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Content Marketing
The 4 P’s of Modern Search Engine Optimization
The SEO world is shaking a bit at the news that Moz is cutting its staff in half. They state that they’re doubling down with a renewed focus on search. They’ve been a pioneer and essential partner in the SEO industry for years now. My outlook isn’t optimistic for the Organic Search industry, and I’m not sure it’s where Moz…
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
3 B2B Sales Principles That Your Strategy Must Incorporate
The sales industry is rapidly evolving. Sales teams have consistently been able to make incremental tactical improvements to their processes. Still, in the last few years, sales have entered a new era fueled by technology, analysis, and a dramatic change in buyer behavior. Sales managers have placed a new focus on utilizing technology to measure sales representative activity and enhance…
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Marketing Infographics
What is Google RankBrain?
Context, intent, and natural language or all inhibitors of the simple keyword-based queries. Language isn’t easy to comprehend, so if you can begin to store patterns of speech and include contextual markers to search predictions, you can increase the accuracy of results. Google is utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) to do just that What is Google RankBrain? RankBrain is an advancement…
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Content Marketing
Lumanu: Find Influencers and Discover Influential Content
Extending the reach of your content is critical. Whether you’re attempting to grow your organic rankings by having your content referenced and linked to by high-authority sites, whether you’re attempting to expand your social reach to relevant audiences, or whether you’re trying to build authority in your industry by getting a mention from someone of influence… influencer marketing is a…
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Content Marketing
3 Real-Time Content Localization Methods to Increase Engagement
When people think about content personalization, they think about personal data that’s incorporated into the context of an email message. It’s not about just who your prospect or customer is, it’s also about where they are. Localization is a huge opportunity to drive sales. In fact, 50% of consumers who search locally on their smartphone visit a store within a…
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E-commerce and Retail
How Businesses are Getting Customers with Pokémon Go
Pokémon Go is already the most popular mobile game in history with more daily users than Twitter and on more Android phones than Tinder. There has already been a lot of chatter about Pokémon Go in the business world and how the game has become a remarkable boom for business owners. The one thing that’s been missing from the conversation is…
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Advertising Technology
10 Content Trends Advertisers Cannot Afford to Ignore
At MGID, we see thousands of ads and serve millions more of them every month. We track the performance of every ad we serve and work with advertisers and publishers to optimize the messages. Yes, we have secrets that we share only with customers. But, there are also big picture trends that we want to share with everyone interested in…
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Content Marketing
Domain Discovery: Enterprise Management of Domain Assets
Chaos lurks in the digital world. Any company can easily lose track of its digital assets in an era when domain registrations happen in dozens of different ways and when mergers and acquisitions constantly add new websites to the mix. Domains that are registered and never developed. Websites that go years without updates. Mixed messages across marketing platforms. Redundant expenses.…
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Content Marketing
7 Content Marketing Strategies That Inspire Trust and Shares
Some content tends to perform better than others, winning more shares and more conversions. Some content gets visited and shared over and over, bringing more and new people to your brand. In general, these are the pieces that convince people that your brand has worthwhile things to say and messages that they would like to share. How can you cultivate an…
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Marketing Infographics
The Future Isn’t Jobless and Never Has Been
The paranoia regarding the future of artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and automation needs to stop. Every industrial and technical revolution in history opened humans to unlimited opportunities for applying their talent and creativity. Not that specific jobs don’t disappear – of course they do. But those jobs are replaced by new jobs. As I look around my office today and…
