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CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Search | ELEMENT: Analyze

Often, marketers stop short of asking the really important questions about SEO. We focus on things like keyword rankings and backlinks—not how those impact overall marketing or business goals. Obviously, measurement is important; but there is no one-size-fits-all approach to determining what metrics matter. So... what's to be done?

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Marketing Strategy | ELEMENT: Plan

An accurate customer journey map can help optimize your marketing strategy, create smarter campaign objectives, and better attribute conversions. See how to create and refine a customer journey map.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Writing | ELEMENT: Create

Creating content that engages readers isn't easy, especially today. In our haste to create fresh, useful content, we make mistakes. But our audiences don't want to waste time on substandard writing. Avoid these nine common writing and content mistakes.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Email | ELEMENT: Management

Especially in the age of GDPR, email preference centers make perfect sense: Customers get control over what communications they receive, and marketers get to send better, more targeted communications. Here's how to build and use a modern email preference center.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Content | ELEMENT: Communicate

Delivering personalized content at scale requires a strategic effort that applies to various marketing strategies: inbound, demand generation, account-based marketing, and sales enablement. Here are some best-practices for delivering personalized content for each of those four strategies.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Social Media | ELEMENT: Strategy

Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook are the most popular social media platforms, but brands need to be aware of emerging platforms if they don't want to risk missing lucrative opportunities. Here are key market trends in social media engagement and ways emerging platforms are addressing those trends.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Management | ELEMENT: Management

More and more marketing departments are moving from just being curious about Agile to actually implementing Agile practices. But many have the wrong idea about what Agile is and what it can or cannot do, so let's debunk some of the most common myths about Agile.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Content | ELEMENT: Create

In far too many businesses, marketing and sales teams maintain radio silence between each other, even though each has plenty to offer the other—especially regarding content. If only they could team-up, their collaboration would mean less wheel-spinning and more success for both.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Marketing Technology | ELEMENT: Strategy

How can marketers and advertisers gain the benefits of artificial intelligence and machine-learning while avoiding the pitfalls? By finding the right balance between the explore vs. exploit dynamic. Find out what that means.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Mobile | ELEMENT: Communicate

Marketers struggle mightily to take advantage of the huge opportunity that is mobile advertising. That's because we must first understand how receptive consumers are to certain types of messaging at various moments during the day. These insights will help.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Email | ELEMENT: Management

The emails you spend so much time strategizing, crafting, and scheduling aren't worth much if they don't actually reach your target audience. Email deliverability is essential, yet many marketers don't pay much attention to it. Here's why you should remedy that.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Demand Generation | ELEMENT: Create

B2B companies tend not to believe social strategies will work for them. Instead, they often use social platforms as real-time broadcast channels for announcements or updates. But, done correctly, social can drive B2B lead generation—and conversions.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Content | ELEMENT: Strategy

Content marketing helps shape your company's place in the marketplace. The key to creating content that drives website visits, improves conversion, and creates brand lift is understanding what your audience needs and how you can best provide it. Make sure your content marketing can compete.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Demand Generation | ELEMENT: Strategy

Some niche businesses think a small social presence and a semi-decent website are enough to engage customers in the age of digital marketing. Not even close, of course... So, what do successful customer engagements look like in the age of digital transformation?

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Marketing Strategy | ELEMENT: Plan

These days, finding data about consumer behavior is so easy, our instinct is to pile up a mountain of it so we get a better view of customer preferences, behaviors, and experiences. That sky-high view empowers us to see a vast landscape, but it leaves us blind to what actually shapes behavior: consumer feelings.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Marketing Strategy | ELEMENT: Plan

This list of marketing thought leaders is designed to be a place where you can find some of the best and brightest minds on most marketing topics. Who's on this list? 100+ genuine marketing thought leaders spanning a wide range of marketing disciplines.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Social Media | ELEMENT: Create

Social media marketing is more than just posting stuff and waiting for miracles to happen. Organic social media reach is all but dead. That's the reality we have to deal with. Here's how you can conquer that reality in seven steps.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Branding | ELEMENT: Strategy

Companies aren't living, breathing things, so they must communicate their personality and identity—their brand—through design elements. Which is why design and branding are inseparable. See how that process works, along with a couple of good examples.