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4 Elements to Drive Lead Generation with Marketing Automation
Research from Venturebeat’s marketing automation study indicates that, aside from the differentiating the features of each platform, the biggest challenge of marketing automation for business is understanding how it fits into their organization. Perhaps that's the issue... companies are trying…
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Visa’s Single Sign-On Checkout is a Winner!
Single sign-in has been proven effective across the board - either utilizing social logins to complete landing page forms, or now by using payment technologies to quickly convert a customer. Visa offers a single-sign on system called Visa Checkout that…
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An Infographic With Every Reason You Need to Focus on Mobile
We spent quite a few episodes on Edge of the Web Radio reporting to our audience on the importance of mobile. We often speak in terms of mobile marketing but as I was sitting in the station discussing the show…
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Failed Customer Experiences Are Destroying Your Marketing
SDL performed a survey to explore where the single or most prominent points of customer experience (CX) failure and success happen with customers and the impacts to the business. Perhaps the scariest result of this survey is that SDL found…
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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…
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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…
