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Examples include working with so-called experts to include your website in directories or similar strategies designed to game the system and get ranked higher. A smart way to do this is to research what already works well for a company. An intro to the topic you’d like to pitch and why you think it works well for their audience.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Similar to other technologies, marketing automation can only work as well as the people behind it. Marketing automation moves the tedious work off your team’s plate so they can focus on higher-level and more rewarding work. And that’s your people. And it’s no secret that turnover has a high price tag.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

When the two platforms work together, magic happens. Once your sales and marketing software is working together, alignment between teams should be easier. Work with leadership to create formal opportunities to collaborate, such as annual or quarterly kickoffs (remote, hybrid, or otherwise).

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DECEMBER 1, 2023

You can’t rethink your marketing strategy right now Path 2: Rebuild The other end of the spectrum from “Lift and Shift”: Rebuild what you have from scratch.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

And the hallmark of a good marketing department is simply that it works. Every company has its own history, values, strategies, and quirks that impact how marketing happens on a day-to-day basis. When your team is structured well, everyone knows who’s accountable for what responsibilities and which roles.

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DECEMBER 7, 2023

Your team uses tricky workarounds to bypass processes that aren’t working. If your team doesn’t use them, they can make it more challenging to get the more basic work done. The cracks in your marketing automation platform may have been showing for some time. It’s difficult to use. Sound familiar? Yep, it’s time to switch.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In a perfect world, sales and marketing would be tightly aligned , working toward the same goals and achieving the best possible results. But marketers and sales teams know this isn’t always easy. And sometimes, it feels downright impossible. From this challenge, sales enablement was born.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Especially when it’s your job to attract more traffic through search engines and you’re working to improve search engine optimization (SEO). And encourage others to share it, whether it’s your employees, subject-matter experts who you interview, or business partners who work in the same space. Everybody wants them, right?

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MARCH 28, 2018

If your content strategy is off, it doesn't matter how much work you do: You'll still get poor results. Read this to fix your strategy mistakes forever.

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APRIL 18, 2018

Learn about the role human emotion plays in a marketer’s work – from brand perception to decision-making to the creative. Understanding customer sentiment is critical to your marketing and organizational success.

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JUNE 16, 2018

Centralizing your MarTech stack is a daunting task, particularly for large organizations with divisions around the world used to working independently from each other. Learn how Avery Dennison reduced licensing costs, streamlined marketing operations, and increased leads.

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MAY 1, 2018

Marketing Basics: the best marketing minds are a marriage of seeming opposites that end up working together. Strategic marketers today must balance the right brain that controls creativity and intuition and the left brain that processes information logically and analytically.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Promoting it is where the hard work begins. Creating a podcast is easy. Here is our 8-step prodcast promotion plan for each episode you produce.

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JUNE 19, 2018

Businesses can not afford sales and marketing not working together. Here are six steps toward achieving sales and marketing alignment.

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JUNE 25, 2018

Imagine positioning your brand as one its employees are proud to work for. Why take the time to cultivate employee advocacy?

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OCTOBER 4, 2023

Are you working with outdated email lists or technical issues? Keeping your finger on the pulse of deliverability means you can spot failures and warning signs as soon as they develop , rather than waiting until your sender reputation takes a dive. What’s causing that spike in bounce rates?

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MARCH 19, 2024

We worked so hard to get those leads….” As you work to overcome these challenges, marketing automation is a tool that helps you understand your audience’s needs, supports pipeline marketing, and provides sales with better leads. The disconnect becomes especially apparent when it comes to missing revenue targets.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Thankfully, marketing automation removes much of the work involved by allowing marketers to set up rules indicating which behaviors and characteristics qualify contacts to be automatically entered into a certain group. As you work to get aligned, connect with your sales team and consider asking the following questions.

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DECEMBER 8, 2023

Changing providers offers a unique opportunity to take a look at your current programs and lists and determine what’s working, and what’s not. Although this process works, there is a more effective method to save time and improve data integrity. Consider first whether you even need to perform a full migration.

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OCTOBER 6, 2023

If you have the right strategies, content and timing in place, this immediately can work in your favor for automated SMS marketing. After all, given the possibility of delivering improved brand experiences to customers through SMS, both you and your customers should want this to work perfectly. And you can do so.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Read on to learn how working together for a common goal can align sales and marketing teams. But it helps every team prioritize their work and their budgets, and get better at their jobs. Of course, the quality of a lead isn’t just based around what company they work for or what their title is.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Changing providers offers a unique opportunity to take a look at your current programs and lists and determine what’s working, and what’s not. Although this process works, there is a more effective method to save time and improve data integrity. Consider first whether you even need to perform a full migration.

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MARCH 1, 2024

MQLs can be effective indicators of success, but ultimately markerters need to validate consistent conversion from MQLs into real opportunities your sales team can work with.” With respect to MQLs, one additional consideration Kevin mentions is the importance of correlation of MQLs to qualified pipeline sales opportunities.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

So when these two solutions are integrated and working well together, you’re off to the races.” Be sure to run your automated marketing campaigns long enough that you’ll have ample datasets to work with. The system of execution is the marketing automation platform.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

But, if you work with influencers or need to get up to speed on how this growing marketing discipline actually works, you will find plenty of friendly faces here. Plus, there are too many polls.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2023

You work hard on your email marketing programs: developing copy, selecting supporting content, finding the right visuals, making sure the right people on your team have reviewed and approved. Once your emails go off to explore the world on their own, your work still isn’t done. This is how the process should work. That’s okay!

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Manual work (such as the Georgia Credit Union example) is eliminated, scaling is easier, and marketing teams can do more with less. Removing the difficulty from lead nurturing Successful email nurturing can feel like a daunting task. It takes trial, error, and experimentation to achieve the desired results.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

By driving more active engagement, they better understand their customers, which empowers them to tell more compelling stories to all of their target audiences.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

When advertisers work to improve the percentage of website visitors who convert, they are practicing conversion rate optimization. The term is often used in B2B, where marketing works with leads for a long period of time through a transaction. What is Conversion Rate Optimization? What is Display Advertising?

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The problem: Advanced segmentation without the manual work Every marketer knows how difficult it can be to segment customers the old fashioned way. Learn more about the benefits of AI and marketing automation working hand in hand , and where this revolution will take us in the near future. Interested in more on AI and machine learning?

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