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Marketing Tools
Vectr: A Free Alternative to Adobe Illustrator
Vectr is a free and very intuitive vector graphics editor app for web and desktop. Vectr has a very low learning curve making graphic design accessible to anyone. Vectr is going to remain free forever with no strings attached. What’s the difference between Vector and Raster Graphics? Vector-based images are made of lines and paths to create an image. They…
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Marketing Infographics
Video Marketing Statistics That You May Not Have Known!
Whether it’s social videos, daily stories, real-time videos, or any other video strategy, we live in a world where more video content is produced and consumed than ever in history. Of course, that’s both a great opportunity and an enormous challenge because a lot of video content is being produced and never actually seen. This infographic from Website Builder.org.uk reveals…
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Content Marketing
5 Tips on Writing Marketing Content that Drives Business Value
Creating compelling marketing copy comes down to providing value for your fans. This doesn’t happen overnight. In fact, writing marketing content that will be meaningful and impactful for a diverse audience is a huge task. These five tips provide a strategic starting point for newbies while providing deeper wisdom for the more experienced folks. Tip #1: Start With The End…
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Artificial Intelligence
The Good, The Great, and the Scary with Artificial Intelligence
When I was honorably discharged from the Navy in 1992, it was perfect timing. I went to work for the Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Virginia – a company that fully adopted IT Innovation as part of its core strategies. We installed fiber and removed line-of-site satellite, we hard-wired programmable-logic controllers to PCs and captured data that helped us fine-tune our maintenance…
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Advertising Technology
SQream: How Big Data Analytics Have Become Crucial for DSPs
The stakes have never been higher for marketers managing real-time bids, programmatic advertising, and customer targeting. Budgets are under pressure. Expectations are sky-high. And campaign optimization isn’t just a nice-to-have—it’s the difference between wasted spend and sustained ROI. That’s why big data analytics has evolved from a supporting role into a strategic linchpin for demand-side platforms (DSPs). DSPs operate in…
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Customer Data Platforms
Is Your Organization Ready to Utilize Big Data?
Big Data is more aspiration than reality for most marketing organizations. Broad consensus on the strategic value of Big Data gives way to the myriad of nuts-and-bolts technical issues necessary to structure a data ecosystem and bring crisp data-driven insights to life in personalized communications. You can assess an organization’s readiness to leverage Big Data by analyzing an organization’s capabilities…
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Analytics & Testing
How to Measure and Improve Your Twitter Marketing Strategy
There’s not too much news on the Twitter front and I have yet to hear back from Jack on my Open Letter to Twitter. That said, I still use Twitter daily, find value amongst the deafening noise, and wish for it to succeed. Can you utilize Twitter to help promote your personal brand, corporate brand, products, or services? Of course! Fifty-seven…
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Content Marketing
Are You Getting Bad Advice From Leading Marketers?
Maybe I’ve been in the marketing game too long. It seems that the more time that I spend in this industry, the fewer people I respect or listen to. That’s not to say I don’t have those folks that I respect, it’s just that I’m becoming disillusioned with so many who hold the spotlight. Beware of false prophets, who come to…
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Content Marketing
Do You Need Terms and Conditions, Privacy and Cookie Policies?
Communication and commercial dealings have always gone hand-in-hand. This is true more so now than ever before, with our ever-increasing accessibility to online devices, whether on our computers, tablets or mobile phones. As a result of this instantaneous access to new information, the company website has become a key tool for businesses to deliver their products, services, and culture to…
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Content Marketing
What Marketers Can Learn from Dell’s IT Transformation Research?
Dell defines Information Technology Transformation as the process of enhancing information and communication technology so as to make human lives more efficient and better. IT transformation also centers on improving infrastructure so as to encourage efficiency in systems due to a reduction in the wastage of resources. I’ve been working with Mark Schaefer and his client, Dell Technologies, over the…
