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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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Content Marketing
Why The World is Buzzing About ChatGPT
ChatGPT is a revolutionary new tool that has the potential to revolutionize the programming industry. Developed by the team at OpenAI, ChatGPT is an open-source natural language processing (NLP) model (the GPT in ChatGPT) that can generate real-time, human-like responses to user queries. The idea behind ChatGPT was first conceived by OpenAI’s CEO, Ilya Sutskever, to create a chatbot that…
- Marketing Tools
Notion: The Virtual Workspace For Your Marketing Efforts
One of the key services we offer our clients is marketing-as-a-service, where they offload some or all of their marketing efforts to our team. At times, this can be a finite project for automating a process, maintaining their site, developing content, executing a campaign, building a report, or any number of other efforts. We’ve worked quite a bit in different…
- Customer Data Platforms
Calculate or Query Great Circle Distance Between Points of Latitude and Longitude Using The Haversine Formula (PHP, JavaScript, Java, Python, MySQL, MSSQL Examples)
This month, I’ve been programming in PHP and MySQL for GIS. While researching the topic, I had difficulty finding geographic calculations to find the distance between two locations, so I wanted to share them here. The simple way of calculating a distance between two points is using the Pythagorean formula to calculate the hypotenuse of a triangle (A² + B² = C²). This is known as…
- E-commerce and Retail
Bloomreach: Empowering E-commerce Marketers to Drive More Results with Less Complexity
The past few years have seen e-commerce accelerate at breakneck speed. And while that growth has evened out as of late, the potential of e-commerce has hardly reached its limit. Over two billion people made online purchases in 2022, and those numbers will only continue to increase in the coming year. Yet this poses a challenge for marketers, who not…
- Content Marketing
6 Steps To Reimagining An Effective Content Calendar For the New Year
Getting content right is easier said than done. For small businesses in particular, the act of setting up a coherent content schedule that’s bound to inspire your customers and generate leads can be time-consuming and difficult to pull off. However, with the right content calendar in place, the challenge of generating the right level of appeal to your audience can…
- Customer Data Platforms
SurveySparrow: Your All-In-One Omnichannel Experience Management Platform
There’s definitely a trend among consumers and businesses alike to protect their data and privacy more than they ever had in the past. A few years ago, I made the mistake of sharing my mobile phone with a company and within months I had hundreds of unsolicited calls from businesses. It’s really quite maddening… so I absolutely understand the backlash…
- Paid and Organic Search Marketing
How to Optimize Your On-Page SEO for Periods of High Customer Activity
Whether you’re gearing up for Christmas or preparing for any other seasonal boost for sales, your website must be ready to experience greater traffic and purchase intent. With this in mind, on-page optimization for your search engine optimization (SEO) has never been more critical. Although it’s crucial to note that SEO should never be regarded as a short-term focus for…
