Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 22, 2023

Automated marketing has been exploding across industries in recent years. Experts expect these tools to boost the global gross domestic product by up to 14% by 2030. Still, there’s a lot of talk about automated tools failing to create authentic experiences. Is diving into marketing automation worth the investment? We’ve got the answers here. Discover everything you need to know about getting started with automated marketing.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 22, 2023

If we weren’t testing out the best ChatGPT prompts for digital marketing, could we really call ourselves digital marketing experts in 2023? With a good bit of trial and error, we’re pretty sure we’ve mastered the language model and its preferences. More specifically, we understand the importance of crafting effective ChatGPT prompts for digital marketing to receive a well-rounded, quality response.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 29, 2023

If you’re a TV watcher, you know great stories — ones that hook us from the start and keep us watching until one, two, or (oops) five episodes have gone by without even noticing. Did you know that brand storytelling can have the same effect? When brands use content marketing to tell compelling stories, they can make us forget that it’s marketing at all.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 22, 2023

Ah, the ‘90s. The last decade before everyone began to have a cell phone in hand. A time just before technology really took over. Life was a little slower (and some would argue less stressful) without social media feeds to scroll every time we were just a little bit bored. And in the absence of new tweets and TikTok trends to keep up with all the time, we turned elsewhere for entertainment.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

You probably know that improving your content conversion rate is one of the best ways to grow your business with digital marketing. Now you just need to figure out how you can increase your content conversion rate. Luckily, our experts know a lot about high-quality content and are sure the right content marketing strategy is the key to success. An effective strategy optimized for conversion is guaranteed to not only increase your business’s content conversion rate, but also gain more traffic, pr

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

At Marketing Insider Group, we love content marketing. Are we biased? Maybe. But we also have a good reason for it. Content marketing is one of the most effective ways to grow your audience, encourage engagement and build your brand’s image. Every business needs a content marketing strategy to reach their target market and establish a presence in their industry.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 5, 2023

The main goal for Marketing in B2B companies is to generate leads for sales teams and increasingly to deliver direct revenue. Some marketers define anyone who fills out a form or attends an online or physical event as a lead. But I’m here to tell you: an “inquiry” (someone who fills out a form) and a “lead” are not the same thing.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 31, 2022

Chances are that your small business has explored a variety of marketing strategies over the years. However, business owners can sometimes overlook ways to enhance their marketing that are right in front of them, such as their point of sale system. Your POS system is actually not as unorthodox a marketing tool as it might first seem. Many small businesses have experimented with their POS system and marketing endeavors to find creative strategies with tangible results.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 31, 2022

In today’s crowded and increasingly digital marketing landscape, you need a strong content strategy in order to reach your audience. Here’s why: Your content strategy is what makes your brand visible on search engines. It helps the right customers find you at the right time and provides the best possible user experience once they’re on your website.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Smart content marketers know that great content strikes a balance between fresh and original and tried-and-true. In other words, be creative, but don’t reinvent the wheel every time. Content marketing templates help with this. They provide a solid framework that allows marketers to focus on their unique brand message and value proposition. There are tons of resources available online but, like anything else, not all templates are created equal.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

What does your ideal customer look like? This question prompts the creation of marketing personas, and the answers vary widely. In today’s hyper-connected world, people expect tailored, personalized experiences in their advertising, whether they realize it or not. For most B2B content creation , personas guide marketers in developing tailored pieces that resonate profoundly with a particular group.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

With the global pandemic shifting the way groups of people meet, connect, and communicate, many association professionals feel as if they’re fighting an uphill battle just to keep their members engaged. After all, there’s no novelty left in hosting meet-ups on Zoom or Microsoft Teams, with many members already struggling with digital burnout in a year that feels as if it’s been entirely online.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Distributors have a unique position in the supply chain, managing and marketing to manufacturers and retailer partners at both ends. Content marketing for distributors is a way to engage these multiple audiences at once while growing your brand visibility. Sounds awesome, right? But what if you’ve never done content marketing before, or your current strategy just isn’t working?

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 16, 2021

Is your inbox full of ebooks and other downloads you swore you needed but never read? The truth is, lots of brands know the value of using ebooks and other lead magnets to generate leads, but not as many do it well. We’ve curated 9 awesome ebook examples that demonstrate how brands can not only offer downloadable content, but make it convert like crazy.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 10, 2021

Calls-to-Action (CTAs) are everything in B2B marketing. They direct your audiences’ next step in the buyer’s journey and determine the success of your campaign. Well-crafted CTAs encourage prospects to click and convert to a marketing qualified lead (MQL), or possibly to a sales qualified lead (SQL), depending on which type of CTA you present. The first step in developing any marketing campaign is to determine its goal and this includes pinning down the action we want our audience to take.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 2, 2021

You’ve been using an ad agency for years. It’s been a good partnership, but you’re not sure it’s necessary anymore. After all, you have a strong team in place. And you’re pretty sure your people have the mettle to tackle your marketing in-house. But where do you start? Untethering from an ad agency can seem daunting, especially if you’ve been accustomed to outsourcing the responsibility.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 4, 2021

Creating and publishing content are only the beginning. Now, you have to distribute it and expand its reach for maximum exposure. That’s the process of content amplification, and there are many ways to achieve it. It’s not just one strategy; it’s a combination of many channels and tactics, all of which you can seamlessly carry out with content amplification tools.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 4, 2021

Consistent empathy is a challenge even for the best of us. Humans are naturally selfish as a survival tool to delegate our attention. But for marketing material? Empathy is a foreign concept. The idea of a brand’s marketing expressing empathy almost seems laughable: Marketing exists to generate money and sales by convincing people to buy stuff. It’s the antithesis of empathy, really.

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 28, 2021

If you were to step back in time into a marketing conference from a decade or so ago, content marketing SEO would be the buzzword you’d hear on everyone’s lips. But back then, content was only a vehicle for injecting keywords into blog posts and other website content. Lots of them. Because, you know, SEO. And if you didn’t stuff your content full of them, the divine bots wouldn’t grace your posts and web pages with the number one position in the search results.

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 26, 2021

The challenges we are facing have changed how we communicate with consumers and market our products and services. We’ve had to quickly uproot some of the traditional methods we’ve used for years to adapt to new business practices and accommodate unique needs. Here are some emerging trends we’re seeing this year and expect to see more of in the future: Businesses are more boldly standing for or against political and social issues publicly.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 31, 2021

Even in our connected 24/7 digital universe, local communities haven’t lost their stamp of uniqueness. Learning how to tailor your marketing content to a local audience, therefore, is critical to content marketing success. Whether you’re entering an overseas market with a different culture and language or expanding into another city in your state, you need to nail local SEO, learn local peculiarities, and speak in a way that connects with your audience.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Case studies help you build a story around your customers, products, and services. You can prove – through brand storytelling – that what you offer consumers works. In 2020, 87% of consumers read local business reviews online. 95% of people say reviews influence their purchasing decisions. And 90% trust what other customers say about a company over what the company says about itself.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

With so many blogs, whitepapers, ebooks, and emails floating around online, it’s easy for brands to get buried in virtual clutter. Your prospects have so much content flying at them from every direction that creating content that stands out is imperative. Many marketers and SaaS company founders believe that with so much content out there, how is anyone supposed to break through all that noise?

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 13, 2021

The image of your brand matters in every channel and iteration. Your online reputation is one of the most important channels because that’s where the world finds you. While it’s impossible to control everything related to your brand online, you can manage your online reputation with content marketing. With content marketing , you control the story.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 5, 2021

Data shows that audience trust is becoming increasingly important for brands. Over a third of American consumers now say that it’s vital to trust the brands they choose to buy from because they can’t afford to waste money on a bad purchase. 8 in 10 also say that trusting a brand to do the right thing is a deciding factor in their purchase decisions.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 3, 2020

In an ambitious marketing world, it is important for businesses to learn how to differentiate their products and services in order to effectively engage and retain customers. Companies are constantly adapting to changes in the market and as a result, they adjust what they sell and how they sell it. Product differentiation is a process used by businesses to distinguish a product or service from other similar ones attainable in the market.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Black Friday. Cyber Monday. Giving Tuesday. The past week has included some of the biggest dates on the entire retail calendar. This of course can mean only one thing: Holiday 2020 is here. We don’t know how it will look but I, for one, am glad it’s here; we could all use the break. One group who won’t be getting a break, however, are those professionals working in the Retail field.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Improving your organic search presence isn’t for the faint of heart. Ranking in top search results is getting harder, and 77% of marketers say it could take up to 6 months to see results. What does this mean for you? B2B marketers need to be savvier in developing a link building and content developing strategy. Search engines cater to users, not your website.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

When the COVID-19 pandemic struck and in-person events were canceled , virtual events and webinars came to the rescue. While online events were held before the pandemic, the current situation has made them more popular. This trend will continue even beyond the pandemic because the benefits of hosting events online have now become more obvious than ever.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

What does your CEO think of your marketing team? If you’re not sure how to respond, you should work on that relationship — especially if you’re the CMO. . Marketers can fall easily into the trap of sticking to traditional roles like advertising and brand development. However, many C-suite executives now see marketing as a critical player in a company’s overall rise and expansion.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

You had to know it was coming, right? Facebook smashed Snapchat’s entire business model when it launched Instagram Stories. Stories are so successful that almost every social media app – including messaging apps like WhatsApp – offers their own versions now. . It’s time for LinkedIn to get in on the action. And time to update your LinkedIn Marketing Strategy !

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

In a world oversaturated with digital communication and never-ending pings and dings and notifications that are — for the most part — ignored, there is still one, albeit a little old, way to get through: email marketing campaigns. Regardless of their age, gender and life experience, consumers have a hard time letting an email go unread, especially if it’s personalized.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

What is the measure of your B2B marketing campaign’s success? As CEOs worldwide are looking at marketing as a growth driver , they have become more critical in measuring all marketing efforts’ performance. Leaders are looking beyond engagement numbers and qualified leads. They are now looking for quantifiable answers to these questions: What, or when, is the return of investment (ROI)?

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Marketers are under increasing pressure to show measurable results to the business. Marketing attribution is something I’ve been a little obsessed with since I started blogging. In the end, you have to be willing to take accountability for the success (or failure) of your marketing activities. Sounds simple enough, but there’s a whole lot more involved.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Businesses looking to expand will have little to no luck focusing their efforts on the broad universe of potential customers. Instead, the key to growth comes from unlocking the characteristics that make up a specific subset of customers and prospects that are most likely to make purchases and remain loyal. And this is where customer segmentation comes into play.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 30, 2020

How is a B2B Marketer supposed to gain a better understanding of their prospects beyond the actions taken on their own site? Google Analytics won’t do the trick. And in a landscape of more than 8000 Martech companies , there really is no tool available to B2B marketers to understand and inform on this matter aside from what we call Audience Explorer.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 23, 2020

As consumers, we tend to do two things that make marketers’ jobs harder. First, we actively avoid getting bombarded by messaging. As Ryan Holmes, co-founder of Hootsuite, mentioned in a LinkedIn piece, a whopping 86 million of us actively block the roughly 5,000 ads we see daily. As if that weren’t bad enough, we also have an annoying tendency to shy away from talking about topics that make us feel uncomfortable.

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