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- E-commerce and Retail
What Is Dropshipping? Who Can Benefit? Tips On Getting Started
People are often reluctant to start an online store because of all the hassles and costs. But imagine if you find a supplier who will pay you the upfront inventory price of thousands of items and manage other operations. It is dropshipping. Dropshipping allows you to start a business and run it from anywhere. Sounds too incredible to be true?…
- Content Marketing
How to Speed Up Your WordPress Site
To a great extent, we’ve written about the impact of speed on your users’ behavior. And, of course, if there’s an impact on user behavior, there’s an impact on search engine optimization. Most people don’t realize the number of factors involved in typing in a web page and having that page load for you. Conversely, if you spend hours every…
- Email Marketing & Automation
Bulk Email Address List Verification, Validation, and Cleansing Platforms and APIs
Email marketing is a blood sport. In the last 20 years, the only thing that’s changed with email is that good email senders continue to get punished more and more by email service providers. While ISPs and ESPs could coordinate if they wanted to, they don’t. The result is that there’s an adversarial relationship between the two. Internet Service Providers…
- Artificial Intelligence
How Long Should Your Blog Posts Be For Maximum SEO Impact (For Now…)?
Writing blog posts is a great way to attract new visitors to your website, boost your search engine ranking, and establish your company as an industry thought leader. But how long should your blog posts be for maximum SEO impact? In this blog post, we’ll explore the ideal length for a blog post, the factors that affect the length of…
- Artificial Intelligence
Why Tech Marketers Should Care About M3gan
It’s an image that has persisted in the cultural consciousness for more than fifty years: the unblinking red eye. Always surveilling. And ultimately‚ with that emotionless, harrowing monotone, saying: I’m sorry, Dave… I’m afraid I can’t do that. 2001: A Space Odyssey The AI takeover has been a heavily featured idea in science fiction since the 1968 release of Stanley…
- Customer Data Platforms
The Future Of Customer Loyalty Programs
Customer loyalty programs have been a mainstay of brand interactions with consumers through the decades. In the early days of customer loyalty programs, brands focused on their best customers and offered rewards to increase their share of wallet. For example, the American Airlines AAdvantage program was designed to motivate the 2% of customers who contributed 25% or more of the…
- Email Marketing & Automation
Mailchimp: All-In-One Site, E-Commerce, Marketing, Automation, And Email Marketing Platform
Today, Intuit Mailchimp is a formidable marketing platform and email service provider (ESP) that’s simply hard to beat. Years ago, I was running our newsletters off of Mailchimp but left the platform when my account was disabled for a spam complaint – with a list that was grown purely organically and used Mailchimp’s double opt-in. At the time, the platform…
- Content Marketing
HelloBar: Increase Conversions With Notification Bars, Modals, Alerts, Sliders, and Page Takeovers
To date, I’m fairly certain that we’ve built or redesigned over 100 sites for clients across virtually every content management system (CMS). The majority of these platforms have been around for over a decade and I’m always amazed at the website features that aren’t included by default with every platform. A case in point is the opportunity for calls-to-action (CTAs)…
- Content Marketing
Writesonic: How Marketers Are Harnessing The Power of AI Writing
As a marketer, you know how important it is to be able to write content that resonates with your audience. With the help of AI writers, you can now create content that is both engaging and informative. You may have read my previous article where I explored and was blown away by ChatGPT. It started me down a deep dive…
- Customer Data Platforms
What Is A CRM? What Are The Benefits Of Using One?
I’ve seen some great CRM implementations and some terrible ones in my career. Like any technology, ensuring that your team spends less time working in the CRM and more time providing value with your CRM is the key to a great CRM implementation. I’ve seen poorly implemented CRM systems that froze sales teams… and unused CRMs that duplicated efforts and…
