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Content Marketing
Swarmify: Four Reasons Not To Use YouTube Video Embeds On Your Business Website
If your company has professional videos that you’ve spent thousands of dollars on, you should absolutely publish the videos on YouTube to take advantage of YouTube’s search results…. just make sure that you optimize your YouTube videos when you do. That said, you shouldn’t be embedding YouTube videos on your corporate site… for quite a few reasons: YouTube is tracking…
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Email Marketing & Automation
16 Mobile Friendly HTML Email Best Practices That Maximize Inbox Placement and Engagement
In 2023, it’s probable that mobile will surpass desktop as the primary device for opening email. In fact, HubSpot found that 46 percent of all email opens now occur on mobile. If you’re not designing emails for mobile, you’re leaving a lot of engagement and money on the table. Email Authentication: Ensuring your emails are authenticated to the sending domain and IP address…
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Customer Data Platforms
Typeform: Turn Data Collection Into A Human Experience
A few years ago, I completed a survey online, and it actually wasn’t a chore… it was elegant and simple. I looked up the provider, and it was Typeform. Typeform came about because the founders wanted to change how people answer questions on screens by making the process more human & more engaging. And it worked. Let’s face it… we…
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Content Marketing
The Evolution of Logos and the Impact of Technology on Logo Design
The word logo comes from the Greek word logos, which means word, thought, or speech. In ancient Greek philosophy, logos referred to the principle of reason and order in the universe. Over time, the meaning of logos expanded to include the use of words or symbols to represent a company or organization. Today, the term logo is commonly used to…
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Email Marketing & Automation
A Guide To Optimize Your Email Open, Click-Through, and Conversion Rates
One discussion that I have every week with clients is the increasingly frustrating means of building and sustaining a successful email marketing program. Simply put, as your email marketing list grows, so do your deliverability headaches. It seems that internet service providers have abandoned any hope of rewarding best practices and just have dumb algorithms that continue to punish good…
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Content Marketing
10 Types of YouTube Videos That Will Help Grow Your Small Business
There’s more to YouTube than cat videos and fail compilations. In fact, there’s a lot more. Because if you’re a new business trying to raise brand awareness or boost sales, knowing how to write, film, and promote YouTube videos is an essential 21st-century marketing skill. You don’t need a huge marketing budget to create content that converts views into sales. All…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Zoomer Marketing: Why Smart Brands Are Targeting Generation Z
Getting in with Gen Z isn’t just about learning the lingo. As brands like e.l.f. and Hellofresh have expertly shown, it’s an exercise in empathy that requires companies to check their prejudices and preconceptions at the door and lean into the new era of immersive, personalized marketing. After all, this is a generation that truly balks at disingenuousness. They can…
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Content Marketing
The Psychological Impact Of Color On Emotion, Attitude, and Behavior
I’m a sucker for color theory. We’ve already published how genders interpret colors and how colors impact buying behavior. If you want to learn more about how our eyes actually detect and interpret color, don’t miss reading Why Our Eyes Need Complementary Color Palette Schemes. This infographic details the psychology and even the return on investment a company might attain…
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Artificial Intelligence
The Next Generation Of NFTs Are Here And Forward-Thinking Brands Are Providing Them
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) have made their grand entrance onto the world stage. The battle is no longer for awareness of the medium — instead, it’s for acceptance of the fact that NFTs are good for a lot more than showing off digital art. Fortunately, NFT innovators aren’t just waiting for the mainstream to catch up with what they’re capable of.…
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
It’s Time Your Sales Teams Stop Using Local Presence Deception
If you’ve never heard of local presence, it’s the strategy that many companies use to incorporate a regional presence to boost their overall brand’s trust and reliability. In a physical sense, local presence may involve setting up a brick-and-mortar store, office, or warehouse in a particular region, city, or neighborhood. This allows businesses to be physically present in the community…
