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- Content Marketing
Lyris Launches Automated Content Personalization
Lyris has released Lyris Predictive Personalization, a content engine for publishers to combine machine learning with digital messaging automation to deliver contextually personalized content to each individual subscriber. By effectively combining content with audience demographic and behavioral data, Lyris Predictive Personalization increases conversions and advertising revenue by empowering publishers to maximize engagement. Clients are already seeing a 2x to 3x…
- Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
ClearSlide: Drive More Sales with Seamless Engagement & Insights
Building meaningful buyer relationships today is harder than ever. Sales teams juggle countless tools, chase fragmented data, and struggle to engage buyers consistently across touchpoints. Content gets buried, communications miss the mark, and reps often guess at next best actions. The result? Slow deal cycles, low productivity, and missed revenue targets. Clearslide ClearSlide is the industry’s most complete sales engagement…
- Marketing Infographics
What are the Elements of the Best Facebook Contest Apps?
Today I actually had the pleasure – thanks to an invite from Jay Baer – of sharing tacos and Margaritas with the leadership team from ShortStack out at Social Media Marketing World. I made sure to let the team from ShortStack know how much we’ve enjoyed our ongoing relationship. Sara from the ShortStack team has been feeding us with great…
- Content Marketing
Why Responsive Web Design? Here are 8 Reasons
We released a fantastic video on what responsive web design is and how you can test your own site to see whether it’s optimized for viewing on a mobile device or tablet. It’s not too late for you to get some help on this, and our friend Kevin Kennedy at Marketpath shared the infographic below. With the staggering growth of…
- Email Marketing & Automation
Why Have People Stopped Following Your Brand?
One of our favorite infographics we designed and published was Why Do People Unfollow You on Twitter. Folks got a chuckle from it and hopefully it made them rethink their social media publishing strategy in the meantime. I’m going to state something here that might startle some folks: I don’t care if people unfollow me or unsubscribe from my email.…
- Marketing & Sales Videos
The Message Cloud Combines Contextualized Messaging to In-Store Mobile Experiences
SmartFocus announced at the Mobile World Congress today that it will be offering the world’s first virtual beacons. The virtual beacons allow for proximity-based marketing without difficult hardware integration or maintenance. Companies can trigger micro-location messaging to enable a contextual experiences using just a floor plan. SmartFocus’s Message Cloud technology gives brand marketers a holistic view of their customers, enabling…
- Marketing Infographics
3 Astounding Stats Supporting Social Selling
One of the common traits I continue to see in the most effective business development people or sales staff is that they’re incredibly well-connected. My good friend Doug Theis of Innovative Integrations, an Indianapolis-based managed services company is one of those people. We attended an Indianapolis Business Journal breakfast and I joked that Doug most likely knew everyone in the…
- Analytics & Testing
Keep Watch on Your Online Competition with Rivalfox
Rivalfox collects data from a variety of sources on your competitors and makes the data easily accessible from a single competitor data hub. Sources include traffic, search, website, newsletter, press, social and even people and job changes. Rivalfox is a SaaS solution that puts cutting-edge competitive intelligence into your hands. We believe that by learning from your competitors, you can…
- E-commerce and Retail
How Shopper Product Ratings Affect AdWords Merchants
Google rolled out an AdWords feature late in July to help shoppers make more informed buying decisions. Product Listing Ads (PLA) across Google.com and Google Shopping will now have product or Google shopping ratings. Think Amazon and that’s exactly what you’ll see when you search for products and services on Google. The product ratings will use the 5-star rating system…
- Content Marketing
Time to Rap About Your Business (Don’t Miss Mine)
It started with a Tweet… Douglas Karr Rap Tribute https://t.co/oPodYLEZnQ @martech_zone #rappitt http://t.co/gVR64opiLM — Rapp Itt (@rappittmusic) March 10, 2015 To say I was blown away is an understatement. I couldn’t stop laughing at how well this rap was written and I was researched by someone I had never met. That someone was Dan Stokes. Dan started Rappitt.com and being…
