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Content Marketing
Meta Box: The Best WordPress Plugin Framework For WordPress Custom Fields, Custom Post Types, and Taxonomies
WordPress has become such a powerhouse in the content management system (CMS) industry because of its infinite customization capabilities. While your typical installation of WordPress has standard pages and posts, you can take advantage of much more: Custom Post Types – A custom post type enables you to publish other types of content on your site. On our site, for…
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Customer Data Platforms
3 Keys To Marketing Effectively For B2B Growth
If you’re a B2B marketer you can’t help but notice that the world is a little different these days. Lately, we’ve all been feeling the effects of an uncertain economy – in the broader market and maybe within our own organizations. But even when the economic picture was rosier (or at least more predictable), there was growing pressure to show…
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Content Marketing
What Is A Content Delivery Network (CDN)?
Although prices continue to drop on hosting and bandwidth, it can still be pretty expensive to host a website on a premium hosting platform. And if you’re not paying a lot, chances are that your site is pretty slow – losing significant amounts of business. As you think about your servers hosting your site, they have to put up with…
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Content Marketing
Image Compression Is A Must For Search, Mobile, And Conversion Optimization
When graphic designers and photographers output their final images, they’re typically not optimized to reduce the file size. Image compression can drastically reduce the file size of an image – even 90% – without reducing quality to the naked eye. Reducing the file size of an image can have quite a few advantages: Faster Load Times – loading a page…
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Advertising Technology
How To Maximize The Impact Of A Single Piece Of Content For Your Business
A lot of the pressure around content marketing comes from the feeling that we need to be producing new pieces, new ideas, and new formats constantly. Every time we post a video or blog post, the slate goes blank again, and it’s back to square one. It often seems that to be a thought leader means having new — even…
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Advertising Technology
GrowTal: Hire Pre-Vetted Freelance Marketing Experts To Expand Your Agency’s Service Offerings
Having been in the agency business for over a decade, I’ve seen a few agencies flourish while many more went out of business. I don’t have a lot of wisdom when it comes to this industry – simply that I’m blessed to have a career and a reputation where I can do what I enjoy and what I have talent…
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Content Marketing
Filestage: Streamline Your Video Review And Approval Process
We’ve been working on an explainer video for the last couple of weeks, and it’s been going extremely well even though it’s bringing together five groups of talent – the client, the scriptwriter, the illustrator, the animator, and the voice-over talent. Those are a lot of moving parts! Most of the process is handed off from one resource to another…
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Advertising Technology
Shape: CRM, Lead Capture & Scoring, Sales Automation, and Pipeline Management
It’s amazing to see how advanced sales automation platforms are getting these days. I was just speaking with a colleague of mine where I mentioned that customer relationship management (CRM) was no longer a platform, it’s basically a feature. The platforms of old require often require massive implementation budgets that incorporate third-party integrations and tons of automation. I know… my…
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Analytics & Testing
How Marketers can Ready Themselves Today for the Limitless Capabilities of Big Data Analytics of Tomorrow
The world of marketing is currently at a crossroads. Traditional processes and approaches are currently being challenged by emerging technologies and the looming specter of Web 3.0–which promises to be a sprawling landscape powered by decentralization and limitless metaverse worlds. So how can marketers deliver impactful experiences for their target audience in a changing digital landscape? Big data appears to…
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Customer Data Platforms
3 Best Practices For A Better Experience For Considered Purchases
Whether it’s a young couple buying their first home, new parents purchasing life insurance, or soon-to-be empty nesters securing a loan for their college student, considered purchases are big ticket items that involve a high degree of financial and emotional risk. They require time and forethought, and for most consumers, plenty of comparison shopping. 81% of Americans say they rely…
