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- Content Marketing
After 13 Years, Podcasting Has Finally Come Of Age For Corporations
In 2004, BBC journalist Ben Hammersley combined the word pod (from the Apple iPod) with the word broadcast and coined the term podcast. At that time, podcasting wasn’t easy. Apple’s iTunes was required for you to subscribe to the podcast feed and download the audio file to a local computer. When you were ready to listen, you’d plug your iPod into your computer…
- Social Media & Influencer Marketing
“Customer First” Must be the Mantra
Harnessing the power of the many sophisticated marketing technologies available is a good move for business, but only if you keep your customer in mind. Business growth relies upon technology, this is an undisputed fact, but more important than any tool or piece of software is the people you are selling to. Getting to know your customer when they’re not…
- Advertising Technology
Are Programmatic Advertising Buys Killing Your Reputation?
Monetizing a publication isn’t quite as easy as it looks. Take a close look at any major publication and you’ll find half a dozen different annoyances that practically beg readers to go away. And they often do. However, monetization is a necessary evil. Like it or not, I have to pay the bills around here so I need to balance…
- Event Marketing
9 Ways To Streamline Your B2B Events with Event Tech
New In Your Martech Stack: Event Management Software Event planners and marketers have a lot to juggle. Finding great speakers, curating awesome content, selling sponsorships, and delivering an exceptional attendee experience encompass a small percentage of their day-to-day activities. Still, they’re activities that take up a large amount of time. That’s why organizers of B2B events are increasingly adding Event…
- Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Succeeding at Facebook Marketing Takes an “All Data Sources on Deck” Approach
For marketers, Facebook is the 800-pound gorilla in the room. The Pew Research Center says that nearly 80% of Americans who are online use Facebook, more than twice the number who use Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest or LinkedIn. Facebook users are also highly engaged, with more than three-quarters of them visiting the site daily and over half logging in multiple times per day.…
- Social Media & Influencer Marketing
What’s the Impact of a Micro vs. Macro-Influencer Strategies on Instagram
Influencer marketing lies somewhere between the word-of-mouth colleague you trust and the paid advertisement you put on a website. Influencers often have the great ability to build awareness but range in their ability to influence prospects on a purchase decision. While it’s a more deliberate, engaging strategy to reach your core audience than a banner ad, influencer marketing continues to…
- Email Marketing & Automation
Act-On: Purpose-Built, SaaS, Cloud-Based Marketing Automation
Modern marketing is digital marketing. Its broad scope spans outbound and inbound tactics, lead generation and nurturing strategies, and customer lifecycle optimization and advocacy programs. To succeed, marketers need a digital marketing solution that’s capability-rich, flexible, interoperable with other systems and tools, intuitive, easy to use, effective, and cost-efficient. Additionally, 90 percent of businesses worldwide are smaller, and so are…
- E-commerce and Retail
Marketers: Recognize These Behaviours Central to British Buying
Did you see what I did there? This Midwesterner used the British spelling of behaviour rather than behavior. I just wanted to prove to everyone how worldly I am… or not. I’ve actually never been to the United Kingdom despite Scottish and British heritage on my Mum’s side of the family. (See that? I did it again!) Ok, humour aside…
- Content Marketing
How Your Hosting Can Affect Your SEO
Yes, your hosting can have an impact on your SEO. Surprised? So are most people when they learn that their hosting plan can impact their potential for reaching high SERPs. But why? And how? Turns out, your hosting plan affects three major areas which all affect your rankings: Security, Location, and Speed. We’ll give you a thorough breakdown not just…
- Marketing Tools
Espresso: Editing Email Templates in OSX is Easier With Content Folding
Because email HTML doesn’t respect HTML5 and CSS3, it requires a multitude of nested tables to make anything align well and incorporate responsiveness for mobile applications. When you begin building complex email templates with many sources, embedded code, and varying layouts, it’s easy to get lost in your code. Utilizing email client testing, I could verify that our email newsletter…
