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  • Content MarketingElementor: WordPress Page Builder and Designer

    Elementor: A Fantastic Editor for Designing Beautiful WordPress Pages and Posts

    This afternoon, I spent a few hours building my first client site using Elementor. If you’re in the WordPress industry, you’ve probably already heard the buzz about Elementor—they’ve just hit 2 million installations! For the last couple of years, I’ve been using Avada for all of my clients. The theme is elegantly constructed, utilizing a combination of theme and plugin to maintain…

  • Sales and Marketing TrainingBuild Or Buy Your Next Marketing Platform

    10 Reasons A Company May Want to Build A Solution Versus Licensing One (And Reasons Not To)

    Recently, I wrote an article advising companies not to host their videos on their infrastructure. There was some pushback from some techies who understood the ins and outs of video hosting. They had some excellent points, but video requires an audience, and many video hosting platforms provide a solution AND the audience. In fact, YouTube is the second most searched…

  • Advertising TechnologyBrand Playbook: 2020 Holiday Season

    Your Brand Playbook For Delivering a Successful 2020 Holiday Season

    The COVID-19 pandemic has had a dramatic impact on life as we know it. The norms of our day-to-day activities and choices, including what we buy and how we go about doing so, have shifted with no sign of reverting back to old ways anytime soon. Knowing the holidays are around the corner, being able to understand and anticipate consumer…

  • Social Media & Influencer MarketingAugmented Reality and 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…

  • Social Media & Influencer MarketingHow is Social Media Marketing Different than Traditional 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…

  • Email Marketing & Automation9 Ways to save money and time with marketing automation (infographic)

    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 &…

  • Advertising TechnologyContextual Ad Targeting for Brand Safety

    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…

  • Content MarketingIP Guide for Marketers: Intellectual Property Guide

    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…

  • Analytics & TestingConga: Customer and Contract Lifecycle Managment (CLM, CPQ)

    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…

  • Analytics & TestingReal-Time Marketing

    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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