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Analytics & Testing
What’s happening on your site right now?
Most of our clients review their analytics daily or weekly. At times, they’re surprised by the results. Perhaps it was a mention on another blog, publication or social bookmarking site. The problem is that they don’t see it now… they see it 8 to 24 hours after the event. Much of marketing is about timing and momentum. Tomorrow is often…
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Marketing Infographics
The Mobile Workstyle
Social Contact Manager Gist (recently acquired by RIM) put together this infographic on the Mobile Workstyle. Unlike the Dell Infographic on the mobile workforce this infographic focused more on the habits and preferences of the mobile worker as opposed to why a company should consider mobilizing their workforce. Such as: 65% of mobile workers use a tablet 32% of employees…
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Content Marketing
Don’t Be Discouraged With Social Media
One of the people I go out of my way to hear speak is Jay Baer. This morning I had to wake up before the sun to drive up to BlogIndiana to hear his keynote – and it was well worth the trip. There are quite a few reasons. Jay has 20 years of experience as a marketer and doesn’t…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Taking Your Site International with Search
We’ve had the challenge and fun of working with a few clients on tips to take their site international when it comes to SEO. We also have other clients who don’t want to rank internationally but get a ton of international traffic. Getting a search engine like Google to understand your intent for localization or internationalization isn’t as easy as…
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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…
