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How to Boost Your Sales Post Purchase With An Effective Customer Retention Strategy
In order to thrive and survive in business, business owners must embrace a lot of techniques and tactics. A customer retention strategy is critical because it’s far more effective than any other marketing strategy when it comes to increasing revenues and driving a return on your marketing investment. Acquiring a new customer can cost five times more than retaining an existing customer. Increasing customer retention…
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Online Video Advertising Statistics And Trends
While advertising budgets are declining in 2022, there’s one area that continues to skyrocket in popularity – online video advertising. I believe there are several reasons why this is happening: Bandwidth – the expansion and support of high speed internet across both desktops and mobile (cellular).Adoption – virtually every platform has adopted both short and long video formats as part…
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Lefty: Why Top Brands Trust This Influencer Platform for Scale and Impact
In a saturated creator economy, influencer marketing has evolved from vanity metrics to a measurable, strategic growth channel. Brands aren’t just looking for creators with large audiences—they need authentic partners, streamlined execution, and real-time ROI. Managing these relationships and campaigns across teams, markets, and regions can feel overwhelming without the right infrastructure. Lefty That’s where Lefty comes in. Designed for…
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The Hidden Weaknesses in Your MarTech Stack: Identifying and Eliminating Single Points of Failure
Marketing technology (MarTech) stacks power modern customer acquisition, engagement, and retention strategies. From automation platforms and customer data systems to analytics tools and content delivery networks, these interconnected systems form the digital nervous system of most marketing organizations. But with that complexity comes fragility. A single failure—be it from a SaaS outage, data loss, or security breach—can send cascading disruptions…
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What Are The Differences In B2B Marketing Strategies With LinkedIn Versus Facebook
Business-to-business (B2B) Marketers are often distracted in their advertising and marketing efforts by focusing solely on a channel’s reach. Whenever I’m speaking with clients about the channels they utilize or don’t utilize, it’s essential to understand the motivation of their buyers for using the platform they’re on. Let’s discuss why users generally utilize LinkedIn vs. Facebook: LinkedIn Professional Networking: LinkedIn…
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Global Loyalty Trends 2025: What’s Working, What’s Failing, and What’s Next
Antavo’s Global Customer Loyalty Report 2025 delivers a sweeping analysis of how loyalty is being redefined in the age of personalization, automation, and AI. Based on data from over 2,600 business professionals and 10,000 global consumers, the report captures the shifting priorities and strategic realignment of loyalty programs across industries. It is especially timely as brands face economic uncertainty, rising…
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10 Steps to Building an Effective Employee Social Advocacy Program
When your own employees aren’t passionate enough to read and share your content, how do you think your prospects and customers are viewing it? Mark Schaefer That quote often echoes in my mind during conversations with clients about employee social advocacy. Mark once shared that story, which still resonates: a global company with hundreds of thousands of employees was publishing…
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HubSpot: The Free CRM That Grows With Your Sales and Marketing Efforts
A customer relationship management (CRM) system is essential for businesses looking to streamline operations, manage customer relationships, and improve sales performance. However, many CRMs come with a hefty price tag, making it difficult for startups and small businesses to invest in the right solution. Hubspot This is where HubSpot CRM stands out—offering a 100% free CRM that provides powerful tools…
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Infegy Atlas: Intelligent Answers from Social Media
Missing from much of the research I view online is the context of the statistics provided. The statistics are misleading (often on purpose) and based upon windows of ideal circumstances or unusual events. However, they’re shared anyways. Case in point, I’m pretty confident that virtually any medium would tell you they have the best return on investment (ROI). Everyone can’t…
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Brandmentions: Reputation Monitoring, Sentiment Analysis, and Alerts for Search and Social Media Mentions
While most marketing tech platforms for reputation monitoring and sentiment analysis are focus purely on social media, Brandmentions is a comprehensive source for monitoring any or all mentions of your brand online. Any digital property that’s linked to your site or mentioned your brand, product, hashtag, or employee name… is monitored and tracked. And the Brandmentions platform provides alerts, tracking,…
