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Analytics & Testing
Create, Share and Impact Your Business KPIs
One of the issues that I’ve always had with analytics is that vendors think packing more and more measurements is the way to enhance their platforms. While it’s great to have thousands of variables to report on, understanding which variables actually have an impact on your business is much more difficult. And even understanding which variables do begs the question…
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Marketing Infographics
What Facebook Likes Reveal About Us
It’s hard to believe that by simply clicking a few likes, a platform can accurately predict much more about the consumers using it than they could imagine – but it’s true. This is the power of database marketing and may point to a fundamental flaw in many social media marketers’ logic. While we all wish to be treated as individuals,…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Video: Keep, Win, Grow with Right On Interactive
One of the keys that we’ve identified in our own business is that a specific type of customer is key to the client’s success as well as ours. Some of it has to do with resources, some with the industry they’re in and most of it being a recognition of the value and return on investment. We’re just 5 years…
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Marketing Infographics
Social Research and Revenue
As with much marketing and sales, connecting the dots is sometimes difficult between the activity consumers take and the actual point of purchase. No doubt, though, that there is a correlation between social activity and purchase behavior. CMOs are beginning to acquire research that there is causation as well… exciting stuff! This infographic from SocialAnnex, a social media marketing platform…
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Marketing Infographics
How to Improve Your Facebook Page
Shortstack has used an Operation mentality — removing what doesn’t work and fixing what’s broken — as a helpful infographic to give your Facebook Page a checkup. Here’s a list of their tips on operate and improve your Facebook Page presence: To increase visibility, write a photo description for your cover photo that includes a CTA (to do this, just…
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Analytics & Testing
How Do You Measure Content Marketing?
This is a beautiful infographic from Brandpoint on Measuring Content Marketing Success. Not every piece of content is going to drive a sale, but the momentum and collection of content definitely drives awareness and consideration, eventually leading to conversions. Content marketing tactics such as blog posts, feature articles, optimized website copy, white papers, social media content and press releases move…
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Content Marketing
Infographics: 10 Things You Didn’t Know about Online Contests
High response rates and building a great database of prospects are two key reasons to employ online contests via the web, mobile and Facebook. More than 70% of big companies will use contests in their strategies by 2014. One in 3 of those contest participants will agree to receive information from your brand via email. And brands that have got…
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Content Marketing
Content Variety and Formats Drive Results
Your audience varies. While you may appreciate a long-copy whitepaper, another prospect may simply want to review a feature list before they contact you for business. This great infographic from ContentPlus, a UK-based content marketing service, provides an overview of the variety of content offerings that exist, why they work, and some supporting data. They also have an accompanying blog…
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Marketing Infographics
Using Social Media for Lead Generation
This infographic has some great stats but I don’t think it’s a deep evaluation of the total impact of social media. One example is the impact of social media on search engine results. If you have great content that’s shared a ton socially, the chances of more folks citing your content within their relevant content increases and; as a result,…
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Content Marketing
This is How You Share Content in Social Media
If you truly want to maximize your reach on Facebook and Google+ when you share content, look no further than our client, Angie’s List. Many folks (like us) push our content to social media utilizing a host of publishing applications like Hootsuite or Buffer. The problem is that our articles are seen on Facebook and Google+ with minimal reach. Not…
