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Content Marketing
How to Set Up 3-Point Lighting for Your Live Videos
We’ve been doing some Facebook Live videos for our client utilizing Switcher Studio and absolutely loving the multi-video streaming platform. One area that I wanted to improve on was our lighting, though. I’m a bit of a video newbie when it comes to these strategies, so I’ll continue to update these notes based on feedback and testing. I’m learning a…
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E-commerce and Retail
Stamped: Automate Collection Of Your Online Store’s Product Reviews and Build A Loyalty Program To Grow Sales
Trust is the single biggest obstacle to overcome when it comes to acquiring a new customer on your e-commerce site. If a new online shopper isn’t familiar with your brand, the first thing they do is check the ratings and reviews of the products of interest. Product reviews are vastly underestimated in their ability to sway a potential buyer into…
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Artificial Intelligence
How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Sales Enablement
Sales enablement is a holistic process that follows sales development from lead to close. It identifies critical points along the sales journey, builds client trust and product knowledge, and enhances the decision-making process. In the past few years, as artificial intelligence (AI) has improved, data-driven AI has become an integral part of sales enablement. The use of data-driven AI enables…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Agent Sauce: Automate Your Real Estate Listings and Virtual Tours To Your Social Media Channels
Martech Zone mentioned that integrations and automation would be key for email marketers. At Agent Sauce, we work with Real Estate agents, and that’s precisely what they are demanding. A couple of things you should know about real estate: Real Estate agents aren’t technologists and don’t have an IT department to call up when they need help. They’re entrepreneurs, quickly…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
50+ Online SEO Tools for Audits, Backlink Monitoring, Keyword Research, and Rank Tracking
We’re always on the lookout for great tools and with a $5 billion industry, search engine optimization (SEO) is one market that has a ton of tools to help you. Whether you’re researching your competitors’ backlinks, trying to identify keywords and co-occurrence terms, or simply trying to monitor how your site is ranking, here are the most popular SEO tools…
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Advertising Technology
Get SMART: How to Transform Your Digital Marketing Investment Mindset
Adjusting marketing strategies so they best serve your business sometimes requires a fundamental shift in mindset. Because many business owners don’t fully understand existing marketing strategies, they aren’t aware of the value a digital marketing investment can bring to their business. In the past, they’ve seen additional marketing investments as niceties rather than necessities. Now, more business leaders are considering supporting a go-to-market…
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Content Marketing
Clear Your Cloud: How Brands Can Slash Bandwidth and Reduce CO2 Emissions
The environment and sustainability are increasingly top of mind for consumers. And retailers believe their sustainability efforts are paying off. Nearly 80 percent of U.S. consumers consider sustainability when making at least some purchases, and nearly 80 percent of retailers believe their sustainability efforts are having a positive impact on customer loyalty. Sensormatic Solutions Many e-commerce brands already take sustainability…
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Content Marketing
Understanding WordPress Custom Post Types (CPTs): Creating a Glossary with Custom Taxonomies and Theme Templates
WordPress is more than a blogging platform—it’s a flexible content management system that can be extended far beyond posts and pages. One of the most powerful features enabling this flexibility is Custom Post Types (CPTs). These allow developers and content managers to structure content for specific use cases like portfolios, events, product directories, podcasts, or glossaries—each with their own admin…
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Marketing Tools
Later: The Visual Social Media Publishing and Link In Bio Platform For Small Businesses
As companies grow their social media presence to monitor their target audience and customers, communicate with them, research their competition, and promote their products and services, the challenge is to scale their marketing efforts across the changing landscape of social media platforms and the mediums each one offers. It’s nearly impossible, and definitely not efficient, to work natively within each…
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Analytics & Testing
Tidio: Multichannel Live Chat and Chatbots For Your Online Store Or Website
As a small business, one challenge that I have is attempting to respond to all inbound requests across my site, my social media accounts, and my email accounts. In order to effectively manage these requests, your company must centralize these communications so that you can measure each channel’s impact as well as optimize your messaging and prequalification process. When chatbots…
