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Add a Responsive Image Rotator Widget To Your Site On Any Platform
Many years ago, I was disappointed to find out there wasn’t a simple way to rotate images in WordPress so I developed an Image Rotator Widget Plugin for WordPress. Over the years, though, WordPress advanced its capabilities and a ton of other plugins, page builders, new widget user interface, and third-party tools have surfaced. It wasn’t worthwhile for us to…
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AdCreative.ai: Utilize Artificial Intelligence to Design And Boost Your Ad Conversion Rates
The average advertiser has quite a few challenges when creating banners, display ads, and other ad creatives: Creation – creating a number of ad options can be time-consuming.Statistics – letting each ad version run long enough to gather enough data to make the appropriate decision can be wasteful.Relevance – while their are best practices for creating display and banner ads,…
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How Much Do Infographics Cost?
Businesses that publish infographics have 12% greater traffic volume What is an Infographic? Most content marketers think an infographic is simply wrapping a ton of data and statistics around a given premise. Ugh… we see these all over the web and rarely share them unless there’s something incredibly compelling about some of the stats found. We believe a balanced infographic…
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40 Email Marketing Mistakes To Check And Avoid Before Clicking Send
There are a ton more mistakes you can do with your entire email marketing program… but this infographic focuses on the most common mistakes we make before clicking send. We’ve added a few of our own recommendations here before you ever even start building your first email. Deliverability Checks Before we begin, are we set up for failure or success?…
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3 Best Practices for Product Marketers at Enterprise B2B Companies
Business-to-business (B2B) technology enterprises face a difficult dilemma. On the one hand, rapidly shifting market conditions require these enterprises to demonstrate sales competencies and economic output. On the other hand, technology marketing professionals are in short supply, causing existing teams to be overworked and making it more difficult for teams to grow and expand. A recent survey of senior marketing decision-makers…
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13 Ways to Increase the ROI of Your Content Marketing
Maybe this should infographic could have been one giant recommendation… get readers to convert! Seriously, we’re a bit confounded on how many companies are writing mediocre content, not analyzing their customer base, not analyzing their competitor’s content, and not developing longer-term strategies to drive readers into customers. My go-to research on this is from Jay Baer who identified years ago…
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6 Interactive Elements To Increase Email Marketing Engagement
Email and interactivity go hand in hand. Since over 3.9 billion people use emails, interactive email is a buzzword and a great tool to increase clients and sales. In this piece, we will find out how you can use interactive email marketing tools to reach the heart of your prospectives. What Is An Interactive Email? An interactive email has a…
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What is the Net Promoter Score (NPS) System?
Last week, I traveled to Florida (I do this every quarter or so) and for the first time I listened to a book on Audible on the way down. I selected The Ultimate Question 2.0: How Net Promoter Companies Thrive in a Customer-Driven World after a dialogue with some marketing professionals online. The Net Promoter Score (NPS) system is based…
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SQU IQ: Sync Inventory and Reporting Between Your POS and E-commerce Platforms
Over the last few years, there’s no doubt that the need for an online store is critical to retailers being able to meet consumer demands, compete effectively, and grow their sales beyond their retail locations. A critical challenge for this industry is that the modern point-of-sale (POS) systems that retailers invested in were built for retail sales – not for…
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Spam Laws: A Comparison of US, UK, CA, DE, and AU
As the global economy becomes a reality, treaties are being signed that ensure that each country respects the laws of another and may even be able to take punitive action against companies that violate those laws. One area of focus for any company that’s sending emails internationally is understanding the nuances of each country as it refers to email and…
