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- Analytics & Testing
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…
- Advertising Technology
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…
- Content Marketing
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 Platforms
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…
- Marketing Infographics
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…
- Marketing Infographics
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 Infographics
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…
- Content Marketing
GoDaddy: Leaving the Boobs Behind and Kicking Ass
I hated GoDaddy. I truly did. I couldn’t believe a brand could spend millions of dollars flashing cleavage and continue to build so much business. It was a slap in the face to marketers who worked hard to keep their brands relevant, transparent, professional and helpful to their audiences. It was the easy way out… and it seemed to work.…
- Content Marketing
#Atomicchat: User-Generated Content
If you follow me on Twitter, we had a fantastic chat session with the folks at Atomic Reach speaking about User Generated Content (UGC). Here are the highlights and key takeaways from #AtomicChat Twitter chat, hosted every Monday night at 9pm EST/ 8pm CST/ 6pm PST. Follow @Atomic_Reach for all your content marketing updates! Short for user-generated content, UGC is…
- E-commerce and Retail
5 Ways that Tablets are Changing the Retail Experience
This week I was shopping in the local CVS pharmacy and was pretty intrigued when I noticed a full, multimedia display with video and sound promoting one of the electric razors. The unit fit right on the shelf, didn’t take up much space, and had directional speakers. I suppose it won’t be too long before we see tablet stations at…
