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Analytics & Testing
Marketing Metrics that Matter
Pardot put together this marketing metrics cheat sheet that has been making the rounds. Today’s marketing analytics are powerful. Marketers have access to all kinds of metrics, from page views and numbers of fans to more revealing statistics involving leads and sales. With the growing transparency in marketing data, it’s easy to get caught up in data that – more…
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Content Marketing
How to Find New Marketing Channels
“It was a really cool place to hang out until everyone else started going there.” This is a common complaint among hipsters. Marketers share their frustration; that is, if you replace the word “cool” with the word “profitable.” A great marketing channel can lose its luster over time. New advertisers take attention away from your message. Rising costs make the…
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Content Marketing
The Surprising Words That Get Top Content Shared
Recently, I wrote about 2 key elements that article titles should incorporate if they wish to be clicked on and read. Some words don’t just impact what folks read, it can also impact what folks share! This infographic from ShortStack provides data collected from Iris Shoor, Leo Widrich and Scott Ayres. Words that get content shared Blog Posts – Surprising,…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Email Versus Social Media
This well-detailed infographic from HostPapa provides more insight into how each medium – email or social media – should be utilized rather than whether one is a substitute for the other. They’re simply not. You should not be doing one or the other – you should be focused on doing both effectively. 75% of all adults express email is their…
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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…
