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E-commerce and Retail
Social Media Impact on Commerce
Yesterday, I installed a Belkin F9K1106 Dual Band Range Extender in my parent’s house to try and get a signal in their guest room. I read all the reviews online and discussed it with a couple folks I know. I couldn’t find anyone with a definitive opinion and reviews were mixed; so, I just had to test it for myself.…
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Content Marketing
Advertising: How Consumers Won the War for Their Attention
In this epic, must-see presentation, HubSpot explores the ENTIRE history and evolution of advertising to unveil how a comprehensive (yet digestible) timeline of advertising milestones led to an epidemic of consumer indifference, as well as what marketers can do about it to reach consumers in the years ahead. Don’t be discouraged by the 472 slides — 29.39% of those are…
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Analytics & Testing
6 Signs It’s Time to Ditch Your Analytics Software
A well-crafted business intelligence (BI) software solution is crucial for any organization that wants to determine the ROI of their online endeavors. Whether it’s project tracking, an email marketing campaign, or forecasting, a company cannot thrive without tracking areas of growth and opportunity through reporting. Analytics software will only cost time and money if it doesn’t capture accurate snapshots of…
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Content Marketing
ShoutEm: Mobile Apps and Whitelabeled Mobile Apps
ShoutEm offers a mobile application platform that has a variety of options for business, agencies and enterprise. ShoutEm apps offer content management, smartphone and tablet app builders, user engagement tools, monetization options and seemless publishing processes. Agencies can build high-quality mobile apps at a fraction of the cost of custom development with ShoutEm’s white label solution. Adobe and eMarketer findings…
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Content Marketing
Swiftly: Small Design Changes for $15
Did you ever have a project that just needed a little tweaking? Even though we have an amazing full-time designer, I almost feel guilty asking him to adjust a graphic or output a file in a different format because I’m not Photoshop-fluent. He’s a master, so I want him spending his time designing amazing infographics, whitepapers, calls-to-action and our branding.…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Acquisio: Turbocharge Your PPC Campaigns with Machine Learning
Managing paid search campaigns across multiple platforms can be overwhelming. From launch to reporting, marketers face the dual challenge of staying efficient while maximizing results. With increasing demand for transparency, ROI, and automation, agencies and businesses alike require tools that surpass spreadsheets and guesswork. Acquisio Acquisio answers this need with a powerful, AI-powered SEM platform designed to streamline paid search…
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Marketing Infographics
10 Tips for Better Status Updates
As more and more companies adopt and improve their social media strategies, it’s getting much more difficult for your updates to be heard. I’m a huge proponent of evaluating each of your status updates for one simple thing… value. Is the information you’re sharing of value to your audience? If it is, you have a winner. Your status update is…
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Content Marketing
Who Is Your B2B Buyer?
We see our clients struggle often with the tone of their content… they’re concerned that their content is too sophisticated or not sophisticated enough for their audience. We believe that a range of sophistication is most effective. Readers looking for high-authority content skim past the content that’s not of interest. They don’t judge the company nor the publication, they simply…
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Marketing Infographics
WordPress Safety and Security
Our site is hosted on Flywheel and we’re also affiliates because we believe it’s the best WordPress hosting platform on the planet. Because of WordPress’s popularity, it’s become a popular target of hackers. That doesn’t mean it can’t be a secure platform, though, it just means that it’s in every user’s best interest to ensure they maintain the platform, the…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Social Is the Problem, Not the Media
Yesterday, I heard a great story about friends and enemies. The story was about how it’s much more difficult to make a friend than an enemy. An enemy can be made in a matter of moments, but often our friendships took months or years to create. As you look to social media, this also an issue… you or your business…
