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E-commerce and Retail
If You Needed Any More Evidence of the Mobile Impact on Business
We went through a stage in technology where websites were seen as a great gateway between the customer and the business. User forums, FAQs, help desks and email were used in placement of expensive call centers and the associated time that they took to solve customer issues. But consumers and businesses alike are rejecting companies that simply don’t pick up…
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Email Marketing & Automation
The Top 15 Email Marketing Myths You Need to Know
Last year, we shared an amazing infographic that provided 7 email marketing myths. In my opinion, email continues to be one of the most undervalued, underused and abused communication methods that the average marketer has at their disposal. This time around, Email Monks has has shortlisted and debunked them with logical rationales in our “Email Marketing Myth Busting” Infographic. The…
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Marketing Infographics
The Digital Age Is Rapidly Changing Everything
When I speak to young employees now, it’s startling to think that they don’t recall the days that we didn’t have the Internet. Some even don’t remember a time without having a smartphone. Their perception of technology has always been that it’s continued to advance. We’ve had decades of periods in my lifetime where technology advancements settled… but that’s no…
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Email Marketing & Automation
5 Email Mobile Trends You Need to Take Into Consideration
One of the things that we often do is pay attention to a comparison of our traffic and open rates from the same period last month or the same period last year. Checking your own metrics and seeing how well you’re performing is important – but you also have to adjust for how consumers are changing. Mobile is one of…
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Content Marketing
Your Website is Not a Project
We’re in the midst of assisting a new client with a website redesign. Their current site appears to have been done quite a few years ago and appears that way. It’s fixed HTML with no responsiveness, a difficult URL structure, and no content management system behind it. At the time, the site was quite an undertaking and I’m quite sure…
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E-commerce and Retail
DandyLoop: Share Online Shoppers Between Stores
A very common practice on many online fields is the cooperation between different companies working in that field, big or small. This is very common in mobile apps, in online gaming, in video content, and of course in content sites. In content sites we see the mutual recommendation of content between sites, even when they are competitors. It’s hard to…
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Content Marketing
AddThis Adds Personal Targeting to Improve Engagement, Conversions and Revenue
Most of the marketing technology world is focused on getting visits. Link baiting is off the charts and it’s resulting in terrible results for marketers. Getting someone to your site is actually pretty easy, but keeping them there and actually encouraging them to do business with you is quite complex. Even on a publication like ours, increasing our viewership is…
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Content Marketing
Content is Temporary, Trust and Integrity are Lasting
The last few weeks I was out of town and didn’t get to dedicate as much time to writing content as I normally would. Rather than throw some half-ass posts out, I knew that it was a holiday season for many of my readers as well and I simply chose not to write daily. After a decade of writing, that’s…
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Marketing Infographics
How to Fully Leverage Twitter for Your Next Event
One of the Twitter Chats we really enjoy participating in is Atomic Reach’s #AtomicChat. It’s a well-produced, pre-planned chat around various marketing topics on Twitter that happens every Monday at 9PM EST. Whenever I participate, I’m always impressed with just how perfect Twitter is as a medium for this event. I’m not the only one that believes Twitter is great…
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Marketing Infographics
The Strategies that Perform Best Across Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and LinkedIn
While the majority of marketers utilize a shotgun approach to their content production and social promotion, there are strategies that drive better results if you can apply the resources necessary to customize the experience. Pagemodo created the following infographic to serve as a social media cheat sheet with 5 Top Tips for content marketing on each of the 4 most…
