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What’s Your Social Media Impression?
“You never get a second chance to make a first impression,” my business professor, Marvin Recht, always reminds his students. Don’t make the mistakes that many have made before you. In today’s world, the first impression idea still holds true. However, digital consumers and social media allow us to connect in ways that we could never have in the past. And the…
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501 Copywriting Shortcuts by Amy Harrison
Amy Harrison, a copywriter for entrepreneurs and coaches, has been featured on the best copywriting blogs on the net. Amy has released an ebook for $17 that references of some of her favorite phrases and words as well as some words and phrases she noticed a lot of the blogging and copywriting giants using. The Copywriting Shortcut Guide Includes: 30…
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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…
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Resort Marketing Strategies: Thriving During Economic Stress
In times of economic uncertainty, one might expect luxury or discretionary spending to be the first budget cut. However, history and recent trends demonstrate that people prioritize improving their quality of life even during challenging times, with travel being a prime example. You can still attract guests and thrive with the right marketing strategies. Here, we’ll explore how to craft…
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Peerlist: Connecting Top Design & Development Talent with Exciting Job Opportunities
As an entrepreneur, employer, and company owner, I used to find the LinkedIn platform amazing value. As a B2B social network, nothing came close to its reach and capabilities. In recent years, though, their push for growth and engagement has added a lot of noise to my profile, and my message requests are now 99% spam. While business people are…
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Sailthru: Optimize, Automate and Deliver
We’re entering an interesting age when it comes to big data and personalization. Platforms like Sailthru can personalize the frequency and topic of the messaging you’re sending via mobile or email – and then personalize the content of the site that the user is landing on. I have been writing for a long time that the limitation of modern analytics…
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Five Ways Martech Companies Play the Long Game Given an Expected 28% Drop in Marketing Spend
The Coronavirus pandemic has brought its own set of challenges and lessons from a societal, personal, and business perspective. Due to economic uncertainty and frozen sales opportunities, it’s been challenging to maintain new business growth. And now that Forrester expects a possible 28% drop in marketing spend over the next two years, some of the 8,000+ martech companies may be (inefficiently)…
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What Not To Do with First Party Data: Common Mistakes with MarTech
Companies are sitting on goldmines of data, but putting that data into action across teams has its challenges. Adding to the complexity is Google’s plan to end third-party (3P) cookies. While the cookiepocalypse was recently delayed (again), marketers are preparing for the inevitable by shifting focus to first-party (1P) data for sustainable audience targeting and campaign effectiveness. Chris Sell and…
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How To Program a Days Until Message in PHP (or WordPress Shortcode)
If you’re in retail or e-commerce, you’re likely always counting down to the upcoming retail holiday to provide a sense of urgency for your audience. Years ago, I implemented a solution like this for a client and wanted to share how easy it is. PHP: Days Until Below is a PHP function where you can pass the month, day, and…
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Appinions: The Who, What and Which of Influence Marketing
Some marketing technology platforms age like fine wine as they continue to unwind the issues that plague marketers. Appinions appears to be one of those platforms. When we did a post a few years ago, it was a nice little platform that provided influence by topic and person – very useful at the time. Years later and it’s a comprehensive…
