April, 2024

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The effectiveness crisis in B2B marketing: Why MOps must shift focus now

Martech

In our zeal to harness the tech part of martech, the ops part of MOps and the automation part of marketing automation, MOps professionals have failed to accomplish the most important part of the equation — marketing. B2B marketing is suffering from an effectiveness crisis, having chased efficiency gains for years. Effectiveness should be mastered and constantly invested in ahead of efficiency.

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Increase Salon Profit Margins With an Email Marketing Platform

SendX

Are you tired of watching your profits get snipped away by high overhead costs and inconsistent client bookings? It's time to take control and give your salon's revenue with a strategy that's been tried and tested: email marketing.

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Building Effective Segmentation Strategies with B2B Database Insights

Lake B2B

Role of Segmentation in B2B Targeted marketing campaigns In B2B marketing, understanding your audience is essential. One powerful tool in achieving this understanding is segmentation — the process of dividing your audience into distinct groups based on shared characteristics or behaviors.

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Best Practices for Podcast Guests: How to Make a Lasting Impression

Trade Press Services Newsletter

Podcasting is a powerful media platform for sharing ideas, stories, and expertise. More than 504 million people listen to podcasts around the globe and almost half of listeners reside in the United States. Research shows that around 144 million Americans listen to podcasts monthly. As podcasts continue to grow in popularity, thought leaders and marketers are recognizing the value of being a podcast guest as part of an effective marketing program.

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4 Simple Decisions to Unlock Your Post-Cookie Targeting Strategy

The rise of AI and the fall of the cookie are profoundly changing programmatic advertising. With Chrome’s third-party cookie deprecation looming, the industry must adapt. With an overwhelming array of new and old technologies, many advertisers feel uncertain about how to proceed. Dstillery CEO, Michael Beebe, outlines a straightforward 4-step approach to streamline and enhance your post-cookie targeting strategy: Leverage first-party data.

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What You Need to Know About OpenAI CustomGPT

Marketing Insider Group

Wouldn’t it be nice to have access to an AI that doesn’t just follow orders, but adapts to your business’s unique voice and needs? Well, according to OpenAI’s CustomGPT, now you can. That’s right—in a world awash with generic AI solutions, CustomGPT stands out by offering something that seems almost too good to be true: customization that actually meets your specific requirements.

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6 Crucial Findings From Netline’s 2024 B2B Content Consumption Report

Convince & Convert

For the past eight years, NetLine’s annual analysis of B2B content consumption and demand has stood as a lighthouse for marketers navigating the stormy waters of content strategy and lead generation. This year’s analysis draws from an impressive 6.2 million first-party content registrations and offers a map for marketers in search of treasure (aka new business).

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How Email Marketing Platforms Help Increase Shopify Sales

SendX

If you’re on Shopify, odds are you’ve got making money on the brain. The question is are you using your email marketing platform to increase Shopify sales? If not, you’re leaving money on the table as the saying goes.

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Maximizing MDF Efficiency: Leveraging Content Syndication for Enhanced Channel Marketing  

PureB2B

Drive business growth with cost-efficient & sustainable marketing strategies for wider reach. Here's how to manage MDF to boost your channel marketing.

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Decoding generative AI: Top LLMs and the app ecosystems they support

Martech

I’ve been writing about marketing tools for over a decade, and some of my earliest published articles were about the new breed of social media monitoring tools. Looking at those pieces today, two insights struck me: The basic approach and strategy of selecting technology tools to help us with marketing tasks hasn’t changed much (the good news). Everything else has changed dramatically (the not-so-good news).

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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 Unforeseen Consequences of Relying on AI in Marketing Strategies

CMSWire

There's a risk that marketing teams might become overly dependent on automated insights, sidelining the human element that often catches what AI cannot. Continue reading.

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The Ultimate Guide To Email Marketing

CopyBlogger

Email marketing is one of the most popular marketing channels because it’s relatively easy to use, highly effective, and cheap. Continue Reading The post The Ultimate Guide To Email Marketing appeared first on Copyblogger.

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Breaking Down Barriers: How Brands Can Harness Creator Content Across Digital Landscapes

illumin

When you think of TikTok, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Perhaps it’s the platform’s short-form videos, its entertainment value, or its reputation for authenticity and virality. Undoubtedly, the social network has experienced an explosive growth trajectory over the past five years and quickly surpassed the beginnings of other social media platforms.

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Email Marketing Tips for Brick-and-Mortar Stores

SendX

It's no secret that physical stores today are up against significant challenges. With the rise of online shopping, attracting customers to your store and offering them a compelling reason to choose in-person shopping over clicking a button at home requires creativity and strategy. One often overlooked tool that can provide a significant boost to brick-and-mortar businesses is email marketing.

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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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Moving Customer Data Isn’t Cheap: How Zero Copy Can Help

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Remember the last time you moved? You probably had to pack up too much stuff, transport it in a truck and unpack it in the new location – hoping it survived the trip. Imagine if your furniture and belongings could just teleport to your new place in perfect condition. It’s not possible (yet) in the physical world, but with zero copy integration, that’s how you can handle your customer data.

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Why relying on AI won’t improve the customer experience

Martech

What will customers remember after they have experienced your website, product, service or people? What will they tell their friends or colleagues about their experience — will they even mention it? A tremendous amount of investment and resources are being focused on integrating AI into the customer experience , from automating responses to comments on social media to improving the call center experience.

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Crafting Personalized Marketing Experiences for the Privacy-Conscious Consumer

CMSWire

How can marketers continue to deliver on their audiences’ expectation for personalized experiences, while also meeting their needs for increased data privacy? Continue reading.

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Top 50 Global Thought Leaders and Influencers on Retail 2024

Thinkers360

Here’s the Thinkers360 annual leaderboard for our top 50 global thought leaders and influencers on Retail for 2024. Congratulations to all our Retail influencers who participated! Top 50 Global Thought Leaders and Influencers on Retail 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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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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Don’t Follow Tesla’s Marketing Mistake

Content Marketing Institute

Tesla dismissed its marketing team this month. The layoffs come only a year after a mandate to “try advertising” that Elon Musk later said was “too generic.” But is marketing really to blame? Is there a takeaway for other companies?

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Use Email Marketing to Drive Business for Car Repair Shops

SendX

Think about the last time you received an email from a business that genuinely caught your attention. Maybe it was a reminder for a service you needed or a tip that helped you out in a pinch.

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31 free social media templates that will elevate your workflows

Sprout Social

There are social media templates available for virtually any task you can think of—from content production to reporting to team onboarding. If you want to win time back in your schedule, make it your mission to never start from scratch. Consider this: When you spend an hour formatting a spreadsheet, you’re losing an hour that you could have spent on your social media marketing strategy.

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It’s time to turbocharge our path to email innovation

Martech

Back in 2017, I wrote an article for MarTech, “ Message to email marketers: Show me something different in 2018.” It popped up again while I was preparing a presentation, so I scrolled through to see if anything I advocated back then had become standard practice. The answer is, sadly, not much. Here’s what I was looking for: Stop depending on batch-and-blast.

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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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Trust in AI: Combining AI & the Human Experience

CMSWire

Trust profoundly impacts the human experience in numerous ways, shaping how we interact with businesses, loyalty and willingness to engage in transactions. Continue reading.

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Top 50 Global Thought Leaders and Influencers on Personal Branding 2024

Thinkers360

Here’s the Thinkers360 annual leaderboard for our top 50 global thought leaders and influencers on Personal Branding for 2024. Congratulations to all our Personal Branding influencers who participated! Top 50 Global Thought Leaders and Influencers on Personal Branding 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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How To Get Unstuck With Generative AI in Your Content and Marketing

Content Marketing Institute

Generative AI isn’t serving marketers well. All the options make it easy to apply, but all the options make it more difficult to decide what to do. To help, use this categorization chart that looks at capabilities and efficiencies.

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5 Tips to Maintain Great Email Etiquette and Impress Your Subscribers

SendX

In 2022, the number of email users worldwide was forecasted to be 4.3 billion. This figure is set to grow to 4.6 billion in 2025. The daily number of emails sent and received totaled 293.6 billion. Despite the huge competition in email marketing, newsletters still remain an effective channel for sales and communication with the audience.

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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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What Is a Double Opt-in? How to Choose Between Double Opt-In vs. Single Opt-In

Optinmonster

Are you trying to decide between double opt-in vs. single opt-in for your email marketing list? Email marketing is one of the best ways to engage with visitors and turn them into customers. And it all starts with a stellar email list. At OptinMonster , email opt-ins are the core of our work. For just one example, our customer AdamEnfroy.com added 3,000 email subscribers each month using our onsite opt-in campaigns.

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ChatGPT vs. Gemini vs. Perplexity: The definitive AI chatbot battle of 2024

Martech

“What marketing technologies should a (fill in the industry) company have in their martech stack?” That’s a question I’m asked regularly, likely because all companies are curious about their competitors. So I thought I’d use it to test Google Gemini, OpenAI ChatGPT and Perplexity AI. Gemini (formerly Bard) and ChatGPT returned similar content in a similar format to my query, “What marketing technologies should a luxury retailer have in their martech stack?

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Will Alphabet Acquire HubSpot?

CMSWire

Alphabet is eyeing HubSpot as an acquisition, sources say. Will it be a game-changing move for Google in CRM and marketing? Continue reading.

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