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UserVoice: Feedback, Feature Request and Bug Tracking Made Simple!
The folks at UserVoice have been busy building and testing new tools to help you engage your users, get better, data-driven feedback, and provide better support than ever. Over the last couple of months they have been testing some of these tools inside their customers’ UserVoice admin consoles, including their new Satisfaction and SmartVote widgets, as well as a new,…
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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…
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Alli AI: AI-driven SEO is More Effective and Less Expensive than Traditional SEO
Back in 2012, I had written that SEO was dead. I fully admit that I was posting it as linkbait to get people to read the article. At that time, I was pushing hard for SEO consultants to stop wasting all of their time backlinking and scheming and… instead… focus on the quality of the content and optimizing conversion rates.…
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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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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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Digital Remedy’s Flip Makes Buying, Managing, Optimizing, and Measuring Over-The-Top (OTT) Advertising Simple
The explosion in streaming media options, content, and viewership over the last year has made Over-The-Top (OTT) advertising impossible to ignore for brands and the agencies that represent them. What is OTT? OTT refers to streaming media services that provide traditional broadcast content in real-time or on-demand over the internet. The term over-the-top implies that a content provider is going…
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Quite Possibly The Worst Domain Registrar Ever
This morning we get a frantic call from a client. We worked with them to develop a new site a while back, but everything was offline now. A DNS issue of some sort. Their IT guy called us to see if we had changed anything. We hadn’t but always hate to hear of these problems and wanted to help them…
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The History of Sales Technology
We recently posted the Evolution of the Salesperson and now we get a look at how sales technology has enabled advancements in sales methodologies. From Lattice Engines Infographic, The History of Sale Technology: Sales professionals have always had the opportunity to work with different tools, techniques and processes to help them become better, smarter sellers. We thought it would be…
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Your Brand Playbook For Delivering a Successful 2020 Holiday Season
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a dramatic impact on life as we know it. The norms of our day-to-day activities and choices, including what we buy and how we go about doing so, have shifted with no sign of reverting back to old ways anytime soon. Knowing the holidays are around the corner, being able to understand and anticipate consumer…
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Boxward: How To Avoid The Junk Folder With Your Cold Outreach Emails
While email delivery has had some helpful improvements over the years to thwart spammers and enable good companies to communicate with prospects and customers, it’s still a ridiculous technology that requires good senders to jump through loops and still enables spammers to fake their way into the inbox. The single point of failure in email deliverability is this: The subscriber…
