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Customer Data Platforms
Understanding Address Parsing, Standardization, and Delivery Verification APIs
A key offering that many of our clients appreciate is our trackable direct mail. With a dynamic QR code, we can identify every direct mail recipient that uses their smartphone to open a call-to-action… from dialing a phone number or scheduling an appointment. We can even push an event record for the specific recipient to their customer relationship management system……
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Content Marketing
Camtasia: The Easiest Screen Recording and Video Editing Software For Your Business
Whether you’re looking to create interactive software demos, training videos, or tutorials, utilizing desktop software is almost a must. Editing, publishing, and converting video files requires plenty of hardware and memory… so online platforms aren’t typically an option. Some video editing mobile applications are pretty good, but they lack the desktop real estate that your large monitor has to comfortably…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
How Do Companies Benefit From Internal Social Platforms?
There’s a growing movement to bring the advantages of social networks to corporations. I recently researched this topic during a social networking session with the IABC, and the findings are worth exploring further. Business Cases for Internal Social Platforms Monitor and Drive Corporate Strategies: Internal social networks help ensure that employees, teams, and projects align with the corporate vision. Flatten…
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Email Marketing & Automation
7 Vital Email Marketing Tips For Engaging and Converting Millennials
With over 72.1 million millennials in the United States alone, they’re the largest living generation. And they’re willing to invest in brands that care about building lasting relationships and spend money on the brands they love. In 2020 in the United States, the spending power of millennials was sitting at approximately $2.5 trillion per annum. Who Are Millennials? Millennials are…
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Content Marketing
What Are Single Opt-In, Confirmed Opt-In, And Double Opt-In?
When building an email list, how you collect consent isn’t just a technical detail—it shapes your entire subscriber relationship, affects email deliverability, and determines compliance with privacy regulations. The three primary types of opt-in mechanisms (single, confirmed, and double) each offer a different balance of convenience, quality control, and legal protection. Understanding their differences can help you match the right…
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Content Marketing
Vyond: Build Your Own Animated Videos With This Video Animation Studio
I’ve helped several companies develop their video strategies over the years and animated video explainer videos are an amazing piece of content that can be used to concisely and thoroughly explain your products, services, and solutions, as well as differentiate your brand from your competitors. Explainer videos all follow a similar production and script sequence and are incredibly effective at…
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Email Marketing & Automation
How To Validate An Email Address With Regular Expressions (Regex). Sample HTML5, PHP, C#, Python, and Java Code.
Virtually every programming language supports regular expressions nowadays. While some developers don’t like them, they truly are a best practice as they typically perform functions like validation extremely fast with fewer server resources. Email addresses are a perfect example… where they can be easily checked to ensure they’re properly formatted. Keep in mind that validation is not verification. Validation simply…
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Content Marketing
WordPress: How To Automatically Share Your Content On A LinkedIn Company Page
As a consulting firm that is trying to reach prospective business clients, LinkedIn is a critical social media platform for our organization. That said, we don’t have the marketing resources to manage a LinkedIn program for networking, commenting, managing groups, or promoting content on a daily basis. With that in mind, my goal is to simply take information like this…
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Marketing Tools
What Is Marketing Content Management (MCM)? Use Cases and Examples
It takes a lot to run successful marketing campaigns today. They involve myriad marketing activities and content that need to be managed. For this, flawless internal coordination is required. Moreover, you need to be in the right place at the right time if you want your campaigns to impact today’s sophisticated consumer market. As you can see, the creation and…
