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Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
Develop Goals Before the Mobile App
The good folks at Webtrends (client) have released an incredible whitepaper from their Director of Mobile Analytics, Eric Rickson. Developing a Strategy for Mobile Maturity and Investment walks through key performance indicators in a mobile strategy. Beyond the topic of mobile analytics, one of the key paragraphs I found was: Too frequently, marketers skip the critical step of defining and…
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Email Marketing & Automation
SPAM and the Text Messaging Industry
Businesses have vastly underestimated the impact of mobile text messaging. Text messaging, otherwise known as SMS (Short Message System), has been put in the shadow over more popular mobile web applications. However, not every phone is a smartphone and can use apps. Every mobile phone allows text messaging. As businesses are returning to this incredible medium, many are disregarding the…
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Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
Page Speed and Your Visitors
One of the factors that’s very difficult or costly to impact is the speed at which your site loads. This is a constant battle here on Martech… social integrations and advertising slow the page load times way, way down so we’re always trying to tune it up through a number of means. We know that we lose some visitors over…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
Dancing for Queso
Had I known that Moe’s Southwest Grill had a dance video contest for $10,000 – I may have dedicated a desktop jam video just for them! I like this campaign for a few reasons. The agency Brandmovers didn’t have to artificially create the demand… they created the strategy and the consumers did the work… the production, the distribution and the…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
Social Media and Enterprise
The folks at Get Satisfaction have released a new Infographic on Social Media and the Enterprise, called Let’s Get Down to Social Business. From the infographic: By 2014, the market for social enterprise tools, software and services is predicted to reach $4.6 billion worldwide. This new generation of technologies is rising up to meet a growing demand for connectivity and…
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Email Marketing & Automation
How Many Faces are in Your Latest Email?
I get over 100 relevant emails a day… I know that’s a bit disturbing. It’s especially disturbing when the email really isn’t that relevant. Such is the case with these LinkedIn emails that tell me about the folks in my network that have changed job titles. I can’t help but scan through the faces and click-through to check out what’s…
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Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
The Mobile Worker
By 2012, Morgan Stanley predicts that smartphones shipments will exceed computer shipments. In addition, it’s expected that 25% of all online e-commerce will be executed via a mobile device. It’s already estimated that 30% of corporate email is read on a mobile device. Although social media seems to take the lead of most stories… mobile should be top of mind…
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Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
Create Mobile Themes with WPtouch Pro
In a fast moving world, it’s important that your site is optimized on all mobile devices, including phones and tablets. According to a recent infographic produced by Microsoft Tag, mobile internet usage will takeover desktop usage by the year 2014. Needless to say, your mobile site is one of your primary marketing assets in today’s world. WPtouch Pro is a…
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Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
Popularity of Programming Languages
Rackspace recently published an infographic on the evolution of programming languages. You can click through to Rackspace to see the entire infographic – the more applicable section, in my opinion, is the overall popularity at present. When I’m speaking with large companies, there seems to some question by the IT and development teams as to the plausibility of open source…
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Content Marketing
Your Agency Sucks
Yesterday, I spoke in Detroit at the headquarters of an international corporation that has dozens of subsidiaries. My presentation was an hour long and focused on how to look at analytics differently… seeking the information that they weren’t even aware existed nor how it impacted their online business. The presentation had some rave reviews and two hours afterwards, I still…
