2019

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9 Ways to Increase Landing Page Conversions

Marketing Insider Group

Many companies implement an SEO strategy – experiencing varying degrees of success, it’s clear the benefits are worth your company’s time. SEO or Search Engine Optimization is a great way to attract more organic search traffic to your website for free so you can convert that traffic into leads into sales. The landing page is a key piece in the puzzle for both SEO and sales funnels.

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11 Powerful Email Marketing Tips You Need to Know

Search Engine Journal

Struggling to get good returns from your email marketing campaigns? Learn 11 powerful email marketing tips that you need to know right now.

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5 Stock Photo Sites That Will Make Your Content More Inclusive & Diverse

Contently

Some stock photos are bad. Some stock photos are good. Most are bland, by design. But there’s also a weird subsection of stock imagery that emphasizes stereotypes. Given that the U.S. Census Bureau shows America is becoming a more diverse nation, especially among people between 18-39 years old, why do images like this still exist for companies to pluck and put on their sites: We can all see the elephant in the room—the South Asian man showing his colleagues something on his laptop.

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What to Leave Behind and What to Adopt in 2020 | Taking Stock of Your Marketing Strategy

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

There are some exciting predictions about what lies ahead for marketing in my news feeds these days. Like many of us, I’m clicking and reading quite a few of these futuristic articles because I want to be aware of how marketing will innovate in 2025 and beyond. However, I also need to know how to improve my marketing strategy starting in January and ensure the best outcome for my marketing programs in 2020.

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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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How to streamline your campaign execution

B2B Marketing Zone Submitted Articles

Campaign execution is where the best laid plans often break down. Here's why it happens and how to fix it.

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How to Interpret and Use Clickmaps to Improve Your Website’s UX

The Daily Egg

To use the info in a clickmap to improve your website experience and effectiveness, you have to know how to interpret what you see. The post How to Interpret and Use Clickmaps to Improve Your Website’s UX appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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How to Rank (and Convert) with Landing Page SEO

Unbounce

Landing page SEO is a tricky proposition. Landing pages are potent tools to convert readers into customers, but the way most are designed is hardly SEO friendly. Think about it. A landing page aims to direct readers down a specific path, focusing them on your call to action without offering other distractions. But optimizing a web page for search engines requires more content, more links, more calls to action.

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14 Top Marketers Share Marketing Predictions and Trends for 2020–2025

Martech Advisor

As the countdown to 2020 begins, marketers across the globe are looking ahead. From why direct-to-consumer (D2C) companies are moving away from social media marketing channels to how voice search will influence customer experiences and buying decisions, to the critical role of AI, find out which trends will shape the future of marketing. We at MarTech Advisor, spoke to 14 top-notch marketers to understand what’s in store for marketers, and which marketing trends and predictions will reign

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The 5 Common Mistakes Every Content Marketer Should Know

Content Marketing Institute

Is your brand’s content marketing performance mediocre or worse? Before you investigate a laundry list of reasons, start with these five frequent, overarching mistakes. It could save you time, money, and even customers. Continue reading → The post The 5 Common Mistakes Every Content Marketer Should Know appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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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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Grow Your List for Free with ConvertKit Landing Pages & Forms

ConvertKit

Something magical is happening on the web: more and more creators who were stuck on the sidelines are now launching their ventures as the tools get better and easier to use. What used to require buying a domain, setting up hosting, installing WordPress, choosing a theme, and adding opt-in forms—all just to validate a creative idea—is now available in one tool with ConvertKit.

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6 Effective Ways to Use Video in Your Email Marketing

Hubspot

This morning, as usual, I started my day by checking my emails. While this process doesn't usually excite me and is just my method for waking up, I came across a subject line that made my heart race with excitement: Knowing that I would be starting my day with a new music video from one of my favorite bands made me smile. It also made me feel valued as a subscriber to their record label's emails — with just one video, Specialist Subject Records strengthened the consumer relationship I have with

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Why Is Instagram Hiding Likes (& What This Means for Social Media Marketers)

Single Grain

Instagram is now hiding likes. On November 14, 2019, Instagram announced the expansion of their world-wide test in which “you'll no longer see the total number of likes and views on photos and videos posted to Feed unless they’re your own.”: Not everyone understands why, and plenty of people aren’t happy about it. Just a little while ago, studies indicated that a little over 75% of marketers will use Instagram for advertising their brand in 2020.

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7 Books That’ll Turn Your Marketing Team Into Better Storytellers

Contently

It’s Cyber Monday, which is an extremely strange thing to type since Black Friday deals now start in mid-November. The “cyberweb” is an invisible membrane that blankets every moment of our waking lives, and somehow, it is already December 2. But as marketers, we are good capitalists. And as good capitalists, we must buy things for our teams.

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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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8 Facebook analytics tools to help you rise in the algorithm

Sprout Social

Facebook is full of surprises. If you’re a marketer, you know this all too well. The Facebook algorithm is consistently throwing curveballs at businesses that are trying to figure out how to reach customers while sticking to the platform’s best practices. But despite the grumblings of consumers and marketers alike, Facebook is booming right now. According to a recent report by Facebook management, the platform saw a significant increase in revenue (29% year-over-year), ad impressions (37%) and o

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116 Video Marketing Stats and Facts for 2020 [Infographic]

Webbiquity

2020 will not be the year of video marketing. Guaranteed. How can that be? Because 2017 was. Check Google Trends. Between December 2015 and April 2017, searches for “video marketing” shot up 133%. Since then, they’ve fallen by about a third. That means if you’ve not embraced video marketing, you may be a (gasp!) “laggard.” Ouch!

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How To Write The Best Google Ads Copy & Back It Up on Landing Pages

Unbounce

Crafting strong ad copy on Google Ads isn’t hard, but to do it right, we have to flex both art and science muscles. We’re only given a small number of characters on search engine results pages (SERPs), so we have to make them count. When writing copy, it’s important to think about the experience your visitor is having from query, to ad copy, to landing page.

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How to Use Personalization and Automation for Small Business Growth

The Daily Egg

New technologies are radically changing the way businesses interact with customers. As a result, customer expectations are constantly changing. Businesses should innovate and evolve in order to meet those expectations and build relationships that customers value. To do this, businesses should rethink their approach to customer experiences and engagement. 84% of consumers consider the experiences […].

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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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21 Books in 2019 That Make Great Reads for Content Marketers

Content Marketing Institute

Overwhelmed by the many industry-related book releases in 2019? Your fellow content marketers have your back. They’re sharing what they found to be the most helpful and inspiring books that came out this year. Continue reading → The post 21 Books in 2019 That Make Great Reads for Content Marketers appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Millennials vs. Gen Z: Why Marketers Need to Know the Difference

Hubspot

In recent years, there's been a common misconception that Gen Z and millennials are essentially the same. When companies discuss reaching younger audiences, many often lump Gen Z and millennials into the same group and create one campaign strategy that they believe fits both groups. Sure, many millennials and Gen Zers are considered "young adults." Not to mention, both generations are highly connected to technology and the internet.

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26 TIkTok Stats to Know in 2020

Hubspot

If you feel like the app TikTok came out of nowhere, you're not wrong. Since launching in early 2018 , TikTok's been covered by seemingly every major news publication and racked up millions of downloads globally. Despite TikTok's major early success, the app still feels like a bit of a mystery, especially to marketers. In fact, until recently, its parent company, ByteDance , hasn't disclosed many metrics at all.

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How Consumers Actually Responded to All Those Black Friday Ads [New Research]

Hubspot

Although Cyber Monday is described as the biggest online shopping event of the year, more than $7.4 billion in online purchases were made on Black Friday in 2019. While a majority of Black Friday purchases happened online, a Fiserv study found that brick-and-mortar store purchases rose by 4.2% compared to 2018. The same study found that a quarter of people traveled 25 miles or more to stores with Black Friday discounts.

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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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The Best Time to Send an Email (Research-Backed)

Hubspot

Here's a little exercise for you: Check the timestamps on the emails you've gotten in the past day. What have you found? For me, I noticed that most of my emails, especially my subscription emails, were sent between 9-10 AM, or 5-6 PM. This isn't a coincidence, either. While the answer to “ What’s the perfect time to send an email to my customers? ” isn't an exact science, there are some key findings we've discovered through heavy research, and those times listed above are right in line with wha

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5 Secrets of Creating Click-Worthy Social Media Cards

Hubspot

Before my blog writing days at HubSpot, I was working at a marketing agency where I was in charge of social media posts for our clients. One time, I was posting a blog on Facebook, but it kept aggregating the wrong image. Frustrated, I went to Google to find the answer: social media cards. I found out that on Twitter, businesses using Twitter cards get 89% more favorites, 18% more clicks, and 150% more retweets.

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The Unsung Relationship Between Customer Experience & Marketing: Delivering the Brand Promise

Hubspot

If I asked you what marketers identify as the number one most exciting business opportunity in 2019, I bet most of you would guess "social media", "mobile-first experiences", or even "video marketing". However, the Annual Digital Trends report by Econsultancy and Adobe revealed a surprising truth — marketers actually identified "optimizing the customer experience" as the most exciting business opportunity.

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How to Create an HTML Form That Sends You an Email

Hubspot

Sometimes, improving UX can cost a lot of money. And oftentimes, some of the problems website visitors have are easy, simple fixes. That begs the question: How can you find out if customers are enjoying their website experience? The answer may be simpler than you think. Having forms on your website is an effective way to get customer feedback about their experience during their visit.

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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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Essential Web Design Stats for 2020 [New Research]

Hubspot

As people spend more and more time online, the role of the web designer has become increasingly crucial. As a web designer, it's your job to stay on top of new techniques, technologies, and tricks that continue to emerge at a phenomenal rate. Additionally, you also need to run your business -- including finding clients, filing accounts, and potentially hiring and managing staff.

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How to Get a Google Ads Certification

Hubspot

In 2019, Google Ads is one of the most effective advertising tools to get more traffic to your website, and generate more leads. In fact, most businesses see an average of 200% ROI on their Google Ad spend. To create better, more powerful ads on Google, it can be helpful to receive a Google Ads certificate. Additionally, it's a great resume booster.

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Smart Targeting: The Better Way to Reach Audiences & Customers

Hubspot

Have you ever visited a website you frequent and found that the text interacts with you? For instance, when I log onto Mailchimp , my dashboard says, "Welcome back, Kayla" -- this is because my account with the site has my first name in its system and uses smart targeting to make my interaction with the website more delightful. Smart targeting provides a more individual experience for webpage visitors.