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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…
- 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…
- Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Transparency is Optional, Authenticity is Not
In the last few years, I’ve been in the enviable position of sharing most of my personal life online. I have shared much of my weight loss journey, I debate politics and theology, I share off-color jokes and videos, and most recently – I shared an evening out where I had quite a few drinks. I’m still not totally transparent…
- Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Google Authorship Was Discontinued, But rel=”author” Doesn’t Hurt
Google Authorship was a feature that allowed Google to identify the author of a piece of content and display their name and profile photo alongside the content in search engine result pages (SERPs). It also was included as a direct ranking factor for content. Authorship was designated by adding rel=”author” markup to the content, which linked it to the author’s…
- 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…
- Marketing Tools
Deltek ConceptShare: Streamline Your Creative Review Process and Deliver Exceptional Content Faster
The need to swiftly and efficiently review and approve creative content is paramount. Juggling multiple projects, feedback from various stakeholders, and looming deadlines can make the review process a stressful bottleneck. Miscommunication and a lack of clarity can lead to costly revisions and delays, impacting your team’s productivity and potentially hindering client satisfaction. Deltek ConceptShare Deltek ConceptShare is an online…
- Marketing Tools
MacOS: Need to Verify DNS Locally Using Hosts on OSX?
One of my clients relocated their website to a bulk hosting account. They updated their domain’s DNS settings for the A and CNAME records but were having difficulty determining whether the site was resolving with the new hosting account (new IP Address). When troubleshooting DNS, keep in mind a few things: Understand how DNS works, understand how your domain registrar…
- Content Marketing
Does Animation in Emails Really Work?
You have 30 seconds to capture your readers’ attention once they click on your email. This is definitely a small window. If you’re like me, then you might think that animation is a bit risky to use with email marketing, but you want to attract your recipients’ attention. So, what do you do? However, after going through our email marketing sponsor’s trend…
- Email Marketing & Automation
Your Checklist For Optimizing Your Email Design To Be Mobile Responsive
Nothing disappoints me as much as when I flip open an email I’m looking forward to on my mobile device and can’t read it. Either the images are hard-coded widths that won’t respond to the display, or the text is so wide that I’d have to scroll back and forth to read it. Unless it’s critical, I don’t wait to…
- Content Marketing
PHP: Using Is.gd API to Shorten URL
Just read an article on the benefits and pitfalls of shortening URLs over at SEOmoz. I utilize the Is.gd API to do this: function doCurlRequest($url, $variable, $value) { $api = $url."?".$variable."=".$value; $session = curl_init(); curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_URL, $api); curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); $data = curl_exec($session); curl_close($session); return $data; } function doShortenURL($longurl) { $url = "http://is.gd/api.php"; $variable = "longurl"; $shorturl = doCurlRequest($url, $variable,…
