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Content Marketing
Your Content Stinks Because It’s Missing These Elements
Industry report after report continues to purport the fact that hyper-relevance and personalization are absolute keys to increasing conversion rates. So why then do content marketers continue to write general drivel that is just like everyone else’s drivel? Last night I did a presentation at a local Sparks event and I called it: Your Content Sucks. Exactly Like You Wanted…
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Content Marketing
How to Create Shareable Content
According to The New York Times Customer Insight Group in a new whitepaper, The Psychology of Sharing, there are 5 key reasons why people share online: Value – To bring valuable and educating content to others Identity – To define ourselves to others Network – To grow and nourish our relationships Involvement – Self-fulfillment, value and involvement in the world…
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Content Marketing
8 Image Ideas to Market your Business on Instagram
Every once in a while, I come up with a good quote or succinct piece of advice that I’d like to share socially. Rather than just tweeting it out, I open up the Depositphotos mobile application and find a beautiful image. I crop it using my iPhone and then open it in the Over App. Within 10 minutes, I have…
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Content Marketing
Effective Small Business Content Marketing to Consumers
A whopping 70 percent of customers prefer to get information about a company from content rather than through advertising. 77 percent of small businesses are investing in content marketing methodologies to convert online visitors into customers. The bottom line is this: Clicks from Shared Content are five times more likely to result in a purchase! Outside of the expense of…
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E-commerce and Retail
Mobile Experience and Its Impact on Trends
Smartphone ownership isn’t just on the rise, for many individuals it’s their entire means of connecting to the Internet. That connectivity is an opportunity for e-commerce sites and retail outlets, but only if your visitor’s mobile experience is superior to your competitors. Around the world, more and more people are making the jump to smartphone ownership. Learn how this move…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Social Signals, SEO, and Their Impact on One Another
Matt Cutts shared a video where he discussed the challenge that engineers might have if they had created dependencies between the Google ranking algorithms and social signals. In short, it would be far too risky to build these dependencies in the event the other social media platform either blocked search or fell in popularity. I have no doubt this is…
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Content Marketing
Paid Search Optimization: A Travel and Tourism Example
If you’re seeking assistance or paid search expertise, a great resource out there is PPC Hero, a great publication where the Hanapin Marketing shares their expertise. Hanapin recently released this fantastic infographic, the Top Ten PPC Tips For The Travel and Tourism Marketer. While the use case is travel and tourism, these tips are ideal for any marketing seeking to…
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Customer Data Platforms
Micro-Moments and Customer Journeys
The online marketing industry continues to progress in providing technology that enables marketers to predict and deliver roadmaps to help consumers and businesses convert. We’ve made some assumptions up to this point, though. The general theme of personas and sales funnels is much more porous and flexible than we ever imagined. Cisco has provided research that shows that the average…
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Content Marketing
Explainer Video Production Tips and Types
We’re right in the middle of another explainer video production as I’m writing this and have seen amazing results from the videos we’ve already produced, scripted, or shared. This is an incredibly thorough infographic on creating explainer videos that provide a solid process for creating videos that drive engagement and conversions. So, how do you create an explainer video that…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
RelateIQ: A Relationship Intelligence Powered CRM
RelateIQ is a simpler CRM that integrates with your email inbox to automatically digest and organize data from each data source. RelateIQ automatically syncs the data from your inbound and outbound emails, calendar, and smartphone calls (though the mobile app) to eliminate manual data entry into the CRM. It’s so advanced that if someone emails you and you don’t reply,…
