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Marketing Books
What Is JavaScript Obfuscation?
I’ve been writing quite a bit of JavaScript lately for an Ajax application with unique and innovative code. Once I’m finished, I have a couple of concerns: the application security and protecting my hard work from someone stealing the code. I’m unsure how far I will go, but I read about JavaScript Obfuscation in one of my books, AJAX HACKS.…
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Content Marketing
The Decline of Newspapers
I’m forever thankful for my years working within the Newspaper industry. The training, experience, and opportunities I had in the industry were the foundations for my successful career in digital marketing. If you’ve been a reader for some time, you know my passion for the industry. I believe my articles here, here, and here pretty much cover it! However with…
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Sales and Marketing Training
Good Marketing vs. Bad Marketing: The Value of Understanding, Setting, and Meeting Expectations
Marketing is a powerful tool that can make or break a business. But what separates good marketing from bad marketing? The answer lies in understanding the value that your product or service brings to your clients, setting and meeting expectations, and prioritizing communication. At the heart of all good marketing is communication and honesty. Good marketing sets realistic expectations and…
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E-commerce and Retail
Carts Guru: Marketing Automation for Ecommerce
Unfortunately, e-commerce platforms often don’t prioritize marketing. If you have an online store, you won’t meet your full revenue potential unless you’re able to acquire new customers and maximize the revenue potential of your current customers. Thankfully, there are excellent marketing automation platforms available that provide all the tools necessary to automatically target customers where they’re most likely to open,…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Email Versus Social Media
This well-detailed infographic from HostPapa provides more insight into how each medium – email or social media – should be utilized rather than whether one is a substitute for the other. They’re simply not. You should not be doing one or the other – you should be focused on doing both effectively. 75% of all adults express email is their…
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E-commerce and Retail
Which Social Media Platforms Drive the Most Sales?
Wow… to better understand how social media is impacting the e-commerce industry, Shopify analyzed data from 37 million social media visits that led to 529,000 orders. Here are some highlights from the infographic they shared: Nearly two thirds of all social media visits to Shopify stores come from Facebook. An average of 85% of all orders from social media come…
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Content Marketing
Qwilr: The Document Design Platform Transforming Sales and Marketing Collateral
Customer communication is the lifeblood of every business. However, with COVID-19 forcing budget cuts for 65% of marketers, teams are being tasked to do more with less. This means being able to generate all marketing and sales collateral on a reduced budget, and often without the luxury of a designer or agency to produce it. Remote working and selling also…
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Artificial Intelligence
Smartli: Boost Your Online Store Sales with Generative AI Product Descriptions
Creating high-quality, engaging content is crucial for attracting customers and driving sales. However, crafting compelling product descriptions, blogs, and ads can be time-consuming and challenging, especially for businesses with extensive product catalogs. Many entrepreneurs struggle to consistently produce SEO-optimized content that effectively showcases their products and captivates their target audience. Smartli Smartli is an innovative AI-powered platform that simplifies e-commerce…
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Content Marketing
Survey Results: How Are Marketers Responding to the Pandemic and Lockdowns?
As the lockdown eases and more employees head back to the office, we were interested in investigating the challenges small businesses have faced due to the Covid-19 pandemic, what they have been doing over lockdown to develop their business, any upskilling they’ve done, the technology they’ve used over this time, and what their plans and outlook for the future are. …
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E-commerce and Retail
Don’t Underestimate The Impact of a Brick and Mortar Store
We recently shared some examples of how Enterprise IoT (Internet of Things) may have an enormous impact of retail store sales. My son was just sharing a news story with me on retail that pointed some fairly bleak statistics regarding the opening and closing of retail stores. While the gap of closures continues to increase, it’s important to recognize that…
