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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Influence: It’s Never As Simple as Fan and Follower Counts
Influencer marketing has become a crucial aspect of many companies’ marketing strategies. Influencers are individuals who have the power to affect the purchasing decisions of others due to their authority, knowledge, position, or relationship with their audience. Here are seven ways to drive influencer marketing results by effectively identifying and engaging with the right influencers to promote your products or…
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Artificial Intelligence
Humanize AI: Transforming AI-Generated Content into Authentic, Human-Like Text
Content creators who utilize artificial intelligence (AI) face a unique challenge: leveraging GenAI’s power and efficiency while maintaining the authenticity and relatability that resonates with human readers. The robotic undertones often present in AI-written content can undermine its effectiveness, leading to a disconnect with the target audience. Humanize AI is an online platform that effortlessly transforms AI-generated content into natural,…
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Content Marketing
Blogging for Feet? How Charities Can Leverage Blogs to Showcase Their Impact
Blogging and social media have become powerful tools for businesses to connect with their audience personally. However, many NPOs often overlook the potential of leveraging their philanthropic efforts to further engage with their followers. By promoting the charities they support, businesses can showcase their caring side and help these non-profit organizations gain much-needed exposure. Life’s most persistent and urgent question…
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Analytics & Testing
Mastering Conversion Metrics for Business Blogging: A Comprehensive Guide
Understanding and tracking conversion metrics is essential for gauging the success of your content marketing efforts. Conversion metrics help you determine how effectively your blog posts drive desired actions, such as subscriptions, demo requests, event registrations, consultations, or product purchases. In this comprehensive article, we will explore direct and indirect attribution, the journey visitors take, and how to monitor these…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
X Widgets: How to Embed Your Timeline, Post Button, Follow Button, Or Mention Button
Embedding X content on your website offers several key benefits. It seamlessly integrates engaging, interactive, real-time content from the X platform into your site. Embedded X posts and timelines enhance your articles with rich, visually appealing content straight from the source, providing a quick way to verify information. Incorporating X functionality through embedded buttons encourages readers to engage with your…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
X Statistics for 2024
In 2006, Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams launched Twitter, a microblogging platform that would revolutionize online communication. Initially designed as an SMS-based service, Twitter quickly gained popularity, allowing users to share short, 140-character messages called tweets. As the platform grew, it introduced features like hashtags, retweets, and direct messaging, becoming a hub for real-time information, news,…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
The 6 Myths of Social Media Marketing in 2024
I have a good friend who owns a home services business that I’ve helped over the years. He often tells me how his competitors are all over social media and he feels left behind because his company isn’t publishing there consistently. While social media has become integral to many businesses’ digital marketing strategies, the landscape has evolved significantly in recent…
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Public Relations
This Year, Journalists Are Responded More Than Ever To Public Relations Pitches
Every quarter, Propel PRM comes out with its Media Barometer, looking at pitching data from over 400,000 real pitches sent through its platform. The company does this by anonymizing and aggregating pitches sent via its Gmail and Outlook widgets to determine pitching metrics such as optimal subject line length to get a pitch opened, optimal pitch length to get a…
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Artificial Intelligence
Hexomatic: Unlock the Power of No-Code Web Scraping and AI Automation
Businesses are constantly seeking ways to streamline their processes, automate tedious tasks, and harness the power of data. However, many are drowning in manual work, copy-pasting data, and relying on complex enterprise tools or expensive consultants. What if a solution could help businesses of all sizes tap into the internet as their own data source and automate hundreds of sales,…
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Content Marketing
WordPress: Identify and Download mu-plugins Hosted In or Outside Your WordPress Instance
A colleague of mine migrated a client site in preparation for taking over their account and was stunned when, upon successful migration, the site didn’t function correctly. The issue was quite frustrating in the industry. The agency built custom features inaccessible to the client – either via SFTP or WordPress administration. I’ll explain how later… and how I was able…
