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  • Marketing Infographics6 Myths Social Sharing

    6 Myths of Social Sharing

    There are no rules! This has been my mantra for as long as I’ve been marketing. What I watch that works fantastic for one company barely moves the needle for another. Virtually no two businesses are alike, yet we have an entire marketing consulting industry of so-called experts that give bunk advice every single day. Of course there are strategies…

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    FirehoseChat: Site Chat Integrated with Mac, iPhone and iPad

    FirehostChat is a fully native apps with push notifications that’s as easy as texting. You can even receive chat notifications on your iPhone lock screen with their mobile application. Users can be identified by their physical location and you can identify the page they’re on as well as their system info. The paid version comes with fully customizable CSS, multi-user…

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    How Do You Justify a Video Marketing Strategy?

    It’s not just anecdotal evidence that supports the use of video, it’s the science of video that captures the attention and emotion of the viewer or subscriber. We’ve been pushing all of our clients to make the move to video and have been sprinkling them throughout their sites… from product explainer videos, to complex animations, to customer testimonials and common…

  • Analytics & Testingthe art science of content marketing

    The Art and Science of Content Marketing

    While much of what we write for companies are thought leadership pieces, answering frequently asked questions, and customer stories – one type of content stands out. Whether it’s a blog post, an infographic, a whitepaper or even a video, the best performing content tells a story that’s explained or illustrated well, and supported by research. This infographic from Kapost really…

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    How Social Marketing Stacks Up with Traditional Advertising

    I’m not opposed at all to advertising and paying for promotion, but many business owners and even some marketers don’t distinguish the difference. Often, social marketing is seen as just another channel. While it is an additional strategy to add to your marketing, social offers a far different opportunity. Social media has been disrupting the advertising landscape ever since it…

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    Will Your Branded Content Idea Work? 5 Ways to Know

    Branded content is not one size fits all. What works for one brand may not work for all, and it’s good to know if your content idea is likely to work before you pour resources into executing it. Column Five has come up with 5 questions you can ask yourself and your team to see if your brilliant ideas will translate from the…

  • Customer Data PlatformsOptimized Marketing: Brand Segmentation, Activation, and Reporting

    Optimized Marketing: Why You Should Align Brand Segmentation to Activation & Reporting

    With high volumes of data created across multiple marketing channels, brands are challenged to organize and activate the right data assets to maximize cross-channel performance. You must align your brand segmentation with digital activation and reporting to understand better your target audience, drive more sales, and reduce marketing waste. You must align the why they purchase with the who that…

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    Social Customer Service for Marketeers

    Customer service IS marketing. I’ll say it again… customer service IS marketing. Because the way you treat your customers is promoted on social media, ratings and reviews every single day, your customer service is no longer an indicator of customer satisfaction, retention or value. Your customers are now a key arm to all of your marketing efforts because they share…

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    More Content, More Problems: The Struggle of a Sales Rep

    We’ve been publishing quite a bit about the tools that align sales and marketing efforts. In my opinion, sales representatives have a much more difficult job to do nowadays. 59% of their time doing tasks other than selling such as researching the account and generating leads. And consumers and businesses are able to do extraordinary research online, evaluating features, benefits,…

  • Marketing Infographicshow to make marketing automation work

    How to Make Marketing Automation Work for You

    There’s a lot of confusion in the online front today on what exactly marketing automation is. It seems that any company who figures out how to send an email based on a triggered event calls themselves marketing automation. We’ve learned from our marketing automation sponsor, Right On Interactive, that there are very distinct characteristics of a marketing automation system that…

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