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- Customer Data Platforms
Talend Data Preparation: Clean CRM Data for Smarter Insights Fast
The promise of actionable insights often runs headfirst into the messy reality of unclean data. Business leaders know their teams can’t afford to waste time on manual data cleaning when faster, more accurate decisions are needed. Yet data analysts, marketers, product managers, and even executives often get bogged down in fixing errors, reconciling formats, and struggling with outdated datasets instead…
- E-commerce and Retail
The Easiest Way To Minify Your Shopify CSS That’s Built Using Liquid Variables
We built out a Shopify Plus site for a client that has a number of settings for their styles in the actual theme file. While that’s really advantageous for easily adjusting styles, it means that you don’t have a static cascading style sheets (CSS) file that you can easily minify (reduce in size). Sometimes this is referred to as CSS…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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 —…
