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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
The B2B Social Media Mirage: Why It’s Not Always the Growth Engine It’s Sold To Be
Everything I’m about to say is anecdotal. However, the pattern is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore. I haven’t conducted a multi-year research study. I haven’t parsed datasets or reviewed industry-wide analytics dashboards. What I have done is listen to a growing chorus of quiet confessions—marketers, founders, even clients—admitting they’ve stopped trying to drive growth with social media. And here’s the…
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Content Marketing
The 6 Key Characteristics of a Business Logo
Once, when talking about logos, the legendary logo designer of IBM, UPS, Enron, Morningstar, Inc., Westinghouse, ABC, and NeXT said this: A logo doesn’t sell, it identifies. Paul Rand To be the most comprehensive and representative identity for your brand, every feature in your logo design must be there for a reason. Each aspect must be telling something about your brand.…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
The Factors That Impact How Quickly Your Page Loads On Your Website
We were meeting with a prospective client today and were discussing what impacts website load speed. There’s quite a battle going on on the Internet right now: Visitors are demanding rich visual experiences – even on higher-pixel retina displays. This is driving larger images and higher resolutions which are bloating image sizes. Search engines are demanding ultra-fast pages that have…
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Content Marketing
How Your Slow Website Is Hurting Your Business
Years ago, we had to migrate our site to a new host after our current host just started getting slower and slower. No one wants to shift hosting companies… especially someone that’s hosting multiple websites. Migration can be quite a painful process. Aside from the speed boost, Flywheel offered free migration so it was a win-win. I didn’t have a…
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Content Marketing
Why There Are 542 Banana Hangers on Amazon
There are 542 different banana hangers on Amazon… ranging in price from $5.57 to $384.23. The most inexpensive banana hangers are simple hooks that you mount under your cabinetry. The most expensive banana hanger is this beautiful Chabatree banana hanger that is hand-crafted and made out of sustainable wood resources. Seriously… I looked them up. I counted the results, sorted…
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Customer Data Platforms
Data Hygiene: A Quick Guide To Data Merge Purge
A merge purge is a pivotal function for business operations such as direct mail marketing and obtaining a single source of truth. However, many organizations still believe that the merge purge process is solely limited to Excel techniques and functions that do very little to rectify increasingly complex needs of data quality. This guide will help business and IT users…
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Content Marketing
The Best Free Slideshow Maker Apps (Desktop Software, Mobile Apps, and Online Platforms)
Good slideshow maker software allows you to develop impressive presentations or videos with various customizable tools such as templates, sounds, effects, text formatting and shapes, etc. The generated files are saved in various formats like . MPEG, MOV, .AVI or .MP4, etc. So they can be easily accessed on other platforms such as Android, iOS or computer. These presentations can…
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Content Marketing
DesignCap: Design Striking Graphics Quickly For Business, Events, Social Media And More…
DesignCap is an online graphic design platform packed with thousands of professionally designed templates that help you easily create graphics, including: Data Visualization – Design infographics, presentations, reports, and charts. Marketing Graphics – Design posters, flyers, brochures, or menus. Social Media Graphics – YouTube Banners, YouTube Thumbnails, Facebook Page Covers, Instagram Posts. Other – Design cards and invitations. Not everyone…
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Content Marketing
When Can You Borrow and Use An Image Online?
A business I worked with posted an update on Twitter with an amusing cartoon that even had their company logo overlaid on it. I was surprised because I didn’t think they’d hired a cartoonist. I sent them a note and they were surprised… they had hired a social media company to engage and grow their following. The social media company…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Email Design Trends for 2021
The browser industry continues to move at full-speed with amazing innovation. Email, on the other hand, drags behind in its technological advancements as email lag in adopting the latest in HTML and CSS standards. That said, it’s a challenge that makes digital marketers work that much harder at being innovative and creative in their use of this primary marketing medium.…
