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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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The AI-Enabled CMO: Practical Tips for Today's B2B Marketers

Speaker: Paul Slack, Vende Digital CEO

On October 11th, understand how to navigate the AI landscape confidently, turning insights into groundbreaking strategies that set you apart. Why attend? You'll learn: Practical applications/Use cases How to find and assess the right AI technology Prioritizing quick wins Mastering prompt engineering Solving marketing challenges efficiently Strategies to launch pilot programs Case studies of B2Bs building smarter businesses with AI Exclusive bonus content: Actionable frameworks to get started qui

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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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10 Creative Lead Gen Examples Sourced from Marketing Legends

Unbounce

Lead generation is the number one challenge for marketers today. And it’s only going to get harder now that most Google search results pages have become saturated with promotional lead magnets masquerading as “great” content. There are millions of free resources out there already competing for attention. And customers are quickly catching on to the fact that most of these “Ultimate Guides to Dog Grooming” aren’t really worth giving up their personal information for.

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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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3 Simple Ways to Generate More Returning Visitors to Your Site

Single Grain

Digital marketers tend to focus on attracting new customers to a business because they measure success by the number of new clicks they managed to drive to a site. Yet, returning customers are much more important to a business than first-time visitors. In fact, it costs 5x more to acquire new customers than it does to retain current ones and improving customer retention rates by just 5% can increase profits by 25-95%.

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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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Let's Get Physical: How to Blend Direct Mail Marketing with Your Digital Strategy

Speaker: Akeel Jabber, B2B SaaS Investor and Growth Marketer at Horizen Capital

⭐ Are you ready to boost campaign success? Consider the untapped potential of integrating direct mail marketing seamlessly with digital marketing strategies. Combining the physical, tangible impact of direct mail with the dynamic reach of digital marketing can be a game-changer, significantly increasing your ROI when done right. Direct mail grabs attention, making it great for reaching your target audience 📩 Digital marketing keeps the momentum going, driving action 📲 So.

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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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2020 Social Media Calendar for Hashtag Holidays

ClearVoice

Find 250+ socially relevant national and international hashtags to help your brand get more engagement in 2020 with our free social media calendar. Tap into #hashtagholidays throughout the year. There is power in relevancy. When it comes to online content, it can appear easy to build connections, but it is, in fact, harder. Through social media, we lose the human interaction and the ability to experience non-verbal communication.

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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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The Complete Guide to Online Video Advertising

Outbrain

We’ve all heard it before: Video is king! But how can you make it king of your marketing strategy? Let’s examine some of the top video advertising trends and what you need to know about using this medium. What is Video Advertising? Video advertising is promotional content that plays before, during or after streaming content. Some marketing professionals also expand the video advertising definition to include display ads with video content, such as those that start playing when a person puts a mo

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The New GTM Playbook: 18 Ways to Future-Proof Your Sales Team

Longer sales cycles. Increasingly discerning buyers. More meetings. Intensifying competition. Economic uncertainty. Go-to-market teams of every size, in every industry, are grappling with these challenges firsthand. Thankfully, there’s an answer. We’ve developed an entirely new way for GTM leaders to identify and execute proven, data-driven strategies that drive revenue.

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Branded Videos | What Non-Creatives Need to Worry About

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

More so than most areas of marketing, video marketing takes a village. Before the first camera rolls, a strategy has to be agreed upon that aligns the purpose, scope, and budget. A manager has to corral the creative team. A writer has to craft the plot or copy. A set designer has to figure out the props. Remember, that’s before the shoot ever starts.

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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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Mobile Landing Page Examples That Seriously Set the Bar

Unbounce

We’ve all had frustrating experiences browsing the web on our phones: load times that seem to carry on forever; pages that are cluttered and difficult to navigate; long, rambling blocks of text that make it tough to understand what you’re even looking at. Well, at Unbounce, we’re putting our foot down. We’re tired of junky mobile landing pages. We want to celebrate the pages that do mobile right, with easy-to-follow copy, super-sleek designs, and crazy-fast load times.

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8 Incredible App Landing Pages (and How You Can Create Your Own)

Unbounce

Have you looked at your iPhone’s App Store lately? How about Google Play? I’ve seen landfills with better curation. With more than two million apps available on each store, people have a much better chance of finding a pearl in an oyster than randomly stumbling upon your app. No matter how appealing it is—no matter how entertaining or even life-changing—most people won’t discover it without a robust marketing campaign.

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Enablement Woes: Put an End to Content-Related Frustrations

Content frustrations are all too real and it’s time to tackle them head on. Let’s start with marketing. How many times do you use limited resources to create content sellers ignore, while outdated, off-brand materials and messaging continue to be shared? And sellers - how many selling hours do you spend hunting for just the right content, and if you find it, tailoring to specific buyer’s needs becomes your next challenge.

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The Best Landing Page Examples You Gotta Save for Your Swipe File

Unbounce

Here’s our starting principle: A polished, professional landing page can improve your conversion rates. (And a messy one can hurt them.). Pretty simple, right? You’ve probably heard something similar before. But what the heck does it mean to be “polished” and “professional” on a landing page, anyway? And when it comes to conversions, what’s the magical x-factor that sets exceptional marketers apart?

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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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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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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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Is Your ESG Communication a Walking Red Flag?

One moment, you're proudly releasing your annual report, and before you know it, six months have passed and attention has shifted. Not communicating your impact consistently to key stakeholders is what we call an ESG communication red flag. Think of red flags as common mistakes that hinder stakeholder engagement. While these slips in communication are rarely intentional, they can have a significant impact on how your ESG efforts are perceived.

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9 SEO Trends You Can’t Ignore in 2020

Single Grain

Search engine optimization (SEO) is digital marketing technique that is constantly changing. The year alone saw several Google algorithm updates: March 2019 Core update. June 2019 Core update. Site Diversity update. Maverick update. BERT update (the most recent). SEO is important for digital marketers, website owners and brands of all sizes because, in a nutshell, it allows your site to appear in the search results when someone types or speaks a query for which you have an answer or solution.

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The A-to-Z of Viral Marketing (+ Infographic)

Single Grain

We've all seen one of those ads that just hits the ground running and before you know it, it's “gone viral” It almost doesn't even matter what the subject is; all sorts of people outside the brand's demographic will watch it, like it and share it – because a great ad is a great ad. Period. Remember the “Alexa Loses Her Voice” video ad during the 2018 Super Bowl?

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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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How to Boost Conversions with Your Article’s Featured Image

Single Grain

As the web is becoming more visual and interactive, standing out and being remembered is getting even tougher. Visual content can certainly boost engagement and brand memorability, but only if you create an effective visual marketing strategy. First and foremost, you need to start paying more attention to your article's featured image because that's what shows up in many places, strongly impacting your content visibility.

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Redefining the CDP: 8 Data-Driven Designs for Successful Customer Journeys

In this guide, discover 8 use cases for how a customer data platform can tackle common challenges faced by marketing, commerce, service, and sales teams. With helpful diagrams and simple explanations in each use case, see how Salesforce’s CDP, Data Cloud for Marketing, powers personalized, real-time experiences across marketing, with capabilities that include: Optimizing ad spend Powering dynamic website content Increasing upselling and cross-selling Resolving service cases with marketing data B

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What Is Category Design in Marketing (And Why Is It an Important Strategy)?

Single Grain

Traditional marketing has been evolving so fast in the last couple of years. Nowadays, it’s not about beating everyone else at the game – it’s about creating your own game. This relatively new marketing strategy is known as category design. In the age of digital disruption and rapid innovation, category design is the ultimate business strategy that allows a company to create and develop entirely new categories of products and services.

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How to Do Brand Storytelling in 3 Successful Ways

Content Marketing Institute

Many marketers take the “brand” in brand storytelling too literally. Others forget the “story.” But when done well, brand storytelling is a differentiator and memorable opportunity to engage an audience. Let’s explore three approaches. Continue reading → The post How to Do Brand Storytelling in 3 Successful Ways appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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4 Lessons We Learned in 2019 (and How Marketers Can Apply Them in 2020)

Unbounce

It’s been a heck of a year, hasn’t it? And it’s not over yet. Even if you’re still knee-deep in holiday and end-of-year promotions, it makes sense to take time to pause. Now’s the time to reflect on the challenges, opportunities, and accomplishments of 2019—before the crazy starts up again. With that in mind, we’re revisiting the big lessons drawn from our most popular pieces on digital marketing and landing pages.

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