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The Answer to the Quality vs. Quantity Marketing Question
4Mar By Dominic CumminsNo Comments
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The Answer to the Quality vs. Quantity Marketing Question

This debate seems to be as old as the concept of sales…and many things in life, but we will keep it to sales and marketing for the purpose of this article. Many I speak with will fall solidly in the “quality” camp. In fact, I guess that for many of you reading this, your answer might be quality. Some of you might answer “both” just because you know me and how I like to set up a topic. But, deep down inside, we probably think about quality as the winner of the debate. …and to a large extent, there is truth to this. That said, if you’ve “grown-up” in any serious sales environment, you may sit on the other side of the equation. And while you may not agree with anything else he ever said, you might think that Joseph Stalin was onto something when he stated, “quantity has a quality ...
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13 Ways to Build Your Email List For Free
2Mar By Ron StefanskiNo Comments
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13 Ways to Build Your Email List For Free

By Ron Stefanski March 1, 2022 You don’t need a large marketing budget, you just need these strategies for building your email list – at no cost. This article isn’t written to convince you of the benefits of using email marketing. You already know that “the money is in the list,” and that email marketing has an ROI of over $36 for each $1 spent. In this article, we take a look at 13 ways to build an email list so you can communicate more effectively with your customers and get better results from your marketing strategies – all without having to pay a single cent.  Ready? Let’s get into it.  Integrate email sign-up forms on a social landing pagePersonalize your CTAsCapture email after an online saleUse a live chat tool to gather emailsPop-up survey or quizOffer disco...
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Why Email Marketing Is Still Crucial In 2022
26Feb By Jay RiptonNo Comments
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Why Email Marketing Is Still Crucial In 2022

With the rise of social media and digital technologies, marketers and businesses were expected to evolve from email marketing.  However, email marketing is still a reliable tool. Various researches show that email will become some of the most widely used and popular communication platforms in the future. But before you utilize these free email marketing tools, find out how email marketing is used to interact with users and if it will remain a viable strategy in 2022. The Data Behind Email Marketing Here are a few stats to prove email marketing’s dominance in marketing strategies globally: In 2021 alone, the number of worldwide email users was about 4 billion, which is expected to increase to 4.6B users worldwide in 2025More than 300B emails are forecasted to be received and ...
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How This Work-from-Home Mom Balances Career and Family
24Feb By Kelsey JohnsonNo Comments
Digital Marketing, digital mkt, email outreach, Internet marketing, landing page design, Online Marketing, Success

How This Work-from-Home Mom Balances Career and Family

By Kelsey Johnson February 23, 2022 Tiffany Jackson wanted freedom in her career — and she got it with some help from AWeber. Entrepreneurial mom wanted to spend more time with her family As a result of the pandemic, Tiffany Jackson realized the most important thing to her — spending time with her family. But this multiple-time business owner wasn’t going to give up working altogether. She needed a job that allowed her time with her husband and kids — a work from home job. Plus, she wanted to make plenty of money and see long-term career success. What was the easiest way for Tiffany to use her experience as a business owner and skincare enthusiast to make money? By starting an affiliate marketing business.  Tiffany created an Instagram account to start her affi...
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The Marketing Graph You Need to Hit Your Goals
21Feb By Rebecca RiserbatoNo Comments
Digital Marketing, digital mkt, Internet marketing, Marketing Reporting, Online Marketing

The Marketing Graph You Need to Hit Your Goals

Last November, my husband and I were on our honeymoon in Maui. One of the main activities we wanted to do was a hiking tour near the waterfalls. We dreamt of swimming in the cascading water at sunrise. When you hear the word “waterfall,” that’s typically what you imagine. However, today, we're going to talk about a different kind of waterfall — the waterfall chart. Waterfall charts are a data visualization resource that can help you gather and track important data such as traffic goals and lead generation. Below, let's review what a waterfall chart is, how to read one, and how to create one. What is a waterfall chart? A waterfall chart, also called a cascade chart or bridge chart, is a graph that shows you how an initial value is impacted by intermediate values...
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Everything You Should Know to Create a Useful Competitor Report
19Feb By Ann SmartyNo Comments
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Everything You Should Know to Create a Useful Competitor Report

Analyzing and monitoring your competition is fundamental to any business success. So what should a good competitive report include and how to take it from research to an action? Why Does My Business Need a Competitive Report? There are many reasons why a business may need a competitive report, and all of these are valid: To better understand your target audience by researching how they find and engage with your more established competitorFor market research: Understand what is currently available on the market and where your business fits inTo get an estimate of your future marketing budgetTo identify effective marketing tactics, etc. Business owners that claim they don’t need a competitive report because they already know everything are clearly missing out. Competitive rese...
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6 Ways to Generate More Revenue Using Videos in 2022
18Feb By Amir ShahzeidiNo Comments
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6 Ways to Generate More Revenue Using Videos in 2022

By Amir Shahzeidi February 17, 2022 Learn how you can use a video strategy to increase your business’s revenue. Video has become the focus of the internet and there’s no better time for small businesses and growing brands to get in on the trend.  Adapting your content to work through video means that you can get visibility on high-growth channels like TikTok – with more than 1 billion monthly active users – and Instagram that pivoted to video in late 2021.  Video can be used throughout your whole customer journey, from generating interest in your brand and driving customer conversions to keeping them on board and engaging with them.  Want to know how? We’ve got 6 tried and true ways you can use video to boost the revenue for your online business, including: Gett...
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8 Alternatives to Open-Triggered Email Sequences
16Feb By Digital MarketerNo Comments
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8 Alternatives to Open-Triggered Email Sequences

Listen NEW! Listen to article Sign in or sign up to access this audio feature! No worries ... it's FREE! As more Apple Mail users have enabled Mail Privacy Protection (MPP), opens have become an increasingly unreliable signal of individual-level engagement with marketing emails. Email marketers are now having to redefine how ...
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26 of the Best Brands on Instagram Right Now
14Feb By lkolowich@hubspot.com (Lindsay Kolowich Cox)No Comments
Digital Marketing, digital mkt, email list, Email Marketing, email outreach, Instagram Marketing, Internet marketing, Online Marketing

26 of the Best Brands on Instagram Right Now

  Contrary to what your friends' photos suggest, Instagram isn't just a social network for selfies and brunch pics. In fact, Instagram has over 200 million businesses that use its platform and 90% of users follow at least one of them, according to recent data. (more…)
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Should Email Subject Lines Be Capitalized
13Feb By Liz WillitsNo Comments
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Should Email Subject Lines Be Capitalized

By Liz Willits February 9, 2022 Should you capitalize your subject line? Discover what 100 of the top email marketing professionals said. Have you ever wondered if you’re using the right tactics to market your business? You’re not alone. That’s why we analyzed 1,000s of emails from 100 of the top experts — the best of the best. Their email strategies engage thousands and drive millions in revenue. Many of them see unheard of results (like 80% open rates and 30% click-through rates). “Should you capitalize your subject line?” was one of our questions. Let’s take a look at our findings. The 3 capitalization formulas for email subject lines To find out how top marketers use capitalization in their email subject lines, we examined the subject lines from our 100 expe...
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Your Valentine’s Day GIF Guide
8Feb By Sean TinneyNo Comments
Digital Marketing, digital mkt, email list, Email Marketing, email outreach, gifs, Internet marketing, Online Marketing

Your Valentine’s Day GIF Guide

By Sean Tinney February 1, 2022 These awesome animated GIFs put heart-shaped emojis to shame. Download and send your favorites this February! This Valentine’s Day, forget a dozen roses. You need a dozen GIFs. The reason: Eye-catching visuals like GIFs in emails can increase click-through rates by 42% and conversion rates by 103%, and may positively impact your sales. Go ahead and add GIFs to your February email campaigns. The AWeber design team has already done the work for you and created 13 downloadable Valentine’s Day GIFs! Just download them and add them to your emails using AWeber’s ridiculously easy-to-use Drag and Drop message editor. These GIFs will be a sweet treat for your subscribers — and your bottom line. Not an AWeber customer yet? Create your FREE ac...
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Create Your Buyer Persona in 5 Simple Steps
3Feb By Sean TinneyNo Comments
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Create Your Buyer Persona in 5 Simple Steps

By Sean Tinney February 2, 2022 A buyer persona is a fictional person who represents your ideal customer. Every successful marketer uses one. Do you? Do you know who your customers are? More importantly, do you know what they want or need from you? If you don’t, writing engaging email content for your audience will be a challenge. After all, it’s difficult to write content for someone you don’t know or understand. That’s where buyer personas come in.  What is a buyer persona? A buyer persona is a fictional person who represents your ideal customer or a portion of your audience. Their interests, challenges, and problems align with your audience’s. With a persona, you can write more engaging email content that resolves your audience’s problems and speaks to the...
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Why Video and Podcasting Should Factor Into Your Content Marketing
2Feb By Digital MarketerNo Comments
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Why Video and Podcasting Should Factor Into Your Content Marketing

Listen NEW! Listen to article Sign in or sign up to access this audio feature! No worries ... it's FREE! Video and podcasting are not new marketing tools. Video has populated content plans for years, and podcasting shows up more every year. But one big takeaway from Casted's The State of the Content Marketer Report is that vi...
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15 Tips for Writing Email Marketing Content that Increases Clicks
30Jan By Sean TinneyNo Comments
Digital Marketing, digital mkt, email content, email list, Email Marketing, email outreach, email writing, increase clicks, Internet marketing, Learn, Online Marketing

15 Tips for Writing Email Marketing Content that Increases Clicks

By Sean Tinney January 27, 2022 Increase your email clicks with these 15 tips for writing email marketing content. Your audience is probably short on time and skimming through emails. They may get several emails an hour throughout the day. To give yourself a fighting chance in the inbox, you need strong email marketing content. According to research done on email click rates, the data has shown: 53% of marketers say low click-through rates are their biggest email marketing challenge.73% of marketers say click-through rates are a key metric for evaluating campaign effectiveness.The average email click-through rate is 7% in the US.a Getting more clicks should be a central part of your strategy. Here are 15 tips on how to write effective email marketing content to boost...
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What a Crisis Manager Does and How to Be a Great One
26Jan By Sheryl GreenNo Comments
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What a Crisis Manager Does and How to Be a Great One

You may be familiar with the adage, “Hope for the best, but plan for the worst.” As much as we don’t want to think about the terrible things that can happen in business and life, negative occurrences are inevitable. Whether it’s a product defect that leads to a recall, a security breach that leaves our customer’s data vulnerable, or violence or disasters in the workplace, bad things are bound to happen at some point. (more…)
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New: AWeber Advocates can now earn up to 50% commissions
25Jan By Jessica SnavelyNo Comments
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New: AWeber Advocates can now earn up to 50% commissions

By Jessica Snavely January 19, 2022 Refer as little as 10 customers a year and start earning a higher commission rate. There is nothing more flattering for us than when our biggest fans share AWeber with their communities. So we’re starting 2022 by giving our advocates the raise they deserve: AWeber Advocates can now earn up to 50% on referrals to AWeber – hands down the highest amount of any other email marketing provider.  We are always working to make AWeber the best choice to promote to your community and share with your friends. That’s why over the past year we’ve launched landing pages, ecommerce solutions, and we were the first email service provider (ESP) with a native Canva integration. So, let’s get to it, how do you start earning a 50% commission rate on refe...
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Stripe vs PayPal — Which is Best for Online Payments?
20Jan By Kelsey JohnsonNo Comments
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Stripe vs PayPal — Which is Best for Online Payments?

By Kelsey Johnson January 19, 2022 Starting an online store? We’ll break down Stripe vs PayPal, and which may be better for your business. If you’re setting up an online store, one of your first questions is likely to be “How do I accept payments?” And no matter who you are — an established entrepreneur or simply starting a side hustle — you’re likely considering Stripe or PayPal. Both Stripe and PayPal are popular, affordable, and easy to use. Furthermore, you can count on these well-known payment processing tools to be secure, trusted by most buyers, and integrate with other platforms you’ll use to sell your products (like your business’s website). But what’s the difference? Should you choose Stripe or PayPal? Which is better to start with? We’ll cover the differenc...
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5 Things Marketers Can Learn From Online Reviews
19Jan By Digital MarketerNo Comments
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5 Things Marketers Can Learn From Online Reviews

At the dawn of marketing, companies dictated the rules of the market. Businesses would create demand and try to persuade customers that their products were the best. Now, with the spread of social media platforms and review websites, customers are in charge. You will not be successful if your product has only 1.2 stars on Amazon and barely any positive reviews. The sound of peer-to-peer information is becoming louder and louder, and marketers have to listen to it. But in the abundance of reviews, how do you filter the information and decide what data is valuable enough to analyze, and what can be left out? What can you actually deduce from online reviews, and why are they so important? Why Are Online Reviews Important? You probably understand intuitively why online reviews are important fo...
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How to Make Your Email Marketing Campaigns More Accessible
15Jan By Nahla DaviesNo Comments
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How to Make Your Email Marketing Campaigns More Accessible

By Nahla Davies January 13, 2022 Learn the email accessibility best practices you can implement to ensure everyone can read your emails. Not everyone reads emails in the same way. Some people may use dictation or magnification to consume your email, while others may only see grayscale or certain colors. It’s important to make your emails accessible so anyone can read them, regardless of disability. Plus, an accessible email is also valuable to many other people in your audience. Headers and appropriate colors make emails easier to read, image ALT tags help out people experiencing low internet bandwidth, and simple fonts keep readers focused on your content. Good news. It’s easy to make your emails accessible. Simply consider color contrast, screen readers, and ADA com...
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14 Copywriting Examples From Businesses With Incredible Copywriters
12Jan By lkolowich@hubspot.com (Lindsay Kolowich Cox)No Comments
Digital Marketing, Digital Marketing Agency, digital mkt, email outreach, free landing page builder, Internet marketing, Landing Page Copy, Online Marketing

14 Copywriting Examples From Businesses With Incredible Copywriters

We’re all familiar with Flo from Progressive, right? Stephanie Courtney, the actress that plays her, makes Flo memorable by capturing Flo’s quirkiness — appearing in everything from commercials to print ads, and social media posts. (more…)
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Digital Business Cards: An Eco-Friendly Way to Increase Leads
11Jan By Sean TinneyNo Comments
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Digital Business Cards: An Eco-Friendly Way to Increase Leads

By Sean Tinney January 6, 2022 Generate more networking opportunities with a digital business card. Learn why you should have one and three simple steps to set it up. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we do business. More than ever, people are working from home. Teams and clients meet remotely. It makes sense, then, that the days of the “traditional” business card are waning. In this new virtual world, paper business cards are less and less necessary. But digital business cards have become increasingly popular within the past year.  More than ever, professionals are using these virtual business cards to network and market themselves. So, what exactly is a digital business card, why do you need one, and how can you create one for yourself? Let’s dive in. What i...
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Start the New Year Strong with an Email List-building Quiz
6Jan By Sean TinneyNo Comments
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Start the New Year Strong with an Email List-building Quiz

By Sean Tinney January 5, 2022 Quizzes are fun and interactive. But they can also be used to grow your email list. Learn the best strategies to creating a high-converting, interactive quiz. In the spirit of the New Year, why not try a fresh list-building tactic: creating your own quiz? Offering valuable or interesting resources, or lead magnets, in exchange for email addresses can be vital to your email marketing success. But when you look up lead magnet ideas, the same old ideas tend to pop up—guides, eBooks, or videos. You need something innovative to add to your toolbox this year. 78% of marketers agree that email marketing is important to their overall success. Strategically crafted quizzes are a powerful way to harness that success, capture your audience’s attention...
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How to Use Video for ABM
4Jan By Digital MarketerNo Comments
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How to Use Video for ABM

As a SaaS company with 10+ years in the industry, we've seen our fair share of marketing tactics. And we've tried them, too. One marketing tactic that we've had great success with is using video for account-based marketing (ABM). Of course, since our product is an enterprise video platform, we had a head start on being comfortable working with video. So much so that we often have customers and partners alike ask us for tips. That's why we want to share how we incorporate video into our own ABM efforts so that we can help organizations find success with video in their own account-based marketing programs. Using Video for Lead Scoring Lead scoring videos in your ABM programs can provide more flexibility over traditional conversion tactics. With the ability to assign different scores based on...
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How to Build a Customer-Driven Marketing Strategy
1Jan By Chris BassNo Comments
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How to Build a Customer-Driven Marketing Strategy

By Chris Bass December 15, 2021 When used effectively, customer feedback informs marketing decisions that can help you grow and scale your business. Ultimately, the success (or failure) of your business can depend on how well you’ve applied customer feedback to your brand, products and services, work processes, and everything in between.  “Customer service shouldn’t just be a department, it should be the entire company” Tony Hsieh, entrepreneur and former CEO of Zappos Why is Tony right? Why is feedback so enormously important? Because any feedback, especially the critical kind, helps us create our approach and product offering to be exactly what our customers actually want. Here’s the good news: Feedback is easy to collect. 85% of customers are likely to give pos...
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25 Free Marketing Tools You Could Learn in Line at Starbucks
27Dec By Kelsey JohnsonNo Comments
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25 Free Marketing Tools You Could Learn in Line at Starbucks

By Kelsey Johnson December 21, 2021 Marketer approved – free tools that are actually useful and easy to learn. Marketing has changed — you don’t need to be a professional designer, copywriting expert, or strategist to be a marketer. In fact, most smaller business owners are playing the role of marketer due to budget constraints. Whether you’re a marketer, business owner, or just looking to learn some new skills, there are tons of free marketing tools that can make you seem like a pro. Check out the following list to give your business a boost, create more engaging content and emails, and — above all — sell more stuff! Related video: 30 Free Marketing Tools In 30 Minutes AWeber You can use AWeber to send emails to all your subscribers, set up automated email...
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How to Get Reactive Marketing Right
26Dec By Digital MarketerNo Comments
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How to Get Reactive Marketing Right

Now that digital is disrupting every industry and job function, it is no wonder marketing has become agile. Annual plans have given way to quarterly plans that usually end up getting scrapped for whatever is happening at the moment. Every marketing team is practicing some form of agile or reactive marketing. In fact, today, a marketing team that can turn on a dime is critical to an organization's growth. However, how marketing team members react and what they react to is the difference between an extraordinary marketing team and one that is out of control. Even in this 24-hour-news-cycle world, marketing teams need to be grounded in strategy and purpose when determining direction and the way forward. Reactive Marketing: Getting It Wrong Can Be Damaging to Your Brand Typically, reactive ma...
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How to Optimize Your Website for Other Countries
24Dec By Eli SchwartzNo Comments
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How to Optimize Your Website for Other Countries

Search engine optimization (SEO) is critical to help your brand reach the first page of search results and ideally climb into the top 5 positions for your primary keyword. But what happens when you want to expand outside of local markets? With Google now seeing more than 3.5 billion searches per day, there's a massive opportunity for brands to capture new customers. The caveat is that existing SEO practices may not translate — and in some cases, may actually hurt your brand in other countries. To avoid this potential pitfall, a robust international SEO strategy is critical. Here’s what you need to know about what it is, how it works, how it’ll benefit you, and what steps you can take to create an effective plan. Ready? Shkojme! Idemo! Vámonos! Let’s go! International SEO Stra...
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5 SEO Best Practices to Increase Blog Traffic and Engagement
23Dec By Sean TinneyNo Comments
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5 SEO Best Practices to Increase Blog Traffic and Engagement

By Sean Tinney December 22, 2021 In order to make your blog SEO-worthy, there are 5 basic SEO best practices that you need to be following. Do you feel your website isn’t receiving enough blog traffic and engagement? Well, you’re not alone in this because Google is getting smarter every day. If your blog isn’t optimized for SEO, you might not achieve the desired results. But before we discuss the best SEO practices for your blog, here’s what makes working on it important: Daily, bloggers upload around 7.5 million posts across the globe. Only 60% of internet users actively read the content. Readers mainly go for long-form content for its in-depth information. So the ideal word count would be near 1500 – 2000 words. This year, content marketing was estimated to be an...
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Marketing Strategy – Avoiding Shiny-Object Syndrome
21Dec By Digital MarketerNo Comments
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Marketing Strategy – Avoiding Shiny-Object Syndrome

Listen NEW! Listen to article Sign in or sign up to access this feature! Since the dawn of marketing, teams have been regularly sidetracked from solid strategic work to investigate if they "should be using [insert new shiny thing]." In the late 2000s, social media was often the shiny object. Before that, it was the Web. If y...
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9 Tips to Win Back Lost Sales with Abandoned Cart Emails
18Dec By Sean TinneyNo Comments
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9 Tips to Win Back Lost Sales with Abandoned Cart Emails

By Sean Tinney December 16, 2021 Don’t skip the cart reminders. Take advantage of warm leads who are most likely to complete their purchase. One of the most effective emails you can send to your audience is the abandoned cart email. When sent at the right time, it is a helpful reminder to encourage your customers to complete their purchase. Many people put together a cart but get distracted before checking out. On average 69.82% of online carts are abandoned. That is a lot of lost sales. But you can capture a lot of them back with an abandoned cart email — an automated marketing campaign designed to increase conversion rates. When they get a reminder of a shopping cart they left behind, many buyers come back to make the purchase. The best part? You can automate these rem...
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12 Incredible Answers to “What Is Your Greatest Weakness?” — “That Aren’t Perfectionism”
15Dec By Caroline ForseyNo Comments
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12 Incredible Answers to “What Is Your Greatest Weakness?” — “That Aren’t Perfectionism”

So, you’ve finally got your foot in the door at your dream company. You’ve submitted the perfect resume and made a lasting impression during the phone screen. All there’s left to do now is to win over the hiring manager in the face-to-face interview. As a well-informed candidate, you’re doing your research on the company and preparing your answers to the most important interview questions you can think of — the most notorious of them all being: “What is your greatest weakness?” You don't want to respond, "I tend to work too hard," or "I am too much of a perfectionist." That can easily come across as scripted and insincere at best and lacking in self-awareness at worst. Alternatively, you don't want to respond with weaknesses that will prevent you from succeeding in the role. For instance,...
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Email Tagging Tips to Skyrocket Your Open Rates
13Dec By Kelsey JohnsonNo Comments
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Email Tagging Tips to Skyrocket Your Open Rates

By Kelsey Johnson December 3, 2021 Learn how tagging can be used to Increase your email open and click rates . Each person on your email list is unique: In a real conversation, you wouldn’t talk to VIP clients in the same way you would talk to new leads. So why would you send them the same email? Short answer: You shouldn’t. You can use tags and segments to send emails that cater to the specific needs and interests of your subscribers. Tagging is easier — and more important — than you think. Here’s why: The days of one-size-fits-all email marketing are gone. Your audience expects to get interesting emails — with topics they care about. But your subscribers are snowflakes! They don’t all care about exactly the same things. The more your audience likes your emails, the ...
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Marketing Strategy – Avoid Panic or Reactive Marketing
11Dec By Digital MarketerNo Comments
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Marketing Strategy – Avoid Panic or Reactive Marketing

Listen NEW! Listen to article Sign in or sign up to access this feature! In the three-part B2B Panic Marketing Series, MarketingProfs will share some common causes of the all too pervasive problem of B2B panic marketing. We'll also provide some tips and tricks to help marketers refocus on what matters most for their organizat...
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Email Subject Line Best Practices To Get More Opens
8Dec By Kelly ForstNo Comments
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Email Subject Line Best Practices To Get More Opens

By Kelly Forst December 6, 2021 Your subject line can make or break your email opens. Here’s how to write a good one. “Email marketing is still the #1 best way to engage with your audience and convert leads into customers — but if no one is opening your emails, you’ve got a problem.”Alex Cattoni, Founder of The Copy Posse Take it from the expert. Your subject line can single-handedly make or break your entire email campaign. That’s why we put together this list of best practices to help you create attention-grabbing subject lines for your email marketing campaigns. Email subject line best practices Personalize your email subject linesUse segmentationCreate urgency with FOMOAvoid spam triggersBe directAsk questionsOne word subject linesSuper long subject ...
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3 Email Newsletter Best-Practices for Content Performance
7Dec By Digital MarketerNo Comments
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3 Email Newsletter Best-Practices for Content Performance

Listen NEW! Listen to article Sign in or sign up to access this feature! Many companies and brands consistently make useful, informative content... which then merely sits on a website, hidden on a page that takes too many clicks to find. Marketers who want to get more out of their content, including blog posts, need to proper...
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Set Up a Customer Loyalty Program for an Ecommerce Business
4Dec By Nahla DaviesNo Comments
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Set Up a Customer Loyalty Program for an Ecommerce Business

By Nahla Davies November 30, 2021 Learn how to increase your ecommerce sales with a customer loyalty program. Marketplace sites such as Amazon or Etsy can provide a steady income stream for ecommerce entrepreneurs. However, selling on your own website has the potential to generate repeat business from loyal customers and grow your brand.  A customer loyalty program is a great way to earn the repeat business of your customers and build relationships that can develop into brand loyalty and even referrals. Unfortunately, many ecommerce entrepreneurs consistently get it wrong when they attempt this strategy.  There are several different types of customer loyalty initiatives and approaches to designing programs that attract the right kinds of buyers for your brand. We’ll help...
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Great Digital CX Requires Data, Technology, and Collaboration
2Dec By Digital MarketerNo Comments
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Great Digital CX Requires Data, Technology, and Collaboration

Listen NEW! Listen to article Sign in or sign up to access this feature! We're in a time of rapid change for marketing, especially as the pandemic continues to drive a shift in how businesses interact with their customers. As a result of that shift, digital sales are outpacing in-person, so digital marketing is becoming a maj...
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Marketing Week 2021: Get Expert Sales & Marketing Tips
29Nov By Kelsey JohnsonNo Comments
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Marketing Week 2021: Get Expert Sales & Marketing Tips

By Kelsey Johnson November 24, 2021 Get easy and affordable marketing advice during this week-long event, hosted by AWeber from Dec 13 – 17. We’re excited to announce that, in December we’ll be running a week-long free marketing series for business owners, side hustlers, and entrepreneurs. This event is for anyone looking to improve their social media skills, get better email deliverability, create engaging videos, set up Facebook Lead ads and retargeting, and make more sales. Marketing Week encompasses 5 days of webinars and other resources to help you build out a marketing plan for your products or services. We don’t believe that “if you build it, they will come.” Marketing is important for every business — so we’re offering the advice you need, free and easy to a...
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Industries Americans Say Are the Least Trustworthy
27Nov By Digital MarketerNo Comments
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Industries Americans Say Are the Least Trustworthy

Americans view the pharmaceutical industry as the least trustworthy industry, though their opinion of pharma companies has improved somewhat over the last year, according to recent research from the Public Affairs Council. The annual report was based on data from a survey conducted in September 2021 among a national sample of 2,199 adults in the United States. Some 46% of respondents say pharmaceutical companies are less trustworthy compared with other major companies, and only 13% believe they are more trustworthy. Moreover, 40% of respondents believe the pharmaceutical industry has too little regulation and only 22% think it is over-regulated. These 2021 results represent a bit of a bright spot for pharmaceutical companies compared with the 2020 results, when 49% of respondents said the ...
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8 Tips for Efficient B2B Email Marketing Campaigns
24Nov By Elisabeth StrasserNo Comments
Digital Marketing, digital mkt, email list, Email Marketing, email outreach, Internet marketing, Learn, Online Marketing

8 Tips for Efficient B2B Email Marketing Campaigns

By Elisabeth Strasser November 23, 2021 Get the eight tips to help you create efficient B2B email marketing campaigns so your business can grow using email marketing. Did you know, for every $1 spent on email, businesses see an average of $42 return. It’s even higher for B2B, that’s why marketers widely use it to nurture leads.  Like any other marketing technique, B2B email marketing has evolved with changes in the market and technology. To stay relevant and provide valuable content to your target audience that draws them in and entices them to take action, email marketers now use personalization, automation, and various metrics to improve their strategy. We compiled eight tips to help create efficient B2B email marketing campaigns so your business can start to use email...
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How to Use Video in Your ABM Strategy
22Nov By Digital MarketerNo Comments
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How to Use Video in Your ABM Strategy

Listen NEW! Listen to article Sign in or sign up to access this feature! Video is like the multi-bit screwdriver in a tool kit: Its base structure is always the same, but you can change its function by adding various bits, such as a Philips or flathead. Video is so versatile that you can use it at every touchpoint in your acc...
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Does My Business Need a Website? 12 Reasons Why & 5 Reason Why Not
21Nov By dshah@hubspot.com (Dharmesh Shah)No Comments
Digital Marketing, digital mkt, Internet marketing, Online Marketing, Website Development

Does My Business Need a Website? 12 Reasons Why & 5 Reason Why Not

If your business is reasonably successful, you may come up with many reasons why an effective website isn’t all that relevant for you. Sure, you understand the need to have some web presence, but you might not believe that an effective website is going to make that big of a difference for your particular business — especially if you’re already plenty profitable. What do you think? Do you need a website to run a successful business? This article discusses reasons why having a business website is a wise investment and why you sometimes don’t need a website. Does My Business Need a Website? Many business owners ask, “Since I have a small business with a small workforce, and since we don’t sell anything online, do I need a website?” The answer is YES! If you have a business, you should have ...
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8 Amazing Marketing Ideas to Drive Sales this Holiday Season
19Nov By Kelsey JohnsonNo Comments
content ideas, Digital Marketing, digital mkt, ecommerce, email outreach, Internet marketing, Learn, Online Marketing

8 Amazing Marketing Ideas to Drive Sales this Holiday Season

By Kelsey Johnson November 18, 2021 It’s that time: Holiday marketing planning season. For so many businesses, the holiday season is the best time of year for sales. Whether you sell gift-perfect crafts or a business course, December is a time when people are opening their wallets and making purchases.  It’s important to run promotions to encourage your customers to spend at your business. And around the holidays, you can make your marketing really fun! Don’t just send another email telling people to buy your products. Instead, try one of our eight ideas for eye-catching and engaging holiday marketing. 1. Throw a themed party Chances are, your audience, customers, and prospects likely have a lot in common. They may want to meet each other — in person or on ...
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Virtual Event PR Strategy – 4 Ways to Make Events Media-Friendly
18Nov By Digital MarketerNo Comments
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Virtual Event PR Strategy – 4 Ways to Make Events Media-Friendly

Listen NEW! Listen to article Sign in or sign up to access this feature! Most PR and marketing professionals understand this general rule of thumb for events: "Don't mix analysts with customers, press with analysts, or customers with press." But in the realm of virtual events, those rules can differ. The virtual event circuit...
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See Your Email Open Rates Explode With These 6 Simple Tricks
15Nov By Nahla DaviesNo Comments
Digital Marketing, digital mkt, email list, Email Marketing, email outreach, increase opens, Internet marketing, Learn, Online Marketing

See Your Email Open Rates Explode With These 6 Simple Tricks

By Nahla Davies November 10, 2021 Get the 6 simple tricks you need to see your email open rates explode. The holidays are right around the corner, and most businesses are hoping to capitalize on the festivities. Marketing teams have been hard at work analyzing market research and understanding what their buyers are looking for from their brand. What have they discovered? Online spending by Black Friday shoppers is projected to surpass the $14 billion spent last year by 20%.  With this in mind, ecommerce and other online retail businesses have been honing in on their email marketing campaigns so that they can reach their goals for the end of the year.  Many sales and marketing professionals spend hours carefully crafting the perfect email, combining rich content with ...
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Google’s Core Web Vitals – What Marketers Should Know
13Nov By Digital MarketerNo Comments
Digital Marketing, digital mkt, google adwords, Internet marketing, Online Marketing

Google’s Core Web Vitals – What Marketers Should Know

Listen NEW! Listen to article Sign in or sign up to access this feature! If you're in marketing or SEO, you've undoubtedly heard about Google's "new" search ranking metric set called the Core Web Vitals. CWVs aren't new, however: They indicate the latest trend in performance marketing—a user-centric view that considers how si...
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How This Coach Created a Course in 6 Hours with Ecommerce
10Nov By Kelsey JohnsonNo Comments
case study, Digital Marketing, digital mkt, ecommerce, email list, Email Marketing, email outreach, Internet marketing, Online Marketing, Success

How This Coach Created a Course in 6 Hours with Ecommerce

By Kelsey Johnson November 8, 2021 This executive development coach jumped on an opportunity — offer a targeted course to an extremely interested group while the iron was hot. Using AWeber ecommerce, Leela Sinha was able to set up a course payment page in a few hours, and start taking payments for the course ASAP. A Facebook rant turns into a popular thread on gender inclusivity Leela Sinha (pronouns ze/zim/zir) offers leadership training for “Intensives,” a personality type that comes with risk-taking tendencies, innovation, and high intelligence: Intensives often start and lead businesses. Leela is also very knowledgeable about the correct way to have rich, deep, and thoughtful gender-inclusive communication in a workplace. One day Leela posted on Facebook about an ...
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Why Micro-Conversions Matter | MarketingProfs
8Nov By Digital MarketerNo Comments
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Why Micro-Conversions Matter | MarketingProfs

Listen NEW! Listen to article Sign in or sign up to access this feature! Every marketing strategy has a primary goal, whether that goal is to generate new leads, grow an email list, increase sales, or something else. However, prospects rarely go straight from learning about your business to becoming a solid lead or actual cu...
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Your Holiday GIF Guide to Spice Up Your Holiday Emails
5Nov By Kelly ForstNo Comments
Digital Marketing, digital mkt, email list, Email Marketing, email outreach, gifs, Holiday Marketing, Internet marketing, Online Marketing

Your Holiday GIF Guide to Spice Up Your Holiday Emails

By Kelly Forst November 3, 2021 Check out these 26 festive holiday GIFs from AWeber’s design elves. Use them in your holiday email marketing campaigns! We know how expensive it can be to purchase creative, high-quality images or GIFs, and how time consuming they can be to create them by yourself. That’s why the AWeber design elves made holiday GIFs for email — FREE for you to use. Use any of the animated GIFs below for your holiday email marketing campaigns. (GIFs can increase click-through rates, conversions rates, and revenue rates!) Place them in a Black Friday or Cyber Monday email, a holiday newsletter, or a New Year’s sale message to your subscribers. Check out our GIF categories: Christmas GIFs Holiday GIFs ...
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Automated Marketing Processes and the Future of Marketing
3Nov By Digital MarketerNo Comments
Digital Marketing, digital mkt, email list, Email Marketing, email outreach, Internet marketing, Online Marketing

Automated Marketing Processes and the Future of Marketing

Listen NEW! Listen to article Sign in or sign up to access this feature! The automation of digital marketing processes is here to stay. Thanks to mass disruption accelerated by the pandemic, privacy regulations, walled gardens, and technology complexity, only the brands and publishers that dive headfirst into the flexible fut...
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15 Businesses to Admire for Stellar Branding Consistency
2Nov By ttaylor@hubspot.com (Tristen Taylor)No Comments
Brand Experience, Digital Marketing, digital mkt, email list, Email Marketing, email outreach, Internet marketing, Online Marketing

15 Businesses to Admire for Stellar Branding Consistency

When searching for a soul mate, you look for someone that's smart, funny, caring, but above all — consistent. Because if you're going to invest your life in a person, you want someone you can trust, right? Falling in love with a brand isn't all that different. Brands pull us in with witty slogans and timely discounts, but that’s not the only reason we stick around. Think about it, inbound marketing is all about content and communication that people love. The key to being your leads' and customers’ soul mate, then, is providing brand consistency they can count on. But how? What’s at the heart of brand consistency is your message, and marketing plays a huge role in that. In this post, we’ll dive into what branding consistency is, its importance, benefits, and share 15 businesses that have d...
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How to Start an Ecommerce Business
31Oct By Sean TinneyNo Comments
Digital Marketing, digital mkt, ecommerce, email list, Email Marketing, email outreach, Internet marketing, Learn, Online Marketing

How to Start an Ecommerce Business

By Sean Tinney October 29, 2021 Get the 7 easy steps and 5 tools you’ll need to launch a successful, secure, and profitable ecommerce business. Running your own company means having yourself as a boss, a flexible schedule, and creative control. For many entrepreneurs, ecommerce is the right place to start: Online sales means lower overhead, faster startup, and is easier in a lot of ways. But getting an online store set up properly still takes a lot of commitment — whether or not you have a storefront or now. We’ll  make it easier for you with 7 steps and 5 tools you’ll need to launch your ecommerce store. First let’s dive into what it means to have an ecommerce store: What is an ecommerce website? An ecommerce website is a store that sells products and services ...
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6 Tips to Generate Leads With Marketing Content
30Oct By Digital MarketerNo Comments
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6 Tips to Generate Leads With Marketing Content

Listen NEW! Listen to article Sign in or sign up to access this feature! Although there's no magic bullet for increasing lead generation, a few simple and direct marketing fundamentals can help you boost response to your content. By applying those proven tactics to both your content and the material used to promote it, you ca...
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What Is a Direct Response Ad?
28Oct By fneedle@hubspot.com (Flori Needle)No Comments
Digital Marketing, digital mkt, email outreach, Internet marketing, Marketing Strategy, Online Marketing

What Is a Direct Response Ad?

What led you to make your most recent purchase? Were you wishing for something for a while and decided to just go for it? Were you casually browsing a store and saw something you liked? Or were you browsing and an advertisement from a business convinced you that you need to buy it right then and there? (more…)
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The Ultimate Guide to Planning Your Holiday Emails
27Oct By Kelsey JohnsonNo Comments
Digital Marketing, digital mkt, email list, Email Marketing, email outreach, Holiday Marketing, Internet marketing, Online Marketing

The Ultimate Guide to Planning Your Holiday Emails

By Kelsey Johnson October 25, 2021 With supply chain constraints and higher projected sales than ever, now is the time to get your 2021 holiday email marketing campaigns in order. Capture early sales while the hype is high. It’s time to start your holiday email marketing now! Here’s why:  November to January 2021 is projected to see the highest sales to date, totaling up to $1.3 trillion. With limited supplies and long shipping times from overseas, this is the perfect opportunity for local businesses to make more sales. And people are shopping early this year. So if you were thinking of getting those holiday emails out in late November, you could miss out on weeks of easy sales. Furthermore, ecommerce holiday sales are expected to grow 35% compared to 2020, which was ...
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5 Tips for Successful B2B Marketing Campaigns
25Oct By Digital MarketerNo Comments
Digital Marketing, Digital Marketing Agency, digital mkt, email outreach, Internet marketing, Online Marketing

5 Tips for Successful B2B Marketing Campaigns

Listen NEW! Listen to article Sign in or sign up to access this feature! One of the most critical aspects of any successful marketing campaign is knowing your audience. It seems simple, but after initial concept development, multiple iterations of creative, and layers of approvals, it's easy to lose sight of exactly whom you...
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The Value of Mixed Media Modeling and Media Intelligence
20Oct By Digital MarketerNo Comments
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The Value of Mixed Media Modeling and Media Intelligence

Listen NEW! Listen to article Sign in or sign up to access this feature! Driven by a proliferation of digital advertising providers and unprecedented volume of spend, today's digital media spending landscape is changing rapidly. Marketers need to become more savvy and aware of where their money is going—and how exactly it's b...
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200+ Ready-Made Subject Lines for Your Next Holiday Email
17Oct By Kelsey JohnsonNo Comments
Digital Marketing, digital mkt, email list, Email Marketing, email outreach, Holiday Marketing, Internet marketing, Learn, Online Marketing, subject line

200+ Ready-Made Subject Lines for Your Next Holiday Email

By Kelsey Johnson October 13, 2021 🎃🦃💰🎄 ‘Tis the season to optimize your email subject lines. Get some tips plus 100s of ideas for the upcoming holidays. It’s that time again — Halloween, Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Christmas… Marketing your business around the holidays is non-negotiable — and can be particularly effective with the right email subject line.  Every holiday is an excuse to run a promotional deal, launch and sell new products, and check in with your customers. People are expecting to hear from your business — so you better jump on it! Effective holiday emails aren’t one-size-fits-all. The success of your email is directly related to the holiday, your customers, and what you sell. A costume company will have a lot more success...
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CTV – A New Channel for B2B Advertising
15Oct By Digital MarketerNo Comments
Digital Marketing, digital mkt, email outreach, Internet marketing, Online Marketing

CTV – A New Channel for B2B Advertising

Listen NEW! Listen to article Sign in or sign up to access this feature! Scale has always been an important factor for B2B advertisers. Whenever a new channel or targeting technique emerges that B2C advertisers are warming up to, B2B advertisers—particularly those that are resistant to change—can usually assume that their nic...
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How to Tell Google Not to Index a Page in Search
14Oct By lkolowich@hubspot.com (Lindsay Kolowich Cox)No Comments
Digital Marketing, digital mkt, Internet marketing, Online Marketing, Technical SEO

How to Tell Google Not to Index a Page in Search

Indexing as many pages on your website as possible can be very tempting for marketers who are trying to boost their search engine authority. But, while it’s true that publishing more pages that are relevant for a particular keyword (assuming they’re also high quality) will improve your ranking for that keyword, sometimes there’s actually more value in keeping certain pages on your website out of a search engine’s index. ... Say what?! Stay with us, folks. This post will walk you through why you might want to remove certain webpages from the SERPs (search engine results pages), and exactly how to go about doing it. De-Indexing a Page from Google There are a few occasions where you may want to exclude a webpage — or a portion of a webpage — from search engine crawling and indexing like: T...
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Everything You Need to Know About Emojis in Your Subject Line
12Oct By Sean TinneyNo Comments
Digital Marketing, digital mkt, email outreach, Internet marketing, Learn, Online Marketing, subject line

Everything You Need to Know About Emojis in Your Subject Line

By Sean Tinney October 12, 2021 Should you be using emojis in your subject line? How can you tell? Get the answers to these questions along with best practices for using emojis in subject lines. Emojis are such a common part of our digital lives, that it’s hard to believe there was a day when I used to have to say I’m happy, sad, or angry — with words 😳.  Today, it’s commonplace in text and social media to simply give a thumbs up 👍 and people understand what I’m saying. But what’s the impact of using emojis in the subject line of an email? I see it everyday — more and more businesses are using emojis. Just look at these examples from my inbox on Tuesday. So let’s take a deeper dive into the world of emojis in subject lines. Should you use em...
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Website Conversion Trends and Testing Tactics
11Oct By Digital MarketerNo Comments
Digital Marketing, digital mkt, email list, Email Marketing, email outreach, Internet marketing, Online Marketing

Website Conversion Trends and Testing Tactics

Listen NEW! Listen to article Sign in or sign up to access this feature! A massive shift to online interactions across all industries has taken place globally. That, in turn, has affected user behavior and activity, so businesses have had to change their strategy to respond to increased traffic and meet the new demands of use...
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The 8 Most Effective Words to Use in Email
8Oct By Liz WillitsNo Comments
Digital Marketing, digital mkt, email content, email list, Email Marketing, email outreach, email writing, Internet marketing, Online Marketing

The 8 Most Effective Words to Use in Email

By Liz Willits October 7, 2021 These everyday words can have a huge impact on your email engagement. (Spoiler: We just used one of them.) There’s a simple way to transform your email copy from passable to powerful — choose the right words. Effective words will inspire your subscribers to open, click, and buy. Choosing the wrong words in your next email, on the other hand,  could damage your email engagement and even annoy or insult your audience. By learning a few key tips, you can avoid these common mistakes and write emails your subscribers will love. In this article we’ll talk about: 8 Power Words for effective emails These 8 everyday words can have a huge impact on your email engagement. (Spoiler: We just used one of them.) You might be surprised. Some o...
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Salary Forecasts for Marketing, Content, and PR
6Oct By Digital MarketerNo Comments
Digital Marketing, digital mkt, Internet marketing, Online Marketing

Salary Forecasts for Marketing, Content, and PR

The median starting salary for a corporate chief marketing officer in the United States is expected to be $170,000 in 2022, according to recent research from Robert Half. The report was based on data from staffing and recruiting professionals who make thousands of full-time, temporary, and project placements at brands and agencies each year. The researchers determined projected 2022 salary ranges for marketing, advertising, and public relations positions in the United States based on starting pay only; bonuses, incentives, and other forms of compensation were not taken into account. The projections were broken down into three percentiles: 25th (new to the type of role, still acquiring relevant skills), 50th/median (average experience, has most of the necessary skills), 75th (above-average ...
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Apple iOS 15 Mail Privacy Protection Open Rate Trends
3Oct By Tom KulzerNo Comments
Deliverability, Digital Marketing, digital mkt, Email Deliverability, email outreach, email statistics, increase opens, Internet marketing, Online Marketing

Apple iOS 15 Mail Privacy Protection Open Rate Trends

By Tom Kulzer October 1, 2021 Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection (MPP) rollout in iOS 15 has Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection (MPP) rollout in iOS 15 has caused fascinating changes in open rate metrics. The most interesting of which is the change in behavior of when we see opens being detected. Let’s dive into a few charts using data from hundreds of millions of delivered messages. Apple Mail opens by a percentage of total mail sent Below you’ll see the raw volume trends of user opens as Apple iOS 15 is adopted on an hourly basis. Raw opens by hour as Apple iOS 15 is adopted. More Night Time Readers? Look closely and you’ll see the peaks and valleys are different on older iOS versions vs. Apple’s new MPP proxy in iOS 15. Putting proxied iOS 15 tr...
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AI-Driven Predictive Analytics in B2B
1Oct By Digital MarketerNo Comments
Digital Marketing, digital mkt, Internet marketing, Online Marketing

AI-Driven Predictive Analytics in B2B

In Part 1 of this two-part series, we talked about how mission-critical intelligence is often right under our noses but we don't know how to find it. We went through the types of signals contained in such intent data, and how B2B sellers and marketers can work to collect them. But like the Allied codebreakers in World War II, we understand that collecting those signals is only the first step. To actually do anything with them, we need to decode them. In World War II, the critical break came in the form of technology—the Colossus computer. And in B2B, it's technology to the rescue again. B2B's Colossus: Decoding Intent Intent data without predictive analytics is like those mountains of signals the Allied forces gathered but couldn't understand without a computer to decode them—to convert th...
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The Ultimate Guide to Brand Awareness
30Sep By adecker@hubspot.com (Allie Decker)No Comments
Brand Awareness, Digital Marketing, digital mkt, Internet marketing, Online Marketing, PPC

The Ultimate Guide to Brand Awareness

Have you ever heard people refer to themselves as “Apple people,” “Nike people,” or “Trader Joe’s” people? This is what brand awareness can do for a brand: embed itself into consumer lifestyles and purchase habits so that they don’t have to think twice before becoming a customer — time and time again. (more…)
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How to Monetize Your Blog: A Comprehensive Guide
28Sep By Sean TinneyNo Comments
Blogging, Digital Marketing, digital mkt, ecommerce, email outreach, Internet marketing, Learn, Online Marketing

How to Monetize Your Blog: A Comprehensive Guide

By Sean Tinney September 27, 2021 Earning money as a blogger is a very realistic option. Learn how to set yourself up for success and the different ways you can be earning a living as a blogger. These days, the opportunities for making money online are seemingly endless. One of the most tried-and-true methods for generating an online income, however, is that of monetizing your blog. Whether you’re looking to earn a healthy side income or could see yourself blogging for a living, there are plenty of opportunities worth exploring. So, just how much money can you make as a blogger—and how do you make money blogging, anyway? This comprehensive guide will explain: How Much Money Can Bloggers Make? The amount of money you can bring in with a blog will vary greatly...
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Intent Data Signals in B2B
26Sep By Digital MarketerNo Comments
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Intent Data Signals in B2B

Sometimes the information we need to make the best decisions is hidden in plain sight. But without the ability to first gather that information, and then to decipher it, it's useless to us. That was true during World War II, when the top-secret German information that the Allied Forces needed to prevent imminent attacks was being transmitted across the airwaves. With teams of people intercepting those messages and tipsters providing additional signals, Allied forces had no shortage of valuable data at their fingertips. The problem was that Germany had encrypted its signals with a seemingly unbreakable code, dubbed Enigma, making it unintelligible and unusable to anyone who didn't have the key to decode it. So, even though the Allies were able to amass mountains of signals and information, ...
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How to Repurpose Email Content for Social Media
23Sep By Ovi NegreanNo Comments
Digital Marketing, digital mkt, email list, Email Marketing, email outreach, Internet marketing, Learn, Online Marketing, social media

How to Repurpose Email Content for Social Media

By Ovi Negrean September 21, 2021 Don’t do the same work twice — supercharge your social media strategy with your email content, while also growing your list in the process. When creating daily content, regularly coming up with new ideas and implementing them on every marketing channel can become hard at times.  But there’s good news: most people prefer to hear from you on one channel only. That means you can repurpose content, and get a big bang for your content buck.   Let’s take email and social media for example. If you’re an advocate who has build a large email list, you may also find yourself considering social media. But does that leave you wondering how much time it’ll take to create new content?  In this blog post, we’ll cover repurposing content: Why yo...
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Web Developer Uses AWeber + Thrive To Increase Clients
19Sep By Kelsey JohnsonNo Comments
Digital Marketing, Digital Marketing Agency, digital mkt, Email Marketing, email outreach, Internet marketing, Online Marketing, Success

Web Developer Uses AWeber + Thrive To Increase Clients

By Kelsey Johnson September 16, 2021 Learn how to collect leads, follow-up, and make a sale like Mark Brinker, who gets more business with AWeber and Thrive Suite. Mark operates a successful web design & digital marketing agency in the Detroit area. He built his first website in 1999 and he’s used digital marketing strategies to generate business for himself and his clients ever since. For Mark, his success is based largely on math. Make an educated guess. Take action. Test, tweak, optimize, and automate. Do more of what works and eliminate what doesn’t. Rinse and repeat. Two tools at the center of Mark’s lead generation process are AWeber (since 2008) and Thrive Suite (since 2015). Want to know Mark’s process? Here’s what he does, beginning to end. Step 1...
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2021 YouTube Ad Specs
15Sep By Rebecca RiserbatoNo Comments
Digital Marketing, digital mkt, Internet marketing, Online Marketing, Youtube Advertising

2021 YouTube Ad Specs

Did you know that over 500 hours of content is uploaded to YouTube every minute, and the platform has more than 2 billion users? I don't know if it's just me, but I didn't know YouTube had that much content published every day. Since many businesses use YouTube as a marketing tool for their campaigns, it's important to stay up to date on the ad specifications. In this post, we'll give a quick overview of the ad formats and ad requirements for YouTube. YouTube Ad Specs YouTube Display Ad Specs Display ads appear to the top right of a video, right above the video suggestions. Specs: 300 x 250 px for the larger view 300 x 60 px for the smaller view Recommended video dimensions are: 426 x 240 (240p), 640 x 360 (360p), 854 x 480 (480p),1280 x 720 (720p), 1920 x 1080 (1080p), 2560 x 1440 (144...
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Create Your Own Email Template to Use Over and Over Again
14Sep By Jeni McGuiganNo Comments
Digital Marketing, digital mkt, email design, email outreach, email templates, Internet marketing, Learn, Online Marketing

Create Your Own Email Template to Use Over and Over Again

By Jeni McGuigan September 13, 2021 With the right tools — and a dash of creativity — you can create an email template that makes sending email quick and easy. Sometimes, simply getting started is the hardest part. Especially when you don’t feel like you have the skills or creativity needed to design a beautiful email — it’s often pushed off to the last minute or you end up sending out text based emails.  Email templates can help you get started quickly and easily — while creating a brand consistency across your marketing that your readers identify instantly.  Why should you use an email template? There are a number of reasons to use an email template, but here are the top concerns that email templates help you address.  Consistency Email templates provide...
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Compelling Brand Storytelling for Marketers
7Sep By Digital MarketerNo Comments
Digital Marketing, digital mkt, Internet marketing, Online Marketing

Compelling Brand Storytelling for Marketers

In recent years, it's become fashionable for marketers to describe themselves as "storytellers" for their brand. But many brand narratives are deadly dull. That's because they lack the one element that every good writer uses: conflict. Every great story, whether a novel, play, film, or TV series, is based on a dramatic conflict—a protagonist's struggle to get what he or she wants in the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles. That tension is what gets us interested and keeps us hooked: We want to know whether our hero will succeed or fail. Without that element of jeopardy, a story can be flat, predictable, boring. Sadly, much of branded content and brand storytelling is all of those things. The characters and setting are nice, lest they reflect badly on the organization. Wonderful thin...
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Your Guide to Creating a Successful Email Marketing Campaign
4Sep By Kelly ForstNo Comments
best practices, Digital Marketing, digital mkt, email automation, email list, Email Marketing, email outreach, Internet marketing, Learn, Online Marketing

Your Guide to Creating a Successful Email Marketing Campaign

By Kelly Forst September 2, 2021 Want a successful email marketing campaign? Then you need to do more than send random emails to your audience. Did you know people send 306 billion emails each day? That number will likely hit 361 billion by 2024. It may seem like a saturated field, but marketers report that email marketing is their leading method for acquisition and retention. Email marketing is a powerful tool when used correctly. But, if you don’t follow email campaign best practices, it is easy to get lost in the shuffle of emails people receive every day. Your goal should be to stand out in an inbox full of offers and provoke a response from your audience. What is an email marketing campaign? An email marketing campaign is a series of time-bound emails th...
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The Marketing Service Chain – How to Improve Customer Experience
3Sep By Digital MarketerNo Comments
Digital Marketing, digital mkt, Internet marketing, Online Marketing

The Marketing Service Chain – How to Improve Customer Experience

Listen NEW! Listen to article Sign in or sign up to access this feature! A brand is made up of many elements: strategy, target market, customers, advertising, marketing, innovation, and many more. However, one element seems to get left behind: the staff. The employees. The back-end operations that support the brand. The dedic...
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How to Improve Organizational Skills at Work
1Sep By Rebecca RiserbatoNo Comments
Digital Marketing, digital mkt, Internet marketing, leadership, Online Marketing

How to Improve Organizational Skills at Work

When you're working at a new job or trying to get a promotion, you need to be organized. While you might list organizational skills on your resume, putting that skill into action is a little harder. Having organizational skills means that you can meet deadlines and be efficient in your workflow management. In fact, organizational skills can be synonymous with energy and time management in most cases. All of these skills are very important in the workplace and potential employers want to make sure you can stay on top of things. In this post, we'll dive deep into what organizational skills are, specific examples of what they look like in action, and how to develop organizational skills in the workplace. What are organizational skills? Organizational skills ...
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Buy and Connect a Custom Domain for Your Landing Page
31Aug By Kelsey JohnsonNo Comments
Digital Marketing, digital mkt, email outreach, Internet marketing, New Features, Online Marketing, Updates

Buy and Connect a Custom Domain for Your Landing Page

By Kelsey Johnson August 30, 2021 A custom domain makes your landing pages professional. Buy one now from your AWeber account. Setting up a landing page is one of the fastest ways to create a web presence. All you have to do is pick a pre-designed template, then add your logo, business details, and contact information. Click publish and your page is live! But the URL of your page will look like this: https://yourname.aweb.page/p/4a6e75a4-cb74-4202… It’s not the most shareable or professional link to use for your business. But there’s good news: You can now buy a custom domain — like examplebusiness.com — directly from your AWeber dashboard! Then, the domain will be immediately available for you to use on one or all of your landing pages. Do you already own ...
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3 Ways to Build Long-Term Relationships With Your Customers
29Aug By Digital MarketerNo Comments
Digital Marketing, digital mkt, email list, Email Marketing, email outreach, Internet marketing, Online Marketing

3 Ways to Build Long-Term Relationships With Your Customers

Listen NEW! Listen to article Sign in or sign up to access this feature! For B2B enterprises, producing a great product or reliable service is not enough to succeed. Beyond the transactional experience, customers are looking for an emotional connection, an educational journey, or a unique memory. And now that over three quart...
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The Ultimate Guide to Service-Level Agreements (SLAs)
27Aug By elliemirman@gmail.com (Ellie Mirman)No Comments
Digital Marketing, digital mkt, email outreach, Internet marketing, Marketing Alignment with Sales, Online Marketing

The Ultimate Guide to Service-Level Agreements (SLAs)

60% of global respondents in a LinkedIn survey believed that misalignment between sales and marketing could damage financial performance (LinkedIn 2020), yet there are a number of disconnects between the teams from strategy to process. At many companies, it can feel as if there are 100 miles between sales and marketing. (more…)
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Accept Payments in 100+ Currencies with AWeber Ecommerce
26Aug By Kelsey JohnsonNo Comments
Digital Marketing, digital mkt, Internet marketing, New Features, Online Marketing, Updates

Accept Payments in 100+ Currencies with AWeber Ecommerce

By Kelsey Johnson August 25, 2021 We’re constantly looking for ways to make it easier for you to achieve your sales goals. At AWeber, we’re proud to be an international company helping customers connect with their audiences around the world. So we’re excited to announce that you can now accept payments on your landing pages in over 100 currencies. Why did we add 100+ currencies? This is one of the most requested features since we launched our ecommerce landing page builder earlier this year. We are so glad we can now offer full payment options to business owners around the globe. Dealing with conversion rates can result in lost money and time. With 100+ currencies now available, businesses outside of the United States can save time spent with less conversion math...
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How to Get Started With Email Automation
21Aug By Kelly ForstNo Comments
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How to Get Started With Email Automation

By Kelly Forst August 20, 2021 Here’s everything you need to get started with email automation: from tools to workflows to content tips. Email automation: everybody’s doing it. Ninety-one percent of marketers say automation is critical to their success. Companies using automation see 53 percent higher conversion rates than those not using automation. Seventy-eight percent of marketers say that automation makes them money. I haven’t even mentioned all of the time-saving, trust-building, subscriber-educating benefits, but I think you get the point. Email automation gets results. So why haven’t you tried it yet? Maybe you thought that automation was for bigger, more established businesses. Maybe you think you don’t have the time. Or maybe you just have no idea ho...
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18 Ways to Rock at Virtual Events Engagement
19Aug By Digital MarketerNo Comments
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18 Ways to Rock at Virtual Events Engagement

Listen NEW! Listen to article Sign in or sign up to access this feature! These are the top four questions marketers ask me about virtual events: Why are some so engaging whereas others fall flat?How do you improve virtual networking?Will digital models be relevant when in-person meetings come back?How do you monetize online e...
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A Beginner’s Guide to Generating Business Leads the Inbound Way
18Aug By lkolowich@hubspot.com (Lindsay Kolowich Cox)No Comments
Digital Marketing, digital mkt, email outreach, Internet marketing, Lead Generation, Online Marketing, PPC

A Beginner’s Guide to Generating Business Leads the Inbound Way

Let’s set the stage: I’m about to dig into the best darn pile of spaghetti and meatballs I’ve ever seen. Just as I twist my fork in the pasta, spear a mouth-watering meatball, and go in for my first savory bite...the phone rings. "May I speak to Lindsay Kow-low-witch?" asks the telemarketer on the other end. "This is an important message regarding your oven preferences." This frustrating interruption is why we’re here to discuss inbound lead generation — a solution that can save your business or organization from being that annoying, disruptive cold caller that is ruined by spaghetti night. (more…)
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10 Free Email Marketing Tools for Success and Time-Savings
16Aug By Kelsey JohnsonNo Comments
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10 Free Email Marketing Tools for Success and Time-Savings

By Kelsey Johnson August 13, 2021 Anyone who sends emails can benefit from these free tools that will level-up your marketing. There’s a lot that goes into creating a good email marketing campaign. You need an engaged audience, a message that resonates with them, and a beautiful design to back it up.  Plus, it’s important to get the result you want — whether it’s better open rates, selling products or creating positive brand sentiment. Well, good news! It’s easier and cheaper than ever to create good design, messaging, and tracking for your audience — with this arsenal of free tools. When you wrote your first email, did you think it would require so many skill sets? Creating catchy headlines and beautiful images isn’t as easy as it seems. Here’s what your ...
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A Cross-Discipline Approach to B2B Social Media Strategy
15Aug By Digital MarketerNo Comments
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A Cross-Discipline Approach to B2B Social Media Strategy

Listen NEW! Listen to article Sign in or sign up to access this feature! Social media is now a mature practice integral to the success of virtually every B2B organization. But, although other key marketing communication disciplines have clear "owners"—advertising is responsible for "paid," public relations for "earned," and m...
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9 Best Practices for Writing Emails
11Aug By Kelly ForstNo Comments
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9 Best Practices for Writing Emails

By Kelly Forst August 10, 2021 Want to get noticed (and not ignored)? Then you need to follow these 9 best practices for writing emails. Email is one of the best tools you have for convincing and converting your leads. But, if you aren’t following best practices for writing emails, you can quickly find your content is considered spam and largely ignored. Think about your own inbox. How many emails are you giving a second glance because of a creative subject line?How many unsolicited brand emails are you opening?What is driving you to open them? More than likely, it all comes down to the value you think you will get from them. The average click-to-open rate for emails in the US is 15.71%. You can get people interested in your copy by following these tips...
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Track the Right Metrics With Holistic Analytics
10Aug By Digital MarketerNo Comments
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Track the Right Metrics With Holistic Analytics

Are people around you constantly extolling the benefits of metrics and analytics? Web analytics, digital analytics, social media analytics, the list goes on. Yes, we get it. Metrics and ROI are important. But, are you feeling overwhelmed? Are you unsure about where to start, or which metrics to analyze in relation to your specific business context? The problem lies in the misconception that analytics begins with metrics. In reality, analytics should start with a systemic or holistic examination of, first, the organizational situation (problem) that precipitated the need for analytics, and, second, your own subjective role within the analytics process. To learn about how to do so, especially in the context of social media, please read on. Analytics Are Subjective, Not Objec...
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Top 10 Benefits of Email Marketing
7Aug By Kelly ForstNo Comments
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Top 10 Benefits of Email Marketing

By Kelly Forst August 6, 2021 Explore some key benefits of email marketing and consider how these could elevate your next marketing campaign. Looking to accomplish more with your marketing budget? It may be time to throw an email marketing campaign into the mix. Email marketing has tons of benefits and offers an impressive return on investment (ROI) while being quick and easy to deploy—even if you don’t have a lot of experience. Still not convinced? Explore some key benefits of email marketing and consider how these could elevate your next marketing campaign. 1. Build relationships with customers Your existing email list presents an amazing opportunity to build relationships with people who are already interested in your business. After all, these subscribers...
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5 B2B Video Marketing Tips to Boost Sales
5Aug By Digital MarketerNo Comments
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5 B2B Video Marketing Tips to Boost Sales

Analysts and researchers have been saying it for years: Video is the future of B2B content marketing. And in 2021, that projection still holds up. Marketers across all segments are realizing the potential of video. A substantial 71% of B2B marketers use video in their content strategies, 2020 research from MarketingProfs and Content Marketing Institute found. That number can only be expected to rise as businesses and their customers migrate toward video as their preferred form of content for entertainment and information alike. Benefits of B2B Video Marketing Video is quickly becoming B2B marketers' content of choice for plenty of reasons. A recent study by Wyzowl found that video has a vast range of benefits in 2021: Above-average ROISignificantly higher engagement rate than that of other...
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20 of the Best Product Page Design Examples We’ve Ever Seen
4Aug By lkolowich@hubspot.com (Lindsay Kolowich Cox)No Comments
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20 of the Best Product Page Design Examples We’ve Ever Seen

If you compare how product pages take shape across different companies, it's clear they run the gamut. Some go for the direct approach, displaying an image of a product and explaining why someone should buy it. Other companies create elaborate pages with moving parts and fancy, interactive elements. (more…)
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New Features Help You Sell and Upsell Easily
2Aug By Kelsey JohnsonNo Comments
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New Features Help You Sell and Upsell Easily

By Kelsey Johnson July 30, 2021 Our newest features help you make money and save time with just a couple clicks. You made a sale! That’s amazing. It’s time to sit back and congratulate yourself, right? Well, you could do that. Or, you could use the opportunity to further engage your new customer — upsell products, ask for a review, send your newsletter, etc. Now in AWeber ecommerce you can do just that — by redirecting every buyer after purchase. Plus, connect your domain in seconds, copy our new recurring payments template, archive used tags and more. These feature updates are dedicated to making your life easier and streamlining your sales and marketing. Redirect buyers to premium content or an upsell thank-you page I’m going to make an obvious statement:...
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Building Your Email Newsletter Strategy
31Jul By Digital MarketerNo Comments
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Building Your Email Newsletter Strategy

The competition for awareness is at an all-time high. From social media to television to our inboxes, we're constantly barraged with bids for our attention. The days of sitting down to read the newspaper are long gone. People are now more likely to consume relevant content if it's delivered somewhere they're already spending time—like their email inboxes. And that's showing in the marketplace: A new email newsletter seems to pop up every 15 minutes, and new tools have empowered their creators to reach readers faster and more efficiently than ever. So it's no surprise many marketers are jumping at the opportunity to grow their email audiences, either as a core strategy of the business or just to re-engage their customers. To remind newcomers and incumbents alike in the newsletter space: An ...
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A Short & Sweet Guide
30Jul By cchi@hubspot.com (Clifford Chi)No Comments
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A Short & Sweet Guide

If your website is like a house, then your website’s URL is like that house’s address. It defines where your website lives online, similar to how your home address determines where you live in a neighborhood, helping your visitors easily find your site. URLs also help Google understand what your website's pages are about. (more…)
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Not Sure When to Send Emails? The Answer is Simpler Than You Think
28Jul By Kelly ForstNo Comments
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Not Sure When to Send Emails? The Answer is Simpler Than You Think

By Kelly Forst July 27, 2021 Discover the best time to send emails to your subscribers. Use this knowledge to boost open rates and drive results. You may have heard it a million times before. But it’s true: There’s no one best time to send email. That’s because at its core, email is communication. And communication requires two parts: the sender and receiver. And every email has a unique group of receivers. Every audience is different. Plus, if the receiver isn’t in the right frame of mind to process your message, you might as well be talking to yourself. Like any form of communication, your emails are going to have more of an impact if you use timing to your advantage.   In this post, we’ll take a closer look at how email send times can impact your overall e...
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Content Repurposing – Here’s How to Do It
27Jul By Digital MarketerNo Comments
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Content Repurposing – Here’s How to Do It

Content repurposing is like insurance. Call it "marketing insurance," if you want. It's there to pick up the slack on the days or weeks when you just don't have the time to create marketing collateral and other content. Content repurposing is taking a piece of marketing content and turning it into something else—for example, taking an article you published in a trade magazine and turning into a series of blog posts for your company website. Simple, right? Why repurpose content? Two reasons. First, it saves you time because you won't always be scrambling to create content from scratch. Second, repurposing content helps you promote and amplify that piece of content further. It gives your content more mileage because you're using different forms to get it in front of more people. ...
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