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Alexa.com’s Site Overview: New Features Give Marketers Better Snapshot of Search and Content Opportunities, for Free
For marketers working to reach new audiences online, insights into competitors’ brand-building activities, strengths and weaknesses, and opportunities to reach and capture their audience can play a powerful role in driving success. However, such competitive insights have mostly been available to companies with vast resources and their own analytics teams. Alexa Site Overview The Alexa.com Site Overview service – which already…
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A Project Management Solution for Consultants
There are three kinds of projects. The ones you can do on your own, the ones that you can pay someone else to handle for you, and the ones that you need to collaborate with others on. Project management software is for the third kind. I recently discovered Mavenlink, a cloud-based project management application that is similar to Basecamp, but…
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Common Mistakes Businesses Make When Choosing A Marketing Automation Platform
A marketing automation platform (MAP) is any software that automates marketing activities. The platforms normally provide automation features across email, social media, lead gen, direct mail, digital advertising channels and their mediums. The tools provide a central marketing database for marketing information so communication can be targeted using segmentation and personalization. There is a great return on investment when marketing…
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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……
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Usersnap: Elevate Your Product By Collecting Actionable User Feedback
Understanding your users’ needs can make or break a product’s success. Often, user feedback is fragmented, difficult to track, and overwhelming. Product managers, developers, and marketing teams struggle to gather precise insights that lead to impactful decisions. The challenge lies in collecting feedback and doing so efficiently and in a way that genuinely drives growth. Usersnap Usersnap is a user…
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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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Mobile Apps: How Important is Planning, Prototyping, and Testing?
There’s quite a bit of expense in working with custom mobile application developers just in the planning and prototyping phase. Time spent to ensure the user experience is optimal is critical to the success of your mobile application’s adoption and usage, though. But only 52% employ a testing program for their mobile applications according to a report from Accenture! The…
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The Surprising Words That Get Top Content Shared
Recently, I wrote about 2 key elements that article titles should incorporate if they wish to be clicked on and read. Some words don’t just impact what folks read, it can also impact what folks share! This infographic from ShortStack provides data collected from Iris Shoor, Leo Widrich and Scott Ayres. Words that get content shared Blog Posts – Surprising,…
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The A to Z Guide to Personal Branding
As I grow older, I’m beginning to figure out that a key indicator of my business success is the value of the network I keep and maintain. It’s why I spend a ton of time each year networking, speaking and attending conferences. The value that’s generated by my immediate network, and my network’s network probably makes up 95% of the…
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Video: What is Integrated Advertising?
We often provide evidence to our clients that multi-channel marketing is the ideal means of increasing results throughout all the channels, not just one. We’ve written about the advent of Social Television, but advertising models around traditional television are changing as well, incorporating applications, mobile technologies and social media. This is a great video from BBR/ Saatchi & Saatchi explaining…
