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- Analytics & Testing
What Marketers Believe Are The Top 3 Successes to Capturing Leads
The great folks at Formstack surveyed 200 small and mid-sized U.S. businesses and non-profits to identify where marketers are going right and wrong with their lead generation strategies. This infographic is a glimpse into a full The State of Lead Capture in 2016 report with more key insights on lead capture challenges and strategies. Their first finding, that marketing requires insight into…
- Email Marketing & Automation
Our Best Performing Email Opt-In Strategy Ever
My marketing podcast colleague, Erin Sparks, loves to give me a hard time about our opt-in strategy on Martech Zone. Before discussing what we’ve tested and what’s worked, I should explain the importance of email. If you were looking at an online publication as a machine, capturing email addresses is – by far – the most efficient way of returning relevant…
- E-commerce and Retail
The Impact of Custom Packaging on Your E-commerce Sales
One of the first packages that I ever opened that was special was the first MacBook Pro that I purchased. It felt like an unveiling as I opened the suitcase-style box with the laptop and accessories beautifully fitted within. It was a significant investment, and you could see the care Apple took to make sure that I knew it was…
- Advertising Technology
Scout: A Service for Sending Postcards for $1 Each
Scout is a simple service that does one thing – it allows you to send 4×6, full-color postcards customized by you. You supply your own front and back images, provide a list of addresses (we can help you build it or you can do it yourself), and they’ll print a beautiful postcard and then mail it to any number of…
- E-commerce and Retail
Repricing: How Amazon Repricing Works and How Long It Takes
Amazon reported that merchants selling on its marketplace accounted for 45% of units sold in the second quarter of 2015, up from 41% the year before. With millions of sellers selling billions of products in a commerce site like Amazon, sellers benefit from adjusting their pricing so they’re both competitive and can still maintain profits. Repricing is the strategy of…
- Content Marketing
MainWP: Centrally Manage Your WordPress Sites
The great folks at Automattic have been closely integrating centralized WordPress management through their Jetpack plugin. I’ve already run into one issue with it, though, losing all of my past Jetpack analytics when my site somehow got disconnected and a staging site was connected instead. It was quite a bummer – and I’m thankful that I have Google Analytics also…
- Content Marketing
WittyParrot: Knowledge Automation for Sales and Marketing Communications
In a report from the McKinsey Global Institute, The social economy: Unlocking value and productivity through social technologies, researchers found that the average knowledge worker wasted 28 hours per month searching and recreating documents. Only 10% of documents at a company were in a useful format. And up to 80% of sales and marketing collateral was never even used. Marketers…
- Analytics & Testing
Top 3 Marketing Mistakes New Businesses Make
Why did you start your business? I’ll bet the farm that “because I wanted to be a marketer” wasn’t your answer. However, if you’re like the hundreds of small business owners I’ve worked with you probably realized about 30 seconds after you opened your doors that if you didn’t become a marketer, you weren’t going to be a small business…
- Sales and Marketing Training
From Personalization to High-Definition Emotional Intelligence
People with high emotional intelligence (EI) are well-liked, show strong performance, and are generally more successful. They are emphatic and have good social skills: they show an awareness of the feelings of others and manifest this awareness in their words and actions. They can find common ground with a wide range of people and nurture relationships beyond friendliness and the ability to…
- Email Marketing & Automation
How to Reverse Plummeting Email Engagement Rates
It’s quite a surprise to most companies when they find out that 60% of subscribers in the average email list are dormant. For a company with 20,000 email subscribers, that’s 12,000 emails that have dropped off. The vast majority of email marketers are petrified at dropping a single subscriber off of their list. The effort it required to get these…
