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Don’t Put Email on the Back Burner!
In the last Delivra guest post for Martech, Neil included a survey asking you all what some of the main obstacles were that you were facing with your email programs. One of them was the lack of time to accomplish…
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The Value and ROI from Conferences
1.webp” alt=”” title=”Conference Budget” width=”251″ height=”239″ class=”alignright size-full tie-image14930″ />The first conference I went to was a regional industrial technology show. I was an industrial electrician at a Newspaper and my boss wouldn’t pay for it. So I paid my…
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LinkedIn Basic Boot Camp
LinkedIn has over 135 million members internationally and the average household income of a LinkedIn user is over $100,000 annually! The first thing I do returning from a business trip or meeting is to enter all my contacts in LinkedIn,…
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Analyzing Social Streams with DataSift
DataSift is a powerful real-time social media data-filtering platform and is one of only two companies in the world with a license to make Twitter data commercially available for non-display purposes, allowing users to search for posts using metadata contained…
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3 Things Run-DMC Taught Me About Social Media
Call me a product of a liberal arts education, but I firmly believe one’s worldview should be informed by as many sources and experiences as possible. Reading the latest book by an expert in your field is great. Consuming as…
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Advertising and Return on Investment
Marketing pioneer John Wannamaker once said, “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted… The trouble is, I don’t know which half.” Still today, most marketers don’t know which of their advertising channels are most effective. Investment in online…
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WordPress: Add Social Media Profiles to Your WordPress Theme
WordPress offers user profiles with settings for social links; however, additional social sites offer opportunities for your entire site or blog to have a presence within those networks. We were working on a client site this week where we wanted…
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Geosocial and Location-Based User Adoption
Some pretty amazing stats on adoption of Geosocial and Location-Based Services (LBS) via mobile devices have been revealed in this inforgraphic from Flowtown – Social Media Marketing Application. Over 58% of smartphone users are utilizing these services. The infographic defines…
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The Importance of Fresh Content for SEO
I’ve told people for a long time that the old adage for marketing applies to content, too. Recency, frequency and value of the content are key. This is why blogging is so key to a content marketing strategy… it allows…
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Add a Links Page to your WordPress Template
We were working on a client site today to add an iPad Cover Review list to the site. Rather than listing them all out in a page or a post, we decided to build a template page that pulled one…
