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Marketing Books
The Monkey Gods Have Spoken, Scott Adams Writes a Book!
Cartoonist Scott Adams has just released a book of writings from his blog, Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Ignores Helpful Advice. I’ve been reading Scott’s blog for quite a while and it’s, by far, the funniest blog I’ve ever read. Here’s a snippet from Scott’s post on an Indian Monkey Attack: According to the BBC, devout Hindus think…
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Analytics & Testing
Ptengine: Heat Maps, Campaign, Conversion Tracking and Analytics
While many analytics platforms on the market are remnants of technology that’s over two decades old, newer technologies are more focused on user behavior and conversion funnel analysis. Heatmaps are a perfect means of seeing how users are interacting over time with your site’s layout, navigation and calls-to-action. Ptengine offers a collection of tools built specifically for these goals. Heat Map…
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Content Marketing
Not Every Piece of Content Needs to Tell a Story
Stories are everywhere, and I’m sick of it. Every social media app is trying to throw them in my face, every website is trying to lure me to their clickbait story, and now every brand wants to connect with me online emotionally. Please make it stop. Reasons Why I’m Growing Weary of Stories: Most people are terrible at telling stories.…
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Marketing Infographics
Web Accessibility Goes Well Beyond Screen Readers
One issue with the internet that’s eerily silent in the United States is the requirement for accessibility by those with disabilities. The web provides a profound opportunity to overcome these obstacles so it’s a focus that your business should begin paying attention to. In many countries, accessibility is no longer an option, it’s a legal requirement. Accessibility isn’t without challenges,…
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Advertising Technology
Vibenomics Audio Out-Of-Home Advertising: Personalized, Location-Based Music and Messaging
Prime Car Wash CEO Brent Oakley had a problem. His premium car washes were a hit, but while his customers were waiting on their car, no one was engaging them on the new products and services they had to offer. He created a platform where he could record personalized, location-based messages and music to his customers. And it worked. When…
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Analytics & Testing
TrendSpottr: Transform Social Noise Into Actionable Early Signals
Prior to social media’s prominence, there was a lawn care company that recorded all of it’s customer calls and categorized them by topic. The system turned into a sales engine because they could identify, geographically, issues that were cropping up in the region and then send highly focused emails based on the trending topics. Lawn care lovers would see the…
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Content Marketing
Is Marketiphrasing a Great Strategy?
See how I did that? I took Marketing and combined it with Phrasing. Cute, huh? I’m not sure that anyone has made up a word for the marketing strategy to make up words… so I just did. The jury is still out whether or not I personally want to use this strategy (outside of this post). It seems that folks…
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Analytics & Testing
Marketers and Machine Learning: Faster, Smarter, More Effective
For decades A/B testing has been used by marketers to determine the effectiveness of offers in driving response rates. Marketers present two versions (A and B), measure the response rate, determine the winner, and then deliver that offer to everyone. But, let’s face it. This approach is cripplingly slow, tedious, and inexcusably inaccurate – especially when you apply it to…
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Content Marketing
5 Essentials for Optimizing Marketing Automation
For many marketers, the promise of marketing automation solutions seems unattainable. They’re too expensive or too complicated to learn. I dispelled those myths and a number of others in OutMarket’s “Modern Marketing Manifesto.” Today, I want to dispel another myth: marketing automation is a silver bullet. Implementing automation software won’t automatically increase engagement and conversions. To achieve those results, marketers…
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Analytics & Testing
How I Optimized My Featured Images For Social Media And Increased Social Traffic by 30.9%
Late last November, I decided to test out optimizing my featured images for social media to see if it would have any benefit. If you’ve been a reader or subscriber for some time, you know that I’m constantly utilizing my site for my own experiments. Designing a more compelling image that’s shared on social media adds 5 or 10 minutes…
