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How to Validate Your Messaging and Positioning to Vet Your Story | What’s Your Edge?

Vision Edge Marketing

Successful positioning and messaging are the ingredients for writing and telling your business’s story, so it engages customers, evokes emotions, and drives action. A successful story demands more than creative flair—it requires rigorous research , customer-centricity, and validation. We can take a lesson from the book of skilled authors, who frequently rely on feedback to refine their story.

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Why You Need a Killer LinkedIn Headline (and How to Create One That Will Get You Noticed)

Trade Press Services Newsletter

With over one billion members worldwide, LinkedIn is the go-to platform for brands and business professionals to network, connect, showcase industry expertise, and build their identities. Simply having a profile on the site, however, isn’t enough. To stand out, it’s vital for individuals and companies to tell their unique stories in a compelling, engaging, and meaningful way.

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Elevating Your eCard Marketing Strategy: 5 Insightful Tips

Marketing Insider Group

As a small business owner or marketing professional, you’re constantly striving to improve your marketing strategy. With customers receiving constant promotional emails, you’re tasked with creating messages that stand out in their inboxes. eCards may be your solution! eCards, or digital greeting cards, add a fun and interactive element to your business’s marketing strategy. eCards engage constituents with visually appealing, brand-aligned content that keeps your business top of mind.

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5 ways to capture the voice of the customer (VoC) for category-leading positioning

Tomorrow People

Brands must position and reposition themselves to evolve with changing customer preferences and stay ahead of market trends – but without validated audience insights, their strategies risk falling flat. This is why voice of the customer data (VoC) is so important. When you learn about the opinions, desires, demands and motivations of the people who already use your product, you’re in a better position to foster brand loyalty, develop customer-centric products, and drive more sales.

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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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The Top Sources and Trends in B2B Website Traffic

Webbiquity

B2B marketers have been on a wild ride over the past five years, as the economy went into and then came out of COVID-era shutdowns. How have the primary drivers of B2B website traffic changed, particularly search and social media? How do those trends vary between different segments like enterprise software, B2B professional services, and B2B healthcare?

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How Google Core Updates Affect Your Search Visibility

Marketing Insider Group

As a business owner, you know that staying visible on search engines is crucial for success. About 65% of Google searchers click on the organic search results they encounter, so you need to rank high to maximize web traffic and, ultimately, sales. Image Source However, Google periodically releases core updates that can significantly influence how websites rank in search results.

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Boost employee advocacy adoption with Oktopost’s Social Advocacy App on Slack

Oktopost

Employee advocacy is the key to getting your employees to share smart, quality content across their social networks and amplify your brand message in their unique voice. However, with so many employees busy managing their day-to-day work, it can take time to figure out how to get employees to share brand content consistently. That’s why we’re excited to introduce our Social Advocacy App on Slack to help marketers prioritize social selling, employee advocacy, and employee engagement through inter

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The marketer’s guide to state data privacy laws

Martech

The 118th session of the U.S. Congress is drawing to a close and the legislators have again failed to pass a national data privacy law. This means marketers will soon have to comply with the regulations in 17 different states. Five are already in effect, 12 more will come online by October of next year. That’s 17 slightly different headaches for marketers to deal with.

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How to Grow Your Startup Using LinkedIn Marketing

Webbiquity

Contributed post. Startup founders are amazing people. They take the leap despite knowing the odds are against them, with a 90% probability of eventual failure. Image credit: Greg Bulla on Unsplash There are many reasons why startups may not make it, and many of those are outside the control of the founders. That makes effectively managing the elements of the business environment that can be controlled absolutely essential.

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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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Forrester: The Sell-Side Platforms Landscape, Q2 2024

33Across

33Across has been included in Forrester's Q2 2024 report: The Sell-Side Platforms Landscape. The post Forrester: The Sell-Side Platforms Landscape, Q2 2024 appeared first on 33Across.

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The Importance of Content Marketing for Small Businesses

Roketto

There are many moving parts in starting a business. As you grow, one of your biggest challenges will be figuring out how to reach your intended audience and make your brand more discoverable. The answer lies in content marketing.

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Leveraging Google’s Content Warehouse API for Structured Annotation, Semantic Analysis and Feature Tagging

MarketMuse

Here’s how you could use Google's Content Warehouse API leak to build a product that performs advanced semantic analysis, entity extraction, and relationship mapping.

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8 tips to adopt vertical marketing and drive SaaS growth

Martech

As companies prioritize “efficient growth,” vertical software has gained prominence due to its lower customer acquisition costs, higher expansion sales and stronger gross retention than its horizontal counterparts. Here’s why you should consider adapting your horizontal software to attract vertical buyers, plus essential tips to help you go vertical.

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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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Four US Style Guides That Every Writer Needs to Know About

Acrolinx

There are lots of standard corporate style guides you can adopt. In this post, we share four US style guides and how best to use them. The post Four US Style Guides That Every Writer Needs to Know About appeared first on Acrolinx.

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Are AI and Customer Centricity the Perfect Partners?

CMSWire

AI can enhance, not replace, customer experience roles. Here's how to make AI your best CX friend. Continue reading.

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Top 50 Global Thought Leaders and Influencers on Healthcare 2024

Thinkers360

Here’s the Thinkers360 annual leaderboard for our top 50 global thought leaders and influencers on Healthcare for 2024. Congratulations to all our Healthcare influencers who participated! Top 50 Global Thought Leaders and Influencers on Healthcare 2024 2024 Annual Ranking Find and work with the World’s Premier B2B Thought Leaders, Advisors, Analysts, Authors, Influencers & Speakers (100M+ followers combined).

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PayPal’s new ad business could be good news for financial marketing

illumin

PayPal just announced its new advertising business venture. This could spell out opportunities and huge potential for financial services marketing. The realm of financial marketing is spicing up, thanks to digital payments company PayPal’s recent news: it is venturing into the ad business space. In a press release issued in late May 2024 , PayPal appointed Mark Grether as the Senior Vice-President and General Manager of a newly established division, PayPal Ads.

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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 transform martech and multichannel marketing for the AI era

Martech

Martech budgets are falling to historic lows just as generative AI arrives in martech stacks. So, how do marketing leaders make the case for expensive new tools while being pressured to produce profitable growth? Creating value from technology investments requires coordinating both martech and multichannel strategies. Martech at a crossroads: Rebalancing budgets and adopting generative AI Years of aggressive investment in martech have produced tech stacks that may be replete with capabilities bu

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How Blazeo Achieves Scalable Content Creation with Anyword

Anyword

Meet Blazeo Blazeo (formerly ApexChat) is an ad conversion platform laser-focused on helping local businesses thrive. Their suite of products and services includes lead capture, qualification, appointment setting, and contract signing, leveraging tools like live chat, voice call centers, virtual assistants, and SMS. Founded 15 years ago in San Ramon, California, Blazeo has recently rebranded and grown to over 400 employees across several offices and remote locations worldwide.

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How To Measure the Value of Your Audience (in Real Money)

Content Marketing Institute

You’ve heard how important audience building is again and again. It’s one of the arguments for a content-driven marketing approach, after all. But could you describe the value of your audience in dollars? And do you know which audience members are more valuable than others? Robert Rose can — and this article shows you how.

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12 Field-Tested Content Marketing Tactics

Ahrefs

Generally speaking, low-competition keywords are search terms where you likely don’t need many backlinks to rank on the first page of Google (backlinks are one of the most important ranking factors).

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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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The Conjoint Effect: From friends to “for you,” how creator-led content is changing social media

Sprout Social

Change is constant. That is the only certainty in life. It’s interesting how many said social media was a disruptive force to big, traditional broadcast media. That it would replace it— only to one day become just like it. Wait, what? As Avi Gandhi recently hypothesized on LinkedIn : “ In the early days of the Creator Economy, we used social platforms to connect socially.

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How to safeguard your brand during a digital transformation

Martech

With consumers performing an increasing number of transactions online, the importance of digital transformation in 2024 is immense. New digital tools, workflows and AI technologies can increase organizational value and operational efficiency, but it should not come at the expense of the hard-won consumer trust. After all, 63% of a company’s market value is driven by reputation , demanding marketers protect their brand when leveraging new digital tools and workflows.

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Customer Trust in Jeopardy: Inside the AT&T Data Breach

CMSWire

How the AT&T data breach challenges customer loyalty and highlights the need for better security measures. Continue reading.

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How TSA Pulls Off Funny Social Content About Serious Business

Content Marketing Institute

The U.S. Transportation Security Administration is serious business, but its social media team doesn’t see why they can’t have fun with that. Go behind the scenes to see how they attract millions who probably expected boring posts.

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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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Top Marketing Priorities for B2B SaaS Firms

BOP Design

Your B2B software or SaaS product is cutting-edge, innovative, and unique. It’s changing how your clients do business and streamlining everyday tasks. All that’s left is to communicate this to your ideal buyers effectively. Whether you are a stealth startup or a seasoned software provider, here are the most effective B2B marketing priorities for B2B.

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11 Reasons We Chose HubSpot Over WordPress + CRM Plugins

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If you're getting ready to flip the switch on your website creation strategy for lead generation , you'll need to decide what platform to use to power the strategy. Two of the most common options for inbound marketing software are HubSpot, and what we call "FrankenSpot" -- WordPress with a bunch of plugins and third-party tools integrated.

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Demand gen vs. lead gen: Have we reached a final verdict?

Martech

If you spend any amount of time among the B2B marketers on LinkedIn, you’re familiar with the arguments for and against lead generation and demand generation. Lead generation is a well-entrenched growth strategy, especially among the marketers at large enterprise organizations. They’ve now spent decades gating content assets, conducting webinars and following up with those leads to drum up business.

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