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Content Marketing
Brand.net: Precision Geographic and Data-Driven Display Advertising
Yesterday I had lunch with good friend Troy Bruinsma, an accomplished sales and marketing executive. Several years ago, we worked on direct mail campaigns for Troy when he worked for a cable company. Utilizing data cleansing, his customer data, their subscription data, demographic data and a TON of work… we were able to profile their current customers and identify, by…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Please Don’t Fall for SEO Email SPAM
Every seasoned website owner has seen them: the cookie-cutter SEO sales emails promising the world with vague claims and dubious guarantees. The one below recently landed in my inbox from a supposed Business Development Manager with no real company name, no verifiable credentials, and a free Gmail address. It is a perfect example of the kind of predatory SEO pitch…
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Marketing Infographics
The Rise of Social and Mobile Native Ads
With the increasing popularity of smartphones, more people are using their mobile devices to check their social accounts than their desktops. Smart marketers are taking advantage of this shift by increasing their spend to mobile marketing, and integrating their ads seamlessly into the social feeds of their target audiences with native advertising. In the U.S. last year, more than $4.6…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Has Social Media Reached Its Innovative Capacity?
Social media’s growth in the last few years was unlike anything we’ve ever seen. Along for the ride, of course, was social media marketing. As we look to 2014, I can’t help but wonder if – as fast as social media rose – it’s now reached its innovative capacity. I’m not saying social media is any less popular nor is…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
Seven Deadly Sins of SMS Marketing
Text messages continue to be an incredible means of marketing but it’s not too sexy so there’s not typically a lot of noise about it. There should be. SMS marketing (with MMS becoming mainstream) continues to drive incredible results. If you’re a retailer trying to drive foot traffic, you’ll find sending a discount or special via text message incredibly effective.…
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Analytics & Testing
appFigures: Reporting for Mobile App Developers
appFigures is an affordable reporting platform for mobile app developers that brings together all of your app store sales, ad data, worldwide reviews, and hourly rank updates. appFigures collects and visualizes sales & download numbers, world-wide reviews & ranks, and other data their reporting solution. appFigures features: Link Multiple Stores – track and compare iOS, Mac, and Android apps in…
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Content Marketing
11 Essential Ingredients to a Compelling Blog Post
Some of the best content you’ll find on the web happen when you’re able to take a complex process and simplify it. Copyblogger has done just that with this infographic on writing blog posts. Every aspect of the advice is to refine and polish the post to acquire and keep readers. There are some key before & afters, too… Before…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Businesses are Risking Authority by Buying It
Recently, I was in a discussion in a social media leadership group on Facebook and I was astonished when one of the members defended buying followers. A couple of years ago I wrote a post that Numbers Matter. In that post, I didn’t object to buying followers, likes, clicks, etc… in fact, I felt it was an investment that was…
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Marketing Infographics
A Field Guide to Navigating Social Media
This infographic from Lemonly and 9clouds providing insight into how to navigate social media is quite unique. The goal was to paint a clear picture to answer three questions that 9clouds always received – What networks should I be using? Why should I use Pinterest or Google Plus or [insert network]? What network is best for my business? The social…
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Marketing Infographics
How To Become a Social Media Marketing Specialist
I wanted to share this infographic because of its outstanding balance in presenting the skills necessary for a marketer to execute social media marketing strategies effectively. In my opinion, I wouldn’t advise any student or professional to go the route of solely becoming proficient in social media. Social media is but one channel of an overall marketing strategy. You should…
