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Sales and Marketing Training
Meetings: The Death of American Productivity
Meetings at companies are expensive, interrupt productivity, and are often an absolute waste of time. Here are three types of meetings that damage the productivity of a business and can irreparably hurt the culture: Meetings to avoid accountability. Chances are that you’ve hired someone responsible to get the job done. If you’re holding a meeting to decide for them… or…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
In A Global Recession, Customer Advocacy Will Be Crucial To Brand Survival
A recession is coming. While no economist can predict its severity or length, the cost of living squeeze we’re already feeling is set only to worsen. Meanwhile, the modern marketing stack is close to toppling. With each new widget, each new software solution, and each new channel, the pile continues to grow. And with every addition, brands risk simply finding…
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Advertising Technology
NetLinePortal: Capture B2B Buyer Intent with the Largest CPL Marketplace
B2B marketers face an increasingly uphill battle: engaging the right buyers at the right time with content that converts. Whether you’re managing in-house campaigns or leading demand gen efforts for clients, the challenge remains the same—delivering high-quality, intent-driven leads that turn into pipeline. Most lead generation efforts struggle because they rely on static lists, broad targeting, or outdated performance models.…
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Content Marketing
5 Reasons Companies Are Going Headless
Choosing the right content and commerce platform is a critical decision for digital leaders. And whether to opt for a headless solution or an all-in-one suite is one of the most important considerations. Headless solutions have been rapidly gaining traction among businesses. According to a recent report, 64% of enterprises are now taking a headless approach. Among enterprise organizations not currently…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Why Location Management Is Critical To Building Trust With Regional Customers
If you were hoping for brick-and-mortar business success over a decade ago, you first had to make sure that your location had a conspicuous sign and a listing in the Yellow Pages. Today, basic business information can be found in several places — but the majority of people (97%, in fact) learn about local businesses online more than anywhere else.…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
What Is The Map Pack? Why Is It Critical To Local Search Optimization?
If you are a local business or retailer hoping for more appointments, foot traffic, or business as a whole – the map pack in Google Searches is a critical strategy. Surprisingly, many businesses don’t understand how the map pack works or how they can maintain and improve their visibility in it. First, let’s start with some statistics on the importance…
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Analytics & Testing
Litmus: How To Design Effective Email Campaigns That Convert
Litmus offers an all-in-one email optimization platform with a suite of tools and solutions designed to help teams create effective email campaigns that drive loyalty and boost revenue. Through a series of simple-to-follow steps, the company’s email platform empowers teams — regardless of their technical coding expertise — to quickly and efficiently create high-impact, error-free, on-brand quality email campaigns. Litmus…
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Content Marketing
Siteimprove: Optimize Content for Accessibility, Organic Search, Customer Experience and Marketing Performance
Expectations for high-quality content are at an all-time high: Research shows that 73% of consumers say one extraordinary digital experience raises their expectations of other companies to deliver a similar experience. SOTI, Annual Connected Retailer Survey For marketers today, content is much like code. Publishing poor quality, inaccessible content is like pushing out code that hasn’t been proactively debugged. That’s…
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Content Marketing
When Should You Consider A New Content Management System?
A decade ago, 100% of our clients utilized WordPress as their content management system. Years later and that number has dropped to less than half. There are some very valid reasons why our prospective and current clients have moved away from their CMS and migrated to another. Note: This article is focused on businesses that are not primarily online stores.…
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Analytics & Testing
Customer.io: Automated Marketing Messages that Convert
You’ve got your customer acquisition funnel dialed in. Your retention strategy is all plotted out. And you’ve got a warehouse full of customer data. So why aren’t enough people converting, and where’s all that churn coming from? Chances are, your marketing messages just don’t line up with your customers’ actual needs in the moment. And when they don’t see immediate…
