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- Marketing Books
The Context Marketing Revolution
In his book, Matthew Sweezey presents a compelling case for a paradigm shift in how businesses approach marketing in the digital age. This book offers a fresh perspective on the evolving landscape of consumer behavior and the need for marketers to adapt their strategies accordingly. Sweezey, a principal of marketing insights at Salesforce, draws from his extensive experience and research…
- Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
Top 10 App Store Optimization Tools To Improve Your App Ranking On Popular App Platforms
With over 2.87 millions applications available on Android Play Store and over 1.96 million applications available on iOS App Store, we wouldn’t be exaggerating if we said that the app market is increasingly becoming cluttered. Logically, your app is not competing with another app from your competitor in the same niche but with apps from across market segments and niches. If you…
- Customer Data Platforms
Scratchpad Command: The Fastest Way to Access and Update Salesforce From Any Web App
Account executives in nearly all sales organizations are inundated with too many sales tools that are decentralized from their CRM. This forces salespeople into a time-consuming and exhausting workflow of navigating back and forth between tools, managing dozens of browser tabs, monotonous clicking, and tedious copying and pasting, all while simultaneously trying to update Salesforce. As a result, there is…
- Marketing Tools
CodePen: Built, Test, Share and Discover HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
One challenge with a content management system is testing and producing scripted tools. While that’s not a requirement for most publishers, as a technology publication, I like sharing working scripts occasionally to help others. I’ve shared how to use JavaScript to check password strength and how to check email address syntax with Regular Expressions (Regex), and most recently added this…
- Content Marketing
Top 3 Tech Strategies for Publishers in 2021
The past year has been difficult for publishers. Given the chaos of COVID-19, elections, and social turmoil, more people have consumed more news and entertainment over the last year than ever before. But their skepticism of the sources providing that information has also reached an all-time high, as the rising tide of misinformation pushed trust in social media and even…
- Marketing Tools
Python: Script A Google Autosuggest Extract of Trends for Your Niche Search Keywords
Everyone likes Google Trends, but it’s a bit tricky when it comes to Long Tail Keywords. We all like the official google trends service for getting insights on the search behavior. However, two things prevent many from using it for solid work; When you need to find new niche keywords, there is not enough data on Google Trends Lack of official API for making requests…
- Content Marketing
Marketing Trends: The Rise of the Ambassador and Creator Era
2020 fundamentally changed the role social media plays in consumers’ lives. It became a lifeline to friends, family and colleagues, a forum for political activism and a hub for spontaneous and planned virtual events and get-togethers. Those changes laid the groundwork for trends that will reshape the social media marketing world in 2021 and beyond, where leveraging the power of…
- Advertising Technology
How Does Advertising Work? What Makes People Buy?
While researching the topic of advertising, I happened upon an infographic on How Advertising Makes Us Buy. The infographic below opens with the notion that companies are rich and have piles of money and they use it to manipulate their poor audience. I think that’s a rather disturbing, unfortunate, and unlikely notion. The first notion that only rich companies advertise…
- Customer Data Platforms
Loop & Tie: B2B Outreach Gifting Is Now A Salesforce App In The AppExchange Marketplace
A lesson that I continue to teach people in B2B marketing is that buying is still personal, even when working with large organizations. Decision-makers are concerned with their careers, their stress levels, their work volume, and even their day-to-day enjoyment of their job. As a B2B service or product provider, the experience of working with your organization will often outweigh…
- Content Marketing
Why Your Corporate Videos Miss The Mark, And What To Do About It
We all know what someone means when they say “corporate video.” In theory, the term applies to any video made by a corporation. It used to be a neutral descriptor, but it’s not anymore. These days, many of us in B2B marketing say corporate video with a bit of a sneer. That’s because corporate video is bland. Corporate video is…
