Category Marketing

Five Lessons B2B Marketers Can Learn From Taylor Swift’s Brand Strategy

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by Mike Ford Taylor Swift's campaign to reclaim her first six albums' master recordings was a masterclass in long-term brand strategy, as well as a legal and creative win. By controlling her narrative, activating her audience, and expanding without dilution, Swift demonstrated tactics directly applicable to modern marketers, especially those in B2B. In reclaiming her masters, Swift has provided marketers with five key strategies to apply in their own marketing. 1. Build with long-term ownership in mind Swift had a clear objective: to regain ownership of her work. She planned patiently, executing in phases while keeping fans engaged across years, creating…

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Ethical Marketing Can Clarify Muddled Data Use and Marketing Goals

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by Karie Burt B2B marketers are often pushed and pulled between opposing forces, leading to murky data strategies and unclear marketing goals. With regard to data, B2B marketers often are under pressure to expand their audience in a quest for scale while balancing the need to focus on highly targeted personas who are the most relevant to maximize efficiency and results. And you can throw in another conundrum: Marketers must now adhere to strict privacy regulations, but they are driven to amass ever increasing customer data to reach customers more effectively. As for goals, B2B marketers are supposed to be "customer…

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Will Google’s AI Overviews kill the click?

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Written by Jenny Abouobaia Your content may appear in AI Overviews – without traffic to show for it. Learn how to adapt your SEO for zero-click search. AI Overviews don’t just steal clicks. They dominate screens. Google’s AI-generated summaries now stretch across the top of search results like they own the place. And let’s be real, they do.  With links, carousels, citations (sometimes), and full how-to answers, they often push organic listings entirely below the fold. You can’t miss them – which means you can’t ignore them. The real question isn’t, “How do I get featured?”  It’s, “Should I even want to…

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What Marketers Get Wrong About Email Personalization (And How to Fix It)

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by Ortto Personalization has a problem: Many marketers are terrified of it. What we're seeing is a lot of overcomplicating, avoidance, and easing FOMO with an arbitrary {first_name} somewhere in the email. If that's personalization, it's the kindergarten-level kind. (No offense.) You might be wondering why a deliverability expert cares so much about this. It's because deliverability is now directly related to subscriber engagement, and, in a world of saturated promotional emails, subscriber engagement is more and more becoming about who can reach the subscriber in a personally relevant way. That's right... personalization is on its way to becoming a key…

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Human Content: What It Means & Why It’s Important

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by Marcus Sheridan Every day, your potential customers are bombarded with thousands of brand messages. Most of them? Robotic, overproduced, and instantly forgettable. And as AI enters the mainstream, that noise is only getting louder. So how do you stand out? By sounding unmistakably human. Because today's buyers don't just want answers, they want to hear from real people who understand their problems and have lived their frustrations. Human content builds trust, sparks emotion, and creates real connections. It's felt. It's remembered. It moves people to act. The Markers of Human Content What separates a human voice from the sea of…

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Ethical Marketing Can Clarify Muddled Data Use and Marketing Goals

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by Karie Burt B2B marketers are often pushed and pulled between opposing forces, leading to murky data strategies and unclear marketing goals. With regard to data, B2B marketers often are under pressure to expand their audience in a quest for scale while balancing the need to focus on highly targeted personas who are the most relevant to maximize efficiency and results. And you can throw in another conundrum: Marketers must now adhere to strict privacy regulations, but they are driven to amass ever increasing customer data to reach customers more effectively. As for goals, B2B marketers are supposed to be "customer…

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LLMs are driving referral traffic – but what about engagement?

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by Jason Tabeling From answering complex queries to generating creative content, large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Gemini, and others are becoming integral to how users seek and consume information online.  This technology presents a paradox for brands and website owners: the potential for new avenues of traffic generation alongside the growing challenge of zero-click results. The initial excitement surrounding LLMs often focuses on their ability to simplify workflows and provide instant answers. However, for businesses that rely on website traffic for leads, sales, and brand visibility, the implications are far more nuanced. While LLMs can act as powerful referral engines, directing users to…

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How to Choose the Right Blog Topics to Engage Your Audience

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By Lauren Basiura Blogging remains one of the most effective ways to build an online presence, engage an audience, and drive organic traffic to a website. In fact, 83% of internet users, approximately 4.44 billion people, read blog posts. However, with so much content available online, selecting the right topics is crucial to standing out and keeping your audience engaged. Understanding Your Audience The foundation of choosing engaging blog topics starts with understanding your target audience. If you don’t know what your readers care about, your content will likely miss the mark. Identify Your Audience Start by defining your ideal reader.…

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What Is an SEO Marketing Strategy?

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By Lauren Basiura Your SEO marketing strategy is the key to unlocking your brand’s growth potential. It’s how you rank on search engine results pages (SERPs), drive organic traffic to your website, and ultimately grow conversions and sales. Even though every marketer today has heard of SEO and most know its importance, most brands approach SEO with a variety of separate tactics rather than linking it to your overall marketing strategy. The result is a fragmented SEO effort that doesn’t earn nearly the ROI it could. In this article, we’re going to cover what constitutes a true SEO marketing strategy, how content…

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Everything Our Paid Team Learned From Attempting a Reddit Advertising Strategy

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Written by: Caroline Forsey A Reddit advertising strategy used to be reserved for businesses targeting men. But the tides are turning, and I think it’s time for more brands to consider advertising on Reddit. While Reddit has always had more male users and still has an audience of 63.6% male users, Reddit’s visibility on Google has increased since its new partnership was announced in February 2024. Download Now: Free Ad Campaign Planning Kit According to Backlinko, the increase in users on Reddit since Q4-2023 is undeniable. I predict the audiences will slowly balance as more women discover Reddit and find it’s not the male-only…

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