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5 Marketing Experts Predict The Top Trends We’ll See in 2025
I went to a psychic when I was 22. She told me I was “about to take a long journey across the Atlantic.” While the prophecy sounded oddly sinister (would I be alive during this traverse?), it turned out to be true: Shortly after, I decided to teach English in Thailand. While none of these experts claim to be psychics, their predictions are just as bold, provocative, and intriguing. And I’d be willing to bet they stand a good chance of coming true in 2025. So if you want to know your future as a marketer, keep reading. Lesson One: […]
Stories That Move, Messages That Stick: The Secret to Persuasive Marketing
Welcome to Creator Columns, where we bring expert HubSpot Creator voices to the Blogs that inspire and help you grow better. Stories have a unique ability to capture our attention, change our perspective, and inspire action. We intuitively know this, but there’s actually research that backs this up. The better the story, the more influence that story has on us. This phenomenon, known as narrative transportation, is something that happens when we’re immersed in a good book or movie. It’s like when you watch The Notebook and cry at the end, or when you jump when you finally see the […]
How Content Gap Analysis Bolsters Your Marketing Strategy
Over the past five years, I’ve been creating content for some of the most successful content-first brands. And if there’s one thing that all their content marketing strategies have in common, it is a solid content gap analysis. Think about it. Every time you look up a topic, you will find hundreds of blogs that are just slight variations of each other. What really helped me and my clients win was this: focusing on what no one else was talking about. In this blog, I will walk you through the step-by-step process of doing content gap analysis and explore best […]
Google Garners Criticism for Demo After Long Awaited ‘Gemini’ Release
Shortly after news spread that Google was pushing back the release of its long awaited AI model called Gemini, Google announced its launch. As part of the release, they published a demo showcasing impressive – downright unbelievable – capabilities from Gemini. Well, you know what they say about things being too good to be true. Let’s dig into what went wrong with the demo and how it compares to OpenAI. What is Google Gemini? Rivaling OpenAI’s GPT-4, Gemini is a multimodal AI model, meaning it can process text, image, audio and code inputs. (For a long time, ChatGPT was unimodal, […]
How to Get Celebrity Endorsements — Even if You’re Not a Huge Brand
As a marketer and pop-culture fanatic, I am fascinated by celebrity marketing. I love seeing a new ad or social media campaign featuring the biggest pop stars and actors and observing how their brand aligns (or doesn’t) with the company they endorse. If you‘re a small or upcoming brand, you may think celebrity marketing isn’t possible for you now. Getting icons like Beyonce or Taylor Swift to endorse your product or service can’t be easy, right? While it‘s not always simple, even smaller brands can leverage celebrities in their marketing campaigns. Here’s how you can get big-name celebs to promote […]
40 Zoom Backgrounds For Memorable Meetings [+ Holidays, Parties & More]
Zoom backgrounds have been my lifesaver since I started scheduling remote meetings. With these backgrounds, my video stays on, and I don’t have to worry if my living room is a mess. My Zoom background has become as essential as my outfit, setting the tone and vibe for every call. Just like dressing to match an occasion, choosing the right Zoom background is an art. You can match upcoming holidays, celebrate birthdays, or radiate professionalism. The right backdrop can transform your screen and make you relatable. Below, I share my favorite collection of Zoom backgrounds, which promise to make your […]
The Top Moz Creators of 2024
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Marketing Wrapped 2024 & Top Strategies for the New Year, According to Spotify’s Global Head of Business Marketing
By mid-December, my Instagram feed is overflowing with my friends’ Spotify Wrapped playlists. So I started my festive, timely conversation with Spotify’s Head of Global Business Marketing, Grace Kao, with an easy one: What’s on her Spotify Wrapped? “I definitely channel my 12-year-old daughter right now,” she told me. “So female power singers: Chappell Roan, Olivia Rodrigo… Beyoncé, obviously.” In the spirit of reflection, I give you “Marketing Wrapped”: Kao’s top marketing strategies of 2024, and what to bring into 2025. Lesson One: Personalization creates connection. If Kao had to choose a cornerstone of 2024’s Marketing Wrapped, she’d choose “Connection.” …
The Ins-and-Outs of Content Optimization, Straight From a Marketer
Over the past three years, I’ve written over 200 marketing content pieces from blog posts to guides to landing pages. Over that time, I’ve witnessed more and more brands investing not just in new content, but in content optimization. It makes sense why content marketing teams are optimizing their content. Brands that produce hundreds of pieces of content each year suddenly find themselves with a library of thousands of outdated blog posts that erode brand trust and drag down their SEO. Your content is an asset that you need to protect and invest in to continue reaping the benefits. To […]
7 AI Automation Examples that Will Streamline Your Marketing Strategy
Just when it looks like I can‘t possibly write anything else about AI, I arrive with another blog post on the subject. Today, I’m sharing AI automation examples that you can incorporate into your marketing processes to streamline your strategy and outpace the competition. Let’s dive in! 7 Examples of AI Automation 1. AI Bots Best for: Streamlining time-consuming, tedious marketing process and engaging with consumers. A bot is an AI-powered intelligent automation with many use cases for both marketers and consumers. Marketers like myself typically use AI bots to streamline tedious tasks. For example, I often have to interview […]