This is going to be a rant. Not a week goes by that I don’t have companies asking me how much we charge for a new website. The question itself raises an ugly red flag that typically means that it’s a waste of time for me to pursue them as a client. Why? Because they’re looking at a website as a static project that has a start and an endpoint. It’s not… it’s a medium
Stirista Powers Its New Identity Graph with Real-Time Data
Consumers make purchases at an online store from your home computer, visit a product page at another site on a tablet, use a smartphone to post about it on social media and then go out and physically buy a related product at the nearby shopping center. Every one of these encounters helps to develop a complete user profile, but they are all different slices of information, portraying separate selves. Unless they are integrated, they remain
What Is Enterprise Tag Management? Why Should You Implement Tag Management?
Verbiage that people use in the industry can get confusing. If you’re talking about tagging with blogging, you probably mean selecting terms that are important to the article to tag it and make it easy to search for and find. Tag management is a totally different technology and solution. In my opinion, I think it’s poorly named… but it’s become the common term throughout the industry so we’ll explain it! What is Tag Management? Tagging
7 Influencer Marketing Trends Expected in 2021
As the world emerges from the pandemic and the aftermath left in its wake, influencer marketing, not unlike a vast majority of industries, will find itself changed. As people were forced to rely on virtual instead of in-person experiences and spent more time on social networks instead of in-person events and meetings, influencer marketing suddenly found itself at the forefront of an opportunity for brands to reach consumers through social media in meaningful and authentic
5 Things You Need to Consider Before Launching Your Ecommerce Website
Thinking about launching an ecommerce website? Here are five things that you need to consider before launching your ecommerce website: 1. Have The Right Products Finding the right product for an ecommerce business is easier said than done. Assuming that you have narrowed down the audience segment, you want to sell to, the next question of what to sell arises. There are several things that you need to check for when deciding upon a product. You need to
UltraSMSScript: Buy A Complete SMS, MMS, and Voice Marketing Platform With API
Starting a text message strategy can be a daunting implementation process. Believe it or not, carriers are largely manual even today… submit paperwork, have your data retention and privacy policies reviewed, sign off on SMS permissions. I’m not trying to understate the importance of compliance with this medium, but the frustration of migrating or integrating an SMS solution can be quite frustrating for a permission-based, legitimate marketer. The process for SMS Marketing is quite a
PhoneWagon: Everything You Need To Implement Call Tracking With Your Analytics
As we continue to coordinate complex multi-channel campaigns for some of our clients, it’s imperative that we understand when and why the phone is ringing. You can add events on hyperlinked phone numbers to monitor click-to-call statistics, but oftentimes that’s not a possibility. The solution is to implement call tracking and integrate it with your analytics to observe how prospects are responding via phone calls. The most accurate means is to dynamically generate a phone
Customer Retention: Statistics, Strategies, and Calculations (CRR vs DRR)
We share quite a bit about acquisition but not enough about customer retention. Great marketing strategies aren’t as simple as driving more and more leads, it’s also about driving the right leads. Retaining customers is always a fraction of the cost of acquiring new ones. With the pandemic, companies hunkered down and weren’t as aggressive at acquiring new products and services. Additionally, in-person sales meetings and marketing conferences severely hampered acquisition strategies at most companies.