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What's Hot In Digital: July 2018

The Smart Insights View

Keep up with the latest changes in digital marketing by taking a look at some of the most important blogs, news, updates and resources from the last month.

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The Smart Insights View

Need to know about the latest changes that matter in digital marketing? Here, Dr. Dave Chaffey of Smart Insights gives his personal assessment of the most significant changes this month.

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July 2018

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In a previous article, I reviewed the most important marketing skills based on the recently published research from The IDM and Smart Insights. In this follow-up I'll drill down to look at specific skills gaps.

Infographic: Your Digital Career Opportunities

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Whether you are looking to plan your future career or are managing a team, it’s worth having an idea of the latest career opportunities in digital marketing.

That’s why we’ve created our Digital Careers Family Tree, so you and anyone on your team can see potential career paths and establish the training needed to reach the next level of career progression.

What are the skills of the Perfect SEO Manager?

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To be a truly effective digital marketer in today it’s become more important than ever to develop a good range of skills and experience across a variety of different disciples. The ability to work with different teams and specialists enables marketers to collaborate effectively, empathize with colleagues and spot new opportunities.

The BIG Platform Changes

To maintain visibility of your brand and grow engagement with your online audiences you need to keep on top of the latest features and algorithm updates big five technology platforms, that's Google, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube. These platforms innovate relentlessly, with new changes daily. We monitor these and here alert you to the changes that really matter so you can assess the relevance of these to you.

Introducing CrUX dashboard – Google’s new report in Data Studio

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Build your own CrUX dashboard on Google Data Studio to see visual stats on origin performance

Today, Google developers have announced the introduction of Custom site performance reports with the CrUX Dashboard (Chrome UX report).

Sharing your questions and comments

We're keen to help by answering your questions, so anything that's bugging you do ask via our Answers forum or your preferred social network. Here's the pick of the Q&A for this month - do get involved and share your expertise too!

GDPR - Duplicated entries

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Hi all, I'm looking for some advice around GDPR - specifically what is the regulation if a user signs up twice with different contact email addresses and chooses different preferences? Are you legally required to merge the records and take the most recent permissions?

LinkedIn ads

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Hi all, looking for some advice on LinkedIn ad tracking.

I have created a landing page for a client with a 3-step application; input info, input personal details and get results. I want to track the best performing ads.

Digital Marketing tools

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Hi there, I'm considering using Buzzstream to manage our outreach more efficiently. Just wondering if anyone has experience of using it and would you recommend?

Our latest analysis and recommendations for Premium members

To keep Smart Insights members at the cutting-edge of digital we update our content each week as new resources or updates to existing guides, templates or training modules.

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