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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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
