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How to Create the Ultimate Marketing Funnel (Templates Included)

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NOW WITH MORE! This post has been updated for 2019. Enjoy! . Before reading on, check out this short video we made called How to Make a Sales Funnel that Converts Loyal Customers which shows you how to create an e-mail sales funnel in an automated sequence: If you want your business’ sales process to run as efficiently as possible, you absolutely must get your marketing funnel – the process of converting a visitor or browser into a paying customer – right.

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“Joie de Hooha” Is Utterly Natural and Totally Achievable

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Singing vaginas is not the answer you might expect, no matter the question. Yet, here we are, and in this case, it’s a good answer because the Whole Foods shopper doesn’t want rancid chemical solvents on, in, or near her body. That’s why OrganiCare CEO and serial entrepreneur, Caroline Goodner, is battling industry juggernauts to […].

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More happy clappy special Premiership pleading from Coca-Cola

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Here’s Coca-cola’s new effort for the Premier League season, Saatchi & Saatchi updating a previous ad to welcome Premiership newbies Norwich (via the excitable Delia Smith), Sheffield United and Aston Villa (Prince William’s team apparently – will he be going to Villa Park? He’s not in this anyway.) Nothing wrong with it and M&C seems.

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Most Viewed Video Ads: KFC Scores a Spot in the Top 10

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This week we see four campaigns that were new to the chart last week return for the second week in a row. This staying power bodes well for those brands, which include Taco Bell, Gatorade, Google, and ezCater. New to the chart this week is a campaign from KFC in the 10 spot, featuring their 2-for-$3 Chicken Little deal. Check out this spot below with the full Top 10 list!

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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The Ultimate Guide to Developing Buyer Personas (with Templates!)

Single Grain

NOW UPDATED! This post was updated with more in-depth content, templates and examples on how to craft the perfect buyer persona. Enjoy! . Do you feel like your marketing campaigns are falling on deaf ears? No matter how hard you try, or how top-notch your campaign copy is, nobody is responding. And even worse: nobody is purchasing — which means you’re wasting precious revenue on marketing strategies with low ROI.

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No More Games: This Is A National Emergency

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What if you lived in a nation where the president incited racial violence on a daily basis? What if you lived in a nation where feeble-minded recipients of this twisted messaging were all too willing to spray the place with bullets from an automated weapon? What if…? The fact is the current president of the […]. The post No More Games: This Is A National Emergency appeared first on Adpulp.

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A Major Step Against Mobile Fraud: SmartyAds Enforces App-Ads.txt

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On March 13, 2019, IAB Tech Lab’s OpenRTB working group released a standard that helps to prevent unauthorized inventory trade: app-ads.txt. By now it has become one of the most successful and widely embraced mechanisms that solve the problem with domain-spoofed mobile app inventory. App-ads.txt is an.

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How Remarketing Can Help Increase Conversions

Single Grain

NOW UPDATED! This article on remarketing has been refreshed for 2019 – enjoy! Good marketers know that it’s a rare occurrence for a new visitor to land on a website for the first time and buy a product right then and there. So where do the majority of customers come from? Repeat buyers. How can you leverage that knowledge to increase our retargeting conversion rates?

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Ads That Help Sell Assault Weapons Reveal All

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I am an ad man, which means I have developed the ability to see any product or service the way the customer or potential buyer sees it. It’s my J-O-B to do so, no matter how unsavory the job can be at times. I will now apply this lens to the marketing of assault weapons. […]. The post Ads That Help Sell Assault Weapons Reveal All appeared first on Adpulp.

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Read steadies the WPP ship in most parts of the world – except crucial North American market

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North America continues to bedevil WPP with organic “growth” there of -5.4 per cent in the first half of 2019, a slight improvement on the first quarter’s -6.2 per cent. Elsewhere things weren’t too bad with most other regions performing reasonably although China was down. Organic growth in the UK was 1.3 per cent. North.

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Retail media advertising: How e-commerce is becoming AdTech’s next frontier

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3 Key Pillars of Ad Ops [VIDEO]

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In the world of digital advertising, here’s what companies need from their ad ops personnel. When it comes to mobile app ad ops, what’s really required from teams to ensure success? In this latest Whiteboard Wednesdays video, PubRev+ Founder Chas Castell goes over the three key components of good ad ops, highlighting everything from troubleshooting ad servers to how third-party consultants should work with clients to ensure success.

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Essential WordPress SEO Plugins: The Marketer’s Toolkit

Single Grain

Plenty of webmasters today are building their sites on the WordPress platform – and with good reason! Not only is WordPress free to install on your own hosting account, it’s easy to manipulate, leads to faster indexing in the search engines and offers an unprecedented number of design options for even the greenest of site owners. Unfortunately, the out-of-the-box WordPress installation isn’t that great when it comes to search engine optimization.

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Advertising Week’s APAC Conference in Sydney

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What’s Happening: The second edition of Advertising Week APAC (#AWAPAC) took place July 29 through August 1, 2019, in Sydney, Australia. The conference is aimed at marketing, advertising, media, technology and design professionals, bringing business and creative perspectives on key business trends and issues that shape today’s global industry, along with networking and socializing.

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New York’s Barton F. Graf closes – is the writing on the wall for independent creative agencies?

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A lot can change in ten years and nearly ten years ago the launch of Barton F. Graf in New York was big news. Founder Gerry Graf (below) had held top creative roles at BBDO, TBWA Saatchi & Saatchi and some independent creative agencies were then doing well.

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!

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Might As Well Travel The Elegant Way (In An Airstream)

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Airstream sends me their email newsletter once per week. It’s called “Rivet.” As a way to keep me interested in Airstream products and the RVing lifestyle, Rivet points me to a batch of recommended articles on the Airstream blog. The Airstream blog is a great way to showcase customer testimonials. One RV enthusiast featured on […].

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37 Life-Changing Leadership Books You Need to Read ASAP

Single Grain

At Single Grain, we’re readers. After all, when we hire employees, we’re not just hiring them for what they’ve done in the past. We handpick our team members because we hope and believe they can contribute now and truly flourish in the future. If that sounds weird, think of your business as a baseball team for a moment. You want the best players, right?

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‘Purposeful’ BBD Perfect Storm wins Unilever’s Dove Men+Care

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I see that London agency BBD Perfect Storm has picked picked up some global work, maybe all the work, for Unilever’s Dove Men+Care, previously handled by Ogilvy. As such it’s a big feather in the cap for the UK indie. Dove Men+Care is one of those “purpose” brands so beloved of new Unilever CEO Alan.

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Vodafone adds Anomaly to global roster – to do what, we’re not quite sure

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Is Anomaly a success or not? In particular its London outpost? It’s working for Unilever on something or other globally and now it’s been hired by Vodafone tasked with “providing strategic and creative insight for Vodafone’s global campaigns and initiatives, to ensure they have a positive and social impact.” So does this mean it’ll be.

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5 Ways You Can Win Faster with Gen AI in Sales

Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.

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AMV turns women’s fitness freakery on its head for Galaxy

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Mars’ Galaxy has been around for 60 years and it’s launching Galaxy Darker Milk – by taking a pop at all those ads hectoring women to do it all and change the world. From a mostly women team at AMV BBDO including copywriter Polina Zabrodskaya – are some gals getting fed up with being told.

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Are big money ad savings from P&G and others helping to kill off creativity?

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FMCG giant P&G has cut its adspend for the third year in a row, down $350m (£290m) to $6.75bn, claiming to have reduced waste by in-housing, sprucing up its digital supply chain and reducing agency and production fees. It’s much the same story elsewhere with Unilever, which claims to have saved even more, dropping out.

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Bonds and Leo Burnett highlight global warming need – cooler balls

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Are Aussies unduly fixated by their nether regions? Seem to recall a string of ads aimed at improving matters down there. Here’s another for Bonds X-Temp, aimed at cooling you down when temperatures rise. From Leo Burnett Melbourne. Deserves a prize or two just for making a decent joke about global warming.

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Dentsu adds to global agency gloom, slipping back in 2019

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Japanese ad and media giant Dentsu is cutting its forecast for 2019 (although it doesn’t specify to what) following a disappointing first half when revenue was marginally up but organic growth went into reverse: 1.5 per cent for the company as a whole, 2.1 per cent for the Japanese business and one per cent for.

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10 Ways to Leverage Buyer Signals and Drive Revenue

In today’s ultra-competitive markets, it’s no longer enough to wait for buyers to show obvious signs of interest. Instead, sales teams must be proactive, identifying and acting on nuanced buyer behaviors — often before prospects are fully ready to make a purchase. In this eBook from ZoomInfo & Sell Better, learn 10 actionable ways to use these buyer signals to transform your sales strategy and close deals faster.

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FCB Inferno’s Winterbourne joins indie Impero as MD

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FCB Inferno CMO Emily Winterbourne is joining independent creative agency Impero as MD. She is the second holding company exec to make the leap recently, following in the footsteps of Saatchi & Saatchi MD (and former CMO) Larissa Vince to CEO of John Townshend’s Now. Impero claims it has increased revenue by 40 per cent.

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McDonald’s covers all the angles in Japan

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McDonald’s in Japan has produced some new McFizz cups which show boys and girls relating – decorously. Aaah. But if you angle the cup a certain way you get this. What’s I’m Lovin’ It in Japanese?

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BBC Creative takes to street art for Peaky Blinders

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These days big TV programmes get their own ad budgets – often produced in-house – and cult BBC series Peaky Blinders is no different. The show, now worldwide, features a bunch of not-so-loveable Birmingham gangsters. The Peakys have loads of fans who portray their heroes on walls and things around the world. So the Beeb.

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Marcoms challenger MSQ Partners ups profits and turnover

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London-based marcoms group MSQ Partners has upped its profits nearly 50 per cent to £5.9m and grown turnover ten per cent to £82.3m in 2018. MSQ, which recently secured investment from PE firm LDC valuing it at £37.5m, owns creative agency The Gate, Holmes & Marchant, Smarts, Stack, Stein IAS and twentysix. CEO Peter Reid.

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Signal-Based Selling: How to Leverage 4 Key Buying Signals

As prospects define their problem, search for solutions, and even change jobs, they are generating high-value signals that the best go-to-market teams can leverage to close more deals. This is where signal-based selling comes into play. ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck recently broke down specific ways to put four key buying signals into action with the experts from 30 Minutes to President’s Club.

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Samsung TV turns art thief in new adam&eve campaign

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Not so long ago adam&eveDDB had the same effect on UK adland as shock and awe – endless winning pitches and a stream of campaigns that, if not matching the great CDP and BMP of yore in stretching boundaries, left the rest floundering. Things have quietened down a bit since with a wonky start for.

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Paddy Power on the side of the angels (yes, really) with ‘unsponsoring’ football campaign

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We haven’t always been a fan of Paddy Power’s various ad stunts but its new wheeze with VCCP Blue – ‘unsponsoring’ – is timely and funny. Just about every Premiership club has a betting sponsor plastered over its front – Everton has one from Kenya, of all places – apart from the real biggies. PP.

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Mother LA hits bigger time with drive-in chain Sonic

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Is La La Land proving a more welcoming venue for British agencies than New York? Independent UK network Mother has an outpost there and it’s won big US drive-in chain Sonic, now owned by the owner of Arby’s and Buffalo wings. Oklahoma-based Sonic (named such back in the 1950s as it delivered food at the.

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Commercials: beware the over-enthusiastic client

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More from Community Films’ web series Commercials, this time showing three clients who appear to love a pitch idea so much they almost wet themselves. And then. People do this for a living? All the time it seems.

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Activating Intent Data for Sales and Marketing

Sales and marketing leaders have reached a tipping point when it comes to using intent data — and they’re not looking back. More than half of all B2B marketers are already using intent data to increase sales, and Gartner predicts this figure will grow to 70 percent. The reason is clear: intent can provide you with massive amounts of data that reveal sales opportunities earlier than ever before.