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Content Marketing
5 Awesome Tools for Content Marketing Minimalists
I consider myself a minimalist in content marketing. I don’t like complicated calendars, schedulers and planning tools—to me, they make the process more complicated than it needs to be. Not to mention, they make content marketers rigid. If you’re using a 6-month content calendar planning tool—that your company is paying for—you feel obligated to stick to every detail of that…
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Customer Data Platforms
UpLead: Build An Accurate B2B Prospect List To Power Campaigns and Close Sales
There are many marketing professionals out there that are vehemently against buying lists for prospecting. And there are, of course, very good reasons why: Permission – these prospects have not opted into solicitations from you so you risk your reputation by spamming them. Sending an unsolicited email doesn’t violate CAN-SPAM regulations in the United States as long as you have…
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Advertising Technology
Google Analytics: Why You Should Review And How To Modify Your Acquisition Channel Definitions
We’re assisting a Shopify Plus client where you can buy leisurewear online. Our engagement is to assist them in the migration of their domain and optimization of their site to drive more growth through organic search channels. We’re also educating their team on SEO and helping them to set up Semrush (we are a certified partner). They had a default…
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Marketing Books
Taking Risks Is Necessary, But Risk Doesn’t Work Like You Think It Does
This week, I was asked to speak at Sparks Talk, a regional event where speakers are challenged to do a concise, timed speech on a monthly topic. The topic for my keynote was risk, something I’m all too acquainted with. I started my business as a 40-year-old single father, with my oldest son starting college. Talk about a leap of…
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Content Marketing
How to Enable and Optimize WordPress for Featured Images
When I set up WordPress for many of my clients, I am always sure to push them to incorporate featured images throughout their site. Here’s an example from a Salesforce Consultant site that’s launching… I designed a featured image that is aesthetically pleasing, matches the overall branding, and provides some information about the page itself: While the other social media…
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Content Marketing
8 Ways for You to Create Content that Creates Customers
These last few weeks, we’ve been analyzing all of our clients’ content to identify the content that’s driving the most awareness, engagement, and conversions. Every company that hopes to acquire leads or to grow their business online has to have content. With trust and authority being two keys to any purchase decision and content drives those decisions online. That said,…
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Analytics & Testing
Crowdfire: Discover, Curate, Share, and Publish Your Content For Social Media
One of the biggest challenges of keeping and growing your company’s social media presence is providing content that provides value to your followers. One social media management platform that stands out from its competitors for this is Crowdfire. Not only can you manage multiple social media accounts, monitor your reputation, schedule and automate your own publishing… Crowdfire also has a…
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Content Marketing
Chris Brogan Rocked BlogIndiana
“Now I know why you want to hate me!”, chanted Chris (ala Limp Bizkit) at one point in a panel discussion. The question was referring to what brings out the haters in the social media world. The fact is that, as online personas build their own brand and develop their own voice and expertise in the industries… some folks will…
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
Account-Based Sales Strategy is the Future, and Groove is Here For It
When it comes to SaaS software sales, targeting individuals is hardly a model of efficiency. After all, an average of 5.4 people are involved in a single enterprise sales decision. Given that group-based vetting is the norm, account-based sales (ABS) is more productive than targeting specific leads. The account-based approach to selling, however, can be time consuming. Tracking in-depth metrics…
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Analytics & Testing
Use These Tips and Tools To Conquer Your Marketing Workload
If you want to effectively manage your marketing workload, you have to do a better job of organizing your day, reassessing your network, developing healthier processes, and taking advantage of platforms that can help. Adopt Technology That Helps You Focus Because I’m a technology guy, I’ll start with that. I’m not sure what I’d do without Brightpod, the system I use…
