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Social Media Content Ideas for the Holidays
‘Tis the season and if you haven’t planned out your holiday social media posts, here’s a great infographic from MDG Advertising to give you some ideas, Holiday Marketing 2016: 7 Fresh Ideas for Your Holiday Social Media Posts. Here are seven unique ideas that can spur your creativity and attract some attention to your brand when you need it most! From…
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Inbound Brew: Run Your Inbound Marketing Strategies Directly from WordPress
The number of solutions and complexity of integrated partners that extend WordPress is pretty amazing. Inbound Brew is a full-service digital marketing, web development, and software development firm, that helped small businesses utilize content marketing to drive engagement and leads. They’ve now published an inbound marketing plugin that provides all the tools necessary to do this – directly from WordPress! The plugin…
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PRISM: A Framework to Improve Your Social Media Conversions
The reality is that you typically don’t sell on social media channels but you can generate sales from social media if you implement a full end-to-end process. Our PRISM 5-step framework is a process you can use to improve social media conversion. In this article we’re going to outline the 5 step framework and step through example tools you can use for…
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The Benefits of Video for Search, Social, Email, Support… and More!
We’ve recently expanded our team at our agency to include a seasoned videographer, Harrison Painter. It’s an area that we know we’re lacking. While we script and execute amazing animated videos and produce great podcasts, our video blogging (vlog) is nonexistent. Video isn’t easy. The lighting, video quality, and audio dynamics are challenging to do well. We don’t want to…
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How the Internet Revolutionized Offline Retail
If you hadn’t heard, Amazon is opening a large network of pop-up shops in US malls, with 21 stores located in 12 states already open. The power of retail continues to attract consumers. While many consumers are taking advantage of online deals, experiencing a product in person still weighs high with shoppers. In fact 25% of people make a purchase after a local…
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How To Use GarageBand Normalization to Correct Your Low Audio Inputs
We built an incredible podcast studio with state-of-the-art digital mixers and studio-quality microphones. I’m not running any special software, though. I bring the mixer output directly into Garageband, where I record each microphone input to an independent track. Even with my mixer output via USB maximized, the audio doesn’t come in at a reasonable volume. Within Garageband, I can increase the volume…
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How Digital Lead Capture Is Evolving
Lead capture has been around for a while. As a matter of fact, it’s how many businesses manage to GET business. Consumers visit your website, they fill out a form looking for information, you collect that information and then you call them. Simple, right? Ehh… not as much as you’d think. The concept, in and of itself, is crazy simple.…
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Vision6: An Affordable, Customizable, Enterprise Marketing Automation Solution
Australia’s largest email marketing company is now expanding into the United States, offering a customizable, enterprise-grade marketing solution to mid-market companies and agencies at an affordable price. Vision6 is an integrated email marketing automation solution built for marketers and agencies. Vision6 integrates email automation, SMS, forms and social media in an easy to use interface. Thousands of digital agencies including…
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7 Tips to Build a Successful Growth Marketing Machine
As companies look to drive new revenue in unexplored channels, growth initiatives are becoming increasingly more popular. But where do you start? How do you start? I’ll admit, it can be overwhelming. First, let’s talk about why growth initiatives exist. If a company is trying to increase revenue, they can do so in a few ways: expand product margins, improve…
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Research: Email List Quality is Top Priority for B2B Marketers
Many B2B marketers know email marketing can be one of the most effective lead generation tools, with research from the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) showing an average ROI of $38 for each $1 spent. But there is no doubt that implementing a successful email campaign can have its challenges. To better understand the challenges marketers are facing, email marketing software…
