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Content Marketing
EveryoneSocial: Turn Your Employees into a Social Amplifier
EveryoneSocial is the leading employee advocacy and social selling platform that provides its customers with an average of 1,750 connections per employee, 200% increase in sales pipelines, 48% bigger deal sizes, 4x increase in brand awareness, and at one-tenth the cost of paid social media programs. Why Employee Advocacy? Every company has a powerful, untapped resource with the potential to…
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Customer Data Platforms
How to Improve Customer Loyalty with Digital Marketing
You can’t retain what you don’t understand. When focused on constant customer acquisition, it’s easy to get carried away. Okay, so you’ve figured out an acquisition strategy and made your product/service fit into the customers’ lives. Your unique value proposition (UVP) works—it entices conversion and guides purchase decisions. Do you know what happens after? Where does the user fit after the completion…
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Customer Data Platforms
The Identity Puzzle in Customer Data Management
The Consumer Identity Crisis In Hindu mythology, Ravana, the great scholar, and demon king, has ten heads, symbolizing his various powers and knowledge. The heads were indestructible with the ability to morph and regrow. In their battle, Rama, the warrior god, thus must go below Ravana’s heads and aim the arrow at his solitary heart to slay him for good.…
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E-commerce and Retail
Why You Need to Invest in Product Videos on Your E-commerce Site
Product videos offer e-retailers a creative way of demonstrating their products while also allowing customers a chance to view products in action. By 2021, it’s estimated that 82% of all internet traffic will be made up of video consumption. One way eCommerce businesses can get ahead of this is by creating product videos. Statistics that Encourage Product Videos for Your…
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Advertising Technology
Digital Transformation is a Leadership Issue, Not a Technology Issue
For over a decade, the focus of my consulting in our industry has been helping businesses punch through and transform their companies digitally. While this is often thought of as some top-down push from investors, the board, or the Chief Executive Officer, you might be surprised that the company leadership lacks the experience and skill to push digital transformation (DX).…
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E-commerce and Retail
How Product Pricing Online Can Influence Buying Behavior
The psychology behind e-commerce is quite amazing. I’m an avid online shopper and am often surprised at all the things that I buy that I didn’t really need but it was just too cool or too good a deal to pass up! This infographic from Wikibuy, 13 Psychological Pricing Hacks to Increase Sales, describes the impact of pricing and how…
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Content Marketing
Guess What? Vertical Videos Aren’t Just Mainstream, They’re More Effective
Years ago, a colleague publicly mocked me online when I was sharing my thoughts via video. His problem with my videos? I was holding the phone vertically rather than horizontally. Based on my video orientation, he questioned my expertise and standing in the industry. It was maddening for a few reasons: Videos are all about their ability to captivate and…
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Event Marketing
How to Treat Your Public Speakers
This is a post that I should have written over a year ago, but I was motivated to write it tonight after an event that I spoke at. Last year, I traveled out to Rapid City, South Dakota and spoke at Concept ONE, a premiere business marketing event founded by Korena Keys, a regional entrepreneur, agency owner, and proud South…
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Content Marketing
How to Record Multiple Local Guests on Your Zoom H6 With a Remote Guest in Garageband
If you’re going to get serious about podcasting, I’d encourage you to save up for a Zoom H6 Recorder. It’s a simple device that requires almost no training to record with. Add some Shure SM58 microphones, portable microphone stands, and you’ve got a studio that you can take anywhere and get great sound with. However, while this is great for…
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Content Marketing
Yes, There Are Still Great Blogs Out There To Discover… Here’s How to Search for Them
Blogs? Am I really writing about blogging? Well, yes. While the official umbrella term we now apply in the industry is content marketing, blogging continues to be the most common format that companies are utilizing to reach their perspective and current clients. I never actually realized that the term blogging would grow to obselecense, but it’s used a lot less…
