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Content Marketing
Adtivity: Improve the Impact of your Social Media Ads
Over time, marketers have developed unique and innovative methods to generate leads. But online ads still retain a dominant position in the marketplace. Appssavvy’s study, “Social Activity Index – Measuring the Effectiveness of Social Advertising” conducted in April 2011, reveals that advertising integrated into social activities that is spread across social games, applications, and web sites is 11 times more…
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Content Marketing
Why Inbound Marketers Use Infographics
We’ve shared many infographics on Martech and developed many of our own infographics for the blog, its sponsors and for our other clients. This infographic from Performancing touches on why inbound marketing companies utilize infographic… including that they are versatile, linkworthy, and controllable. That’s not all, though. As we develop infographics we’re not just looking to build linkbait. We find…
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Analytics & Testing
Determining Facebook and Twitter ROI
I’m not sure I agree with the title of this infographic from InventHelp since it doesn’t actually educate one on how to determine the literal return on investment. More so, it’s a great infographic that shows where marketers should look for a return on investment by leveraging Facebook and Twitter. Within the infographic, a method of looking at the change…
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Analytics & Testing
Online Testing Essentials
So you’ve finally deployed all of your online marketing strategies and they’re integrated and functioning well. You’re able to measure and see the impact of each strategy independently… now it’s time to begin testing. Where do you start? From KISSmetrics: A well-built sales funnel is never complete until every part of it has been tested and optimized. For maximum success,…
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Content Marketing
Should Sales Teams Blog?
I happened to see a poll result from SellingPower and just about had a stroke when I saw the result. The question is Should Sales Teams Blog? Here are the results: Are you kidding me? 55.11% of companies forbid their sales people to blog? First of all… if that’s the case with a company I’m thinking of doing business with,…
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Marketing Infographics
Reaching College Students?
It shouldn’t be any surprise that if you need to reach college students, you need not look any further than their phone. The amount of information, innovative tools, and functionality that are now available on your phone means that people never have to feel disconnected from their friends, their work, or even current events. Perhaps no group of Americans has…
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Content Marketing
Outbrain: Drive Traffic with Content Recommendations
We’ve experimented with quite a few services for displaying related posts on our single post pages on Martech. Right now we’re testing Outbrain and I have to say I’m quite impressed. Here’s an explanation of the service: Outbrain has a concise analytics package that provides click-through data and popularity of each of the posts submitted through their system. We added…
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Marketing Infographics
Why Your Business Must Go Social
Unlike other more traditional forms of marketing, social media marketing is as accesible to small business owners as it is to Fortune 500 companies. This infographic illustrates the impact of social media on your business.
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
White Hat Monsters of SEO
It’s always great to see some humor used in some infographics. And it’s especially great to see those in the industry pushing great SEO practices. I’ve said that SEO is dead and this infographic speaks to that indirectly. The fact is that if you have a solid platform that presents your content appropriately, SEO is the easy part of the…
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E-commerce and Retail
SmartPhones and Coupons Work
One thing that we’ve always noticed that has worked when it came to mobile was the convenience of sending a discount to the phone. Whether it was a text message sent by a restaurant or an app displaying a discount, mobile is the perfect medium for coupon redemption. Why? It’s the only technology that’s carried by the consumer when they’re…
