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Content Marketing
3 Take-Aways from 5 Keys to Exceptional Email Marketing
According to the 2012 MarketingSherpa Benchmark Survey, several companies are likely to increase their email budget by more than 30% in 2012. However, Delivra is finding that most companies are still struggling with the same fundamental tactics of email – list building, content, integration, design, etc. Don’t increase your email budgets without a clear focus on what needs to improve…
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Marketing Infographics
The Impending Mobile Data Spectrum Shortage
We may see some noticeable changes in the way that our mobile devices communicate in the next few years. Push technologies that are constantly communicating between servers and mobile devices are beginning to eat up the limited bandwidth we currently have. Some companies, such as AT&T are already capping packages. With movies going mobile, music streaming going mobile, and all…
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Advertising Technology
PPC + Organic = More Clicks
Even though it’s a self-serving piece, Google Research has developed this infographic to provide evidence of how click-through rates change when an organic search result is accompanied by a paid search advertisement. Pairing up the two can help your marketing from two different angles… providing a little more real estate to click on on the search engine results page. The…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Visibility and Rewards through Influence
Congrats to our friend, Mark Schaefer, who was recently interviewed on CBS about his new book, Return On Influence: The Revolutionary Power of Klout, Social Scoring, and Influence Marketing. We had an incredible interview with Mark Schaefer a couple weeks ago on our radio show. One of the keys in the interview that I really appreciate is Mark’s encouragement that…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Using Pinterest to Engage Users and Backlink To Improve Organic Rankings
Pinterest has become the newest big thing in social networks. Pinterest, and others, like Twitter and Facebook, grow a user base faster than the users can learn how to use the service, but a huge user base means that ignoring the service is foolish. It’s an opportunity to grow your brand. We’re using Pinterest at WP Engine, so I’ll be…
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Customer Data Platforms
Who’s Answering Your Survey? Validation Made Simple
Soliciting consumer feedback before, during, and after launching a new business venture is a great way to figure out how you measure up in the eyes of your customers. You never want to assume you know how your target market (30 to 45-year-old working mothers, for example) feels about what you’re doing, especially since it’s so easy to ask them…
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Content Marketing
Inbound Marketing Explosion
As an inbound marketing agency, we think it’s exciting to be agents on the front side of the incredible change in the agency industry. From vendors to designers, everyone is paying much more attention to the big picture of online marketing rather than working in silos or comfort zones. Working across mediums provides greater results… but it’s not easy! Marketing…
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Marketing Infographics
CMO launches an Interactive Guide to the Social Landscape
CMO.com has launched a very detailed interactive guide to the social landscape for 2012. The guide walks through each social platform, from bookmarking to networking, and details how the medium assists with customer communication, brand exposure, traffic to your site and search engine optimization. Below is a hardcopy of the guide – but the site is much better – allowing…
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E-commerce and Retail
Ecommerce Social Login & Sharing
Great data from Facebook, LinkedIn, Google and Yahoo! on social logins, social sharing and e-commerce conversions. Monetate works with retailers like BestBuy, Urban Outfitters and sites like QVC and Comcast to optimize their sites to increase conversion rates. Social commerce is much more than a Facebook store or attributing a sale to an inbound channel like Twitter, Google+, or Pinterest.…
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Content Marketing
Social Business, the Quiet Revolution
Social media and social technologies are now an integral component of how companies do business. It has become completely intertwined and integrated in our marketing efforts. Digital marketers can’t talk about content, SEO, website optimization, PR. Customers, whether they realize it or not, now have a completely new role to play within the corporate setting. They play a fundamentally different role in…
