you’re organized and focus on efficiency. Of course, you know that you need to cater content directly to your audience’s needs or challenges and that you need to provide a variety of content to keep your audience engaged. But how can you create efficiency in an increasingly frenetic digital space?

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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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7 Triggers That Make People Want to Share Your Content

Content Marketing Institute

Did you add simple elements to your content to make it highly shareable? Known as “share triggers,” they’re easy to create – and they work. Even better, you don’t need a big following or email list. Continue reading → The post 7 Triggers That Make People Want to Share Your Content appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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How to Write a Content Marketing Plan that Quadruples Your Leads

Marketing Insider Group

Every business wants more leads, and it could be simpler than you think to start generating more of them. In fact, a carefully constructed content marketing plan could quadruple your leads or better. There are many different ways you can generate leads for your business online, but content marketing should certainly form a major part […]. The post How to Write a Content Marketing Plan that Quadruples Your Leads appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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5 ways Artificial Intelligence is Revolutionizing eCommerce Marketing

readwrite

Marketing strategies are continuously changing due to increasing technological advancement. Technology is responsible for raising the exceptions of people all around the globe. With an increase in innovations, it’s pretty obvious that customers are expecting more and companies are doing everything to can to remain in their good list. Consequently, competition between companies seems to […].

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