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What You Need to Know Before You Start an Email Newsletter

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BY LIVIU TANASE, FOUNDER AND CEO OF ZEROBOUNCE, for INC. More than 4.5 billion people will be using email by 2025, Statista shows. Aside from being the prevalent work and business communication channel, email also offers lucrative marketing potential. So, if you’ve been planning to start an email newsletter, don’t delay. Through email, you’ll forge tremendous connections with your customers and prospects. But before you begin, here are a few things to keep in mind so you can be efficient and see results quickly. Choose your niche-;and stick to it One thing you must decide from the beginning is your content strategy. To…

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4 Pillars of B2B Brand Trust: How to Build Customer Confidence

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BY YOUNG ENTREPRENEUR COUNCIL for INC. In today's digital-first world, trust has become a precious commodity. Buyers are savvier and more suspicious. The good news? You can still earn their loyalty. Here are what I see as the four pillars of business-to-business brand trust and some practical tips on how you can create healthy business relationships with your customers.  Four Pillars of B2B Brand Trust Trust comes from showing competence, integrity, reliability and empathy in all interactions with B2B buyers.  1. Competence You need to demonstrate that you are a capable and knowledgeable partner. This means building a team of experts, staying up-to-date on industry…

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What B2B Marketers Can Learn From Missing Bullet Holes

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by B2B Marketing Directions Data has become the lifeblood of modern marketing. It now touches almost every aspect of the marketing function. But using the wrong data (or the right data in the wrong way) can lead to ineffective and costly decisions. Here's one mistake marketers need to avoid. Fueled by the explosive growth of online communication and commerce, marketers now have access to a huge amount of data about customers and potential buyers. Astute marketing leaders have recognized that this ocean of data is potentially a rich source of insights they can use to improve marketing performance. Therefore, many…

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5 SaaS Brands Doing Social Media Right In 2023 (Steal Their Strategy)

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by Jessica Tee Orika for FOUNDATION If you’re curious about how leading SaaS brands are using social media as a distribution channel, this piece is for you. I break down how five SaaS companies use these platforms, as well as tips on how you can use the channel to get your desired results.  Let’s jump right in.  1. Hootsuite  Hootsuite, a social media scheduling tool, invests in remixing existing content to fit different social media channels. The company knows that not everyone in its audience learns through reading or has the time to consume a 2000+ word article. So, its…

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Almost Anyone Can Be Successful With A.I.

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BY JOE PROCOPIO for INC. Can almost anyone be successful with A.I.?  That depends. Can almost anyone learn to code?  Wait. Don't answer that yet. Because I don't want to get into a debate about coding skills. Not yet. What I'd rather talk about are the soft skills you need to be successful with A.I. (or in spite of it), and how they have little to do with writing code. Hiring an Army of Natural Language Generators I was a part of one of the first VC-backed Natural Language Generation (Generative A.I.) successes, Automated Insights, starting back in 2010. I invented the…

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How to say ‘no’ as a digital marketer

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by Scott Garrett for Search Engine Land If you say “yes” to one thing, then you are saying “no” to something else.  Our time is finite, so when you accept to take on a project, task or experiment, you are declining many other activities you could be doing instead.  It is critical to be intentional about when to say “yes” and “no.”  As digital marketers, we should challenge ourselves to say “no” more often to:  SEO campaigns doomed to fail due to a lack of holistic planning. Marketing technology that is below budget but does not meet our needs. Unnecessary meetings where nothing…

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How to beat the sugar rush of short term campaign leads

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by Cameron Williams for Velocity Does this sound familiar? “Our last campaign generated loads of leads! Why haven’t any of them become opportunities?.” “HUNDREDS of people clicked on our ad! Why is no-one signing up for a demo?” “We delivered a record number of MQLs to the sales team last quarter! So why aren’t they using them?” If it does, you’re not alone. Clients come to our door with problems like this all the time — the high of an influx of leads from the latest marketing campaign, quickly replaced by frustration and disappointment when none of them want to…

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McDonald’s Just Wrote an Ad With ChatGPT. The Results Were More Inspiring Than You’d Think

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BY BILL MURPHY JR., FOUNDER OF UNDERSTANDABLY AND CONTRIBUTING EDITOR, INC Imagine if you hired a lawyer, or a marketer, or an advertising agency to do some work for your business.  Next, imagine that they came back with a bill for their services. Finally, imagine that when you looked at their work product, you realized they'd simply asked ChatGPT for an answer, and passed it along to you verbatim. Would you be disappointed? I think you might. But there are exceptions to every rule, and that's where McDonald's comes into this story. Earlier this month, McDonald's apparently unveiled an advertisement in Brazil that consists…

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ChatGPT Isn’t Coming for Your Marketing Business

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BY CONRAD EGUSA, KATIE KONYN for INC Two months have passed since the latest model of ChatGPT was released and it's fair to say that the media and creative industries are living in a moment of self-doubt. While AI is far from a new technology, its real-world applications were previously mostly limited to data-focused tasks such as analytics and process automation. The latest generative AI tools, however, have exceeded most of our expectations in their ability to produce creative content - something which, until very recently, was believed to be the sole preserve of humans. Now that tools such as ChatGPT-4 and…

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How to Implement a 4-Day Workweek–According to 1 Business That Successfully Made the Change

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BY SARAH LYNCH for INC In 2022, Jake Kurtz was burned out. But as the CEO and founder of his own social media management agency, Brick Media in Tampa, he realized that he had the power to make a change in the way he and his company worked. That led him to test run a four-day workweek. He'd come across studies supporting the success of four-day workweek pilot programs: In one U.K. study, 92 percent of companies that tested a four-day workweek planned to continue with the schedule. Once an employee fantasy, the shortened workweek has gained serious traction, with small businesses leading adoption. Kurtz thought: Why not give it a try?  …

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