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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Finally – A Resource to Keep Abreast of Social Media Marketing!
The incredible folks at Social Media Examiner have launched their exclusive membership community, The Social Media Marketing Society. The purpose of the Society is to help you discover new ideas, avoid trial and error, implement the newest social tactics and find what works best with social media marketing. When you join the Society, you’ll receive three original training sessions each…
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
AtEvent Card Scanner: Automate and Enhance Lead Capture at Events
I’m heading to Chicago tomorrow to interview a ton of companies at the Internet Retailer Conference & Exhibition. My standard process on this is to record interviews through the day, write notes, collect business cards, and then head to my hotel room when everyone else is getting together for drinks. Before I forget anything, I submit all the contacts to…
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Customer Data Platforms
Please Stop Comparing NSA Spying with Marketing
One of the conversations I continue to see rising to the top of the NSA spying controversy is that companies are already collecting this kind of data on Americans for marketing efforts. For those outside the United States, the Constitution is quite clear with the Fourth Amendment to our Bill of Rights as citizens. The Fourth Amendment to the Bill…
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Analytics & Testing
How to Use Google Analytics to Improve Your Marketing Efforts
Sometimes I think they should change the name of analytics to questionalytics because analytics doesn’t ever seem to provide the analysis you’re looking for… it often generates more questions. If you don’t understand the data behind the filters, segments, and charts – you may be making some terrible assumptions based on how you pull specific reports. Case in point, the…
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Marketing Infographics
The Current State of B2B Marketing Automation
Revenues for B2B marketing automation systems increased 60% to $1.2 Billion in 2014, compared to a 50% increase the year before. In the last 5 years, the industry has grown 11-fold as corporations continue to find value in the key features that marketing automation has to offer. As the industry rapidly matures, the foundations of a great marketing automation platform…
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Content Marketing
Are Your Video Ads Being Seen?
A little more than half of all advertisements on video pages are seen across the web, a difficult situation for marketers hoping to take advantage of the growing video viewership across devices. It’s not all bad news… even a video ad that was partially listened to still had an impact. Google analyzed their DoubleClick, Google and YouTube advertising platforms to…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Your Checklist For Optimizing Your Email Design To Be Mobile Responsive
Nothing disappoints me as much as when I flip open an email I’m looking forward to on my mobile device and can’t read it. Either the images are hard-coded widths that won’t respond to the display, or the text is so wide that I’d have to scroll back and forth to read it. Unless it’s critical, I don’t wait to…
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Content Marketing
What Motivates You to Share Online? The Psychology of Sharing
We share daily through our blog posts and social presence. Our motivation is pretty simple – when we find fantastic content or discover something ourselves, we want to let you know about it. That makes us a connector of great information and provides value to you, our reader. By doing so, we keep you engaged and hope to deepen our…
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Content Marketing
How to Harness User-Generated Content Without Being Sued
User-generated images have become a valuable asset for marketers and media brands, providing some of most engaging and cost effective content for campaigns– unless of course it results in multimillion dollar lawsuit. Each year, several brands learn this the hard way. In 2013, a photographer sued BuzzFeed for $3.6 million after discovering the site had used one of his Flickr…
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Marketing Infographics
Technology Isn’t Slowing Down a Bit… er Flop!
Gordon E. Moore was the co-founder of Intel and Fairchild Semiconductor who wrote a paper 50 years ago that predicted a doubling of the number of components per integrated circuit every year. 10 years later, in 1975, he revised the forecast to every 2 years… and his prediction has been largely accurate. It’s now known as Moore’s Law. To provide…
