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- Marketing Books
Adopting IoT: Why Marketers Must Embrace the Digital Evolution
In Internet of Things: Digitize or Die by Nicolas Windpassinger, the author delivers more than a roadmap for technological transformation—he delivers a wake-up call. Drawing from years of experience in digital ecosystems and industrial automation, Windpassinger writes with urgency and clarity about the IoT revolution, offering a stark binary for businesses: digitize or die. As this helpful book explains, the…
- Advertising Technology
Vibenomics Audio Out-Of-Home Advertising: Personalized, Location-Based Music and Messaging
Prime Car Wash CEO Brent Oakley had a problem. His premium car washes were a hit, but while his customers were waiting on their car, no one was engaging them on the new products and services they had to offer. He created a platform where he could record personalized, location-based messages and music to his customers. And it worked. When…
- Sales and Marketing Training
The Greatest Rewards Come With The Most Effort
As a 49-year-old, this article is going to forever label me as a curmudgeon. I hope, through this, that I open your mind to a different way of thinking about marketing, technology and our lives in their entirety. I’m not, by any sense of the world, a visionary nor am I a wealthy entrepreneur. I am, however, a delighted, stable…
- Marketing Infographics
Click-to-Call Has Become Critical to Local Search Advertising Success
Click-to-call allows potential customers to phone your business in one click from search engine results. Customers still love to call businesses and click-to-call makes it easier than ever for them to do that. Global click-to-call revenue was $7.41 billion in 2016 and this is expected to rise to $13.7 billion by 2020 In fact, 61% of mobile users say click-to-call…
- Marketing Tools
Design Wizard: Create High-Quality Graphical Content in Minutes
The pressure on marketers, business owners and entrepreneurs to produce high quality, original campaigns has never been as intense as it is right now. Without design knowledge and creative strategies it’s going be increasingly difficult to keep up with the rising standard. Design Wizard is an online graphic design software that offers people a quick, easy and affordable solution to…
- Content Marketing
PHP: Use the WordPress API to Build a Shortcode to List Subpages
We’re working on quite a complex implementation for an enterprise client right now. The site is being built in WordPress but has a ton of bells and whistles. Often, when I’m doing this type of work, I like to save the custom code for repurposing later on other sites. In this case, I thought it was such a useful function,…
- Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
Account-Based Sales Strategy is the Future, and Groove is Here For It
When it comes to SaaS software sales, targeting individuals is hardly a model of efficiency. After all, an average of 5.4 people are involved in a single enterprise sales decision. Given that group-based vetting is the norm, account-based sales (ABS) is more productive than targeting specific leads. The account-based approach to selling, however, can be time consuming. Tracking in-depth metrics…
- Artificial Intelligence
Will You Lose Your Marketing Job to a Robot?
This is one of those posts that you snicker at… and then go get a shot of bourbon to forget. At first glance, this seems like a ridiculous question. How in the world could you replace a marketing manager? That would require the ability to study consumer behavior thoroughly, analyze complex data and trends objectively, and think creatively to come…
- Content Marketing
5 Awesome Tools for Content Marketing Minimalists
I consider myself a minimalist in content marketing. I don’t like complicated calendars, schedulers and planning tools—to me, they make the process more complicated than it needs to be. Not to mention, they make content marketers rigid. If you’re using a 6-month content calendar planning tool—that your company is paying for—you feel obligated to stick to every detail of that…
- Marketing Infographics
A Rather Timely Post on Influencer Marketing Strategies for Hotels
Yikes… if you’ve not seen the recent situation between rising social media influencer Elle Darby and Paul Stenson, owner of Dublin’s White Moose Café and Charleville Lodge. When Elle Darby decided to go on vacation, she reached out to several hotels she might be interested in staying at to see if they might provide a stay in trade for some…
