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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Social Media: A World of Possibilities for Small Business
Ten years ago, marketing options for small business owners were fairly limited. Traditional media like radio, Tv and even most print advertising were just too expensive for small business. Then along came the internet. Email marketing, social media, blogs and ad words offer small business owners a chance to get their message out. Suddenly, you could create the illusion, your…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
We Should Stop Saying Influential When We Mean Popular
I saw it again today… another Influencer List. I couldn’t get through the entire list, though, because I was too busy raking my nails down my face and pulling my hair out. It wasn’t an influencer list at all, it was just another popularity list. To be certain that we all understand the difference, let’s go ahead and define the…
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E-commerce and Retail
Design Effective E-commerce Product Pages
There are millions of e-commerce sites out there and, thankfully, developers, designers and consultants who work on e-commerce sites have tested practically every iteration of product page to maximize conversions. Invesp has published some fairly startling statistics when it comes to e-commerce sites: The average abandonment rate of shopping cart is 65.23% The average conversion rate of E-commerce store is…
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Content Marketing
Give Your Website a Trust Audit
Several times a week I happen across a company’s website only to question whether or not they are really in business, actually doing any business, or are trustworthy enough to engage with. Companies invest in a web presence and don’t even realize that the site they have may be an indicator that they are not trustworthy. Trust is a huge…
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Analytics & Testing
Perfect Data is Impossible
Marketing in the modern era is a funny thing; while web based marketing campaigns are much easier to track than traditional campaigns, there is so much information available that people can be paralyzed in a quest for more data and 100% accurate information. For some, the amount of time saved by being able to quickly find out the number of…
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Marketing Infographics
Customer Service in Social Media
In our social media engagements, our first priority with companies we work with is to ensure their business is fully prepared for engaging prospects and customers online. While the companies may see social media as a potential marketing opportunity, they don’t realize that people online don’t care what their purpose is… they only care that there’s an opportunity to speak…
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Analytics & Testing
SourceTrack: Dynamic Call Tracking for Your Enterprise
We work with many large companies and a continued challenge is always how to track how leads are getting to their business. While businesses and consumers research and find many companies online, they still pick up the phone when they wish to do business. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM4lMJ02YtA?rel=0&w=640&h=360] Call Tracking has been around for quite a while, but for businesses with thousands…
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Content Marketing
Plan, Share, Collaborate and Distribute Creative Work
We’ve written about Digital Asset Management in the past. Widen, a Digital Asset Management company, has now partnered with ConceptShare. The pairing of these platforms allows you to plan, share, collaborate and distribute your creative work. This is a great pairing… enabling workflow processing around any digital asset – especially high-bandwidth, large video file distribution. ConceptShare is a Creative Operations…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Tragedy and Social Media
Many of you don’t know me personally, but I was actually raised in Newtown, Connecticut. It’s an amazing little town that has grown dramatically but not changed very much since I lived there. When I was young, we used to have to see the movies at City Hall, visit the Blue Colony Diner for ice cream, and go to St.…
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Content Marketing
Tablet & Mobile Shoppers Holiday Plans
Our digital catalog publisher client, Zmags, recently conducted a survey on what consumers’ shopping habits would be this holiday season. Based on the results, the majority of shoppers will be purchasing on their mobile and tablet devices this year and in-store purchases will go down. Digital catalogs are the 2nd most popular shopping destination after websites. If you’re an online…
