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Content Marketing
5 Ways Animated Explainer Videos Increase Inbound Marketing Effectiveness
When we say video has become an essential part of our daily lives, we’re not joking. We watch online videos daily on our computers, phones, and even Smart TVs. According to YouTube, the number of hours people spend watching videos is up 60% yearly! Text-only-based websites have become outdated, and we’re not the only ones saying it: Google is! Video…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
WordPress Plugin: How to Add a Lightweight, Custom Pinterest Pinit Button on Image Hover
If you run a WordPress site and want to make your content more shareable on Pinterest, one of the simplest yet most effective enhancements is adding a Pin It button that appears when users hover over images. While Pinterest offers an official widget script to handle this functionality, many site owners prefer a lighter, more controlled approach that doesn’t rely…
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Advertising Technology
Great Data, Great Responsibility: How SMBs Can Improve Transparent Marketing Practices
Customer data is essential for small and midsize businesses (SMBs) to better understand customer needs and how they interact with the brand. In a highly competitive world, businesses can stand out by leveraging data to create more impactful, personalized experiences for their customers. The foundation of an effective customer data strategy is customer trust. And with the growing expectation for…
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Content Marketing
Queue-it: Add A Virtual Waiting Room To Your Website To Manage High Traffic Surges
We can’t take orders… site is down because it’s getting crushed with traffic. These is never the words you want to hear if you’ve ever been part of a product launch, an online sale, or selling tickets to an event… the inability to scale your infrastructure as fast as demand hits your site is a disaster for several reasons: Visitor…
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E-commerce and Retail
ReferralCandy: A Complete E-commerce Referral Platform You Can Launch In Minutes
For the last few weeks, we’ve been sharing our successful launch of our client’s site where you can buy dresses online. One strategy we wanted to deploy was building out a referral program for customers, affiliate marketers, and influencers. Some of our needs: We wanted to have it work with Shopify so that we could include a discount for the…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
3 Ways Organic Marketing Can Help You Make The Most Out Of Your Budget In 2022
Marketing budgets plummeted to a record low of 6% of company revenue in 2021, down from 11% in 2020. Gartner, The Annual CMO Spend Survey 2021 With expectations as high as ever, now is the time for marketers to optimize spending and stretch their dollars. As companies allocate fewer resources to marketing—but still demand a high return on ROI—it doesn’t…
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Content Marketing
5 Steps to Creating a Winning Content Marketing Strategy
Content marketing is the fastest growing and most effective way to market your business, but creating a winning strategy can be hard. Most content marketers are struggling with their strategy because they don’t have a clear process for creating it. They’re wasting time on tactics that don’t work instead of focusing on strategies that do. This guide outlines 5 steps you…
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Marketing Infographics
7 Steps to Optimize Your Online Marketing Conversion Funnel
Creating a high-converting marketing funnel is one of the most strategic and sustainable ways to grow a business online. Whether you’re a startup launching your first product or a mature business scaling sales operations, a well-designed funnel moves prospects from unaware to paying (and repeating) customers with deliberate steps that build trust, address objections, and increase value along the way.…
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Marketing Infographics
What Roles Are Needed in Today’s Digital Marketing Department?
For some of my clients, I manage all of the talent necessary for their digital marketing efforts. For others, they have a small staff and we augment the skills necessary. For others, they have an incredibly robust team internally and are just needing overall guidance and an external perspective to help them stay innovative and identify gaps. When I first…
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Email Marketing & Automation
How To Set Up Email Authentication with Microsoft Office (SPF, DKIM, DMARC)
We’re seeing more and more deliverability issues with clients these days and too many companies don’t have basic email authentication set up with their office email and email marketing service providers. The most recent was an e-commerce company we’re working with that sends their support messages out of Microsoft Exchange Server. This is important because the client’s customer support emails…
