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- Advertising Technology
MarketerHire: Where To Hire A Vetted Freelance Marketer
This year has been a challenge for many organizations. Despite it being anecdotal, three trends that I’m observing are: Digital Transformation – the previous focus on external customer experience has shifted to internal automation and integration with large organizations as they reduce staff and expenses.Remote Teams – because of the shift to working from home during the pandemic, companies have…
- E-commerce and Retail
Omnisend: An Easy-to-use Platform for E-commerce Email & SMS Marketing Automation
One of the most exciting advancements in marketing automation this year, in my opinion, has been the advancement of affordable solutions to automate your e-commerce marketing. Traditional marketing automation platforms have to be integrated and then each campaign developed over time – the implementations can take weeks or months before you can start seeing revenue. Now, these new platforms don’t…
- Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
AMP: What are Accelerated Mobile Pages? And Don’t Forget To Implement Analytics
This last month I’ve been working with a client that’s seen a noticeable decline in organic search traffic over the last year. We’ve fixed quite a few issues with the site that could impact rankings; however, I was missing one key factor in reviewing their analytics – Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP). What is AMP? With responsive websites becoming the norm,…
- Email Marketing & Automation
Marketing Cloud: Maximize Your Email Deliverability with Sender Authentication Package
Most companies sending emails genuinely underestimate how much deliverability can impact their organization. A beautiful, well-constructed, and highly effective email can be in the junk folder of someone who subscribed and wished to convert to your company. That’s a terrible situation to be in. Even worse, you may not realize that your emails are being routed to junk unless you…
- E-commerce and Retail
The Rise Of Digital Wallet Adoption
The global digital payment market size is expected to from USD 79.3 billion in 2020 to USD 154.1 billion by 2025, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 14.2%.MarketsandMarkets In retrospect, we don’t have a reason to doubt this number. If anything, if we keep the current coronavirus crisis into consideration, the growth and adoption will accelerate. Virus or…
- Content Marketing
Survey Results: How Are Marketers Responding to the Pandemic and Lockdowns?
As the lockdown eases and more employees head back to the office, we were interested in investigating the challenges small businesses have faced due to the Covid-19 pandemic, what they have been doing over lockdown to develop their business, any upskilling they’ve done, the technology they’ve used over this time, and what their plans and outlook for the future are. …
- Content Marketing
ICanLocalize: Affordably Translate Your Business Site To Reach New Audiences
My agency is working assisting a bilingual healthcare-related company to build out their site, optimize it for search, and to develop marketing communications out to their clients. While they had a nice WordPress site, the people that built it depended on machine translation for visitors who spoke Spanish. There are three challenges with the site’s machine translation, though: Dialect –…
- Analytics & Testing
4 Ways Machine Learning Is Enhancing Social Media Marketing
With more people being involved in online social networking every day, social media have become an indispensable part of marketing strategies for businesses of all kinds. There were 4.388 billion internet users worldwide in 2019, and 79% of them were active social users. Global State of Digital Report When used strategically, social media marketing can contribute to a company’s revenue,…
- Content Marketing
5 Reasons for B2B Marketers to Incorporate Bots In Their Digital Marketing Strategy
The internet conveniently describes bots to be software applications that run automated tasks for companies over the internet. Bots have been around for quite some time now, and have evolved from what they first used to be. Bots are now tasked with carrying out a wide array of tasks for a diverse list of industries. Regardless of whether we are…
- Customer Data Platforms
Digital Behavioral Data: The Best-Kept Secret to Striking the Right Chord with Gen Z
The most successful marketing strategies are fueled by a deep understanding of the people they are designed to reach. And, considering age is one of the most common predictors of differences in attitudes and behaviors, looking through a generational lens has long been a useful way for marketers to establish empathy for their audiences. Today, forward-leaning corporate decision-makers are focusing…
