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Content Marketing
7 Surefire Tips for Courting A Guest Blog Post
Guest blogging is an intricate and delicate process that should be treated like the beginning of any relationship: seriously and with care. As a blog owner, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been emailed terribly written, spammy emails. Blogs, like relationships, take a lot of effort and a potential guest blogger shouldn’t treat it as a frivolous process.…
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Content Marketing
Improvements in Intelligent Self-Service
If you’re like me, you despise dealing with customer service. It’s not that I don’t like the people – they do their best. But more often than not, I know more about the problem I’m running into than they do. I hate sitting on the phone on hold for 5 minutes, followed by a discussion for 15 minutes, followed by…
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Content Marketing
Supporting Sponsorships without Selling Your Soul
Without sponsorships, we wouldn’t have much of a blog. That means that you’re benefiting from our sponsors, too! With sponsorship funding, we’re able to continue to improve the design of the site, roll out mobile and tablet versions, have a robust podcast and continue working on new features – like revamping the email program and getting a new mobile application…
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Marketing Tools
Stop Building Crappy Software – Integrated Software Still Wins
Here is something internal CIO’s and your internal tech teams don’t want you to know: the 18-month software implementation that just cost you $500K – $1MM could be done a hell of a lot cheaper…and should be. They are building job security because most C-level leaders and marketers don’t understand how technology can and should work. As marketers, we all…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Planning Your Holiday Email Strategy
Did you know that you’re under 100 days until Christmas? This holiday is rapidly approaching – and since marketers are already squeezed for time and resources, you best get an email marketing strategy together now so that you can capitalize on the season. Design, test, segmenting and scheduling your email strategy needs to be done today if you hope to…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
Video: What is Integrated Advertising?
We often provide evidence to our clients that multi-channel marketing is the ideal means of increasing results throughout all the channels, not just one. We’ve written about the advent of Social Television, but advertising models around traditional television are changing as well, incorporating applications, mobile technologies and social media. This is a great video from BBR/ Saatchi & Saatchi explaining…
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Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
The Tallest iPhone Yet (Parody)
It’s time for some fun! I genuinely enjoy a good spoof and love it when it’s targeted towards a company like Apple (of which I’m a total fanboy). Brand perfection brings the opportunity for ridicule, especially when it seems that Apple repeats the formula year after year… with groundbreaking features and the most powerful iPhone yet, announced over iconic background…
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Content Marketing
Are You Investing in Promotional Items?
Last weekend I was invited by the team at Site Strategics to be on their Edge of the Web radio show and to speak to some New Media Communication students who came down from IU Kokomo to speak with us. It was a fantastic event and the students were enthusiastic and asked a ton of questions – not just about…
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Content Marketing
e-Reading on the Rise
We’ve written about utilizing e-books for marketing in the past, but new statistics shed light on the continued growth of tablets and e-Reading trends. People who own e-readers are reading more than they might otherwise, as reflected in rising e-book sales. As a result, e-reader sales continue to increase. According to one study conducted in early 2012, 13% of those…
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Content Marketing
The Anatomy of Saving and Spending
As marketers, sometimes our biggest issue is getting over the purchase-decision hump. People don’t realize it, but there is a science to that event. While this infographic focuses on the view of the purchase decision of consumers, marketers should be focused on how they can help in the process through design, packaging, messaging and engagement. Observing abandoned shopping carts and…
