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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
How Might Augmented Reality Affect Influencer Marketing?
COVID-19 has changed the way we shop. With a pandemic raging outside, consumers are opting to stay in and purchase items online instead. That’s why consumers are increasingly tuning into influencers for how-to videos on anything, from trying on lipstick to playing our favorite video games. For more on the effect of the pandemic on influencer marketing and pricing, see our recent…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
How Is Social Media Marketing Different Than Traditional Marketing?
Businesses continually adapt their strategies to reach and engage their target audiences effectively. Two major approaches have emerged: traditional marketing and social media marketing. While both aim to promote products or services, they differ significantly in their methods, reach, and effectiveness. This article explores the key differences between these two marketing paradigms and their strengths and weaknesses. Traditional vs. Social…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Top 9 Ways to Save Time and Money with Marketing Automation
Automating repetitive marketing tasks like emails, social media updates, and other website actions can free up valuable time, allowing you to focus on bigger-picture strategies. Here are nine marketing automation strategies to help your business save time, money, and resources. Table of ContentsSocial Media Updates & PostsDynamic ContentContent AmplificationClient Reservations & AppointmentsLead ManagementPost-Purchase Email SeriesLead Scoring & SegmentingUpsell OffersIncentive &…
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Advertising Technology
Contextual Targeting: Building Brand Safety In A Cookie-less Era
Brand safety is an absolute must for marketers moving forward in this politically and economically volatile environment and could even make the difference in staying in business. Brands are now having to pull ads regularly because they appear in inappropriate contexts, with 99% of advertisers concerned about their ads appearing in brand-safe environments. There is good reason for concern Studies…
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Content Marketing
A Guide for Marketers About Intellectual Property (IP)
Marketing is a continuous undertaking. Whether you are an enterprise corporation or a small business, marketing is essential to keep businesses afloat and help drive them toward success. So, it is important to secure and maintain your brand’s reputation to establish a smooth marketing campaign for your business. But before devising a strategic marketing campaign, marketers must fully realize their brand’s…
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Analytics & Testing
Conga Contract Lifecycle Management: Improve Sales Efficiency With Document Workflow Automation
Conducting business that feels frictionless to the customer in the face of an increasingly complex market is no easy feat. Conga’s expertise and comprehensive solution suite for commercial operations—the processes around Configure Price Quote (CPQ), Customer Lifecycle Management (CLM), and Digital Documents—helps businesses tackle complexity with confidence so they can provide a frictionless customer experience and accelerate revenue. With Conga, businesses move faster to meet customer needs…
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Analytics & Testing
Why Real-Time Marketing Has Become More Essential in The COVID Era
It’s been confirmed that the United States’ annual Super Bowl needs upwards of 11 million kilowatt-hours of power to run the game start to finish. Snack brand Oreo had been waiting around two years for the moment when not all 11 million kilowatt-hours of power would successfully run and there’d be a blackout; just in time for the brand to execute their punchline.…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
The 8 Types of Social Media Villains and How You Should Respond To Them
We’ve all had them – the villain that growls and snarls all over your comments – angering your other visitors and generally producing mayhem. It’s pretty stressful, but there is a way to thwart the evil social media villain. In the dynamic realm of social media, where conversations are rapid, opinions are shared freely, and information travels at the speed…
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Analytics & Testing
Freshsales: Attract, Engage, Close, and Nurture Leads For Your Business In One Sales Platform
Most industry CRM and sales enablement platforms require integrations, synchronizations, and management. Adoption of these tools is highly failure-prone because they are quite disruptive to your organization. Most of the time, consultants and developers are required to get everything working. Not to mention the additional time required for data entry and little or no intelligence or insight into prospects’ and…
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Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
Business Challenges & Opportunities With The COVID-19 Pandemic
For several years, I’ve touted that change is the only constant marketers should be comfortable with. Changes in technology, mediums, and additional channels all pressured organizations to adjust to the demands of consumers and businesses. In recent years, companies have also been forced to be more transparent and human in their efforts. Consumers and businesses have started to do business…
