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Content Marketing
Content is King… But Only One Wears the Crown
You’ve heard the saying everywhere, Content is King. I don’t believe that’s changed, nor do I believe it ever will. Whether it’s companies writing about their products and services, earned media outlets writing about them, shared media outlets sharing them, paid media outlets promoting them… it’s content that drives influence, authority, and purchase decisions. The problem comes when everyone is…
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Analytics & Testing
How Email Marketers Are Using Predictive Analytics To Improve Their E-commerce Results
The emergence of predictive analytics in email marketing has become popular, especially in the e-commerce industry. Utilizing predictive marketing technologies has the capability to improve targeting, timing, and ultimately convert more business via email. This technology is playing a key role in identifying what products your customers are likely to purchase, when they’re likely to make a purchase, and the personalized…
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Advertising Technology
Netflix’s Planned Adoption of Advertising-Based Video On Demand (AVOD) Points to Wider Trend Across Streaming Services
More than 200,000 subscribers have left Netflix over the first quarter of 2022. Its revenue is falling, and the company is shedding employees to compensate. All of this is happening at a time when Converged TV (CTV) platforms are enjoying unparalleled popularity amongst both the American public and international viewers, a trend that appears to be both stable and likely…
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Customer Data Platforms
Sharpspring: Transform Your Lead Generation, Sales, and Marketing with Automation and CRM
Many businesses face the same challenge of managing multiple marketing tools while trying to track every customer interaction. They find it difficult to streamline their digital marketing efforts, stay on top of leads, and drive conversions. Important opportunities can easily slip through the cracks with scattered tools and fragmented data. SharpSpring SharpSpring, now part of Constant Contact, offers a comprehensive…
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Content Marketing
GoSite: The All-in-One Solution for Your Local Service Businesses
Running a local service business means juggling endless tasks—from attracting customers to managing appointments, invoices, and reviews. The constant need for visibility and customer engagement can feel overwhelming for HVAC technicians, electricians, auto detailers, plumbers, handymen, landscapers, home cleaners, locksmiths, movers, and home inspectors. Thankfully, GoSite is here to simplify everything, bring your business online, and help you thrive in…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
Reply: Automate Your Sales Engagement With LinkedIn Email Search and Outreach
No one would argue that LinkedIn is the most complete business-based social networking platform. I haven’t looked at an attached resume for a candidate nor updated my resume in a decade since using LinkedIn. LinkedIn allows me to see everything a resume does, and I can also research the candidate’s network and see who they worked with and for –…
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Content Marketing
You’re Not Sexy, Now What?
We once had someone tell us that we, or rather our form building application, wasn’t “sexy”. In some respects I guess that person was right. Forms, by themselves are not sexy, but to the people who use them and depend on them to gather data, they are, if not sexy, pretty damn important. So how do you, a business owner,…
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Event Marketing
Why You Should Ditch Your Elevator Pitch
As we ramp up for events this year, I’ve been thinking deeply about what works—and what doesn’t—when it comes to networking. One thing is abundantly clear: traditional networking tactics, like elevator pitches and forced small talk, are increasingly ineffective in today’s business climate. At too many networking events, it feels like someone rang a bell and out come the pitches—fast,…
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Customer Data Platforms
OwnBackup: Disaster Recovery, Sandbox Seeding, And Data Archival for Salesforce
Years ago, I migrated my marketing automation to a fairly well-known and widely adopted platform (not Salesforce). My team designed and developed a few nurturing campaigns and we were really starting to drive some great lead traffic… until disaster struck. The platform was doing a major upgrade and accidentally wiped out a number of customers’ data, including ours. While the…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
Reimagine Your Customer Experiences by Looking Through the Lens of Virtual Options
Leaders who have looked through the lens of virtual options have identified viable opportunities to build fascinating virtual businesses in categories where the virtual previously never played a part. Whether looking at real estate or exercising, holding meetings or talking to the pediatrician, getting help with our taxes or tutoring for math, the spectrum of disruptive innovation categories is wide…
