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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Advertising Technology
Social’s Media’s Road to Longevity under GDPR
Spend a day walking around London, New York, Paris or Barcelona, in fact, any city, and you would have reason to believe that if you didn’t share it on social media, it didn’t happen. However, consumers in the UK and France are now alluding to a different future of social media altogether. Research reveals gloomy prospects for social media channels…
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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,…
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Marketing Infographics
SEO: 5 Trends to Optimize for Google Organic Search
A question that I’ve fielded at two events I spoke at regionally was how companies should be dividing their marketing budget for maximum impact. There’s no easy answer to this. It requires that companies fully comprehend the impact of their current marketing dollars, understanding how each channel impacts the other, and still have some funds for testing and innovation on…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
Videobolt: Build Your Animated Logo Video Intro in Minutes
Video content has become essential for businesses and marketers to engage their audience and convey their message effectively. My company recently did a few interviews via Zoom, and we wanted to slice and dice them for different audiences, including investors, partners, and prospects. I’ve worked with some incredible animators and video editors, but we didn’t have the budget for this…
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Content Marketing
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…
