Category Marketing

Unlearn what you’ve learned about content marketing.

By in Content Marketing, Marketing

by SEBASTIAN CUERVO AND RONNIE HIGGINS for 42 Slash If you want to succeed in the new era of content marketing, the first step is to accept a painful truth: the playbook everyone has been using for more than a decade is inadequate for addressing the needs of today.  Sure, some of the tried-and-true strategies and tactics that gave rise to content marketing’s dominance over the last few years will remain. SEO and email are far from dead, too. But the game has changed tremendously.  What’s changed:  The tyranny of platform algorithms:  We are at a different moment of the internet…

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How To Think In Funnels (And Achieve The Best Possible Outcomes)

By in Business Management, Content Marketing, Marketing, Sales Tag , , , ,

by Frontera Blog Thinking in funnels is a mental model that breaks down your goals into different stages. So you can improve the conversion at each stage to achieve the best possible outcomes. We’ll start with a marketing story from the 1890s to understand how it was born. And finish with how to think in funnels. Let’s go. In 1898, Elias Elmo Lewis created a formula that changed marketing forever. He had an advertising agency. And he wrote newspaper ads for his clients — which was the main channel to reach potential customers before radio and TV. Like any advertiser, Lewis wanted to sell…

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The 3 Phases of Product-Led Growth: The Triple Whale Method

By in Marketing, Operations, Sales Tag ,

by Gigi Levy-Weiss for NfX Truly product-led companies are countercyclical. Even in a downturn, when customers are shutting down or slashing spending, your product or service remains in their stack. You made something they can’t live without. Love from the market is how the best companies gain ground – in any economic environment. It is the clearest sign of product-led growth. But it doesn’t just happen to you. There’s a playbook for it. When we invested in Triple Whale at the very beginning, they only had a few hundred customers. But Twitter was hopping with Shopify sellers declaring their love for the…

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190 ChatGPT Prompts Marketers Should Use

By in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Marketing Tag ,

by Erica Santiago for HubSpot ChatGPT is generating a lot of buzz in the marketing industry, and if you're a marketer, you're probably wondering how to use the technology to its full potential. Fortunately, I've compiled a list of 190 prompts to enter into ChatGPT to take the guesswork out of figuring out how to use the AI. If you're unfamiliar with ChatGPT, here's what you need to know. Free Guide: How to Use AI in Content Marketing What is ChatGPT? 25 ChatGPT Prompts for Marketing 25 ChatGPT Prompts for Business 27 ChatGPT Prompts for Content Creation and Social Media 9…

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14 Universal Digital Marketing Skills You Can’t Ignore

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by Mateusz Makosiewicz for ahrefs.com Social media marketing, search engine optimization, email marketing, marketing automation… the list of digital marketing specializations goes on and on. Of course, they are all different. Yet when you do enough of them in your career, as I have for the past 14 years, you start to identify certain skills that are fundamental to all of those specializations. The sooner you start to learn those “universal” skills, the better—because those skills act as investments. They will pay off nicely when you work your way toward becoming an expert in a given field or when you…

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SaaS Content Marketing: Why You Should Focus on Bottom of the Funnel First to Drive Signups

By in Content Marketing, Marketing, SaaS Tag

By Benji Hyam for Grow & Convert If you talk to content marketers at SaaS companies (both in-house and other agencies), almost everyone will tell you that you need to focus on top of the funnel content first. Why? Because most marketers assume everyone starts at the top of the funnel and slowly makes their way down the funnel via nurturing and more content. The logic typically sounds like this: “Well first, the customer needs awareness: They need to know about the problem. Then, they need to consider different options: Look for solutions. Then they’ll convert: Sign up to try your solution.” Yes, in theory, every single customer for any product goes…

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5 Types of Content to Spice up Your B2B Marketing

By in Content Marketing, Marketing, Sales Tag , , , , ,

By Julie van der Weele for FOLEON Are you looking for innovative ways to spice up your B2B content marketing strategy? You’re in the right place. Creating content that stands out from the crowd is no mean feat these days. Marketers and brands need to develop and deliver a content marketing strategy that gets their ideal customers' attention and encourages them to keep listening, watching, and waiting for the next content-related treat.  The team at Foleon is always super excited to share our content inspirations, and we especially enjoy it when we can show how they are aligned to a…

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Bad Data Is Ruining Your Ad Campaigns—Here’s How to Fix It

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by Timur Yarnall at MarketingProfs The days of spray-and-pray advertising are dead. They have been for a long time. These days, audience targeting is a critical part of any marketing campaign. Most marketers use Big Data—the decade's sexiest buzzword—to target prospects. The bad news is that Big Data is worthless unless it's of the highest quality. Unfortunately, most ad campaigns are fueled by irrelevant, untrustworthy data. Bad-quality data costs companies on average nearly $13 million per year, according to a Gartner survey. If you don't have high-quality data, you're in a lose-lose situation: You lose out on potential customers because of mistargeted ads, and…

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Intent Marketing: A Powerhouse for B2B Marketing

By in Lead Generation, Marketing Tag

By Anushree Bhattacharya at talkCMO.com Industry leaders consider intent marketing is a superpower in the hands of marketing leaders today. Business should launch their marketing efforts with an intent marketing approach in 2023. Over the years, there have been many different marketing efforts brands kept experimenting with to made marketing plans functional. However, with the evolving digital marketing landscape, many new marketing forms evolved, anticipating patterns of customer behaviors, their rising demands and enriching their experiences. To capitalize on the new marketing forms, brands must leave behind conventional marketing strategies and adopt the snowballing ones or the trending, which help…

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B2B Webinars: Why you should use them to grow your business

By in Marketing, Webinars Tag ,

by Manno Notermans for Think Orion Through webinars, B2B companies position themselves as experts within a particular area. What happens is that as the email list grows, other companies and businesses start to reach out to the webinar’s speaker. They ask for advice and guidance on specific topics. In this case, the host can have a high impact and can generate leads to convert them into customers.  According to Content Marketing Institute, in 2015, over 60% of B2B businesses included webinars in their marketing strategies.  However, to benefit from webinars, you need careful planning, strategy, and execution.  Since the sales price…

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