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- Social Media & Influencer MarketingDouglas KarrDec 17, 2022
Wishpond: Boost Engagement with These Smart Sweepstakes and Social Media Contest Tools
Creating momentum with your marketing can be a challenge—especially when your audience is distracted, your ads are expensive, and your email list has stalled. What if one campaign could spark excitement, attract new followers, and turn them into leads automatically? Sweepstakes are one of the most efficient and affordable ways to grow your audience, and when built correctly, they’re also…
- E-commerce and RetailDouglas KarrOct 11, 2024
Pulse: Boost Conversions with Real-Time Social Proof
In a digital landscape filled with skeptical consumers and short attention spans, capturing a website visitor’s interest—and keeping it—can feel almost impossible. Without any form of social proof, visitors may not trust your brand or feel compelled to take action, whether signing up for a newsletter, booking a demo, or completing a purchase. Social proof aims to solve this challenge.…
- Email Marketing & AutomationDouglas KarrJan 2, 2022
How to Optimize Welcome Message Emails for Maximum Engagement
A well-crafted welcome message is one of the most effective ways to build trust, set expectations, and move new subscribers further down your funnel. This first impression can determine whether a user stays engaged with your brand or quietly disappears. For email marketers, this is an opportunity to combine personalization, strategic messaging, and clear value to boost long-term performance. Below…
- Social Media & Influencer MarketingDouglas KarrOct 15, 2024
Viva Engage: Enhancing Internal Communication and Collaboration for Microsoft 365 Users
In today’s fast-paced, hybrid work environment, companies need a reliable way to ensure employees stay connected, informed, and engaged. A unified communication and collaboration platform is essential for teams working across different locations and time zones. This is where Microsoft Viva Engage steps in—an enterprise social network (ESN) that transforms how employees interact, share insights, and stay connected within the…
- Content MarketingDouglas KarrApr 29, 2024
WordPress: 10 User Experience Features That Add Flare to Your Site
I’m currently building out a new WordPress site for my company. In the twenty years I’ve been developing sites, the CMS has expanded with incredible themes, plugins, and features. While I have my favorite WordPress plugins that I incorporate, I do think it’s wise to view site development quite differently than we used to. One glaring metric central to today’s visitors continues to…
- Content MarketingDouglas KarrAug 10, 2024
10 Great Digital Strategies That Bands and Musicians Should Use To Build Their Fanbase
The digital revolution has fundamentally transformed the music landscape, ushering in an era of unprecedented opportunity and challenge for musicians. The web and our ever-present connected devices have dismantled traditional barriers to entry, democratizing the ability for artists to create, distribute, and promote their music on a global scale. Gone are the days when major record labels held the keys…
- Content MarketingDouglas KarrNov 2, 2016
The Benefits of Video for Search, Social, Email, Support… and More!
We’ve recently expanded our team at our agency to include a seasoned videographer, Harrison Painter. It’s an area that we know we’re lacking. While we script and execute amazing animated videos and produce great podcasts, our video blogging (vlog) is nonexistent. Video isn’t easy. The lighting, video quality, and audio dynamics are challenging to do well. We don’t want to…
- Sales and Marketing TrainingDouglas KarrJun 2, 2023
Lead Generation: Best Practices, Processes, and Technologies
Lead generation is the process of attracting and converting prospects into individuals or organizations that have expressed interest in your company’s product or service. It often involves collecting potential customer information, such as name, contact details, or other relevant data. These leads are then nurtured through marketing and sales efforts with the goal of converting them into paying customers. Lead…
- Advertising TechnologyDouglas KarrMar 25, 2024
Distribute: Streamline Your Sales Process with AI-Generated Mini-Websites and Lead Magnets
Capturing leads and driving prospects through the sales funnel requires creativity and the acumen for building an optimized landing page. Salespeople and marketers often struggle with creating high-value content that resonates with their target audience, leading to lost opportunities and decreased conversion rates. Additionally, website CMS platforms often load slower than a lightweight solution. There’s no point in driving leads…
- Sales Enablement, Automation, and PerformanceAdam HempenstallOct 18, 2024
Sales: Maximize Your Productivity With Theses Essential Hacks and Tools
I’m a big fan of using the most out of my time every day and I try to make all of my employees as productive as possible – especially the sales team, which is the most vital department in any SaaS company.