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- Content Marketing
How Effective Is Live Streaming For Your Brand?
As social media continues to explode, companies are on an evolving quest for new ways of sharing content. In the past, most businesses stuck to blogging on their website, which made sense: It’s historically been the cheapest, easiest, and most time-efficient means of generating brand awareness. And while mastering the written word remains essential, studies are indicating that the production…
- Analytics & Testing
GRIN: Manage Your E-commerce Influencer Marketing In This End-To-End Creator Management Platform
The latest household brands aren’t created through old-school mass advertising—they’re built alongside content creators. Brands that utilize content creators as brand storytellers are now the names on everyone’s lips. And how do they do it? It can’t be bought. It can’t be faked. It must be built, one genuine creator relationship at a time. What is Creator Management? Creator management…
- Paid and Organic Search Marketing
LinkTiger: The Costly Impact of Broken Links And How To Be Alerted Of Them
A well-functioning website is crucial for any business or organization. A seamless user experience is key to attracting and retaining visitors, and a critical part of that experience is ensuring that all links on your site work as intended. Broken links can wreak havoc on your website’s usability, reputation, and search engine rankings: The User Experience Nightmare: Imagine clicking on…
- Marketing Books
Gapingvoid: The Long Tail? Or The Short Tail and the Pile of Bodies…
My friend and colleague Hugh MacLeod has emerged as a true innovator, transforming simple business cards into canvases that convey powerful business and cultural insights. His venture, gapingvoid, bridges art with corporate strategy, offering a fresh perspective on workplace motivation, leadership, and change. Hugh’s art, characterized by its humor and sharp critique of corporate life, has a unique way of…
- Analytics & Testing
5 Data Disconnects and Bad Marketing Assumptions
We recently ran a user experience test of our site, and the results were split. The audience loved our content but were irritated by our advertising – especially where it was sliding in or popping up. While the testing validated the layout of our site, ease of navigation, and quality of our content – it also pointed to something that…
- Advertising Technology
Using Interactive Media to Boost your B2C Promotions
No matter what industry you’re in, if your business is in the B2C sector, chances are pretty good that you’re facing some fierce competition — especially if you’re a brick & mortar store. After all, you know how much and how often consumers shop online nowadays. Folks are still going to brick & mortar stores; but the convenience of purchasing…
- Social Media & Influencer Marketing
COVID-19: The Coronavirus Pandemic and Social Media
The more things change, the more they remain the same.Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr One good thing about social media: you do not need to wear masks. You can spout anything at any time or all the time as is happening during these COVID-19 hit times. The pandemic has brought certain areas into sharp focus, sharpened rounded edges, widened the chasms, and,…
- Email Marketing & Automation
5 Mistakes that Could Get Your Email in the Spam Folder
If there’s one part of my job that continues to make me beat my head up against the wall, it’s email deliverability. We continue to grow an engaged list of email subscribers but geesh, ISPs are ridiculous. In businesses, one thing that happens is that emails turn over as employees come and go. We’ll have subscribers consistently interacting for months…
- Analytics & Testing
What Marketers Believe Are The Top 3 Successes to Capturing Leads
The great folks at Formstack surveyed 200 small and mid-sized U.S. businesses and non-profits to identify where marketers are going right and wrong with their lead generation strategies. This infographic is a glimpse into a full The State of Lead Capture in 2016 report with more key insights on lead capture challenges and strategies. Their first finding, that marketing requires insight into…
- Artificial Intelligence
7 Ways Technology Could Destroy Your Brand
This week, I was on site doing a digital marketing workshop for a global brand. The workshop was and facilitated by me and co-developed in part with Butler University and the amazing educator that’s full-time within the organization. When we arrived at the Martech Stack section of the platform to educate employees on the technology resources within the organization, I…
