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Marketing Infographics
Closing the Gap Between Sales and Marketing
The topic of the changing sales funnel is on every company’s mind. A big part of the change is how we look at sales, and more importantly, how the strategy of sales and marketing are more aligned than ever. Organizations need to analyze how their organization is approaching sales on a consistent basis so that they don’t lose any opportunities. Are…
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Content Marketing
How to Write Content Where Visitors Determine Your Value
Regardless of price, value is always determined by the customer. And often, that value will rely upon how well the customer leverages your product or service. Many software or a service (SaaS) vendors utilize value-based selling to determine their prices. That is, rather than pricing out a flat monthly rate or a rate based on usage, they work with the…
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Content Marketing
Your Visitors Don’t Want to Learn More or Read More
Often times, marketers are so busy with getting more traffic that they don’t spend time improving the conversion percentages of the traffic they’ve already attained. This week, we were reviewing a multi-touch email program for a client of Right On Interactive. The client laid out some amazing campaigns but it suffered from low click-through rates and conversions. We noticed each…
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Content Marketing
How Better Blog Posts Make You a Better Lover
Ok, that title may be a little misleading. But it did get your attention and got you to click through to the post, didn’t it? That’s called linkbait. We didn’t come up with a hot blog post title like that without assistance… we used Portent’s Content Idea Generator. The clever folks at Portent have revealed how the idea for the…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Because Google Said So
Google is the master. Period. We can’t avoid it. If you want to benefit from organic search, the SEO formula is simple – listen to what Google wants you to do and do it! (And don’t do as they do) It happened again this week. A representative from the web department brushed off an alert in Google Search Console and…
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Content Marketing
RAMP: Easy Content Deployment Between WordPress Sites
We often set up a staging site for the client and then move the staging site into production. With WordPress, content is both file-based and found within the database. Synchronizing files is fairly simple, but synchronizing databases isn’t as easy. RAMP is a tool developed to help firms migrate their WordPress content between sites. RAMP allows you to make changes…
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Content Marketing
Reachli: The Visual Advertising Network
We’ve shared other content recommendation systems like Outbrain. What if your content isn’t textual in nature, though, and it’s more visual – like coupons, informational graphics, sales graphics, calls-to-action or photographs? Reachli is a visual advertising network. Reachli has over 70,000 advertisers that get over 3.5 million views on a monthly basis! Reachli has a proprietary pair-and-match technology uses keyword,…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Social Media Explained with Coffee
Coffee is one of those incredible pleasures in my life that I can’t do without. I’m sipping on a freshly roasted dark French Roast right now, and it’s fantastic, brewed in my stovetop espresso maker. My best friends own a coffee shop. There’s nothing I love more than discovering some non-chain coffee house when I’m on the road. Most of…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
The Upper Class of Social Media is Failing Us
In my daughter’s high school they had an area that was sacred to seniors called the “senior rug”. The “senior rug” was a comfortable section built into an area in the main halls of her high school where the upper class could hang out. No freshmen or junior class were allowed on the senior rug. Sounds mean, doesn’t it? In…
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Analytics & Testing
The Battle for Holiday Season Glory – Google Shopping vs. Amazon Product Ads in Q4
They say “put your money where your mouth is.” Well, word on the street, and perhaps every street in the world, is that Google and Amazon are your money makers when it comes to online retail. Google Shopping and Amazon Product Ads are undoubtedly two of the most dynamic, traffic-heavy paid comparison shopping engines (CSEs) in existence. But everyone knows…
