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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…
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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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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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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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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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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
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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Content Marketing
WordPress: Add a Top Message Bar
With the new site, I’d been looking for a top bar for WordPress for quite some time. Our last theme design actually had an entire section that could be pulled down that advertised our email subscription. This increased the number of subscribers so significantly that I incorporated the subscribe field directly into the header of the theme. Now I just…
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Content Marketing
The Do’s and Don’ts of Holiday Branding According to 99designs
The nights are silent, the dreidels are drying, and your customers are opening their wallets. If you can make your brand part of their holiday season in a natural and charming way, they’ll remember you well into the New Year. Here are some helpful Do’s and Don’ts to help you navigate the season. Do: maintain your authenticity If your typical…
