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The Blogconomy Blogging Statistics
Remember when folks were saying that blogging was dead? I’ve been blogging now for a decade and owe my success, my book, my company and my career to blogging. Through years of blogging, I’ve generated influence, authority and enough of…
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TOMS: A Case Study in Profitable Cause Marketing
I had written a plea to Stop Killing Cause Marketing a while ago. Central to the controversy is that sometimes cause marketing clashes with consumers when businesses apply their marketing efforts to profitable ventures while utilizing non-profits or charities. Opponents…
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30 Marketing Statistics You Shouldn’t Miss
Any infographic that brings marketers back to the core of their efforts is really powerful. We were just sitting with a client today and walking through the baseline of a great content strategy… developing recent, frequent and relevant content on…
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4 Video Production Myths And Their Solutions
We’ve been encouraging all of our clients to leverage video as part of an overall online marketing strategy. Many of your web visitors are abandoning your site altogether because there’s no video. Others are not even making it there because…
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Piqora: Rich Analytics for Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr
Piqora (previously Pinfluencer) is a marketing and analytics platform for visual, interest-based networks like Pinterest, Tumblr, and Instagram. Their suite incorporates engagement, hashtag, conversion and revenue metrics. Piqora works with many well-known retailers, brands, and publishers to identify and connect…
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LinkedIn Launches Sponsored Updates
LinkedIn has been testing sponsored updates with companies like HubSpot, Adobe, Lenovo, Xerox and American Express… now they’re opening it to everyone. This will be an effective way for B2B companies to identify and target prospects with their content marketing…
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Movable Ink: Real-Time, Personalized and Tested Email Marketing
The majority of email platforms are static… once the email leaves the provider there is no way to change the content. That’s unfortunate, though, since actionable events can happen in that gap. Perhaps you’re an e-commerce company and you’re now…
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The Problem with Project Management Software
Sometimes, I wonder if folks who develop project management solutions (PMS) use them. Within the marketing space, project management software is a must – keeping track of ads, posts, videos, whitepapers, use case scenarios, and other projects is a huge…
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Re: Trust
It happened again. While I was reviewing the (unstoppable) list of emails that were hitting my inbox, I noticed the reply email. The subject line, of course, started with RE: so it caught my eye and I immediately opened it.…
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Marketers Guide to Facebook Exchange Ads
Facebook offers targeting of advertisements in both the news stream and the sidebar with Facebook Exchange. Click-through rates on the news feed have skyrocketed and far outperform sidebar advertising. MDG Advertising, a full-service advertising agency with offices in Boca Raton…
