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15 of the Best Account-based Marketing Software for 2023
Are you in the market for your new account-based marketing (ABM) software? If so, then you’ve come to the right place. Account-based marketing means catering your message to the top decision-makers for target accounts with a blend of marketing of sales tactics — it’s a strategy that targets companies, rather than individual customers. As HubSpot’s Senior Manager (Accelerated Leadership Program), Ryan Batter states, “The beauty of using an ABM strategy is that it’s customizable to a team’s readiness and budget. Look for a CRM that enables strong integrations to ABM-specific tools to customize your strategy.” With that in mind, let’s […]
The Simple Guide to Creating an HTML Email [+ Free Templates]
When you create an email using a drag-and-drop or module-based tool, you’re actually generating an HTML email. There are two main types of email you can send and receive: plain text emails (these are exactly what they sound like — any email that contains just plain old text with no formatting) and HTML emails, which are formatted and styled using HTML and inline CSS. HTML emails are easy to spot — most of the styled, multimedia marketing emails in your inbox are HTML emails. As a marketer, you’ve probably compared HTML emails versus plain-text emails and realized that there are […]
How to A/B Test Your Pricing (And Why It Might Be a Bad Idea)
A/B testing the pricing for your product is a little bit like Goldilocks. Too high, and you could alienate the majority of your potential customers. Too low, and you won’t have enough revenue to sustain your business. So how do you get it just right? That‘s what we’re going to explore in this post. We’ll give you the ins and outs of A/B testing your pricing, plus some alternatives to A/B testing your pricing strategy. Product pricing is undeniably one of the most important decisions for your company. Your price can determine how consumers see you in the marketplace— as […]
Maximize Your Impact: 205 Action Verbs to Use on Your Resume
So you’re working on your resume. Maybe you haven’t submitted your updated resume anywhere yet, or maybe you have, and it doesn’t seem to get anyone’s attention. Either way, you might be missing one of the most important elements of any resume: Action verbs. If you’re unfamiliar with action verbs, you might wonder how they’re different from those on your resume. If that’s the case, this article has some critical information you don’t want to miss. The best part? Even if your resume is 100% complete right now, adding action verbs is as simple as replacing existing verbs with them. […]
How to Create Gantt Charts in Excel
Microsoft Excel remains the go-to option for many businesses to perform data calculations and create charts based on the results. The Gantt chart is a useful guide that isn’t naturally available in Excel. Great for project management and milestone tracking, Gantt charts can help companies better visualize operations and streamline current processes. In this piece, we’ll dive into the basics of Gantt charts and explore their benefits, then provide a step-by-step guide to creating them in Excel, along with some useful examples. Before long, you’ll be able to use Excel like a pro. What are Gantt charts? The Benefits of […]
Inside Podcasting’s Profitability Dilemma
Among listeners, podcasts are more popular than ever. But from a business standpoint, the industry has lost its way. The golden age of podcasting spanned from 2015 to 2022. During this time, shows like Serial popularized the medium, and the COVID-19 pandemic led to a boom in podcast production and engagement. Media companies began putting a lot of money into the medium. For example: Spotify invested over $1 billion into podcasting, acquiring Anchor and Gimlet, and inking multimillion-dollar partnerships with public figures including the Obamas, Joe Rogan, and Meghan Markle. Amazon purchased Wondery, incorporating content from the podcast network into […]
Twitter’s Brand Equity: 17 Years & 12 Million Keywords
On July 24, Elon Musk made the surprise announcement that Twitter would be rebranding as ‘X’, with a new logo and brand identity arriving quickly after that announcement. Shortly after, X.com started redirecting (302) to Twitter.com. Any experienced SEO knows how perilous a major site migration can be, and Twitter.com has been accumulating authority for 17 years. Here are a couple of stats from Moz’s Domain Overview tool: Those are numbers most sites could only envy, with nearly 12M ranking keywords on Google.com alone. Over time, X.com could recover many or most of the non-branded rankings, but what about the […]
The HubSpot Blog’s 2023 Social Media Marketing Report: Data from 1200+ Global Marketers
Let’s face it – social media marketing in 2023 is harder than ever. Making good content isn’t even half the battle for brands today. Marketers also need to share it across a bunch of different apps and tweak it to fit the aesthetic and tone of each platform. With social media and the marketers who use it moving at the speed of light, keeping up with new platforms, trends, and algorithm updates isn’t easy. To help you stay ahead of the game, we asked 1,283 social media marketers around the globe about the biggest trends they’re seeing, their goals, challenges, […]
Gated Content: What Marketers Need to Know [+Examples]
As William Shakespeare once wrote, “To be or not to be, that is the question.” Marketers have a similar classic debate: gated versus ungated content. While 80% of B2B content marketing assets are gated and lead generation is one of the top objectives for marketers, it’s not an open and shut case. That’s why we’ve gathered everything you need to know about gated content in this post. Here, we’ll explore what gated content is and how it compares to ungated content. Then, we’ll dive into gated content best practices and look at some examples. Table of Contents What is Gated […]
Research Finds Customer Loyalty Isn’t What It Used to Be [2023 Data]
It’s a reality we can’t ignore: Customers are increasingly exploring different brands and shopping options. Product unavailability and depleted inventory shelve coupled with rising prices have made even the most loyal customers inclined to venture beyond their go-to brands. Does that mean brand loyalty is dead? Our new research report at 84.51°, “The loyalty shift decoded,” finds that’s not the case. What is happening is a shift in what it means to customers. Our research has uncovered insights into customers’ changing priorities and preferences to help brands understand the role different factors play in customers’ purchase decisions – read on […]