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- Content Marketing
25 Awesome Content Marketing Tools
We recently shared 25 Awesome Social Media Marketing Tools from the 2013 Social Media Strategies Summit. This is not a comprehensive list, just some tools that you can use to augment your brand’s content marketing strategy, including stand-out examples of five tools across five categories of content marketing: Curation – These tools help in the process of discovering and gathering…
- Marketing Infographics
How Enterprise Brands Staff and Budget for Social
Wildfire and Ad Age recently conducted a survey asking over 500 enterprise marketing managers and executives about their approach to social marketing. They learned what the best and most successful brands are doing to engage audiences, as well as what those that struggle with social are doing. Social media is no longer an option for business, it’s essential to maintain…
- Email Marketing & Automation
Slick Kick: A Global Multi Channel Marketing Platform
While their site announces their platform as a Marketing Automation system, I’m not sure I’d agree given a review of Slick Kick’s features. Marketing automation typically includes campaign flows and lead scoring to assist with an inbound marketing program… which Slick Kick doesn’t appear to support. But I will attest to their multi-channel marketing capabilities as you’ll see from the…
- E-commerce and Retail
The Most Popular Gift This Year for Millennials? Hint: It’s Not the XBox One
Blackhawk Network is a are experts in prepaid payment solutions – both physical and mobile. A new survey they released uncovers new insights about millennials’ preferences for giving and receiving gift cards this holiday season. New data shows that gift cards will be high on the list for purchasing by and for millennials this holiday season. The following data comes…
- Analytics & Testing
61.5% of Your Traffic is NOT Human
Last March, Incapsula published a study that showed the majority of website traffic (51%) was generated by non-human entities, 60% of which were clearly malicious. Bad news… bot traffic is up and up tremendously. In fact, up to 61.5% of the traffic you’re seeing in Google Analytics wasn’t generated by a human at all, but a bot. This was a…
- Content Marketing
You’re All The Same, Only Different
We hear it all the time, “We’re different”. And we often hear from marketers, “You’re all the same”. Last night I had the pleasure of being on a Smartups marketing panel with Jeb Banner, Gail McDaniel, Brian Phillips, and George Evans. It was such a great panel… all of us were outspoken and all of us have quite a different…
- Analytics & Testing
Sailthru: Optimize, Automate and Deliver
We’re entering an interesting age when it comes to big data and personalization. Platforms like Sailthru can personalize the frequency and topic of the messaging you’re sending via mobile or email – and then personalize the content of the site that the user is landing on. I have been writing for a long time that the limitation of modern analytics…
- Content Marketing
The Hidden Lessons of Google and Facebook
A few years ago, I was strung out on SEO. I’m not kidding… the traffic that Google was sending our blog kept me up at night, writing, tweaking, writing, tweaking, writing. I was chasing the algorithm, my competition, and it was driving every decision that I had with the blog. I was able to squeeze more and more visits, incrementally,…
- Analytics & Testing
Distimo: App Analytics, Conversions and App Store Tracking
Distimo provides free mobile app analytics platform for developers as well as app market data. The Distimo platform lets developers track mobile app downloads, app revenue, and app conversions for campaigns in their own app across multiple app stores. Distimo offers their mobile app analytics for free, allowing them to gather incredible volumes of data and improved accuracy in their…
- Content Marketing
Lesson.ly: The Teaching and Learning Application
There are times, especially in technology, that you want to provide a quick and easy lesson for your platform. As an example, we developed CircuPress as a self-service email application for WordPress… but it does require a few steps to setup. We could do a video that shows the setup, but the user will then need to pause/continue as they…
