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- Content Marketing
Blitz: Performance and Load Testing from the Cloud
It’s tough coming up with an analogy for the load put on a web server so here goes. Imagine you’re a web server and your visitors are cans of tomatoes. If you have one or two cans of food, you can carry them pretty easy. Pile a few hundred in your arms and none of the food can get where…
- Content Marketing
We’ve Moved Hosts… You May Want To As Well
I’ll be honest that I’m incredibly disappointed right now. When managed WordPress hosting hit the market and some friends of mine launched their company, I couldn’t have been happier. As an agency, I was tired of running into issue after issue with web hosts who would pass off any problem with WordPress on to us. With Managed WordPress hosting, our…
- Email Marketing & Automation
The 3 Dimensions of a Balanced Email Marketing Strategy
Many marketers focus their strategy for email marketing simply on output productivity and the performance of the email. This misses some enormous dimensions that are impacting the overall success of your company to compete against an inbox that’s piled high for your subscribers’ attention. There are 3 dimensions to any analysis that is executed after an email marketing campaign: Email…
- Email Marketing & Automation
Reelevant: Live Email intelligence Technology
The email industry has two major problems with its continued use of mass mailing: Personalization – Sending the same message, at the same time, to all your email subscribers isn’t getting the right message to the right time to the right recipient. Why would Marianne, 24 years old, receive the very same offers as Michael, 57 years old, when they’re…
- Sales and Marketing Training
The #1 Complaint About Inbound Marketing
Once every month or so, we hear the same complaint from prospects who are working with inbound marketing agencies and clients that are working with us on their inbound marketing efforts. Not to mention that this complaint is one that I’d make myself with our agency if I didn’t understand how inbound marketing actually worked. Complaint: We’re not getting any…
- Analytics & Testing
4 Ways that Big Data Applications Are Providing Results
According to this infographic from SingleGrain, companies are now collecting over 75,000 data points on a single individual. That’s a lot of data… but is it being utilized? Big data is a new term used to describe the growth and availability of large data sets which, when properly analyzed, can help make better business decisions, such as improving customer relations,…
- Content Marketing
6 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Starting Your Website Design
Building a website can be daunting, but if you think of it as a chance to reevaluate your business and sharpen your image, you’ll learn a lot about your brand and might even have fun doing it. As you start, this list of questions should help get you on the right track. Table of Contents What do you want your…
- Content Marketing
PressRush: The Polite Pitching Platform for Journalist Outreach
Every day I receive dozens of pitches in my inbox. Many of them are poorly written, most aren’t relevant to my site, but there’s always a nugget of gold in the pile of PR spam so I pay attention. I received a pitch this week where the email appeared quite a bit different and provided a positive pitch experience for…
- Marketing Infographics
What’s Stopping Organizations from Implementing Social Selling Strategies?
As we head into 2016, organizations are still struggling with their social selling strategies. We’ve shared the foundations of social selling in past posts and there’s no denying the benefits of a team that adopts social selling practices: 61% of organizations engaged in social selling report a positive impact on revenue growth, which’s over 20% more than non-social sellers! With…
- Public Relations
Starbucks, You Could Be Doing Social Better
I pull the social media card sparingly when I have to. As a business owner, I often cringe when I see a customer publicly flog a company online. Especially when it’s a policy and typically not the fault of the poor customer service representative. CSRs don’t often make the rules; normally, someone higher up and a little out of reach…
