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Attribution is a fool’s errand, now and in the ‘cookieless future’

30-second summary: Discover the secret to building a successful agent-client relationship that can make all the difference in retaining or losing an account Learn the essential ingredients for earning your client’s trust and becoming a great advisor or marketing agency How to maintain credibility, reliability, and relatability in a long-term relationship with your clients and avoid common pitfalls that can erode trust Mastering soft skills, such as being relatable and inquisitive, that is essential for building trust in an agency-client relationship The official death of the cookie is currently slated for 2024 , and marketers are already preparing for this inevitability with a range of strategic alternatives. What no one is talking about, though, is that these regulations are not as sweeping as the ‘Accept All Cookies’ pop-ups make it seem, and that leveraging a household-first strategy in your social and digital advertising provides a better attribution for measuring incremen...

How SEO is Changing Because of Chat GPT

The launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 has been a real game changer for digital marketers across the world. SEO professionals are still trying to navigate the potential benefits and power of this technology. The ability to type in search queries through live chat and get perfectly and uniquely written content hosts several advantages for those looking to create more content rapidly and scale their online businesses. Webmasters can also create codes faster than they can manually and this can be used to compliment or replace developers. However, this may also present more challenges with increased competition across the digital marketing landscape and questions on how Google’s search results are going to react with increased marketing intelligence. We speak to some industry experts and startup marketers to get more insight into how ChatGPT is changing SEO. Content creation For consumers, the ability to create unique content and do it almost instantly is probably the biggest advantag...

Four hallmarks of a successful agent-client relationship

30-second summary: Discover the secret to building a successful agent-client relationship that can make all the difference in retaining or losing an account Learn the essential ingredients for earning your client’s trust and becoming a great advisor or marketing agency JoAnne Gritter, Chief Operations Officer at ddm marketing + communications helps you avoid common pitfalls that erode trust and focus on the four hallmarks that elevate the fabric of brand-client relationships In their classic book ‘The Trusted Advisor’, authors David Maister, Robert Galford, and Charles Green outline the necessary ingredients for a successful advisor-client relationship. Their thesis could be boiled down to this maxim about the world’s wealthiest man, “The way to be as rich as Bill Gates is to care more about writing code than about being rich. And the way to be a great advisor is to care about your client.” Gates’ fortune has been eclipsed in the last 22 years, but the lesson still applies ...

Winning at search: why vigilance and strategy alignment are necessary evils

30-second summary: Google Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs) are essential for advertisers to display ads and gain insights on competitors, products, ads, prices, and promotions To improve the overall share of voice and avoid drops in visibility, clicks, and revenue – advertisers need real-time tactics for a search-scape that evolves by the day Search expert and Managing Partner at GrowByData, Prasanna Dhungel shares competitive tactics to effectively maximize your share of voice and boost search ROI More on the SERP trend report that shows the rise and fall of different industry-specific SERP features at different times of the year The importance of Google Search Engine Result Page (SERP) cannot be overstated. Advertisers heavily rely on this platform to showcase their ads to potential customers. Interestingly, advertisers also use SERP data to derive insights on competitors, products, ads, prices, and promotions to refine their marketing strategies and stay ahead of competit...

Examining how AI can improve customer-brand relationships

30-second summary: As a design strategist and UX researcher, I’m always looking for ways to create the most engaging digital experiences AI is revolutionizing the way we design digital experiences, from personalized recommendations to customized training programs, and even omnichannel customer journeys While the rise of AI in our daily lives has been met with excitement, as designers, we need to be mindful of its potential risks and ensure that our AI-powered solutions are transparent, ethical, and empathetic As a design strategist and UX researcher working in tech, I’m always trying to learn from people to design the most engaging digital experiences. I want to understand how they think, feel, act, and, most importantly, why they do so in a certain way to come up with the most interesting concepts. To keep innovation happening, and our concepts relevant to users, we need to learn from them continuously and that is not always the easiest of tasks. Fortunately, we are witnessing...

ChatGPT beyond the hype: How to use AI models for better email marketing

30-second summary: ChatGPT has gone from “What is it?” to “It will kill copywriter jobs” in less than six months Hype aside, ChatGPT, and natural language processing models like it, is a tool a marketer can use to make the process of building meaningful relationships with customers more fruitful ChatGPT won’t replicate your marketing skills, your unique understanding of your brand’s equity, or your copywriting skills, nor can it spit out a strategic plan based on a few keywords – but it could free you up to focus more time on things that matter Using ChatGPT is free for now, so try it out and build your prompting skills for the most effective use of it The hype cycle for ChatGPT has swung into hyperdrive. We’ve gone from “What is ChatGPT?” to “ChatGPT will save marketing” to “ChatGPT will kill copywriter jobs” in less than six months. That’s quite a feat, even by today’s accelerated technology adoption standards. With more than a million registered users now, ChatGPT is the ...

Marketing to the CFO

30-second summary: It’s common to talk about the relationship between marketing and sales, with customers being the primary focus. However, there’s another crucial audience that is often overlooked: the CFO Increasingly, CFOs are taking on responsibilities related to strategy, data, digital, and pricing, areas that are highly relevant to CMOs. Business leaders often prioritize metrics that brand can influence, but they fail to recognize the potential of brand as a tool for achieving their goals Both marketing and finance skills are necessary and fundamental to a company. Therefore, it’s important to invest time, effort, and understanding into strengthening the relationship between the two departments Organizations that can approach the marketing-finance relationship differently and align them effectively have immense opportunities for growth Tyrona Heath , Director of Marketing Engagement at LinkedIn’s B2B Institute, discusses approaches that will aid the CMO-CFO relationship ...