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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…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Finally, It’s Time to Retire Your WWW
Sites like ours that have been around for a decade accumulated SEO rank on pages that have sustained incredible traffic. As with most sites, our domain was displayed and started with www. In recent years, the www has become less prominent on sites… but we kept ours because that subdomain had so much authority with search engines. Until now! Moz…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
Tracx: Gain Insights, Grow Engagement, and Measure Impact With Your Social Enterprise
Enterprise corporations continue to unlock the potential of social media. Monitoring reputation, soliciting customer feedback, providing word-of-mouth marketing, promoting content and offers, educating and nurturing prospects and customers. Social media offers it all – acquisition, upsell, and retention. The velocity of information and the logic utilized to delegate social strategies in the enterprise requires a platform to monitor, measure and…
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Content Marketing
LookBookHQ: Content Engagement and Automation Platform
As we develop content strategies for our clients, we often work across mediums and layers of intent. We push a lot of broad content that gateways into detailed infographics that gateway into white papers or case studies. For the visitor researching their next purchase, they appreciate the focus from broad to narrow without wasting their time. What if that content…
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E-commerce and Retail
A Solicited or Paid Review is a Risky Review
We had a solid discussion at a regional leadership event on collecting reviews from businesses and consumers online. Much of the discussion was around paid reviews or rewarding customers for reviews. I’m not an attorney, so I’d recommend you speak to yours before listening to me. My stance on this is simple… don’t pay or reward reviews. You may disagree…
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E-commerce and Retail
5 Reasons Marketers are Investing More in Customer Loyalty Programs
CrowdTwist, a customer loyalty solution, and Brand Innovators surveyed 234 digital marketers at Fortune 500 brands to discover how consumer interactions intersect with loyalty programs. They’ve produced this infographic, the Loyalty Landscape, so marketers could learn how loyalty fits into the overall marketing strategy of an organization. Half of all brands already have a formalized program while 57% said they were…
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Customer Data Platforms
The Myth of the DMP in Marketing
Data Management Platforms (DMPs) came on the scene a few years ago and are seen by many as the savior of marketing. They say we can have a golden record for our customers. In the DMP, vendors promise that you can collect all the information you need for a 360-degree view of the customer. The only problem is that it’s just…
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Advertising Technology
Television’s Dynamic Evolution Continues
As digital advertising methods proliferate and morph, companies funnel more money into television advertising to reach viewers who spend 22-36 hours watching TV every week. Despite what the advertising industry rumblings might lead us to believe over the past few years citing the decline of television as we know it, television advertising is instead alive, well, and producing solid results.…
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Advertising Technology
Understanding the Importance of Inventory Quality Guidelines (IQG)
Buying media online is not unlike shopping for a mattress. A consumer may see a mattress at one store that they want to buy, not realizing that at another store, the very same piece is a lower price because it is under a different name. This scenario makes it very difficult for the buyer to know exactly what they are…
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Content Marketing
Quite Possibly The Worst Domain Registrar Ever
This morning we get a frantic call from a client. We worked with them to develop a new site a while back, but everything was offline now. A DNS issue of some sort. Their IT guy called us to see if we had changed anything. We hadn’t but always hate to hear of these problems and wanted to help them…
