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- Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Google is Burying the SEO Industry
I wrote the post, SEO is Dead, back in April. I still stand by that post… in fact, now more than ever. The purpose of the post wasn’t to attack search engine optimization as a viable online marketing strategy, the purpose was to drive marketers to move their focus away from the popular tactics associated with search engine optimization and…
- Analytics & Testing
Votigo Expands to a Complete Social Marketing Platform
Votigo has been around for a while with a no non-sense set of apps for Facebook contests. They’ve been slowly expanding their competitively priced platform, though, having now expanded their SaaS Platform to manage promotions, applications, conversations, social CRM, and analytics across social channels. Votigo services agencies, brands as well as enterprise customers. Votigo’s Key Features Promotions Manager – A…
- Content Marketing
Hearsay Content Exchange: Curation and Syndication
On a daily basis, our team is reviewing hundreds of sources of marketing data and sharing that data through our marketing and client channels. We utilize alerts, social monitoring and readers to find and review content – and then push that content to our audiences and customers using tools likeHootsuite and Buffer to share that data. It’s not enough for…
- Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Presentation: Going Social – The Business Edition
Yesterday, I presented to the local International Association of Business Communicators chapter. The audience dynamics were mixed between small and large companies. The attendees were business people who spanned social media – from newby to experienced social marketers. Going Social Each time I prepare a presentation, I go back through the history of presentations I’ve done in the past… dropping…
- Marketing & Sales Videos
Enterprise Collaboration using TWiki Workspaces
The importance of a smooth workflow and open communication can never be understated, especially in today’s hyper competitive world where speed, credibility and professionalism are the mantras for success. Yet many organizations function in a “silo culture” that does not encourage sharing information across roles, functions, or departments. Tools such as Twiki help enterprises to get out of such non-collaborative…
- Social Media & Influencer Marketing
You Are The Product of Facebook
Joel Helbling stopped by the office on Friday for a great lunch where we chatted on a number of topics. Joel quoted someone who said that, as a social media company, you have to decide what your product is… the people or the platform. Many people (myself included) look at the valuations of a platform like Facebook and think it’s…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
