Sat.Nov 21, 2015 - Fri.Nov 27, 2015

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The New Rules of Social Marketing and PR

Convince & Convert

It’s All About Now, Now, Now. Who would have thought getting fired from a major real-time information company would lead to a hugely successful career in marketing? An internationally acclaimed strategist, David Meerman Scott is the author or co-author of ten books, three of which are international bestsellers and one that is currently being made into a major motion picture.

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Anatomy Of The Perfect Blog Post

Marketing Insider Group

If you’ve ever written a blog post before, you know that blogging isn’t as easy as it seems. It takes a lot of time and effort to create a post that people will want to read and share. But blogging has many business benefits and plays a big role in the success of your content […]. The post Anatomy Of The Perfect Blog Post appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Quiz: What’s Your Marketing Personality Type?

Influitive

Ever wonder if you’re on the right career path? Take our quiz to find out which marketing role would really suit you (based on some *incredibly* scientific questions). You’ll also find out how to take your career to the next level and get to share your results with your network. Content loading… Sign up for our newsletter to receive the latest advocate marketing news and best practices.

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Four (of the) Worst Practices for Pitching Bloggers

Webbiquity

Influencer marketing has become a key component of PR and web presence optimization. Brands that are successful at pitching their news and stories to bloggers increase their online presence, gain credibility, and score those coveted “earned” backlinks that Google values as a factor in search rankings. It’s also challenging to do well.

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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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Knowing your direct mail break even point

Direct Response Coach

It goes without saying that before you begin to use direct mail, you need to know your numbers – specifically, the direct mail break even point. For all the attention you want to give to list selection, format choice and creative approaches, you need to know: your gross profit margin – how much you [.]. The post Knowing your direct mail break even point appeared first on McCarthy and King Marketing.

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How Blackbaud Built A Foundation For Customer Advocacy

Influitive

Those who work at not-for-profit organizations love being part of a community. That’s why Blackbaud , a non-profit software solutions provider, launched a customer advocacy program to engage and connect with its 30,000 customers. However, the program didn’t give Blackbaud’s passionate advocates many activities to do—or a lot of professional perks. Amy Bills , Customer Marketing Director at Blackbaud, knew they could do better if they rethought their approach to customer advocacy.

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Online Engagement is about the trip not the car

Biznology

Let’s say you’re the husband of a loving wife and the dad of a rebellious teenage girl who is about to fly the coop and you’ve always had the dream to follow the footsteps of your favorite writer, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , as he traveled from gray Germany down to Rome and Naples in 1786–88, and the Berlin Wall comes down and Germany is unified.

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Unpacking Challenger Customer Insights

Avitage

The CEB book Challenger Customer, released in September 2015, will continue to garner support for its many insights. They provide important considerations for all B2B marketing and selling professionals, especially sales executives. Despite a breezy writing style, there are many dense sections. A level one reading risks missing several important but deeper implications for an organization’s go-to-market and content strategy.

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Inside Out: Why Fear Is The Key to Confident Content That Converts

Marketing Insider Group

Fear is only temporary. Regret lasts forever. ~ Author Unknown Emotions… Who is not a stranger to emotions as much as content marketers? Sadness of rejection, fear of failure, anger of plagiarism, joy of positive feedback, disgust of poorly written texts – they all are in our heads when it comes to content marketing strategy. […]. The post Inside Out: Why Fear Is The Key to Confident Content That Converts 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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Great Blog Content:2 Reasons for Writing Stories

Writing on the Web

Are you writing stories with feeling on your business blog? If your blog post doesn’t resonate emotionally, you can’t do a good job of building relationships, inspiring trust, and moving people into taking action. As I mentioned in my last post , great blog content appeals to people who are both thinkers and feelers. To do this, blog writers need to get real with readers – they need to step away from their anonymous masks and get emotional.

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Tips for your professional B2B corporate video production project

Biznology

Want to get visitors to your website to stay longer? Want to convert more of those visitors into leads and customers? Then you should highly consider investing in digital business video production as a part of your overall marketing and sales support strategy. As the use of B2B corporate video production and video content marketing has increased, multiple research reports have proved how corporate online business video production can be drive marketing KPI metrics higher.

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Magpies and 4 Other Things I Heard at the Inaugural SiriusDecisions Technology Exchange #SDTechX

Cintell

We just arrived back in Boston from the inaugural SiriusDecisions Technoloy Exchange , an event dedicated to solving some of the complexities around the most central component to today’s function of business-to-business marketing – meeting and managing the demands that technology places on our jobs. Some at the event wondered if a whole conference dedicated to technology was really necessary – after all, they said, isn’t nearly everything we do as marketers driven by technology these days?

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How To Write From Your Core

Marketing Insider Group

When you write from your core, you start to rip down the illusions of your former self so that you can prepare yourself for what’s next. Dissolving your excess may be scary and uncertain but it allows you to align with who you’re becoming – instead of staying comfortable in who you were. While you may crave certainty, it’s […]. The post How To Write From Your Core appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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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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7 Elements Of Customer Understanding The C-Suite Must Master

Tony Zambito

by Yarden Gilboa. Changes in customer and buying behaviors continue to rock the very foundations of many industries. According to recent surveys by PWC, Forrester, IBM , and McKinsey, disruptive trends in customer and buying behaviors are expected to continue over the next five years. Many organizations are undergoing digital transformations in order to improve customer interactions, engagement, and understanding.

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Why say “Thank You” at work?

Kaon

It’s Thanksgiving. We usually spend this time with friends and family, reflecting on all those things for which we are grateful in our lives. Regardless of our individual “ups and downs” throughout the year, looking at how so many people all over the world are literally struggling to save themselves from the ravages of war and terrorism will quickly put our struggles into perspective.

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Top Takeaways from #SDTechX

Lattice

Last week SiriusDecisions hosted its inaugural Technology Exchange in San Francisco. As soon as we heard about the event, we knew that it was right up our alley. The event was organized around providing marketing, sales and product professionals with guidance on optimizing and managing all technology. As a marketer, I am always interested in learning about new technologies and how other companies are leveraging them to drive results.

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How To Track Leads From Marketing To Sales

Marketing Insider Group

Do you have trouble measuring the ROI of your marketing efforts? If you answered “yes,” don’t worry – you’re not alone. 75% of surveyed marketers say they struggle with calculating marketing ROI because they don’t actually know how much revenue their programs are generating. For many CMOs and marketers, unqualified inquiries are just handed off […].

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Are Your Impact Comms Resonating With Stakeholders?

Whether your organization is at the start of its sustainability and impact journey or years into it, many brands share a common concern: the uncertainty of whether they are sending stakeholders mixed messages. Creating content that speaks to your audience's “love language” can be a tricky dance. But, worry not! 3BL has put together tips to ensure that your content not only finds its rhythm but also resonates with your target audiences.

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Why You Need to Build Your Email List Organically

Convince & Convert

Of all the marketing techniques I involve myself with, I like email marketing the least. While some people are able to breeze through the ins and outs, it took me many years to learn the various methods for successful email campaigns. One of the most important lessons I have learned is to build organic email lists as opposed to borrowed, scraped, or purchased lists.

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“Digital” is an entirely new Marketing Business Model

Kaon

It is no longer sufficient for marketers to “go digital”. In fact, digital platforms are completely changing the way marketers must think of their world and their work. The business model of marketing has changed from being event-driven (e.g. a product launch, or website redesign, or trade show) to a continuous process both of brand development as well as purchase enablement.

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6 Trending and Cutting-Edge Digital Marketing Strategies You Need to Know

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Ellen Gomes As digital technology continues to expand and mature, digital advertising strategies are evolving to keep up. From social, to search, to big data, the opportunities for marketers today are endless. So how do you keep up with the times? Read on for 3 trending digital marketing strategies—plus 3 more that are on the horizon—and some tips on how you can increase your marketing ROI by incorporating them into your campaigns : 1.

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How To Improve Your Content Marketing Strategy

Marketing Insider Group

Let’s face it: You’re either a right-brained or left-brained content marketer. If you’re a right-brained marketer, then the term “audience data” probably makes you squirm uncomfortably. But if you’re a left-brained content marketer, you eat things like audience data for breakfast. Either way, you want to be seen online. Here’s the thing: Right-brained marketers generally […].

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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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How to Get Started With Employee-Generated Video Content

Convince & Convert

Image via BigStockPhoto.com. When we asked Jay Baer what the top content marketing trend of 2015 was, he said EGC, or employee generated content. But not just EGC—EGC on video. Find out why he thinks this will become a focus for marketers in this short clip from Oracle’s MME : Why Employee-Generated Content? There’s a lot of knowledge stored in the minds of those sitting at the desks around you.

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10 Video Production Mistakes You Don’t Know You’re Making (And How to Fix Them)

Vidyard

As video marketers, we’re expected to output flawless videos that incite emotion or action in the viewer. Throughout the production process, however, mistakes can be made due to tight deadlines or stakeholder demands. From the many videos I’ve seen, I’ve noticed a trend in that the same mistakes are made over and over again that compromise the integrity of the video.

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5 Ways to Uncover Powerful Website Analytics

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Jamie Lewis If you’re not tracking your website analytics, it’s time to step it up. Contrary to more traditional marketing channels, your website and web analytics are direct, specific, and measurable. So what exactly is website analytics? A good definition I often use is “The qualitative and quantitative analysis of your website and your competitors’ websites for the continuous optimization of business outcomes for all channels, both online and offline”.

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Inside Out: Why Fear Is The Key to Confident Content That Converts

Marketing Insider Group

Fear is only temporary. Regret lasts forever. ~ Author Unknown Emotions… Who is not a stranger to emotions as much as content marketers? Sadness of rejection, fear of failure, anger of plagiarism, joy of positive feedback, disgust of poorly written texts – they all are in our heads when it comes to content marketing strategy. […]. The post Inside Out: Why Fear Is The Key to Confident Content That Converts appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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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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How Ford’s Instagram Campaign Encourages Fans to Drive Safely

Convince & Convert

Author’s Note: A special shout out goes to Scott Monty , for sharing this campaign in his This Week in Digital blog post , which is worth signing up for. While we often hear about the dangers of texting and driving, Ford has taken to its Instagram account with an ongoing series of simple yet powerful images to remind fans that activities like “liking and driving” also fall under the lens of distracted driving.

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The Emergence and Growth of AI

xiQ

The Emergence and Growth of AI. And how it will affect you. Skynet is on it’s way, but not at all like we imagined. There is a lot of information out there (approximately 74 gigabytes of data are sent to the average consumer on an average day across the United States). Too much, at times. It doesn’t help that essay platforms like Medium (irony duly noted) and blogging platforms like WordPress (which was recently estimated to run roughly 25% of the internet ) have made it easier than ever before

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Holiday Homepage Designs: 12 Cheerful Examples From Real Businesses

Hubspot

78% of holiday shoppers used the internet to research gifts last year, and 40% of all holiday shopping happened online, according to Google's data and research from the 2014 holiday season. That means a lot of eyes are going to be on your website in the upcoming weeks. The smartest marketers will prepare for this not only for by prepping their website for higher-than-normal traffic on the back end , but also by giving their website design a dose of holiday cheer.

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