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Analytics & Testing
4 Revelations You Can Uncover with Salesforce Customer Relationship Data
They say a CRM is only as useful as the data in it. Millions of marketers use Salesforce, but few have a solid understanding of the data they are pulling, what metrics to measure, where it comes from, and how much they can trust it. As marketing continues to become more data-driven, this amplifies the need to understand what is…
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Email Marketing & Automation
The Pros and Cons of a Double Opt-In Email Campaign
Customers don’t have the patience to sort through cluttered inboxes. They’re inundated with marketing messages on a daily basis, much of which they never signed up for in the first place. According to the International Telecommunication Union, 80 percent of global e-mail traffic can be classified as spam. Additionally, the average email open rate among all industries falls between 19…
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Analytics & Testing
40Nuggets: Engage and Convert without Annoying Visitors
There are a ton of tools on the market to help you increase conversions – including popup signup forms, exit intent forms, targeted landing pages, online chat, and registration forms. If you’re incorporating each of these, there’s a chance that you’re bombarding your visitor rather than simply helping them take the next step in their conversion path. 40Nuggets allows you…
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Content Marketing
Next Generation CDN Technology is About More than just Caching
In today’s hyper-connected world, users don’t go online, they are constantly online, and marketing professionals require innovative technologies to deliver a quality customer experience. Because of this, many are already familiar with the classic services of a content delivery network (CDN), such as caching. For those who are not as familiar with CDNs, this is done by temporarily storing replicas…
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Analytics & Testing
Water Torture – An Analytics Analogy Goes a Bridge Too Far
Data, like water, comes in many forms. The human mind has evolved to filter out most of the data that comes our way because there’s simply so much of it. When you open your eyes and ears, data is everywhere. The color of the wall, the sound of the air conditioning and the smell of your neighbor’s coffee are treated…
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E-commerce and Retail
Will the Buy Button Help Social Media Attribution and ROI?
Buy buttons are the hot new trend in social media, but they aren’t gaining much traction. In fact, an Invesp survey found that social commerce sales made up only 5% of online retail revenue in 2015. Many social sites still struggle to gain customer trust, so platforms will need to prove that they’re more than just socially savvy to win…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
Graava: An Intelligent Video Camera that Automatically Edits
In 2012 Bruno Gregory was hit by a car while riding his bike. The driver left the seen but Bruno was able to identify and get the driver convicted because he had a camera that recorded the event. The next year, he came up with the idea of utilizing sensors and machine learning to develop a camera that automatically only…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Mobile Marketing: Drive Your Sales With These 5 Strategies
By the end of this year, over 80% of American adults will have a smartphone. Mobile devices dominate both the B2B and B2C landscapes and their usage dominates marketing. Everything we do now has a mobile component to it that we must incorporate into our marketing strategies. What is Mobile Marketing Mobile marketing is marketing on or with a mobile…
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E-commerce and Retail
Atmospheric Marketing and Why Retail Profits May Depend On It
With all the sites and tools available on the web, why don’t we all just find the lowest price on every product and go buy it? While many consumers or businesses do just that, most people don’t. I’ve shared online that a few years ago, I switched from driving a Ford to a Cadillac. A Ford dealership once annoyed me…
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Marketing Infographics
How a Lack of Social Response is Hurting Your Business
We’ve already quantified the business impact of poor customer service with regard to social media. What about simply responding? Did you know that 7 out of 8 social messages directed at brands go unanswered within 72 hours? Compound that with the fact there’s been a 21% increase in messages to brands globally (18% in the United States) and we’ve got…
