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Why Buyers Are Underwhelmed by B2B E-Commerce Personalization (And How To Fix It)
Customer experience has long been, and continues to be, a top priority for B2B businesses on their journey toward digital transformation. As part of this shift toward digital, B2B organizations face a complex challenge: the need to ensure both consistency and quality across the online and offline purchase experiences. Yet, despite organizations’ best efforts and sizable investments in digital and…
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What is Email Authentication? SPF, DKIM, and DMARC Explained
When we work with large email senders or migrate them to a new email service provider (ESP), email deliverability is paramount in researching the performance of their email marketing efforts. I’ve criticized the industry before (and I continue to) because the permission of email is on the wrong side of the equation. If internet service providers (ISPs) wish to guard…
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How To Develop Website, Ecommerce, Or Application Color Schemes
We’ve shared quite a few articles on the importance of color with respect to a brand. For a website, e-commerce site, or mobile or web application, it’s just as critical. Colors have an impact on: The initial impression of a brand and its value – for example, luxury goods often utilize black, red implies excitement, etc. Purchase decisions – the…
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Sellfy: Build Your E-commerce Business Selling Products or Subscriptions In Minutes
Sellfy is an easy-to-use eCommerce solution for creators looking to sell digital and physical products as well as subscriptions and print-on-demand – all from one storefront. Whether it’s eBooks, music, videos, courses, merchandise, home decor, graphics, or any other type of business. Start easily – Create a store in a couple of clicks. Sign up, add your products, customize your store and…
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Gong: Conversation Intelligence Platform for Sales Teams
Gong’s conversation analytics engine analyzes sales calls at the individual and aggregate levels to help you understand what’s working (and what’s not). Gong starts with a simple calendar integration where it scans each sales representative’s calendar looking for upcoming sales meetings, calls, or demos to record. Gong then joins each scheduled sales call as a virtual meeting attendee to record…
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Calendly: How To Embed A Scheduling Popup or Embedded Calendar In Your Website or WordPress Site
A few weeks ago, I was on a site and noticed when I clicked a link to schedule an appointment with them that I wasn’t brought to a destination site; there was a widget that published the Calendly scheduler directly in a popup window. This is a great tool… keeping someone on your site is a much better experience than…
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How to Make a Video Marketing Content Calendar
This last week, one of the projects that I delivered was a mobile optimization audit for a client. While they’d been doing well in desktop searches, they were lagging in mobile rankings versus their competitors. As I reviewed their site and their competitors’ sites, one gap in their strategy was video marketing. More than half of all video views come from…
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Rewind: How to Automatically Backup Your Shopify or Shopify Plus Store
The last couple of weeks has been quite productive with a fashion industry client that we’re launching a direct-to-consumer site for. This is the second client we’ve assisted with Shopify, the first was a delivery service. We helped this client build and brand a company, developed their product and marketing strategy, built their Shopify Plus site, integrated it to their…
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What Is An IP Address Reputation And How Does Your IP Score Affect Your Email Deliverability?
Your organization’s IP score, or IP reputation, is highly important when sending emails and launching email marketing campaigns. Also known as a sender score, the IP reputation affects email deliverability, which is fundamental for a successful email campaign and communication. In this article, we examine IP scores in greater detail and examine how to maintain a strong IP reputation. What Is…
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Edgemesh: The ROI of E-commerce Site Speed as a Service
In the competitive world of e-commerce one thing is certain: Speed matters. Study after study continues to prove that a faster site leads to increased conversion rates, drives high checkout values and improves customer satisfaction. But delivering a fast web experience is difficult, and requires both an in-depth knowledge of web design and secondary “edge” infrastructure that ensures your site…
