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- Email Marketing & Automation
Mailchimp: Streamlining Customer Communication with Transactional Emails (Formerly Mandrill)
Transactional emails are automated, one-to-one messages triggered by user actions or behaviors. Examples include welcome emails, password reset requests, order confirmations, order status updates, and shipping notifications. These emails are essential for maintaining customer communication and providing timely updates related to their interactions with a service or product. To comply with CAN-SPAM laws and best practices, transactional emails must: Not…
- Artificial Intelligence
Reclaiming Profits: How AI-powered Reconciliation Empowers Amazon Vendors
Amazon’s influence on the retail industry is undeniable, transforming how consumers discover, compare, and purchase products. From its vast selection to convenient services, the online marketplace has cemented its position as a go-to shopping destination for millions. It’s also become an avenue for small and medium e-commerce retailers to build and expand their online presence. Over 60% of Amazon’s nearly $514 billion…
- E-commerce and Retail
Choosing the Right Retail Marketing Technology Software Partner: Key Considerations
In the current dynamic digital era, marketing technology has become an essential asset for businesses in different sectors, especially in the competitive and swiftly transforming retail industry. With the constantly changing consumer behavior and the intensifying levels of competition, it has become clear that having the right marketing software in place can truly make or break the success of a…
- Paid and Organic Search Marketing
SERP: A Visual Look at Google’s Search Engine Results Page Boxes, Cards, Snippets, and Panels in 2024
The evolution of the Search Engine Results Page (SERP) over the years reflects Google’s commitment to improving user experience and delivering relevant information more efficiently. Initially, SERPs were simple, consisting mostly of plain text links and minimal additional features. Over time, as the internet grew and user behavior changed, Google began to introduce new features like Knowledge Graphs, Rich Snippets,…
- Marketing Tools
Mangools: A Collection of Elegant SEO Tools For Optimizing Your Site for Search Engines
Search results are an ideal channel for acquiring meaningful, intent-driven traffic to your business online. Of course, businesses and marketers face the challenge of optimizing their websites amidst ever-evolving search engine algorithms and; quite honestly, a rather questionable SEO industry where consultants either don’t keep up or ignore the needs of the business altogether as they look to just game…
- Analytics & Testing
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…
- Analytics & Testing
Hootsuite: How to Add Google Analytics 4 UTM Campaign Tracking To Your Social Media Posts
Utilizing UTM parameters for your distributed social media links is essential for effective digital marketing. They provide a robust framework for tracking the effectiveness of your social media campaigns in Google Analytics (GA4) by allowing you to see precisely how much web traffic is derived from specific links shared across your platforms. This information is crucial for evaluating the performance…
- E-commerce and Retail
Social Snowball: The All-in-One Platform for Affiliate, Referral, and Influencer Programs on Shopify
Acquiring new customers for your online store can be costly. Many store owners struggle with high customer acquisition costs (CAC) and constantly seek ways to maximize their return on investment (ROI) from marketing campaigns. Fortunately, there is a powerful solution that can help businesses harness the power of word-of-mouth marketing and turn their customers into revenue-generating affiliates. Social Snowball Snowball…
- Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
The Future of Sales: Overcoming Knowledge Friction with AI Innovation
In the rapidly evolving landscape of sales, where information is a currency and responsiveness is paramount, one formidable obstacle stands out — knowledge friction. Knowledge friction is the distance between what a salesperson needs to know and the ability to access that information. The intelligence embedded in internal systems is often obscured by layers of technology, creating a barrier for…
- Marketing Tools
Figma: Design, Prototype, and Collaborate Across Enterprise
In the last few months, I’ve been helping to develop and integrate a highly customized WordPressinstance for a client. It’s quite the balance of styling, extending WordPress through custom fields, custom post types, a design framework, a child theme, and custom plugins. The difficult part is that I’m doing it from simple mockups from a proprietary prototyping platform. While it’s…
