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- Analytics & Testing
UserTesting: On-Demand Human Insights to Improve the Customer Experience
Modern marketing is all about the customer. In order to succeed in a customer-centric market, companies must focus on the experience; they must empathize with and listen to customer feedback to continually improve the experiences they create and deliver. Companies that embrace human insights and get qualitative feedback from their customers (and not just survey data) are able to better…
- Event Marketing
How To Set Up Your PowerPoint Slide Show In A Single Window for Virtual Events
As companies continue to work from home, the number of virtual meetings has skyrocketed. I’m actually surprised at the number of meetings where the presenter has issues actually sharing a PowerPoint Presentation on screen. I’m also not omitting myself from this… I’ve goofed a few times along the way and delayed the start of a webinar due to issues I’ve…
- Marketing Books
Navigating the Chaos: 12 Lessons Applied from Extreme Ownership to Marketing
Marketing today is more challenging than ever. With leaner teams, tighter budgets, and an ever-expanding ecosystem of channels, platforms, and technologies, executing consistently successful campaigns can feel like navigating a battlefield. The noise is louder, the pace is faster, and the expectations are higher. Yet despite the complexity, effective marketing execution doesn’t require brute force—it requires disciplined leadership. The most…
- Analytics & Testing
What Are The 5 Simple Questions Your Analytics Analysis Should Be Able to Answer?
The advent of data collection has sparked numerous discussions about analytics, tracking, and measured marketing. As marketers, we undoubtedly recognize the importance of tracking our efforts, but we can become overwhelmed by what we’re supposed to track and what we’re not. Ultimately, what should we focus on at the end of the day? While there are hundreds of metrics we…
- Content Marketing
A Guide To The Types and Tools To Start Creating Online Video Courses
If you want to make an online tutorial or video course and need a handy list of all the best tools and strategies, then you will love this ultimate guide. Over the past several months, I have personally researched and tested many tools, hardware, and tips to create successful tutorials and video courses to sell on the internet. And now…
- E-commerce and Retail
Beyond The Screen: How Blockchain Will Impact Influencer Marketing
When Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web over three decades ago, he couldn’t have foreseen that the Internet would evolve to be the ubiquitous phenomenon it is today, fundamentally changing the way the world functions across all spheres of life. Before the Internet, children aspired to be astronauts or doctors, and the job title of influencer or content creator…
- Customer Data Platforms
Streak: Manage Your Sales Pipeline in Gmail With This Full-Featured CRM
Having established a great reputation and always working on my site, my speaking, my writing, my interviews, and my businesses… the number of responses and follow-ups I need to make often slips through the cracks. I have no doubt that I’ve lost great opportunities simply because I didn’t follow up with a prospect in a timely manner. At issue, though,…
- Analytics & Testing
How to Build a Data-Driven Culture to Increase Your Company’s Bottom Line
The last year had implications across industries, and you’re likely on the verge of a competitive shuffle. With CMOs and marketing departments recovering from a year of scaled-back spending, where you invest your marketing dollars this year can reposition you within your market. Now is the time to invest in the right data-driven technology solutions to unlock better marketing insights. Not…
- Customer Data Platforms
mParticle: Collect and Connect Customer Data Through Secure APIs and SDKs
A recent client that we worked with had a difficult architecture that patched together a dozen or so platforms and even more entry points. The result was a ton of duplication, data quality issues, and difficulty in managing further implementations. While they wanted us to add on more, we recommended that they identify and implement a Customer Data Platform (CDP)…
- Content Marketing
The Build Versus Buy Dilemma: 7 Considerations To Deciding What’s Best For Your Business
The question whether to build or buy software is a long on-going debate between experts with various opinions on the internet. The option to build your own in-house software or buy market ready customized solution still keeps a lot of decision makers confused. With the SaaS market booming to its full glory where the market size is projected to reach USD 307.3 billion by 2026,…
