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Content Marketing
The Domino Project: Trust Yourself Writing Challenge
As a fan of The Domino Project, I will be taking part in the Trust Yourself Writing Challenge, which is an “online initiative and 30-day writing challenge that encourages you to look within and trust yourself.” Each day, I will receive a writing prompt via email, which I can post on my blog, write in my journal, etc.. In the world…
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Marketing Books
Free eBook: Moving to Social CRM
Customer Relationship Management is a key to most organizations, providing them with the customer intelligence and data they need to maintain a good relationship with their customers. Layering social media on top of your customer relationship activities can accelerate your company’s performance and build a much tighter relationship – resulting in more opportunities to communicate with clients outside formal processes…
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Content Marketing
Thrive with a Retail Marketing Management System
Running a small retail establishment is a difficult task, one that requires a business owner to be part marketer and part salesperson in addition to running their business. I recently received a note from Elliot Yeo from Thrive, a software application built to assist small retailers with running and improving their business. Once the system has details about your sales…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Use Mobile to Acquire Email Subscribers
Good friend and former colleague, Megan Glover, is now the Director of Marketing at Delivra. Delivra is an email service provider with a solid reputation for helping its customers here in the region. They’ve also been named one of the best companies to work at in Indiana. Recently, Delivra teamed up with great friend, Adam Small, CEO of Connective Mobile…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Affordable Marketing Automation for Any Size Business
Marketing Automation is the name given to software platforms designed for marketing departments and organizations to simplify processes by automating repetitive tasks. One of those tasks is the ability to identify a visitor on your site, capture their information, and develop an ongoing communication strategy with them… accomplished with little or no resources using automation. According to the Aberdeen group,…
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Content Marketing
Has Small Biz Social Media Changed?
Last summer we surveyed small business owners to understand how they were using social media. The results were documented in a series of white papers. A lot has changed in the last year. My perception is that more businesses then ever are engaged in social media, or at least testing the waters. It that is the case, it seems like a…
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Analytics & Testing
Without the Right Tools…
Friday night I had dinner with friend Adam Small, CEO of Agent Sauce – a real estate marketing platform. Afterwards, we decided to go see Thor in IMAX 3D. After the other movie previews ended, the packed audience settled in… until we heard an alarmed yell in the theater: “FOCUS!”, the man yelled. The theater was silent… and a few…
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E-commerce and Retail
Ratings, Reviews and Buyer Intent
Last week, I had the pleasure of meeting and speaking with Jeff Quipp of Search Engine People, an SEO and Internet Marketing firm. Jeff moderated a panel on ratings, reviews and social media that I was on at the Search Marketing Expo and eMetrics Conference in Toronto with Gil Reich, VP of Product Management at Answers.com. Jeff brought up one…
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Content Marketing
User Interface Design: Lessons from an Indianapolis Elevator
While coming to and from a meeting the other day, I rode in an elevator that had this user interface (UI) design: I’m guessing the history of this elevator goes something like this: The elevator was designed and delivered with a very straightforward, easy-to-use user interface such as this: A new requirement emerged: We need to support braille! Rather than…
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Content Marketing
Do Search Engines Care If You Use Drupal?
How much do Content Management Systems (CMS), like WordPress, Drupal, Joomla!, play a part in search engine optimization (SEO)? Certainly bad site design (not clean urls, bad content, poor use of domain names, etc) in a CMS like Drupal is going to affect SEO (great tools used in a bad way idea). But do content management systems themselves lend to…
