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Content Marketing
Why (and How) to Incorporate Retargeting into Your Digital Strategy
Retargeting, the practice of serving ads to people who have previously engaged with you online, has become a darling of the digital marketing world, and for good reason: it’s incredibly powerful and extremely cost-effective. Retargeting, in its various forms, can serve as a complement to an existing digital strategy, and can help you get more out of the campaigns you’re…
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Content Marketing
Source Metrics: Social Marketing Optimization and Analytics
Source Metrics has announced its Social Media Inbox. This new feature is unlike other tools as it offers actionable detailed information as it happens rather than high-level business intelligence in weekly or monthly reports, and allows marketers to distill 1000s of daily mentions down to about 20 of the most important actionable mentions according to following. The Social Media Inbox…
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Marketing Infographics
Proposal Software is Boosting Business
Over the past couple of years, sales has drastically changed with the coming of the digital age. Specifically, how people are sending and receiving sales proposals has been enhanced with the development of online sales proposal management systems, like our client TinderBox. Why are these solutions better than simply writing up a sales proposal in Microsoft Word? Well, we made…
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Analytics & Testing
My Online Marketing Checklist in Prioritized Order
There’s a ton of things that need accomplished to fully leverage an online marketing strategy, but I’m often amazed at the priority that companies place each item on the checklist. As we take on new clients, we’re looking to ensure the strategies with the most impact are accomplished first… especially if they’re easy. Hint: content marketing and social media marketing…
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Email Marketing & Automation
10 Holiday Deliverability Tips
From now until the end of the year, inboxes everywhere are fighting spam. Unfortunately, the chances of your email finding its way into a spam folder are pretty good. Especially if you haven’t been sending frequently and utilizing email marketing best practices. Digital marketers can face a long and winding road in getting emails to customers this time of year.…
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Marketing Infographics
Reasons Why a Mobile Facebook is Serious Business
Releasing a new mobile version of Facebook for tablets and mobile devices may have been one of the best moves they had ever made. Facebook is now seeing a 67% year over year growth according to this infographic from Qwaya, Reasons Why a Mobile Facebook is Serious Business. It’s time to start taking Facebook on mobile seriously. The whole world…
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Email Marketing & Automation
The Importance of a Click Whitepaper
Delivra, our client email marketing sponsor, has created a whitepaper demonstrating the importance of a click as it can be the difference between making the sale. The Importance of a Click whitepaper discusses the rationale behind every click, the tactics to improve the click rates, and some real life experiences to reveal how understanding the importance of a click will…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
The First Step in Social Business: Discovery
I recently finished reading (for the second time) the excellent book, Social Business By Design: Transformative Social Media Strategies for the Connected Company, by Dion Hinchcliffe and Peter Kim. The question I often hear is, Where do we start? The short answer is that you should start at the beginning, but how we define the beginning is probably the most…
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Marketing Tools
SlideDog: Transform Your Windows PowerPoint Presentations into Interactive Experiences
Presenters across industries face the same challenge: keeping their audience engaged while switching seamlessly between different media types. Traditional tools often fall short when combining content like PowerPoint slides, videos, PDFs, or live polls into one smooth presentation experience. That’s where SlideDog steps in—a comprehensive multimedia presentation tool designed to elevate your presentations to a professional, interactive level. SlideDog SlideDog…
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Analytics & Testing
Actionly Social Media Monitoring and Publishing
Actionly is an affordable social media monitoring and engagement suite that integrates with Facebook, Twitter, Google +, YouTube, LinkedIn and RSS feeds. Actionly provides Social Media Marketing Tools and a Social Media Monitoring platform. We enable agencies and businesses to connect with their customers on social networks. We monitor keywords across networks like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Blogs, Flickr, and various…
