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Artificial Intelligence
SalesRep.ai: Utilizing Intelligence to Automate Multi-Channel Prospect Interaction
As this video from SalesRep shows, a huge portion of outbound sales time is spent connecting or scheduling to connect with a customer. SalesRep utilizes call automation with an autonomous, natural language processing (NLP) platform to take that effort off of your sales team’s back, enabling them to focus all of their attention on the sale – not the connection.…
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Sales and Marketing Training
A Manifesto for Responsible Marketing in the Age of AI and Automation
Artificial intelligence (AI), data, and automation increasingly drive marketing strategies; we must establish a framework for responsible marketing practices as marketing professionals. While there are tools that can be used for consumers and businesses to defend against the onslaught of autonomous, personalized, and targeted communications that are coming… irresponsible marketers will still have destructive potential with minimal investment that can…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Failed Customer Experiences Are Destroying Your Marketing
SDL performed a survey to explore where the single or most prominent points of customer experience (CX) failure and success happen with customers and the impacts to the business. Perhaps the scariest result of this survey is that SDL found that many users that suffered from a bad customer experience actively tried to disparage the company every chance they could…
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Content Marketing
How To Feed Your WordPress Blog Posts By Tag In Your ActiveCampaign Template
We’re working on optimizing some email journeys for a client that promotes multiple types of products on their WordPress site. Each of the ActiveCampaign email templates that we’re building is highly customized to the product it’s promoting and providing content on. Rather than rewriting much of the content that’s already well-produced and formatted on the WordPress site, we integrated their…
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Content Marketing
Social Marketing for Travel and Hospitality
We have a client in the travel insurance industry that does an amazing job leveraging social media to grow their business. By becoming a great destination of travel news and advice, they’ve continued to increase growth. Led by Bryant Tutterow and Muhummad Yasin, we’ve been amazed at how streamlined and productive their team has been in such a highly regulated…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Have You Created a Call-To-Action Button on Facebook?
I’ll be honest that we don’t do as much with our agency’s Facebook page as we could be doing. I’m trying to improve that and have been posting more recently. Today I went to our page and noticed a message that I could create a Call-To-Action button directly in the page header. That’s quite intriguing given that Facebook has typically…
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Event Marketing
9 Ways To Streamline Your B2B Events with Event Tech
New In Your Martech Stack: Event Management Software Event planners and marketers have a lot to juggle. Finding great speakers, curating awesome content, selling sponsorships, and delivering an exceptional attendee experience encompass a small percentage of their day-to-day activities. Still, they’re activities that take up a large amount of time. That’s why organizers of B2B events are increasingly adding Event…
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Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze?
If you haven’t heard about Horizon Realty just do a quick search on Google and you’ll find a few interesting articles, like this post on Mashable. For a quick background, a former tenant of theirs, Amanda Bonnen, sent out a tweet about living in mold in one of their units. Horizon filed a lawsuit for $50,000 against Ms Bonnen. Now…
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E-commerce and Retail
Smartcards Rolling Out Over the Next Few Years
Wow… when you think about all the dedicated and dependent hardware for traditional magnetic striped credit cards, that’s a ton of equipment and expense out there to replace. Over the next few years, though, that’s exactly what’s going to happen! Traditional credit cards are on their way out. It took the hacking of 70 million Target credit cards during the…
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Content Marketing
Why I Advise SaaS Companies Against Building Their Own CMS
A respected colleague called me from a marketing agency asking for some advice as she spoke to a business that was building out its own online platform. The organization was composed of highly talented developers and they were resistant to utilizing a content management system (CMS)… instead driving to implement their own home-grown solution. It’s something that I’ve heard before……
