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Email Marketing & Automation
How Email Engagement Compares to Social Engagement
As soon as I see versus used in the title of an article in marketing, I get a little bit queasy. This infographic below from Devesh Design does a great job of putting into perspective the need for customers to utilize email for their company. I have no doubt as to the power of email and it’s ability as a…
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Content Marketing
PressRush: The Polite Pitching Platform for Journalist Outreach
Every day I receive dozens of pitches in my inbox. Many of them are poorly written, most aren’t relevant to my site, but there’s always a nugget of gold in the pile of PR spam so I pay attention. I received a pitch this week where the email appeared quite a bit different and provided a positive pitch experience for…
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Content Marketing
Are You an Elephant or a Butterfly?
I watched a presentation with Roger Williams, a regional non-profit owner and entrepreneur. Roger shared a fantastic business analogy; he asked, “Are you an Elephant or a Butterfly?” Both elephants and butterflies are memorable, but they have distinct differences. Elephants Elephants, though not conventionally beautiful, embody strength and resilience. Their journey, often through muddy and challenging terrains, symbolizes the gritty…
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Event Marketing
Marketing Idea: One-Click Event Registration
Over at the productivity consulting company I run, we do a ton of public seminars. We do the standard event marketing stuff: we’ve got the microsite, we’ve got the email newsletter, and we’ve got the online registration system. But we’ve got one more idea that we’re thinking about trying, and it’s a little crazy. Maybe you can help tell us…
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Marketing Tools
I Canceled My Basecamp Account Today
In the past, I’ve been a fan of 37 Signals. They were ahead of their day in user interface design and simplicity. Their book, Getting Real, still impacts how I develop, design, and build product requirements. Since last summer, I’ve utilized a Basecamp account to track several projects and clients. While reading the 37 Signals blog over the last year, I’ve noticed…
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Customer Data Platforms
ePR is Breaking Marketing… in Europe
GDPR was introduced in May 2018 and it was good. Well, that’s a stretch. The skies didn’t fall in and everybody went about their day. Some more uninterrupted than others. Why? Because it ensured freely given, specific, informed, and unambiguous consent was now required from a European citizen before a company could email them. Okay… But let’s recap. Didn’t the marketing automation giants…
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Advertising Technology
Digital Marketer Training
The writing was on the wall in the digital marketing industry as the pandemic spread, lockdowns struck, and the economy took a turn. I wrote on LinkedIn in those early days that marketers needed to turn off Netflix and prepare themselves for the coming challenges. Some people did… but, unfortunately most didn’t. The layoffs are continuing to rip through marketing…
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Marketing Infographics
How Are We (vs You) Using Social Media?
I’m not sure when Heat designed this inforgraphic, but it’s so good that I had to share it. The reason why it’s good is because it’s an honest look and comparison of how marketing professionals utilize social media versus the average, non-marketing person. I don’t believe enough leaders in this industry paint an honest picture of social media usage. Many…
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Content Marketing
Wooing More Buyers and Reducing Waste Through Intelligent Content
Content marketing’s efficacy has been well documented, yielding 300% more leads at a 62% lower cost than traditional marketing, reports DemandMetric. No wonder sophisticated marketers have shifted their dollars to content, in a big way. The obstacle, however, is that a good chunk of that content (65%, in fact) is hard to find, poorly conceived or unappealing to its target…
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Sales and Marketing Training
How to Create a Culture of Recognition for Freelancers: Best Practices for Agency Owners
As an agency owner, you may find yourself recruiting new employees, if not today, soon when the potential employee asks more questions than ever before. What is it like to work here? What do your employees think of you as an employer? Do your employees feel appreciated? Is remote work available? These questions require employers to consider workplace culture an…
