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- Marketing Books
Hug Your Haters? Maybe It Should Be Love Your Lovers!
Hug Your Haters by Jay Baer is a groundbreaking book that offers a fresh and practical approach to dealing with customer complaints in the digital age. Jay argues that businesses need to embrace complaints as an opportunity to improve their products, services, and customer experience. Jay provides compelling statistics and real-world examples to show that ignoring complaints can have a…
- Analytics & Testing
Numerics: An Integrated Widget Dashboard for iOS
Numberics allows iPhone and iPad users to create and customize their own integrated dashboards from a growing collection of third parties. Pick from hundreds of pre-designed widgets to build an overview of website analytics, social media engagement, project progress, sales funnels, customer support queues, account balances or even numbers from your spreadsheets in the cloud. Features include: Predesigned widgets of…
- 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…
- Content Marketing
How to Measure the ROI of Your Video Marketing Campaigns
Video production is one of those marketing strategies that’s often under-rated when it comes to ROI. A compelling video can provide the authority and sincerity that humanizes your brand and pushes your prospects to a purchase decision. Here are some incredible statistics associated with video: Videos embedded in your website can result in an 80% increase in conversion ratesEmails containing…
- Content Marketing
What is Net Neutrality?
The term Net Neutrality was coined by Columbia University media law professor Tim Wu in 2003. The questions raised in discussions of open access and network neutrality are basic to both telecommunications and innovation policy. The promotion of network neutrality is no different than the challenge of promoting fair evolutionary competition in any privately owned environment, whether a telephone network, operating system, or even…
- Content Marketing
Digital Housekeeping: How To Market Your Post-COVID Property For Proper Returns
As expected, opportunity in the post-COVID market has shifted. And so far it seems clear that it’s shifted in favor of property owners and real estate investors. As the demand for shorter-term stays and flexible accommodations continues to climb, anyone with an address—whether it’s a full vacation home or just a spare bedroom—is well-positioned to capitalize on the trend. When…
- Content Marketing
Why Content for SEO?
Great find by good friend Chris Baggott of Compendium. Although we challenge many of the tactics that SEO companies utilize to gain ranking, there are still thousands of queries in search engines every day by people trying to find your product or service. The questions vary… so a few pages of great content just isn’t going to cut it anymore.…
- E-commerce and Retail
5 Design Elements that Work Well for Mobile Conversion
Despite a rise in mobile usage, many websites deliver a poor mobile experience, forcing potential customers off-site. Business owners who have only just learned to navigate the desktop space are finding it difficult to make the transition to mobile. Finding the right aesthetic alone can be problematic. Business owners have to work hard to understand their target audience and build…
- Email Marketing & Automation
What Elements Should You Be Testing in Your Email Campaigns?
Using our inbox placement platform, we did a test a couple of months ago where we reworded our newsletter subject lines. The result was incredible – our inbox placement increased by over 20% across the seed list that we created. The fact is that email testing is well worth the investment – as are the tools to help you get…
- Content Marketing
How Are You Marketing Your Brand’s Sustainability and Diversity?
Earth Day was this week and we saw the typical run of social posts where companies promoted the environment. Unfortunately, for many companies – this only happens once a year and the other days they go back to business as usual. Last week, I completed a marketing workshop at a large company in the healthcare industry. One of the points…
