I know I’m in the minority, but the second September hits, I want to break out the Christmas tree, play “Jingle Bells,” and cover everything in baubles and tinsel. But one of the more accepted signs that the festive season is officially upon us is when holiday marketing campaigns start jingling, ringing and ho-ho-ho-ing into our homes, streets, and devices. After all, is it even Christmastime if I’m not hearing sleigh bells every five minutes?

As Wiz’s Head of Marketing Tom Orbach says, “Mini tools are 10x more powerful than free trials.”

Global marketing is no longer reserved for brands with deep pockets, nor is it a hassle for marketing managers who handle all marketing efforts.

If someone asks me to find the average of five values — 1, 4, 7, 8, and 10 — the equation is easy. I add up all five values and divide this by the total number of values.

I’m a former NBCUniversal Page, and I will always remember how thorough the application and interview process for the program was.

Creating successful marketing campaigns and compelling content starts with understanding the numbers behind your strategies.

It’s not enough to make content. You have to make sure what you make is performing well. That’s where content audits come in.

Do you ever struggle to visualize your ideas or consolidate your thoughts in one place? I certainly have.

I love content monitoring! Well, not as much as chocolate, or cake, or chocolate cake ... But when it comes to work-related processes, it's one of my favorite things.

In most roles I’ve begun, an employee handbook was the first internal document I read. So naturally, I’d make a lot of assumptions about the kind of place I was hired at based on the employee handbook.

In 2019, I was a freelance writer with no idea what SOPs were, relying on mental checklists and scrawled notes.

Each week, Laura, Caroline, and I get to sit and chat with some of today’s most innovative marketing masters. We’ve run down the rabbit hole with folks from Spotify, Liquid Death, Oatly, New Balance, Zapier, Hootsuite, the Brooklyn Nets, and even the makers of Chicago’s most beloved tirefire-flavored liquor.

Like many businesses, I depend on web forms on my website to collect visitor information and to give them an easy way to contact me. They are an invaluable part of my lead generation strategy.

I remember exactly where I was when I stumbled upon the concept of cornerstone content for the first time. It was a fresh winter's morning in late December, and the sunshine glistened over the frosted ground … Okay, I kid, I kid.

Whether we realize it or not, we’re surrounded by integrated media planning.

With 91% of businesses leveraging video and consumers preferring video over all other forms of content, you can’t afford to miss out.

Here’s a startling reality: while 88% of marketers believe AI and automation are essential for meeting customer expectations, they’re only using about 56% of the tools they buy.

In the first few years of business, small companies come up against many different problems. And – you’ve probably guessed it – some are harder than others to overcome. According to Shopify, the average annual business rate of business failure from 2019 to 2023 (for companies started only half a decade ago) is a scarily small 12.1%. This means that between 2018 and now, starting a small business hasn’t been the easiest task; if anything, it tells us that maintaining a business is a hell of a lot harder than starting one.

As a content professional with almost a decade in the game, I have been a part of several content marketing teams and projects.

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Over at Masters in Marketing, Caroline, Laura, and I have interviewed some very bright minds from some very bold brands. We’re talking Liquid Death, New Balance, Oatly.

As a content marketer, I‘ve always been ready to team up to boost a brand’s vibe and reach. When one of my freelance clients needed some brand growth on a budget, I was pumped to jump into the influencer marketing game.

I went to a psychic when I was 22. She told me I was “about to take a long journey across the Atlantic.”

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Just when it looks like I can‘t possibly write anything else about AI, I arrive with another blog post on the subject.

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.

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.

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.

By mid-December, my Instagram feed is overflowing with my friends' Spotify Wrapped playlists.

It’s hard to ignore the fact that video is now a leading trend for marketing teams. I mean, even LinkedIn has jumped on the bandwagon by prioritizing video content (now, whether or not you agree with that, it is a conversation for another day, but I digress).

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.

In the early days of my career as a content marketer, I wish I had access to the meeting agenda examples to have today. Back then, I was managing a team that was fairly new to me, and I hated the idea of conducting meetings.

Faced with an urgent need to brush up my spreadsheet skills, I went online and searched for the best Excel resources available. I discovered a lot of amazing options, both free and paid.

“Teamwork makes the dream work,” is one of my favorite teamwork quotes. Seriously, I’ve said this quote in the office and on Zoom. I’ve even set it as my Slack status. Turns out John C. Maxwell said it in 2002.

It’s officially the holiday season. If the majority of your workforce is hybrid or remote, like we are at HubSpot, that means it’s time to come up with a few virtual holiday party ideas for your team.

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