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1/ Why Honesty & Integrity Pay: The Benefits of Truth-Based Marketing

2/ How to Check Your Content for SEO, Tone, Readability, and Originality sponsored

3/ Adapting Brands & Thought Leadership: Afiya Addison of LinkedIn's B2B Institute

4/ How to Tell If You Have a Toxic Boss

5/ TODAY, 2 PM Eastern: How to Overcome Fragmented Data to Engage Your Customers sponsored webinar

6/ 'OMG. #mpb2b was PHENOMENAL' MarketingProfs event

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Why Honesty and Integrity Pay: The Benefits of Truth-Based Marketing
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Why Honesty and Integrity Pay: The Benefits of Truth-Based Marketing
Customer trust is at an all-time low. But marketing with truth and honesty isn't only about integrity—it actually increases your company's profitability. Here's how. »
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How to Check Your Content for SEO, Tone, Readability, and Originality
Marketers can't afford to waste precious time crafting content that doesn't engage their audiences or serve their business goals. Content needs to be both well-crafted and SEO-friendly. And with the SEO Writing Assistant by Semrush tool, it can be. To see for yourself, try it free today. »
Adapting Brands and Thought Leadership: Afiya Addison of LinkedIn's B2B Institute
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Adapting Brands and Thought Leadership: Afiya Addison of LinkedIn's B2B Institute
Afiya Addison, global program manager at the B2B Institute at LinkedIn, discusses why some brands adapt and excel while others struggle just to hold on. Read more and listen in on this fascinating conversation. »
How to Tell If You Have a Toxic Boss
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How to Tell If You Have a Toxic Boss
Do you have a toxic boss? And if you do, what sort of leader are you dealing with? This flowchart infographic helps you answer those questions and provides advice. Check out the infographic. »
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TODAY, 2 PM Eastern: How to Overcome Fragmented Data to Engage Your Customers
You can't access, analyze, and make sense of data if it's siloed, fragmented, or otherwise lacking in full-picture insights. In short, you can't refine segmentation, drive personalization, and deliver the right engagement at the right time—and achieve better ROI. Learn what you CAN do. »
'OMG. #mpb2b was PHENOMENAL'
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That was one attendee's feedback about last week's B2B Forum Online. If you missed it, have no fear: You can still catch the sessions on-demand by registering right now. And that registration gets you a full year of PRO, with access to the upcoming fall B2B Forum, too.
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If your content marketing isn't optimized for SEO and doesn't attract and engage readers, what good is it? No wonder 44% of employers consider SEO a key content marketing skill, and organic traffic has become the key metric for measuring content performance. In short, we need to ensure our marketing content is optimized to meet both the expectations of users and the requirements of search engines. Luckily, there's a tool that can help. SEO Writing Assistant by Semrush helps you to easily craft SEO- and user-friendly content that can attract reader attention, bring value to your audience, and improve your search rankings. And it's free to try!
Afoot in the Neighborhood
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