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Are You Working with a Domain Registrar or a Reseller?
Since we work with investors quite a bit, they sometimes ask us to do some tasks outside of the norm for an agency. One investor that we work with hires us periodically to handle their domain purchases. It works well…
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Don’t Blame the B2B (Email) Messenger
One of our clients asked today if they should migrate to another email service provider off of the service they’re using. We asked why and they stated that they received an 11% hard bounce rate on the emails they had…
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Buzzoole: Execute Campaigns with Brand Advocates and Influencers
Buzzoole is a campaign management tool that you can utilize to invite influencers and brand advocates to promote specific and detailed campaigns, then measure the impact of the campaign through their interface. The advocates you select can also exchange the…
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Is Your Content Strategy Production, Presence or Authority?
One of the analogies I often tell people about our agency is that we’re not a Marketing Jiffy Lube. Our job isn’t to get you in and out quickly, throw a sticker on your windshield and see you next month.…
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I Wish Marketers Would Stop Saying This…
Jenn and I visited the headquarters of Genesys this week and got to sit down their their digital marketing team and one of the questions that popped up was if we ever put an infographic behind a registration. We quickly…
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5 Signs You’re Outgrowing Your MySQL Database
The data management landscape is complex and quickly evolving. Nothing emphasizes this evolution more than the emergence of ‘super apps’ — or applications that process millions of user interactions per second. Factor in Big Data and the cloud, and it…
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5 Mistakes that Could Get Your Email in the Spam Folder
If there’s one part of my job that continues to make me beat my head up against the wall, it’s email deliverability. We continue to grow an engaged list of email subscribers but geesh, ISPs are ridiculous. In businesses, one…
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PLEASE DON’T GO: Three Exit Intent Tactics That Won’t Annoy Your Visitors
Exit intent technology (What is it?). Digital marketing’s version of KC and The Sunshine Band’s Please Don’t Go. We’ve proven over and over through A/B testing that using exit intent technology to trigger an overlay can be an extremely effective…
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The Top 5 Things that Kill Customer Loyalty
A story that I often share with companies is that I worked for a company that grew from a few employees to a purchase of billions of dollars – and the user experience was terrible. Sure, there were aspects of…
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What Factors Make for a Successful Social Media Strategy?
The Seven Success Factors of Social Business Strategy by Charlene Li and Brian Solis is a must-read for business leaders, marketers, and strategists aiming to integrate social media into their business models. The book provides a clear, actionable framework for…
