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- Public Relations
This is not an Influencer Marketing Strategy, Stop It!
There’s so much noise on social media that it’s sometimes tough to keep up. I love the fact that I have a large following online and I try to engage and respond to everyone who makes a request. When it’s a company that I have previously communicated with, I especially make time and respond accordingly. That said, there’s a nefarious…
- Advertising Technology
LegalZoom Implements Artificial Intelligence Using Veritone One
In an instantaneous world of online media, brand reputation should be seen as a matter of life and death. But, when it comes to broadcast media, managing everything people say about a brand can feel next to impossible. The FCC documented more than 32,000 television and radio stations broadcasting daily, leaving branding and marketing experts scrambling to review and stay…
- Email Marketing & Automation
Does an Emoji in Your Subject Line Impact Email Open Rates?
We’ve shared some details on how some marketers incorporate emojis into their marketing communications. In celebration of World Emoji Day – yes… there’s such a thing – Mailjet performed some testing using emojis in email subject lines to see how different emojis might impact the email open rate. Guess what? It worked! Methodology: Mailjet offers an experimentation feature known as a/x testing.…
- E-commerce and Retail
5 Design Elements that Work Well for Mobile Conversion
Despite a rise in mobile usage, many websites deliver a poor mobile experience, forcing potential customers off-site. Business owners who have only just learned to navigate the desktop space are finding it difficult to make the transition to mobile. Finding the right aesthetic alone can be problematic. Business owners have to work hard to understand their target audience and build…
- Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
ConnectLeader TopRung: B2B Sales Gamification and Performance Management Tool
B2B sales acceleration technologies innovator ConnectLeader has announced the availability of its TopRung sales gamification and performance management tool. TopRung uses the power of team competition to align, adopt and accelerate sales activities, as well as drive sales process adoption and create more lead generation conversations that become pipeline opportunities. TopRung uses the power of team competition, sportsmanship and fun to: Align, adopt and accelerate sales activities Drive sales process…
- Marketing & Sales Videos
Mia: Local Business Reviews, Loyalty, and CRM
Mia, from Signpost, scans data on millions of consumers to find new opportunities to send the right messages at the right time. This AI-based technology creates emails and texts that your customers respond to, increasing your sales by 10% and upping your review rating by nearly two stars on average. Mia reaches out to customers to see if they’d recommend…
- Customer Data Platforms
Bluecore’s Real-Time Decisioning Platform for eTail
You’re the marketer. What are you going to do next? This is a question marketers ask themselves constantly. Data is now flowing into organizations at record speed and volume, and the process of organizing and acting on this data can be paralyzing. For starters, you’re tasked with knowing a variety of things about your customers: Who are my most valuable…
- E-commerce and Retail
The Ultimate Guide: How to Sell on Amazon
This week, we had a great conversation with Randy Stocklin on our podcast. Randy is an e-commerce expert who co-founded One Click Ventures, which owns three large e-retailers in the eyeglass industry. One topic we touched on was the importance of selling on Amazon. With its incredible reach, Amazon should never be dismissed as a means of selling and distributing of…
- Advertising Technology
Clipcentric: Rich Text and Video Ad Production That Runs On Any Display Ad Platform
Clipcentric provides users with a comprehensive suite of tools and templates that grant them full control over the entire production process, resulting in highly responsive cross-platform rich media ads. Ad teams can effortlessly design and develop dynamic HTML5 advertisements that seamlessly run on any platform. Drag-and-Drop Workspace: Users can easily drag and drop ad components into device-specific workspaces for precise…
- Content Marketing
Gated or Non-Gated Content: When? Why? How…
Reaching your audience by intersecting with their digital behaviors is getting inherently more accessible through targeted advertising and media. Getting your brand to the forefront of your buyer’s mind, helping them become more aware of your brand and hopefully entering them into the well-known buyer’s journey is substantially harder. It takes is content that resonates with their needs and interests,…
