5.01.2024 IH

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2024 CMO report highlights

Hope your morning’s rolling right along, folks. Mine stalled on a plate of buttered-up waffles. Still, I managed to finish today’s Feature Story that covers a new CMO report (survey of marketing leaders). Then, you can catch up on the following:

  • The Knowledge Base 

  • Self Help 

  • Facts & Stats (TikTok ban history) 

  • Get Hacking (give & get)

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The Knowledge Base

😍Nostalgia bait marketing breakdown & a bonus video on it

Rejected by Google? Steps to take as a mailer

A call to creative arms (by AFLAC Duck creator)

🧠What’s in the way of creativity? (Psychology Today)

The Mariana Trench of remarketing deep-dive guides

AI tool to add human models to product photos (video demo)

🎬YouTube’s “pause ads” coming our way?

Some good news Self-Help is next, then updated Facts and Stats…

Self-Help

Good news for y’all who are seeking your higher self. 

You don’t need a guru or time-eating meditation practice or an iron will to find your higher self.

Those may help, but your higher self has already been showing up for years. Keep a journal, and you’ll recognize when that version of you pops in and out. Recognition helps replicate that higher self.

Extra help: Step on the Grim Reaper’s neck and live longer by taking the stairs (new study 4/29/2024).

Facts & Stats

Hurdle…

One-third of HubSpot users have trouble with the platform’s learning curve (Aptitude 8 survey)

Ban Plan…

Just in case… When TikTok was banned in India in 2020, Snapchat downloads doubled there (Stacked Marketer)

AI Coaches…

Consulting giant BCG says AI consulting will account for 20% of its revenue this year (SuperHuman)

Bonus: What percentage of Americans are self-employed? Answer.

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A specific strategy to implement today

Take 20 minutes to scan your inbox. Note one or two special offers that make you feel like the brand is giving you something no other brand bothered to offer you - despite you opening like 90% of their emails!

Now, use those offers to guide you on sending a super-special offer to your VIP email subscribers who open and click on the vast majority of your email campaigns. Only send it to this small but valuable segment. This should improve your deliverability, but most of all, it’ll make those loyal subscribers even more loyal. 

(ALT Hack: Update all your authors’ social links and non-social links on article pages. Prove they’re human, have experience, and have written lots of other stuff. It can’t hurt when it comes to Google’s E-E-A-T.)

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