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Marketing Infographics
Rock Social Media in 30 Minutes a Day
We’ve got quite a large following on social media and we share and respond a ton throughout our audiences on different social mediums. We’re a small team, just a handful of folks, but I think we do a great job of helping our readers throughout the day and responding in a timely manner to them. That said… if all we…
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Marketing Infographics
Social Influencers
I think too many marketers look at social influence as if it’s some kind of new phenomena. I don’t believe it is. In the early days of television, we used the newscaster or the actor to pitch items to the audience. The three networks owned the audience and there was trust and authority established… so the commercial advertising industry was…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
How to Integrate Your Content Strategy & Social Media Campaigns
The Age of Content Strategy It’s the age of “content strategy” and “content marketing.” Wherever you turn, more and more often, that’s something you’ll hear. In truth, content has been a core part of online marketing ever since the earliest days of search engine optimization. With recent Google algorithm updates, however, such as Panda and Penguin, a solid content strategy…
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E-commerce and Retail
Rant: The US Government Will Destroy Internet Commerce
The economy is in shambles in the United States. With record spending, the wealth gap continues to increase, poverty is climbing, the number of citizens dependent upon unemployment, food stamps, disability or welfare is at record levels. There’s only one sector of the American economy that’s thriving – with well-paid jobs, many job openings, tons of investment funding, and growing…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
Mobilenomics: If You’re Not Mobile, You’re Not Marketing
We feel pretty good that we see technology trends coming and then inform you ahead of time. We’ve been speaking about the growth of mobile for well over a year now, but were amazed when we just did an optimization audit for a recent client and they had no mobile strategy… none. Their site wasn’t mobile, their emails weren’t optimized…
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E-commerce and Retail
Zero Moment of Truth: 8 Steps to Readiness
Late last year, I stood in for a colleague who was doing a presentation on Google’s Zero Moment of Truth (ZMOT). While a lot of effort and material is put into documenting the strategy, for most modern marketers, the material is relatively elementary. What is the Zero Moment of Truth? Whether we’re shopping for corn flakes, concert tickets or a…
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Analytics & Testing
Build Your Google Analytics Infographic on Visually
We love Visual.ly for finding and sharing infographics. DK New Media is a certified designer on Visual.ly, with a ton of great infographics we’ve researched, designed and promoted for our clients. As well as static infographics, the Visual.ly team continues to enhance their dynamic infographics as well… check out this great Google Analytics infographic that pulls your weekly stats into…
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Content Marketing
SpeakPipe: Put Voicemail on your Website
If your business doesn’t have the resources to man the phones and respond to every request that comes through your site, you may want to just install a voicemail application like SpeakPipe on your site. Rather than live chat or contact forms, SpeakPipe allows your visitor to record a message using their one-button recorder! SpeakPipe has several options that range…
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Content Marketing
The Dangers of SEO and How to Implement a Flawless Strategy
Yesterday we had a great regional conference organized by Revenue North. The topics ranged across business, technology and marketing and I opened the day with a discussion of the dangers of SEO. So much has changed in the search engine optimization industry. One of my attendees even joked with me that I had conflicting advice just a couple years ago.…
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Content Marketing
Scoring Social Engagement
Most marketers understand the importance of using social media to engage with customers, build brand awareness and generate leads, but many companies still struggle. How do you engage prospects on a personal level, showcase your company’s value and ultimately convert them into customers? For a business there’s little value in having thousands of Twitter followers if no one is buying…
