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Email Marketing & Automation
The Return on Investment (ROI) of Marketing Automation Platforms
Next year, Marketing Automation turns 30! Yep, you read that right. And while it seems like this now ubiquitous technology is young enough to still have pimples, the reality is that the marketing automation platform (MAP) is now married, has a puppy, and is likely to start a family soon. In Demand Spring’s latest research report, we explored the state of…
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Advertising Technology
Artificial Intelligence (AI) And The Revolution Of Digital Marketing
Digital marketing is the core of every ecommerce business. It’s used to bring in sales, increase brand awareness, and reach new customers. However, today’s market is saturated, and e-commerce businesses must work hard to beat the competition. Not only that—they should also keep track of the latest technology trends and implement marketing techniques accordingly. One of the latest technological innovations that…
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Analytics & Testing
How To Track Elementor Form Submissions in Google Analytics Events using JQuery
I’ve been working on a client WordPress site for the last few weeks that has quite a few complexities. They are using WordPress with an integration to ActiveCampaign for nurturing leads and a Zapier integration to Zendesk Sell via Elementor Forms. It’s a great system… kicking off drip campaigns to people who request information and pushing a lead to the…
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Content Marketing
Storytelling versus Corporate Speak
Many years back I was certified in a hiring process called Targeted Selection. One of the keys to the interview process with a new candidate was asking open-ended questions that required the candidate to tell a story. The reason was that it was a lot easier to get people to reveal their honest answers when you asked them to describe…
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Content Marketing
B2B Content Marketing Trends
The pandemic substantially disrupted consumer marketing trends as businesses adjusted to government actions taken to attempt to prevent the rapid spread of COVID-19. As conferences were shut down, B2B buyers moved online for content and virtual resources to assist them through the stages of the B2B buyer’s journey. The team at Digital Marketing Philippines has put together this infographic, B2B…
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Analytics & Testing
Universal Analytics Behavior Reports: More Useful Than You Realize!
Google Analytics provides us with a multitude of important data for improving our web performance. Unfortunately, we don’t always possess the extra time to study this data and turn it into something useful. Most of us need an easier and faster way to examine relevant data for developing better websites. That’s precisely where Google Analytics Behavior reports come in. With…
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Advertising Technology
7 Signs You Do Not Need An Ad Server
Most ad tech providers will try to convince you that you need an ad server, especially if you’re a high-volume ad network because that is what they are trying to sell. It is a powerful piece of software and can deliver measurable optimization to certain ad networks and other tech players, but an ad server is not the right solution…
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Content Marketing
Moqups: Plan, Design, Prototype, and Collaborate With Wireframes and Detailed Mockups
One of the really enjoyable and fulfilling jobs that I had was working as a product manager for an enterprise SaaS platform. People underestimate the process required to successfully plan, design, prototype, and collaborate on the most minor user interface changes. In order to plan the smallest feature or user interface change, I would interview heavy users of the platform…
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Email Marketing & Automation
How To Launch A Successful Email Signature Marketing (ESM) Campaign
If you’re working for a company with more than one employee, there’s an opportunity for your company to utilize email signatures to manage and drive awareness, acquisition, upsell, and retention initiatives but doing it in a manner that’s not intrusive. Your employees are writing and sending countless emails every single day to hundreds, if not thousands, of recipients. The real…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Protecting Your Brand and Reputation in Email Marketing with Verified Mark Certificates (VMCs)
Email marketers understand that a successful campaign is about much more than delivery and messaging. It’s about engaging prospects and forging a relationship that they can nurture over time. Fundamentally, that relationship-building starts with the reputation and trust in the brand: The vast majority (87%) of global consumers say that they consider the reputation of a company when purchasing a…
