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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…
- 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.…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Social Media & Influencer Marketing
LinkedIn Testing New Weather Notification Feature
LinkedIn appears to be testing a weather notification across the header bar area. Since yesterday, hovering over the weather information icon indicates that the service is “Power by sun365”, the makers of a Google Chrome extension and the weather dashboard website sun365.me. And, yes, they say “power,” not “powered.” This appears to be an extremely limited test trial, or an…
- Customer Data Platforms
GM: You’re Doing Surveys Wrong
After driving my car a decade, I decided to go big or go home. Influenced by my Grandfather’s love of his Cadillac and remembering the weekend rides where he took us out… I bought my first Cadillac earlier in the year. The dealership I purchased from is fantastic… down-to-earth folks from the receptionist to the salesperson to the service people.…
- Marketing Infographics
The Economics of Going Viral
I’m not a fan of companies risking it all on trying to go viral… most can’t get the formula down and risk too much. That doesn’t mean you can’t capitalize on the huge growth in viral videos, though. One HUGE statistic on this infographic from Masters in Marketing, The Economics of Going Viral, stands out… the advertising. Purchase consideration/intent increases…
