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Analytics & Testing
Context, Vision and Sharing Stupidity
As I drive down the highway, I think it’s nothing short of a miracle that I make it to work alive and (almost) on time. I think it’s nothing short of a miracle because when I’m not working with very smart people, I’m reading a lot of stupid crap on Twitter and Facebook… and watching a lot of stupid crap…
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Analytics & Testing
Big Data Brings Marketing Big Numbers
IBM has released an infographic developed from some released use case data. Today’s rapidly growing flood of big data represents immense opportunity for forward-thinking marketers. But to fully leverage the potential that exists within these massive streams of structured and unstructured data, organizations must quickly optimize ad delivery, evaluate campaign results, improve site selection and retarget ads. The infographic highlights…
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Content Marketing
The Gold Standard of Content Marketing
Newsreach has released both an infographic and accompanying whitepaper, The True Value of Content Marketing. Individual pieces of high quality content are capable of attracting and engaging web users, but on their own will not have the impact you want. Content Marketing requires an ongoing effort to produce fresh, relevant high-quality pieces. Many businesses face challenges in producing the volume…
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Analytics & Testing
Statdash: Build the Ultimate Dashboard
It seems like each day we’re having to add another tool to monitor some new metrics that provide feedback on our clients. Over time, we’ve collected a number of SaaS subscriptions that we’re logging in and out of on a daily basis. It’s so complex that we’ve sought out development resources – but it’s going to be costly to integrate…
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Content Marketing
3 Reasons I’m Hosting My Webinar with ReadyTalk
I was first introduced to ReadyTalk after having a webinar meltdown with GoToWebinar. I had 3 guests on the show from Denver, San Francisco, and London. More than 200 patient and gracious attendees hung in there as we dealt with extensive audio and visual delays. So I needed to find a provider with the right infrastructure to support the needs…
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Marketing Infographics
How Small Businesses Use Social Media
It’s always interesting to note out other marketers are leveraging social media for their own benefit. Pagemodo has developed an infographic on How Marketers Are Using Social Media Successfully. The infographic is based on a recent survey and showcases the most common benefits of using social media. Including: How important is social media marketing for small businesses? What percentage of…
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Content Marketing
Rise of the Visual Social Networks
Flickr, Pinterest, Instagram, Path, Facebook and Twitter are all focusing quite a bit of attention on visuals. It’s long been understood by marketers that visuals are essential to all content marketing efforts – but not it appears more important than ever as these tools fully leverage the image to enhance the user experience and shareability of the content presented. John…
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
Why Don’t You Know Who I Am?
It’s important to prequalify our marketing prospects to ensure we are getting the right customer. If we sign the wrong customers, we immediately know because our productivity lags, meeting volumes increase, and more and more frustration enters the relationship. We don’t want that. We want clients that understand our process, value our relationship and see the results we are getting…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
Bravo: Capture Video Testimonials Online
Many sites would benefit from video testimonials or putting up a page where customers could record a video message for the company. However, capturing, uploading and hosting those videos can be quite a pain. Bravo hopes to change that with their new service, allowing your customers to record via their webcam and host it on a custom landing page just…
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Email Marketing & Automation
An Email’s Journey to the Inbox
We were just discussing in a content marketing training webinar today with a national company how email design and email marketing performance has changed due to the way clients render as well as how mobile devices render email. With 30% of emails being read on a mobile device, it’s more important than ever to design your emails properly… and test…
