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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…
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Advertising Technology
How Industry Collaboration Is Improving Cloud Migration For All
How much does your business spend on cloud infrastructure? Cloud end-user spending will top $500 billion this year, growing 20% from 2021, with infrastructure as a service (IaaS), desktop as a service (DaaS), and platform as a service (PaaS) expected to lead the pack.Gartner The rise of hybrid work and increasing cloud migration of basic services encourage companies to consider…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
RewardsBunny: A Familiar-Yet-New Role For Cryptocurrency… Rewards
Winter has arrived for the crypto industry. One might even say that it’s Christmas in July due to the gifts crypto’s recent downturn has brought with it. For example, we have learned that 19,000 active crypto projects are simply too many to sustain. We can expect an approaching economic recession to clear out thousands of defunct crypto projects launched during…
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Sales and Marketing Training
What Is An API? And Other Acronyms: REST, SOAP, XML, JSON, WSDL
When you utilize a browser, your browser makes requests from the client’s server, and the server sends back data that your browser assembles and displays a web page with. But what if you just wanted your server or web page to speak to another server? This would require you to program to an API. What Does API stand for? API…
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Analytics & Testing
GRIN: Manage Your E-commerce Influencer Marketing In This End-To-End Creator Management Platform
The latest household brands aren’t created through old-school mass advertising—they’re built alongside content creators. Brands that utilize content creators as brand storytellers are now the names on everyone’s lips. And how do they do it? It can’t be bought. It can’t be faked. It must be built, one genuine creator relationship at a time. What is Creator Management? Creator management…
