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What is Marketing? FAQ

Hubspot

Dictionary.com defines marketing as, “the action or business of promoting and selling products or services, including market research and advertising.”. The selling part, for instance, overlaps a little too snuggly with a “what is sales” definition, and the word advertising makes me think of Mad Men brainstorming sessions.

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The Only Guide You’ll Ever Need for Mapping Your Customer Journey

Televerde

You develop a product, market it, and customers eventually make a purchase. Today’s modern consumers communicate with brands on at least ten different channels —from social media, email, paid ads, etc. 81% of marketers believe customer service is a huge competitive advantage. Focus groups. Interviews.

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Are You Really Listening to Audience Insights, or Just Creating Content?

Content Standard

With everyone from sales to HR to fellow marketers demanding more content to support their own work, what content marketing has time for audience insights? The problem is, creating all this reactionary content results in random acts of marketing with no specific plan or strategy to back them up.

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How to Hire a CMO Who Is a Perfect Fit for Your Company

Single Grain

The Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) is a crucial position for every organization, but hiring a CMO is more challenging than any other C-level position. A chief marketing officer , or CMO , is a member of the C-suite responsible for all marketing activities in the organization. CMO vs VP of Marketing. Let’s start!

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How to Develop a Successful Marketing Mix Strategy [+ Templates]

Hubspot

One of the first things you're taught in your Introduction to Marketing class is that marketing can be best explained using the marketing mix — also known as the four P's. Still, there's an undeniable benefit of marketing teams organizing their work into the marketing mix framework. What is a Marketing Mix?

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Thinking of Creating Original Research? 8 Things to Consider

Content Marketing Institute

If you’re thinking about conducting original research to use the data for your content marketing, there are important questions to ask before you get started. I’m talking about collecting data to produce various types of content (e.g., blog posts, e-books, webinars, videos) for content marketing purposes.

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What Your Traditional Marketing Education Didn't Teach You About Marketing Today

Hubspot

In the older days of marketing, most interview questions revolved around a marketer’s knowledge of marketing principles like “The 4 Ps” and how he or she could apply that knowledge to case questions in an interview setting. Today''s successful marketer doesn’t necessarily look like Don Draper or Donny Deutsch.