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Increase Customer Retention: Why Multichannel Marketing Is an Underrated Tool

Act-On

Winning new customers is an exciting accomplishment. But most marketers also know the real work begins after that. The cost of acquiring a new customer is estimated to be five to seven times more than retaining an existing one. Retention issues translate to lost dollars and more work for marketing teams who strive to battle the vicious cycle of churn.

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How to bridge the gap between creative marketers and marketing analysts

Martech

Data-driven marketing organizations must create a conduit of information between their data teams and creative teams. However, legacy organizational structures, specialty skills and a lack of shared information often hinder this flow. Let’s explore the roots of the divide between creative marketing teams and marketing analysts and uncover practical solutions to bridge this gap.

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How to Use Product Analytics to Boost Sales

Marketing Insider Group

Sales are one of the most vital aspects of running a business and aren’t something you’ll want to take lightly. Every transaction represents revenue and growth, and luck isn’t enough because boosting your sales requires insight, strategy, and precision. Fortunately, product analytics can guide you along the path to sales mastery. This powerful tool reveals the mysteries of customer behavior, preferences, and trends, so you don’t have to go blindly into the abyss.

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Closing the Opportunity Gap: How ZoomInfo Copilot Reveals Hidden Buyers

Zoominfo

In today’s intensely competitive market, the coveted first-mover advantage is no longer good enough. To truly sell smarter and win faster, sales and marketing professionals need to be the first to reach their targets precisely when buyers are ready to engage. Sure, they might be the perfect fit for your solutions. The ROI for their business may be clear and convincing.

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Maximize Your B2B Lead Generation Results!

Need higher-quality leads for your target market? If so, we can help! Aggregage is the publisher of B2B Marketing Zone and 100+ other B2B publications across many industries. Our proven marketing programs deliver top-notch leads from senior buyers! Why choose Aggregage? Comprehensive Reach: Quickly target buyers across a range of industries, including financial services, healthcare, pro services, supply chain, technology and more.

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How to Stay Productive as a Social Media Manager

Oktopost

Social media managers do it all – literally. Sheldon Bruck went Behind the Post to reveal how he stays productive while juggling multiple responsibilities as a Social Media and Community Manager. Listen to the Podcast: Or subscribe on Spotify , Apple Podcasts , or YouTube Watch the live recording: Episode Summary Social Media Managers wear many hats.

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Is 2024 the year of Reddit for Google SEO?

SmartBrief - Marketing

Google is always looking for new ways to engage with users and facilitate stronger searches. Often, this comes via regular algorithm updates. Other times more extensive changes are made to alter how searches are conducted and the kinds of information that are disseminated to users, as seen in the Helpful Content Update and the recent AI Overviews addition.

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Higher education social media strategy: How Gettysburg College makes the grade

Sprout Social

An effective higher education social media strategy has to appeal to various audiences: current students, prospective students, alumni, staff, donors, fans, families and more. Each of these communities is unique, yet they all contribute to one shared college experience. Addressing the needs and interests of multiple audiences calls for a commitment to data, collaboration and tailored messaging.

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AI is a game changer, but not generative AI

Martech

The generative AI arms race may be over before most people know it’s begun. Take the case of genAI as an assistant, helping users find their way around their dashboards, their messaging apps, their datasets, summarizing documents and chats and answering questions posed in natural language. Everybody’s doing it This week at PegaWorld I heard a lot about Pega’s Knowledge Buddy, an assistant trained on an organization’s own data and also plugged into an LLM, in this case Ope

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AI In Lead Generation – Scaling Revenue Like Never Before

Binary Demand

[ps2id id=’overview’ target=”/] B2B lead generation is vital for sales and marketing, driving business growth, expansion, and revenue. Without leads, businesses would struggle to thrive. The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has revolutionized lead generation, making the process faster and more efficient. AI-powered B2B lead generation solutions help businesses identify, engage, and nurture leads on a large scale, allowing them to connect with more prospects quickly.

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How to Leverage Behavioral Science Insights for Direct Mail Success

Speaker: Neal Boornazian, President and Nancy Harhut, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer - HBT Marketing

Direct mail has consistently remained a powerful tool in the marketer's arsenal, but in an age of digital dominance, its effectiveness hinges on the strategic integration of behavioral science. 💡 When you incorporate powerful behavioral science principles into your direct mail marketing strategies, you can prompt the hardwired decision-making shortcuts your audience relies on — and that automatically unlocks new avenues for engagement, conversion, and brand loyalty.

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The MKT1 Guide to positioning

MKT1

We’ve all seen “positioning” docs that are 10 pages or 30 slides long. When you look at them your eyes glaze over. You finally finish reading, but it’s still not clear what the product does, why it’s better, or even who it’s for. I’ve seen one of these docs for most startups I’ve worked with. They typically all miss the point.

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How Personalized Marketing Keeps Customers Past the Honeymoon Stage

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Your guide to personalized marketing What is personalized marketing? The 6 do’s and don’ts of personalized marketing Personalized marketing in action How Salesforce uses Data Cloud to close deals faster It feels like you’ve found “the one” — a customer ready for a long-lasting brand relationship built on personalized marketing. But then, just as quickly as the sparks fly, they fizzle out.

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How To Use Technology To Unlock Content and Marketing Potential

Content Marketing Institute

Don’t let fears around the tech revolution thwart your marketing success. See AI and other technologies as the opportunity to do things on behalf of your brand and audience that you could only imagine a few years ago.

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Top 8 Customer Experience Courses and Certifications

CMSWire

Reasonably priced and even free online customer experience courses and certifications is a route to happier, more adept employees. Continue reading.

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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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Automotive Search Engine Optimization Experts – GoBeyond SEO

Go Beyond SEO

Did you know that 93% of online experiences begin with a search engine? That means if you’re not ranking well on search engine result pages, you’re missing out on a significant amount of potential customers for your automotive dealership. That’s where GoBeyond SEO comes in as automotive search engine optimization experts. GoBeyond SEO is a team of experts specializing in automotive search engine optimization.

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Oracle says goodbye to the adtech business

Martech

With one line in an earnings call on Tuesday full of positive talk around cloud computing and artificial intelligence, Oracle CEO Safra Catz put an end to a line of business Oracle built through acquisitions for more than a decade. “In Q4, we decided to exit the advertising business, which had declined to about $300 million in revenue in fiscal year ’24,” Catz said.

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How to Persuade Your Boss to Send You to Ahrefs Evolve

Ahrefs

But don’t worry—we’ve got your back. Here are 5 arguments (and an example message) you can use to persuade your boss to send you to Ahrefs Evolve. SEO is changing at a breakneck pace.

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Is It OK for Platforms to Train Their AI With Your Content?

Content Marketing Institute

This past week, people grew outraged over Adobe’s update to service terms for its Creative Cloud, and Meta let UK and European users know their information can be used to develop its AI products. What should marketers make of all this?

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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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Foggy Figures: Seeing Beyond Marketing Attribution's Mirage

CMSWire

Stop. Obsessing. Over. Marketing. Attribution. Take your lessons, get outta there and craft campaigns accordingly. Continue reading.

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28 Color Combinations That Work Like Magic in Social Media

Bannersnack

16 minutes read Creating something visually pleasing does require a fair amount of talent and inspiration, but it’s not as subjective as we’re often led to believe. While tastes differ, human perception is programmed at a primal level to notice and admire harmony, whether it’s the sound of music or the shapes and colors that surround us.

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Confessions from email jail

Martech

What’s on your email rap sheet? In my last MarTech column, “ Stop! Or go directly to email jail ,” I listed 10 crimes that could send digital marketers to the email Big House — from misdemeanors like sending transactional emails without even a line of business-building promotional copy to felonies like buying a list or skipping authentication.

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Meet Curt Raffi: Acrolinx’s New Chief Product Officer

Acrolinx

Get to know Acrolinx's new Chief Product Officer, Curt Raffi, in this interview blog. Curt chats about the future of AI and content. The post Meet Curt Raffi: Acrolinx’s New Chief Product Officer appeared first on Acrolinx.

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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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What Every B2B Brand Should Know About Influencer Marketing (Pricing Included)

Content Marketing Institute

Businesses are the most trusted entity today. Adding B2B influencer marketing to your owned media strategy can boost that advantage. Learn the benefits, influencer types, estimated pricing, and how to get started today.

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How a Creative Rebellion Forced Adobe to Rethink Its Terms of Use

CMSWire

Adobe changed Terms of Use. Customers lost it. Adobe will change Terms of Use again. Continue reading.

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Scrolling Animation Options for B2B Web Design: An Overview

BOP Design

Captivating a website visitor’s attention is done using various design techniques. In this article, we look at specific B2B web design and development techniques that are implemented to draw the visitor’s eye when scrolling down the website page. We’ll explore parallax scrolling, lazy-loading images, and animating-in elements on scroll down a web page.

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7 value-added assets to engage and upsell customers

Martech

We know martech and demand generation strategies work best to engage prospects when brand recognition is present. So, why don’t we consistently use those strategies on existing customers with a higher brand understanding? Many marketing teams neglect the opportunity to engage and upsell customers using proven, data-driven prospecting techniques. Customer marketing and prospecting are not the same.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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How to become a Trailblazer Community Forum Ambassador: Applications Are Open

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Trailblazer Community Forum Ambassadors help maintain a healthy and engaged Trailblazer Community by sharing their Salesforce expertise, moderating content, and creating a welcoming space for members. They’re superusers of the online Trailblazer Community who play a key role in helping Salesforce users speed up their implementations and increase their return on investment (ROI).

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15 Creative Visual Metaphors in Advertising: Examples and Tips

Bannersnack

9 minutes read It’s estimated that the human brain processes visuals 60,000 times faster than text. Moreover, when text is paired with images, comprehension goes up to 89%. Sounds fascinating, doesn’t it? I think we can all agree that visual communication can boost your online advertising. Sometimes, in order to create a stronger reaction, advertisers go one step further and pair multiple visual elements to create a metaphor image.

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What Is DaaS (Desktop as a Service)?

CMSWire

What is DaaS (Desktop as a Service), and how does it compare to virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)? Continue reading.

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