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Analytics & Testing
Webtrends Augmented Reality Demo
If you don’t see the following video, click through to see an augmented reality mashup utilizing Webtrends! This is a great demonstration of the utilization of analytics and offsite activity seen at Webtrends Engage 2010 conference. The camera finds and tracks the badge, updates Webtrends, and – in real-time – displays the latest attendance specifications!
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Using Social Networks for CRM
According to Dr. Ivan Misner, the father of BNI, The best CRM application is the one you will use. This is a great way of saying that all the fancy CRM programs and features in the world will not make a difference if your software is too complex or no fun to use. For that reason, I know many people…
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
What if Your Marketing Works?
As a sales trainer I work with companies in a wide range of industries. And nearly every company I work with is spending more this year than last on internet focused marketing, including social media. Unfortunately for many of these companies, their internet marketing is starting to work and they are getting calls and emails from motivated buyers who have…
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Just Dance
There’s a Lady Ga-ga song that’s been out there for about a year now called Just Dance. I can’t get it out of my head. I’m not a huge fan of the Ga-ga-ooh-la-la… but all Top 40 hits make my daughter turn up the radio and begin singing. I can’t help but sing along. Just Dance appears to be a…
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Email Marketing & Automation
8 Guiding Principles to Hiring an Email Marketing Expert
In part one (You Might Need an Email Marketing Expert If...) we discussed when and why it might be a good idea to contract with experts who possess, dedicated, email marketing experience. Now we?ll outline the guiding principles to consider before hiring an email marketing agency, email marketing consultant or in-house email marketing manager.
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Search Engine Optimization Haters
I was working with a client on how to tweak their blog posts for increased search engine traffic. It’s incredible how a slight title, meta description, heading, or content adjustment can have. We selected a blog post previously written, made some minor adjustments, and will monitor the results using Semrush. Many designers and web developers discount the value of search…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Your Email Open Rates May Be Low Because You’re Not Utilizing Alt Tags On Images
Tonight I received an email from Panera Bread. Like so many email programs nowadays, my email application automatically blocks images. As a result, here’s what the email looked like: Not too compelling… especially for a beautiful email that looked like this when all of the images were loaded: I can’t imagine how many people deleted the email without reading it…
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Content Marketing
The Cobblers Children Have No Shoes
Yesterday I met with a marketing professional here in town. It was a great meeting and I truly appreciated some tough feedback I received about my corporate site. Simply put, I had put up a really crappy single page site 6 months ago and never got around to changing it. I even had extensive work done with the assistance of…
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Is ChaCha Smarter than Google?
Like many folks, I underestimated the power of ChaCha. A lot of people thought that ChaCha has been a crazy experiment. People have joked about the ChaCha guides just looking stuff up on Google and responding with it. Working closely with Scott Jones and ChaCha has been quick-paced, challenging, fun… and rewarding. ChaCha is turning a corner… and people are…
