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  • E-commerce and Retail
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    You’re Not Taking Advantage of the Global Marketplace

    Recently, I visited a local retailer. He’s got an incredible business and location where he can design, repair and sell merchandise all from his location from scratch. His facilities are some of the best in the country, and every person on his staff is exceptionally talented, qualified and certified. His challenge is that his traditional marketing isn’t attracting the foot…

  • Email Marketing & Automationemail and social media infographic

    Here’s Why You Should Integrate Email and Social Media Strategies

    We got a bit feisty when someone shared a email versus social media infographic. The primary reason we disagreed with the versus discussion was that it shouldn’t be a question of choosing one or the other, it should be a matter of how to fully leverage each medium. Marketers should wonder how might email marketing and social media marketing work…

  • Social Media & Influencer Marketing
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    Social Media Professionals Can’t Handle the Truth

    I’ve been doing an experiment recently. A few years ago, I decided to be 100% transparent about my personal political, spiritual, and other beliefs on my Facebook page. That wasn’t the experiment… that was just me being me. My point wasn’t to offend others; it was simply to be truly transparent. After all, that’s what social media professionals keep telling…

  • Analytics & Testing
    silk data visualizations

    Silk: Turn Data and Spreadsheets into Published Visualizations

    Have you ever had a spreadsheet that had a fantastic collection of data and you just wanted to visualize it – but testing and customizing the built-in charts within Excel was too difficult and time-consuming? What if you wanted to add data, manage it, upload it and even share those visualizations? You can with Silk. Silk is a data publishing…

  • Marketing Infographicssales execution trends

    5 Reasons Your Sales Team Isn’t Reaching Their Quotas

    Qvidian has published their Sales Execution Trends report for 2015 and it’s full of stats across sales departments that should help you benchmark your own sales performance against the findings. Organizations in 2015 are making a fundamental shift toward aggressive growth. Sales leaders must refocus on making their teams more successful by looking beyond tactical sales enablement and empowering sales…

  • Analytics & Testing
    mobile apps

    Branch Metrics: Convert, Grow and Track Mobile App Adoption

    Branch Metrics offers a platform that helps you produce universal campaign links that help you to gain mobile application adoption organically. Their platform can assist you: Convert website users to app users, using a text-me-the-app page or universal app banner Help grow your app through referral, incentive and advocacy campaigns. Increase mobile app activation rates with automated login and incentives.…

  • Content Marketing
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    If You Serve Millennials, You Better Be Serving Video

    Every day I get pitched a millennial interview or article. I recognize that millennials are an age group that offers businesses an opportunity – and I have no doubt that they are unique. Having grown up in an age where having a smartphone and being connected to the Internet is having profound changes in behavior that we must pay attention…

  • Analytics & Testingrivaliq logo

    RivalIQ: Competitor Social Media and SEO Analytics

    RivalIQ is a cross-channel analysis tool that provides competitive analysis on search engines and social media, alerts, keyword and ranking data, and influencer research. RivalIQ provides the following search engine and social media analysis for digital marketers: Twitter Analytics – the Twitter data you need – with engagement data on every Tweet in your landscape. Plus, you’ll get mentions tracking…

  • Marketing & Sales Videos
    storyworks1 digital sales content management

    Storyworks1: A Location-Aware Digital Sales Content Delivery Platform

    Storyworks1 provides an interactive mobile presentation platform to arm your field team with tools to help boost credibility, align marketing strategy with sales execution, and grow business relationships with real-time insights and actionable data. Storyworks1’s new Opportunity Locator provides field sales personnel with the ability to sync their current location with a CRM via mobile device in order to map…

  • Content Marketingweb design industry statistics

    The High Cost of Web Design Failures is Too Common

    When you read these two statistics, you’re going to be shocked. More than 45% of all businesses don’t have a website. And of the DIY’s (Do-It-Yourselfers) that embark on building a site, 98% of them fail in publishing one at all. This doesn’t even count the number of businesses that have a website that simply isn’t driving leads… which I…

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