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Analytics & Testing
10 Steps to Creating Effective And Engaging Online Surveys
Online survey tools are fantastic for effectively and efficiently collecting and analyzing data. A well-put-together online survey provides you with actionable, clear information for your business decisions. Spending the necessary time upfront and building a great online survey will help you achieve higher response rates, and higher quality data and will be much easier for your respondents to complete. Here…
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Advertising Technology
New Approaches to Digital Advertising After Third-Party Cookies Are No More
With Google’s recent announcement that it’ll phase out third-party cookies in 2023 to launch Google Topics, the world of cookies is in the midst of an evolution. Or a meltdown, depending on whom you talk to. Advertisers fidget en masse when a change is announced in the digital world. Suddenly, there’s no milk or bread in the grocery store and Armageddon is…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Are You Doing Instagram Marketing Wrong? Focus on Authenticity!
According to the network itself, Instagram has more than 1 billion active users at the moment, and that number will undoubtedly keep growing. More than 71% of the Americans age 18 to 29 were using Instagram in 2021. For ages 30 to 49, 48% of Americans were using Instagram. In all, over 40% of Americans state that they’re using Instagram.…
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Artificial Intelligence
accessiBe: Make Any Site Certified Accessible Using Artificial Intelligence
While regulations for site accessibility have been around for years, companies have been slow to respond. I don’t believe it’s a matter of empathy or compassion on the side of corporations… I truly believe that companies are simply struggling to keep up. As an example, Martech Zone ranks poorly for its accessibility. Over time, I’ve been working to improve both…
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Artificial Intelligence
Luminar Neo: Innovative Image Editing Using Artificial Intelligence (AI)
We recently shared an article with 6 examples of how artificial intelligence enhances sales and marketing technology and one of the ways was photo editing. Many of the photographers that we utilize to do professional portraits, product photos, and other photos for our clients are experts at Photoshop and do an absolutely brilliant job. However, if your full-time job isn’t…
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Marketing Tools
TaskHuman: A Real-Time Digital Sales Coaching Platform
When it comes to setting salespeople up for consistent success and growth, the traditional sales training model is fundamentally broken. With an approach that is too episodic, inconvenient, and not tailored to the individual, sales training tends to be delivered in a way that shortchanges both the business and its sales teams. Sales coaching is often only conducted within an…
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Advertising Technology
How To Choose A Framework For Your Buyer Personas
A buyer persona is a composite that gives you a richly-detailed picture of your target audiences by combining demographic and psychographic information and insights and then presenting it in a way that’s easy to comprehend. From a practical perspective, buyer personas help you set priorities, allocate resources, expose gaps and highlight new opportunities, but more important than that is the…
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Marketing Infographics
Reasons Why People Unfollow Brands On Twitter
This may be one of the funniest infographics that DK New Media has done to date. We do a ton of infographics for our clients, but when I read the article at eConsultancy on why folks unfollow on Twitter, I immediately thought it could make for a very entertaining infographic. Our infographic designer delivered beyond our wildest dreams. Are you…
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E-commerce and Retail
Gorgias: Measure The Revenue Impact of Your E-commerce Customer Service
When my firm developed the brand for an online dress store, we made clear to the leadership at the company that customer service was going to be an essential component of our overall success in launching a new e-commerce store. Too many companies are so caught up in the site’s design and ensuring all the integrations work that they forget…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Repuso: Collect, Manage, And Publish Your Customer Reviews & Testimonial Widgets
We assist several local businesses, including a multi-location addiction and recovery chain, a dentist chain, and a couple of home services businesses. When we onboarded these clients, I was honestly shocked, at the number of local companies that do not have the means to solicit, collect, manage, respond to, and publish their customer testimonials and reviews. I will state this…
