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Why Your Business Needs To Be Paying Attention To CCPA Compliance
California’s famously sunny, laid-back surfer culture belies its role in shifting national conversations on hot-button issues through the passage of landmark legislative acts. The first to pass everything from air pollution to medicinal marijuana to no-fault divorce legislation, California is leading the fight for consumer-friendly data privacy laws. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is the United States’ most comprehensive…
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WP Migrate: The Easiest Way To Separate A Single Site Away From WordPress Multisite
One of our clients grew to a point that their company separated from their parent company. At issue was that the parent company was managing all of their subbrands via WordPress Multisite. What is WordPress Multisite? WordPress Multisite is a pretty unique feature built within WordPress that enables quite a bit of customization and permissions across a network of sites…
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How To Drive More Traffic And Conversions From Social Media
Social media is a great way to generate traffic and brand awareness, but it is not easy to convert visitors into leads or generate instant conversions. Social media platforms are tough for marketing inherently because people use them to get entertained and distracted from work. They may not be too willing to think about their business, even if they are…
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8 Tools For Influencer Marketing Research Relevant To Your Niche
The world is constantly changing and marketing is changing with it. For marketers, this development is a two-sided coin. On one hand, it’s exciting to be continually catching up with marketing trends and coming up with new ideas. On the other hand, as more and more areas of marketing arise, marketers become busier — we need to handle marketing strategy, content, SEO,…
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5 Lessons Learned From Over 30 Million One-to-One Customer Interactions in 2021
In 2015, my co-founder and I set out to change the way marketers build relationships with their customers. Why? The relationship between customers and digital media had fundamentally changed, but marketing hadn’t evolved with it. I saw that there was a big signal-to-noise problem, and unless brands were being hyper-relevant, they couldn’t get their marketing signal strong enough to be…
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Angi Roofing’s Lack of Disclosure and Conflict Of Interest Should Draw Some Attention
Readers of my publication probably realize that we’ve helped multiple roofing companies build their online presence, grow their local search, and drive leads for their businesses. You may also remember that Angi (previously Angie’s List) was a key client for whom we assisted with their search engine optimization regionally. Back then, the focus of the business was driving consumers to…
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Expectations on Your Marketing Investment
We had two fantastic meetings yesterday, one with a client and one with prospects. Both conversations were around expectations on the return on marketing investment (ROI). The first company was largely an outbound sales organization and the second was a large organization largely dependent upon database marketing and direct mail response. Both organizations understood, down to the dollar, how their…
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How to Embed a PDF Reader In Your WordPress Site With Optional Downloader
A trend that’s continuing to grow with my clients is putting resources on their sites without forcing the prospect to register to download them. PDFs specifically – including white papers, sales sheets, case studies, use cases, guides, etc. As an example, our partners and prospects often request that we send them sales sheets to distribute the package offerings we have.…
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What is the Best Comparison Shopping Engine?
Comparison shopping engines (CSEs) are a valuable tool online because they help shoppers make informed decisions and refer enormous sales to their online stores. They’re also a critical tool for e-commerce stores, which can optimize prices and product listings to attract more buyers than their competitors. How Do E-commerce Marketers Use CSEs? Ecommerce marketers can strategically utilize CSEs to optimize…
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Marketing Needs Quality Data to be Data-Driven – Struggles & Solutions
Marketers are under extreme pressure to be data-driven. Yet, you won’t find marketers talking about poor data quality or questioning the lack of data management and data ownership within their organizations. Instead, they strive to be data-driven with bad data. Tragic irony! For most marketers, problems like incomplete data, typos, and duplicates are not even recognized as a problem. They’d…
