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Customer Data Platforms
Why Sales and Marketing Teams Need Cloud ERP
Marketing and sales leaders are integral components in driving company revenue. The marketing department is vital in promoting the business, detailing its offerings, and establishing its differentiators. Marketing also generates interest in the product and creates leads or prospects. In concert, sales teams focus on converting prospects to paying customers. The functions are closely intertwined and critical to a business’s…
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Advertising Technology
Adzooma: Manage and Optimize Your Google, Microsoft, and Meta Ads In One Platform
Adzooma is a Google Partner, Microsoft Partner, and Facebook Marketing Partner. They’ve built an intelligent, easy-to-use platform where you can manage Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, and Facebook Ads all centrally. Adzooma offers both an end solution for companies as well as an agency solution for managing clients and it’s trusted by over 12,000 users. With Adzooma, you can see how…
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E-commerce and Retail
Facebook Shops: Why Small Businesses Need To Get Onboard
The impact of the pandemic was especially hard on small retail businesses that could not sell online while their physical stores were closed. Even today one in three specialty independent retailers doesn’t have an e-commerce-enabled website. Facebook Shops offers a simple solution for small businesses to sell online. Why Sell On Facebook Shops? With over 2.6 billion monthly users, Facebook’s power and…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Why It’s Okay For Brands To Decline Some Comments
When I speak to an audience of business people curious about managing their online presence, whether through blogging or social media, a couple of pieces of advice I provide evoke a lot of emotion: Brands should moderate comments and posts to curate a positive view. Deleting a negative comment or post is often better than attacking it. I recommend that…
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E-commerce and Retail
Freshmarketer: Analyze, Test, and Personalize with this Conversion Optimization Suite
The amount of work being put into digital properties and content that doesn’t actually drive any business is mind-boggling. It’s even frustrating on the services side of the industry, where customers will insist on a project to launch a site, integration, or service but then won’t invest in the time and energy to optimize the use of that platform. Optimization…
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Analytics & Testing
MetaCX: Manage Customer Lifecycles Collaboratively With Outcome-Based Selling
Over a decade ago, I worked with some incredible talent in the SaaS industry – including working as a product manager for Scott McCorkle and many years as an integration consultant working with Dave Duke. Scott was a relentless innovator who was able to leap over any challenge. Dave was a consistently transformative account manager who assisted the world’s largest…
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Advertising Technology
Publishers Are Letting AdTech Kill Their Advantages
The web is the most dynamic and inventive medium ever to exist. So, when it comes to digital advertising, creativity should be unbounded. A publisher should, in theory, be able to radically differentiate its media kit from other publishers to win direct sales and deliver unparalleled impact and performance to its partners. But they don’t — because they’ve been focused…
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Marketing Tools
Brightpod: The Ultimate Solution for Marketing Workflow Efficiency
Marketing teams face the daunting challenge of managing multiple projects simultaneously, tracking progress, and ensuring timely delivery. The complexity of coordinating tasks, maintaining clear communication, and meeting tight deadlines can overwhelm even the most organized teams. Finding a solution that can streamline these processes, enhance collaboration, and boost productivity is critical for success in today’s competitive environment. Overview of Brightpod…
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Content Marketing
WordPress: Create Sidebars Automatically For Each Category
I’ve been simplifying this site to improve speed times and to attempt to monetize the site better without irritating my readers. There are multiple ways that I’ve monetized the site… here they are from most to least lucrative: Direct sponsorships from partner companies. We work on collective strategies that incorporate everything from webinars to social media shares to promote their…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Email Preference Center and Unsubscribe Pages: Using Roles vs. Publications
We’ve been working with a national non-profit on a complex Salesforce and Marketing Cloud migration and implementation. Early on in our discovery, we pointed out some key issues regarding their preferences, which were very operations-based. When the company designs a campaign, it creates a list of recipients outside its email marketing platform, uploads it as a new list, designs the…
