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- Sales and Marketing Training
Please Test Your Lead Generation Forms
Years ago, we worked with a client who invested a significant budget with a branding agency to build a beautiful new web presence. The client came to us because they weren’t seeing any leads coming through the site and asked us to help them out. We did the first thing we usually do: submit a request through their contact page…
- Marketing Tools
Why Should Your Company Pay for Managed DNS?
While you manage the registration of a domain at a domain registrar, it’s not always a great idea to manage where and how your domain resolves all of its other DNS entries to resolve your email, subdomains, host, etc. Your domain registrars’ primary business is selling domains, not ensuring that your domain can resolve quickly, managed easily, and has redundancy…
- E-commerce and Retail
Go-To Strategies & Challenges To Holiday Marketing in Post-Covid Era
The special time of the year is right around the corner, the time we all look forward to unwinding with our loved ones and most importantly indulge in heaps of holiday shopping. Although unlike the usual holidays, this year stands apart due to the widespread disruption by COVID-19. While the world is still struggling to deal with this uncertainty and…
- Marketing Tools
KosmoTime: Create Tasks That Reserve Time On Your Calendar
As a partner in an agency working with enterprise companies, my days are a blur, and my calendar is a mess – bouncing from sales to strategy to stand-ups to partner meetings non-stop. Between all those calls, I need to get the work done that I’ve committed to with clients, too! One thing I’ve done in the past is block…
- Content Marketing
Global Ecommerce: Automatic vs Machine vs People Translation for Localisation
Cross border e-commerce is booming. Even just 4 years ago, a Nielsen report suggested that 57% of shoppers had purchased from an overseas retailer in the previous 6 months. In recent months the global COVID-19 has had a huge impact on retail across the globe. Brick and mortar shopping has dropped significantly in the US and UK, with the decline…
- Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Zendesk: How To Integrate Your Helpdesk with X (Formerly Twitter)
Social media platforms like X (formerly Twitter) have become integral to customer interaction with brands. They provide a public forum for customers to express their opinions, ask questions, and seek support. This presents both a challenge and an opportunity for businesses. The challenge lies in managing the sheer volume and velocity of customer interactions on social media. The opportunity, however,…
- Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
Google’s Antitrust Suit is a Harbinger of Rough Waters for Apple’s IDFA Changes
While a long time coming, DOJ’s antitrust lawsuit against Google has arrived at an important time for the ad tech industry, as marketers are bracing for Apple’s crippling Identifier for Advertisers (IDFA) changes. And with Apple also being accused in the recent 449-page report from the US House of Representatives of abusing its respective monopoly power, Tim Cook must be…
- Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
Swing2App: The Ultimate No-code App Development Platform
There’s enough evidence about how mobile apps have taken over smartphones. If not a hundred, there is at least one app for every purpose. And yet, pioneering entrepreneurs are still probing new avenues to enter the mobility solution game. The question to ask, though, is: How many new businesses and entrepreneurs can actually afford the traditional way of app development? …
- Advertising Technology
Contextual Targeting: The Answer to Brand-Safe Ad Environments?
Today’s increasing privacy concerns, coupled with the cookie’s demise, means marketers now need to deliver more personalised campaigns, in real-time and at scale. More importantly, they need to demonstrate empathy and present their messaging in brand-safe environments. This is where the power of contextual targeting comes into play. Contextual targeting is a way to target relevant audiences using keywords and…
- Advertising Technology
Purply: Automated Affiliate Program Management for Ecommerce
As online business continues to grow, especially during this time of Covid-19, as well as year over year during the holiday season, small and midsize companies are increasingly entering the digital fray. These businesses are in direct competition with much larger, established players, such as Amazon and Walmart. For these businesses to stay viable and competitive, adopting an affiliate marketing…
