Category Marketing

Marketing Planning & Risk Management.

By in Business Management, Marketing Tag ,

by SEBASTIAN CUERVO AND CRISTINA DAROCA for 42 Slash Every professional marketer eventually gets closer to owning and worshiping a particular number. Number of leads, number of opportunities, MQLs, SQLs, SALs, and so on. Ultimately, it all comes down to revenue, and more importantly, success in marketing is about understanding systems.We had a great conversation with Cristina Daroca, where we went over how she does top-down AND bottoms-up analysis to develop annual marketing plans. Before we dive into the tactical aspects of this piece, this is also an excellent opportunity to reconsider the importance of risk in your marketing campaigns. Risk matters Marketers love being able to…

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I tried writing a blog post with ChatGPT, so you don’t have to.

By in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Content Marketing, Information Technology Tag ,

by Erica Santiago for HubSpot If you‘re a marketer who does a lot of writing, you’ve probably heard about writers, bloggers, and other creators using tools like ChatGPT to streamline the writing process. However, if you‘re a skeptical writer like me, you’re probably a little wary of using AI to craft your content. You might think: “Can this tool write well? Will it capture the correct voice and tone I want? Is it accurate? How can I use it?” Fortunately, you don‘t need to wonder anymore. I tried using ChatGPT to write a blog post, and I will share my…

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How to do a quick SEO accessibility check

By in Marketing Tag

by Maria Georgieva for Search Engine Land Among the top one million homepages, there were a staggering 49,991,225 unique accessibility issues identified, averaging 50 issues per page. This statistic is shocking, especially when you think about Gartner’s analysis that digital products fully compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Level 2 will outperform their competitors by a factor of 50. Many best practices for improving website accessibility align closely with SEO tactics. This article tackles how to manage 10 accessibility elements to can also help improve your site’s SEO and ensure inclusivity for all users. How disabilities impact the online journey You can’t make an…

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A Practical Inbound Marketing Strategy for B2B Companies

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By Michael Brenner for Marketing Insider Group The web and social media have forever changed the tactics of marketing. Sending more promotional messages through traditional push-based tactics doesn’t work any more. So leading businesses are using inbound marketing (or “Pull Marketing”) to more effectively attract new leads. However, attracting leads is a daunting task for any company. Figuring out which way to go about attracting leads is half the battle. Inbound marketing might be your best bet for marketing your B2B company. Today’s consumers want to learn. They can sense whether marketing is spin and self interest or truth and…

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How to measure what marketing activities are actually driving revenue

By in Marketing, Revenue Tag

by MKT1 Newsletter I can nearly guarantee your early or growth-stage B2B startup doesn’t have the right marketing analytics in place to determine what’s actually working across go-to-market. Startups either don’t know how to set up the right basic tracking and data collectioncor they over-engineer something way too complex for their stage. Both scenarios result in not having the right marketing data to operate efficiently. With the complexities of go-to-market motions, funnel mapping, and tooling, I understand why this is the case—but it’s definitely something you need to fix! Every marketer should know if the activities they are focusing on are…

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Perfecting prompts for SEO content development

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by Nicola Agius for Search Engine Land Unlocking the power of prompts is key to supercharging your SEO content strategy. Well-crafted prompts helped yield remarkable results for SEO expert Shelly Fagin, with website traffic experiencing an impressive increase of up to 30%. This is why perfecting prompts is essential for ensuring generative AI tools like ChatGPT deliver the best output, she said. But where should you start? And what qualities make a prompt perfect – or at least good? Here’s a recap of Fagin’s top tips from SMX Advanced, as well as some prompts she has used for maximum performance. Prompt protocol Crafting…

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Trojan horse SEO: How to gain traction in new markets

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by Adam Tanguay  for Search Engine Land We all love Netflix binge-watching now, but do you remember how you first learned about Netflix? I’m guessing it wasn’t by typing “DVD mail rental subscription” into Google on a whim. And that represents a similar challenge for any business with a new or disruptive idea: how do you build engagement for something nobody knows exists? Luckily, there is an audience for your product or service, regardless if they already know it. And you do have a category, regardless of its keyword volume. Much like paid search practitioners occasionally like to borrow competitor clout and…

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Maximizing your event marketing impact

By in Events, Marketing

by LIZ CHRISTO for Dear Stage 2 DEAR STAGE 2: We’re starting to build out our budget for 2024 and events are under a lot of scrutiny. Historically, they have been very productive for our industry and get a lot of decision makers in the same room — however, it’s a big line item and my new company hasn’t seen success. Any tips to get the most of an event budget? Or thoughts on how to quantify the impact of this spend/channel? ~EVENTS ENTHUSIAST Get more year-end tips! DEAR EVENTS ENTHUSIAST: For the right event — and the right audience — we…

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Want to Double the Chance of Getting a Response to Your Email? Make It Shorter

By in Email Marketing

Research from a pair of Harvard professors shows people are dramatically more likely to respond to shorter emails. BY JESSICA STILLMAN for Inc. Sometimes all that stands between an entrepreneur and business success is getting the right person to read your email. Which is why tips and tricks to make your emails more compelling and increase your response rates are so valuable. There are plenty of good ones out there, but few are as easy to implement as one recently highlighted by a pair of Harvard researchers in their new book.  Half as many words leads to twice as many reads.  An excerpt of Writing for Busy Readers by…

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