Wed.Nov 09, 2016

article thumbnail

Why “White Hat SEO” is Just Another Name for “Beautiful Content Marketing”

Marketing Insider Group

Having been in the Internet marketing profession for eight years now (seven of which have been specific to SEO and search marketing,) I’ve worked for several companies that employed both “black hat SEO” and “white hat SEO” programs. Now, as I reflect on my experience, I solidify my belief that actualizing ethical, white hat SEO strategies […].

SEO 251
article thumbnail

Putting the Human Back in Sales Conversations

DiscoverOrg

This is second installment detailing DiscoverOrg’s TiLT Sales Development Challenge and it’s 10 core learning modules. Read the first one here. Are you leaving money on the table by not empowering your sales development teams with the ability to connect with prospects? Modern sales teams are now more data-driven than ever before. Access to high-quality contact data, market trends, and emerging predictive analytics tools allow for rapid segmentation of high-quality accounts and prospects.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How Much Content Does Your Marketing Team Actually Need?

Marketing Insider Group

Last month, Steve Rayson, Director of Buzzsumo, published a post that had the content marketing community buzzing. (Pun intended.) This post, titled The Future is More Content, looked at the debate over which content strategy is the best: Producing high-quality content or producing high volumes of potentially lower-quality content. The arguments for producing high-quality content […].

Buzz 229
article thumbnail

Top Marketing Blogs You Should Be Reading

Kabbage

Content is everywhere these days. For marketers, it probably doesn’t come as a surprise that blogs are the second most used tactic for content marketing (behind social media content). Source : B2B Content Marketing – 2017 Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends Report. But if you’re like me, then chances are you’re pretty selective with your blog subscriptions and visits.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

JW Marriott Ditches Commercials And Experiments With Branded Content

Marketing Insider Group

Is advertising dying? Gabe Leydon, CEO of one of the world’s largest gaming companies Machine Zone, seems to believe so. You can read his critiques and watch his full interview at Re:Code/Media conference earlier this year here. And Leydon isn’t alone. David Beebe, a former media and marketing exec at Disney-ABC Television Group, who currently […].

More Trending

article thumbnail

Marketing Insights in Real-Time

Hive9

Real-time data has become a common expectation in marketing technology products. Once you know the option exists to see how your marketing campaigns are playing out instantaneously, who wants to wait days, weeks, or months?

Planning 156
article thumbnail

14 key facts on website speed and 4 top tips when it ‘s slow

Biznology

Website speed has long been recognized as a important factor that impacts search engine rankings. And a top factor in Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Slow website speed creates a bad user experience, one that may result in visitors not coming back to your website or going to your competition. And that it even more important than search rank because search engines don’t buy products, people do.

article thumbnail

5 Do’s and Don’ts of Employee Advocacy

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Bradley Yeater According to the 2016 Edelman Trust Barometer, your employees are more trusted than your brand and represent a huge potential to reach new audiences. Because of this, employee advocacy is now an essential part of any comprehensive marketing strategy. Marketers are rapidly working to tap into this new marketing channel. While many have already started the process of building employee advocates, with few resources and peer examples, they’re writing their own playbooks

article thumbnail

4 Ways to Reach Your Target Audience Using Social

Kapost

Social media is not a one-size-fits-all marketing strategy , and it requires constant vigilance to maintain. Think I’m joking? We may write (and think and speak) in 140 characters or less, but ask any social media manager and they will tell you executing a good strategy goes beyond penning a few witty tweets. On any given day, at any given hour, we are hyper-focused on the social strategy in its entirety.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Webinar: Getting Global Content Right

Contently

At the end of 2012, Coca-Cola successfully launched Journey, an online publication that began in the U.S. In 2013, the site attracted 13.1 million viewers and published over 1,200 articles that drew an impressive average attention time of four minutes and 40 seconds per story. It was only natural to expand this success abroad. A few years later, Journey now exists in over 25 countries and has 40 different publications.

article thumbnail

How Digital Marketing Trends Have Changed Black Friday

Content Standard

Last year, like almost every other year most Americans can remember, Thanksgiving evening faded into the predawn hours of Black Friday. In typical fashion, millions of shoppers emerged from their homes in their comfiest outfits, in search of great holiday deals (and probably the closest 24-7 coffee shop). If you’re a retail brand, 2015’s Black Friday likely wasn’t much different from any other.

Trends 108
article thumbnail

The 5-Step Social Media & Online Reputation Management Plan

Sprout Social

No matter who you are or what your business does, it’s just about impossible to avoid seeing negative feedback. And that’s OK because as many grumps there are wanting to push negative sentiment at your brand, there’s just as many speaking positively about you. However, without some form of social media reputation management, how do you even know what people are saying?

article thumbnail

Marketing technologist study reveals digital business transformation

chiefmartech

Back at the MarTech conference in San Francisco this past March , we conducted a study of marketing technologists with SapientNitro. After analyzing the data, Sheldon Monteiro , the global CTO of SapientNitro, and his team finally released their report from that research this week. It’s a terrific report — well worth the wait! You can download a copy here.

Studies 87
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

The 7 Marketing Skills Every Professional Services Leader Should Have on their Recruiting Radar

Hinge Marketing

I talk to a lot of professional services executives about recruiting the right type of talent to support their marketing strategies. Interestingly, teams don’t get as tripped up on how to build a strategy as much as on how to implement those strategies. Why is implementation so overwhelming? The answer is simple: implementing a strategy requires a wide variety of skillsets that aren’t always on leadership’s mind, and some of those skills may need to be outsourced as opposed to recruited.

article thumbnail

Email Marketing Trends and Stats

distribion

Email marketing consistently ranks among the highest ranking channels producing revenue and a strong return on investment. We have scoured the internet and collected a list of email marketing trends and stats that we have incorporated into our latest ebook, Reply All: Flat-Out Fundamental Insights into Crafting Compelling Emails that Deliver. Read on to discover powerful trends and statistics or skip ahead to these three major categories: The effectiveness of personalized email marketing.

Stats 79
article thumbnail

Topics Over Keywords: A Simple Framework for More Effective Content Creation

Hubspot

Content marketing has seen a lot of changes over the past few years, in particular around the way that marketers have went about actually developing their content. A lot of this has come down to the rapidly evolving search engine landscape, as well as a huge shift in the way that people are discovering content. All that said, I still hear the same pain points coming from content producers that I did over five years ago: "I struggle to measure the ROI of the content I create.".

article thumbnail

Stack & Flow featuring LeanData’s Evan Liang

LeanData

With the explosion of sales and marketing technologies in recent years, many B2B organizations have acted like kids in a toy store. They’ve loaded up on solutions that appear to be really cool gadgets. But the results of that buying spree have been mixed, Evan Liang believes. And it’s why when he was asked on the “Stack & Flow” podcast about the capabilities of modern tech stacks, Liang said he would only give most businesses a “C” grade.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Growing Businesses Need a Growth Stack

Hubspot

When Dharmesh Shah and I started HubSpot 10 years ago, we had a clear goal: We wanted to make it easier for marketers to adapt to a changing world. Inbound marketing was the vehicle, and our mission was to bring all the tools you need to attract, convert, and close new customers together in one place. But here’s the thing -- change is constant when it comes to people.

article thumbnail

Stack & Flow Featuring LeanData’s Evan Liang

LeanData

With the explosion of sales and marketing technologies in recent years, many B2B organizations have acted like kids in a toy store. They’ve loaded up on solutions that appear to be really cool gadgets. But the results of that buying spree have been mixed, Evan Liang believes. And it’s why when he was asked on the “Stack & Flow” podcast about the capabilities of modern tech stacks, Liang said he would only give most businesses a “C” grade.

article thumbnail

Why You Should Slash Your Sponsorship Budget (And What to Focus on Instead)

Hubspot

Professional services firms rely upon a variety of marketing channels to gather leads, attract new clients, and encourage other professionals to refer their firm. Many see event sponsorships and the networking functions associated with them as effective ways to build visibility for their firms, score face time with key individuals who influence prospects, and win referrals.

article thumbnail

Stack & Flow Featuring LeanData’s Evan Liang

LeanData

With the explosion of sales and marketing technologies in recent years, many B2B organizations have acted like kids in a toy store. They’ve loaded up on solutions that appear to be really cool gadgets. But the results of that buying spree have been mixed, Evan Liang believes. And it’s why when he was asked on the “Stack & Flow” podcast about the capabilities of modern tech stacks, Liang said he would only give most businesses a “C” grade.

article thumbnail

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

article thumbnail

How Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Can Fuel Event Personalisation

The Freeman Company

The art of anticipating delegates’ individual needs

40
article thumbnail

Stack & Flow Featuring LeanData’s Evan Liang

LeanData

With the explosion of sales and marketing technologies in recent years, many B2B organizations have acted like kids in a toy store. They’ve loaded up on solutions that appear to be really cool gadgets. But the results of that buying spree have been mixed, Evan Liang believes. And it’s why when he was asked on the “Stack & Flow” podcast about the capabilities of modern tech stacks, Liang said he would only give most businesses a “C” grade.

article thumbnail

ActionIQ Merges Customer Data Without Reformatting

Customer Experience Matrix

One of the fascinating things about the Customer Data Platform Institute is how developers from different backgrounds have converged on similar solutions. The leaders of ActionIQ , for example, are big data experts: Tasso Argyros founded Aster Data , which was later purchased by Teradata , and Nitay Joffe was a core contributor to HBase and the data infrastructure at Facebook.