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  • Join the Marketing Rebellion or Get Left Behind: Author Mark Schaefer on Marketing Smarts

    Podcast

    CONTENT TYPE: Podcast | TOPIC: Marketing Strategy

    Best-selling author, consultant, and speaker Mark Schaefer returns to Marketing Smarts to share surprising research and insights from his new book, 'Marketing Rebellion: The Most Human Company Wins.'

  • How to Beat the Competition With Market Intelligence on Content, Positioning, and Leads

    Article

    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Marketing Strategy

    If you gather information to gain a strong understanding of your competitive landscape and market environment, you can improve your strategy across every area of marketing. Let's take a look at how to gather intel in three areas to help you stand out against your competition and win.

  • How Important Are Online Reviews for Local Businesses?

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Marketing Strategy

    Consumers, especially younger ones, are becoming increasingly reliant on online reviews to assess local businesses, according to recent research from BrightLocal.

  • How to Find Your Company's Most Powerful Thought Leaders--and Your Company 'Story'

    Article

    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Demand Generation

    B2B customers are demanding education and advice as part of the sales experience. They see through the bright and shiny marketing speak. They want proof. Real thought leadership is that proof. Take these four steps to identify your company's most powerful thought leaders and their perspectives.

  • 13 Psychological Pricing Hacks to Increase Sales [Infographic]

    Infographic

    CONTENT TYPE: Infographic | TOPIC: Marketing Strategy

    Thinking hard about how your approach to pricing impacts conversions and sales? When applied with know-how and finesse, the right psychological pricing tactics can turn your customers’ brains into buying machines. Well, almost. Here's how to put the basics of "price psych" into action.

  • Podcasts as a Learning (and Teaching) Medium for Marketing (And More)

    Article

    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Marketing Content

    How can busy marketers make time for learning when we're already having trouble keeping our head above water with our day-to-day responsibilities? Podcasts are one of the most efficient ways to learn (and teach). They're easy to access, portable, economical. But where to start? Check out this list of 18 podcasts.

  • How Customer Participation Builds Trust in the Age of GDPR

    Article

    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Customer Experience

    "Customer participation" is sometimes used interchangeably with "customer engagement," but the former is so much more than the latter. In today's competitive business landscape, customer participation trumps customer engagement. Here's why the time to invest in customer participation is now.

  • Do US Consumers Want GDPR-Like Data Protection Rights?

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Marketing Strategy

    Most consumers in the United States would welcome personal data protection rights similar to those established last year by the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), according to recent research from SAS.

  • Context Is Everything: Transmedia vs. Integrated Campaigns [Video]

    Article

    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Marketing Strategy

    Content on different channels and on different devices is consumed in different ways; as a result, there are more challenges for the storyteller, but more opportunities, too—including transmedia storytelling. Find out about the persuasive capabilities of storytelling across platforms.

  • Five Email Trends and Best-Practices for 2019

    Article

    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Email Marketing

    A change in calendar year is an ideal time to think about where things have been and where things are going. For email marketers, the future is bright—as long as we take advantage of important trends and apply best-practices.

  • Data-Driven Marketing: How (and Why) to Move From Siloed Reporting to Data Ownership

    Article

    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Measurement & Analytics

    Being data-driven is a top priority for most marketers—because they understand its vital importance to achieving marketing success. And every great data-driven marketing program rests on a foundation of data integrity and data ownership. Consider these nine tips to help you lay that foundation in your organization.

  • What Do CMOs Predict for 2019? [Infographic]

    Infographic

    CONTENT TYPE: Infographic | TOPIC: Marketing Strategy

    What will 2019 bring for marketers? These predictions from 19 CMOs can help you figure out what to expect in four key areas, from creating better customer experiences to keeping marketing data secure. See how they can help you plan for a stronger 2019.

  • 2018 Year-end Episode of Marketing Smarts: What Marketers Need to Know for 2019 [VIDEO]

    Podcast

    CONTENT TYPE: Podcast | TOPIC: Marketing Strategy

    21 industry stars, 21 pieces of valuable advice for you to up your marketing game in the new year: don't miss this special yearend video episode of the Marketing Smarts podcast!

  • 2018 Holiday Sales Kickoff: Record-Breaking E-Commerce Results? [Infographic]

    Infographic

    CONTENT TYPE: Infographic | TOPIC: Marketing Strategy

    If initial holiday sales figures generated between Thanksgiving Eve and Cyber Monday are any indication, 2018 could be a record-breaking year for e-commerce. Check out some of the more interesting stats and initial figures behind that proposition.

  • SEO Professionals: Why You Should Guarantee SEO Results

    Article

    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: SEO

    Dear SEO professionals: Clients don't simply want our SEO recommendations... they want guaranteed results. Why should you offer SEO guarantees? When should you offer SEO guarantees? And what kind of SEO guarantees should you offer? Read on to find out.

  • CMOs Need to Focus to Survive: Three Priorities to Ditch and Three to Latch On To

    Article

    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Marketing Strategy

    Here's the hard truth: Most CMOs will never be able to get all their work done. Yet, Marketing is critical to the success or failure of organizations. The solution? A rigorous focus on the things that matter most. So here are three areas for CMOs to prioritize, and three to let go of.

  • The Three Areas of Marketing That AI Will Reinvent First

    Article

    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Martech

    Why is online marketing poised to be heavily influenced by AI? Because many marketing processes are already automated—and so can be managed by AI technologies relatively easily. And because AI can improve the performance of marketing campaigns and drive revenue. These three areas of marketing will likely be affected first.

  • 2019 B2C Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Marketing Content

    Most B2C marketers are seeing improved results from content marketing and plan to increase their spending on it in the year ahead, according to annual research from MarketingProfs and Content Marketing Institute.

  • How to Heat Up Marketing Impact With Data-Driven Personas

    Article

    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Marketing Strategy

    When you're smarter about your audience's needs and behaviors, you can meet those needs more effectively. That's where a data-driven approach to personas can make all the difference. Go beyond the limits of traditional marketing personas.

  • Net Promoter Score: What It Is and How It Can Help You [Infographic]

    Infographic

    CONTENT TYPE: Infographic | TOPIC: Customer Experience

    Net Promoter Score helps you understand your overall customer relationships and plan referral marketing. Learn what NPS is, how it works, and why you might consider asking your customers that one important question.