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Content Marketing
Why Creative Collaboration Tools Are A Necessity For Your Team To Prosper
Hightail has released the results of its first State of Creative Collaboration Survey. The survey focused on how marketing and creative teams collaborate to deliver the mountains of original content needed to drive campaigns, deliver business results and increase sales and revenue. Lack of Resources and Increased Demand are Hurting Creatives With a growing output of content throughout every industry, the…
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Advertising Technology
Three Dangers of Affiliate Marketing and How to Avoid Them
The affiliate industry is nuanced. There are many players, layers, and moving parts. While some of these nuances are what make the affiliate model unique and valuable, such as connecting compensation to outcomes, there are others that are less desirable. What’s more is that, if a company is unaware of them, they risk damaging their brand. For companies to take…
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Analytics & Testing
To Tweet or Not to Tweet
A beginner’s guide to decide if Twitter is right for your digital strategy They don’t ‘get’ their users! Shares are down! It’s cluttered! It’s dying! Marketers – and users – have had plenty of complaints about Twitter recently. However, with over 330 million active users worldwide, the social media platform seems to be doing just fine. Usage has accelerated for…
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Email Marketing & Automation
How Purging Our Subscriber List Increased our CTR by 183.5%
We used to advertise on our site that we had over 75,000 subscribers on our email list. While that was true, we had a nagging deliverability issue where we were getting stuck in spam folders a lot. While 75,000 subscribers look great when you’re seeking email sponsors, it’s absolutely terrible when email professionals let you know they weren’t getting your…
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E-commerce and Retail
7 Lessons For Retail In The Age of E-Commerce
E-Commerce is taking over the retail industry by the minute. It’s making it all the more difficult to keep brick and mortar stores afloat. For brick-and-mortar stores, it isn’t about stocking up inventory and managing accounts and sales. If you’re running a physical store, you need to move to the next level. Give the shoppers a compelling reason to come to your…
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Sales and Marketing Training
Four Critical Changes That Will Transform Your Agency’s Health
s your agency struggling to maintain growth, profitability, and a happy, creative workforce? I have been in that position a few times. As a corporate marketer, I was quite naive when I started my agency. We were going to over-deliver with clients, I was going to pay my employees well, and the business was going to grow at a moderate…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
What is Good SEO? Here’s a Case Study
Over the last few years, I’ve been quite vocal about how so many consultants and agencies in the organic search industry refuse to change. It’s unfortunate as they continue to leave a trail of clients that have invested a lot but actually destroyed their ability to acquire organic authority, ranking, and traffic. Good SEO: A Case Study The following is…
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Content Marketing
You’re Probably Spending More Time Managing Data Than Marketing
Yesterday, I shared how we batch loaded an entire year of social updates. While quite a bit of work went into the research, our team spent quite a few hours just massaging the data and making it a file that could be uploaded. Even after we passed all validation checks, we had to then manually go through and select or…
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Content Marketing
Tasko: It’s Time to Outsource Your Marketing Tasks
Over the years, we’ve noticed that expectations often increase with our clients while the cost of the engagement has not. In fact, last year we spent about 15% year over year on additional work for our clients. That would have been great had we had the resources, but we simply didn’t. We had to make some drastic changes if we…
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Advertising Technology
Leveraging TV to Lift Brands
Pulling in new customers while improving the overall brand image is a persistent challenge for marketers. With a fragmented media landscape and the distractions of multi-screening, it’s difficult to adjust to the desires of consumers with targeted messaging. Marketers confronted with this challenge often turn to the “throw it at the wall to see if it sticks” approach, instead of…
