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Artificial Intelligence
The 8 Best (Free) Keyword Research Tools for 2022
Keywords have always been essential for SEO. They let search engines understand what your content is about thus show it in SERP for the relevant query. If you have no keywords, your page will not get to any SERP as search engines will not be able to understand it. If you have some wrong keywords, then your pages will be…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
B2B: How to Create an Effective Social Media Lead Generation Funnel
Social media is a great way to generate traffic and brand awareness but it may be quite challenging in generating B2B leads. Why is social media not as effective at serving as a B2B sales funnel and how to overcome that challenge? Let’s try to figure it out! Social Media Lead Generation Challenges There are two main reasons why social media platforms…
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Artificial Intelligence
Grapes in, Champagne Out: How AI is Transforming the Sales Funnel
Behold the plight of the sales development rep (SDR). Young in their career and often short on experience, the SDR strives to get ahead in the sales org. Their one responsibility: recruit prospects to fill the pipeline. So they hunt and hunt but can’t always find the best hunting grounds. They create lists of prospects they think are great and…
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Content Marketing
6 Game-Changing SEO Tips: How These Businesses Grew Organic Traffic to 20,000+ Monthly Visitors
In the world of search engine optimization (SEO), only those who have actually succeeded can shed light on what it actually takes to grow your website to tens of thousands of visitors per month. This proof of concept is the most powerful evidence of a brand’s ability to apply effective strategies and produce extraordinary content that will rank. With so…
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Customer Data Platforms
How Your Sales and Marketing Teams Can Stop Contributing To Digital Fatigue
The last couple of years has been an incredible challenge for me. On the personal side, I was blessed with my first grandchild. On the business side, I joined forces with some colleagues that I highly respect and we’re building a digital transformation consultancy that’s really taking off. Of course, in the middle of that, there’s been a pandemic that…
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Email Marketing & Automation
How Is Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection (MPP) Impacting Email Marketing?
With the recent release of iOS15, Apple provided its email users with Mail Privacy Protection (MPP), limiting the use of tracking pixels to measure behaviors like open rates, device utilization, and dwell time. MPP also conceals users’ IP addresses, making location tracking far more generic. While the introduction of MPP may seem revolutionary and even radical to some, other major…
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Advertising Technology
Sellics Benchmarker: How to Benchmark Your Amazon Advertising Account
There are often times that we wonder, as marketers, how our ad spend is doing in compared to other advertisers in our industry or across a specific channel. Benchmark systems are designed for this reason – and Sellics has a free, comprehensive benchmark report for your Amazon Advertising Account to compare your performance to others. Amazon Advertising Amazon advertising offers…
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E-commerce and Retail
Five Steps You Can Take Today to Boost Your Amazon Sales
Recent shopping seasons were certainly atypical. During a historic pandemic, shoppers abandoned brick-and-mortar shops in droves, with Black Friday foot traffic falling by more than 50% year-over-year. In contrast, online sales surged, particularly for Amazon. In 2020, the online giant reported that independent sellers on its platform had moved $4.8 million of merchandise on Black Friday and Cyber Monday —…
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Customer Data Platforms
How E-commerce CRM Benefits B2B and B2C Businesses
A significant shift in customer behavior has impacted many industries in recent years, but the e-commerce sector has been hit the hardest. Digitally savvy customers have gravitated toward a personalized approach, touchless shopping experience, and multichannel interactions. These factors are pushing online retailers to adopt additional systems to assist them in managing customer relationships and ensuring a personalized experience in…
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Customer Data Platforms
Gleam: Marketing Apps Designed To Grow Your Business
A friend of mine said that he believes marketing is a job where you make people who don’t want to buy something buy it. Ouch… I respectfully disagreed. I believe that marketing is the art and science of pushing and pulling consumers and businesses through the purchase cycle. Sometimes marketing requires amazing content, sometimes it’s an unbelievable offer… and sometimes…
