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Analytics & Testing
Why Team Communication Is More Important Than Your Martech Stack
Simo Ahava’s atypical viewpoint on data quality and communication structures freshened up the whole lounge at the Go Analytics! conference. OWOX, the MarTech leader in the CIS region, welcomed thousands of experts to this gathering to share their knowledge and ideas. OWOX BI Team would like you to think over the concept proposed by Simo Ahava, which definitely has potential…
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Analytics & Testing
Tips from High-Converting Sites
There is nothing more disappointing than having a successful paid ad campaign that drove tons of traffic to your site but resulted in low conversions. Unfortunately, many digital marketers have experienced this, and the solution is the same: optimize your site with high-converting content. In the end, the hardest part is not getting the person to the door, it’s getting…
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Analytics & Testing
Exposure is Not the Same as Impact: It’s Time to Stop Using Impressions to Measure Value
What are Impressions? Impressions are the number of potential eyeballs on your story or social media post based on estimated readers/viewers of the outlet/source. In 2019, impressions are laughed out of the room. It’s not uncommon to see impressions in the billions. There are 7 billion people on earth: about 1 billion of them don’t have electricity, and most of the…
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E-commerce and Retail
Virtual Shopping Assistant: The Next Big Development in ECommerce?
Today, you walk into a brick-and-mortar retail store. No, this is not a joke, and that’s not the punchline. E-commerce continues to take bigger bites out of the retail pie, but there are still unrealized milestones for the innovations and convenience of brick-and-mortar. One of the last frontiers is the presence of the friendly, helpful shop assistant. How can I…
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Analytics & Testing
Alexa.com’s Site Overview: New Features Give Marketers Better Snapshot of Search and Content Opportunities, for Free
For marketers working to reach new audiences online, insights into competitors’ brand-building activities, strengths and weaknesses, and opportunities to reach and capture their audience can play a powerful role in driving success. However, such competitive insights have mostly been available to companies with vast resources and their own analytics teams. Alexa Site Overview The Alexa.com Site Overview service – which already…
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
Scared Salesless
This week, I sat down with a business owner that I’ve worked with on a few projects. He’s very talented and has a growing business that’s doing well. As a young small business, he’s challenged with carefully balancing his calendar and budget. He had a major engagement that was planned with a new client unexpectedly get delayed. It put the…
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E-commerce and Retail
Workable Strategies for Omni-Channel Communication
A brief explanation of what Omni-channel communication is and specific features and strategies within it for marketing teams to increase their customers’ loyalty and value.
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Marketing Tools
Duet: Use Your iPad As An Additional Monitor
Every once in a while, you discover some amazing application that you wonder how you ever did without. I’ve been working onsite a ton with clients and in coworking facilities around the country, but I found it difficult to be productive with just one screen. I was spoiled by having multiple screens at my office, and I wanted something for…
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Content Marketing
Ditch Your Video Editor for One of These With Audio Synching
This last week, I was working on remixing a customer testimonial for a client. The videographer they worked with was fantastic, providing all of the raw video and audio to them in the event they wanted to assemble videos in the future. They shared the raw MXF files with me so that I could download them and I instantly realized…
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Content Marketing
PERIODS: Maximize Your Home or Landing Page with these 7 Pieces of Content
Over the last decade, we’ve really seen visitors on websites behave quite differently. Years ago, we built sites that listed out products, features, and company information… all of which were centered around what companies did. Now, consumers and businesses alike are landing on home pages and landing pages to research their next purchase. But they’re not seeking a list of…
