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Use These Tips and Tools To Conquer Your Marketing Workload
If you want to effectively manage your marketing workload, you have to do a better job of organizing your day, reassessing your network, developing healthier processes, and taking advantage of platforms that can help. Adopt Technology That Helps You Focus Because I’m a technology guy, I’ll start with that. I’m not sure what I’d do without Brightpod, the system I use…
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CMO-on-the-Go: How Gig Workers Can Benefit Your Marketing Department
The average tenure of a CMO is just over four years—the shortest in the C-suite. Why? With the pressure to hit revenue goals, burnout is becoming next to inevitable. That’s where gig work comes in. Being a CMO-on-the-Go allows Chief Marketers to set their schedule and take on only what they know they can handle, resulting in higher quality work…
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Hotter than Hot: Introducing the New Secret Sauce Recipe for Marketing on LinkedIn
A year ago, LinkedIn shared their special in-house recipe. When they released Secret Sauce: How LinkedIn Uses LinkedIn for Marketing, they made public all of the tactics and tips used by the LinkedIn Marketing Solutions team when executing campaigns on their own platform. Now, they’re bringing back the Secret Sauce and turning up the heat. Same bottle. More flavor. The…
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“Art of War” Military Strategies are the Next Way to Seize the Market
Retail competition is fierce these days. With big players like Amazon dominating e-commerce, many companies are struggling to solidify their position in the market. Head marketers at the world’s top e-commerce companies aren’t sitting on the sidelines just hoping their products gain traction. They’re using Art of War military strategies and tactics to push their products ahead of the enemy.…
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SalesRep.ai: Utilizing Intelligence to Automate Multi-Channel Prospect Interaction
As this video from SalesRep shows, a huge portion of outbound sales time is spent connecting or scheduling to connect with a customer. SalesRep utilizes call automation with an autonomous, natural language processing (NLP) platform to take that effort off of your sales team’s back, enabling them to focus all of their attention on the sale – not the connection.…
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How Businesses Should Be Interacting with Each Social Media Platform
My opinion of social media is often different with those in my industry. Theoretically, I love social media and the opportunity it offers businesses to reach customers and prospects on a personal level. The reality has been very different, though. I’ve watched businesses attempt to utilize social media the same way they do other marketing channels. In some situations, this…
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Heartbeat: Reach Over 150,000 Passionate Female Millennial Consumers
Brands today are spending $36 billion on social channels to engage and acquire new millennial consumers using Influencer-style campaigns with celebrity names. However; engagement and conversions are low because millennial women trust and engage more with friends’ recommendations exclusively when choosing between one product or service and another. Heartbeat is a platform for millennial women to promote brands within their…
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How Netflix Increases Customer Engagement Utilizing Big Data
Data has become a precious commodity for businesses across all sectors. Netflix, the streaming giant with over 100 million subscribers, has mastered the art of harnessing big data to enhance user experience, improve content creation, and drive business growth. This article explores how Netflix utilizes big data and what marketers can learn from their approach. What is Big Data? Before…
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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…
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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…
