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The Battle Between Intuition and Data: When Should Marketers Trust Their Gut?
Leaders often pride themselves on their ability to just know when something is right or wrong. Intuition—the gut feeling that whispers (or sometimes shouts) at us—can be a powerful guide, especially in high-stakes decisions. But as much as instinct can serve us well, it can also mislead us, often in predictable ways. So, when should we trust our gut, and…
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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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SpeakPipe: Put Voicemail on your Website
If your business doesn’t have the resources to man the phones and respond to every request that comes through your site, you may want to just install a voicemail application like SpeakPipe on your site. Rather than live chat or contact forms, SpeakPipe allows your visitor to record a message using their one-button recorder! SpeakPipe has several options that range…
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ProductionCrate: Subscribe To This One-Stop Shop Of HD Royalty-Free Stock Video, Visual Effects, And Plugins
Video production can be a challenging, time-consuming, and expensive process. Even if you have the best equipment and editing software, you still typically need to find high-quality stock video, audio, and video effects to make your videos look and sound their best. ProductionCrate is a subscription-based service that provides filmmakers and video creators access to high-quality stock video, audio, and…
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App: What Is Your Site’s Machine Experience (MX) Score?
Web designers and marketers have spent the last two decades honing User Experience (UX)—the art and science of creating intuitive, engaging, and accessible websites for humans. With the advent of AI and browser usability features, perhaps a new metric needs to emerge that is equally critical: Table of ContentsMachine ExperienceWhat is Semantic Markup?Machine Experience CalculatorHow AI, Reader Views, and Text-to-Speech…
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5 Signs You’re Outgrowing Your MySQL Database
The data management landscape is complex and quickly evolving. Nothing emphasizes this evolution more than the emergence of ‘super apps’ — or applications that process millions of user interactions per second. Factor in Big Data and the cloud, and it becomes clear that e-commerce merchants need a new generation of databases that can perform better and scale faster. Any online…
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Reorganize, Rewrite and Retire Content
There’s always such a giant demand for new content that most of us are simply struggling to keep up with writing compelling content that provides value to our audience. This infographic from Marketo on maintaining great content is solid advice. Reorganize – I might use repurpose as the term for this, but we often utilize research, stories and graphics across…
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How to Let Your Pizza… er… Product Sell Itself Online
A good friend of mine, James, owns Brozinni Pizzeria. I’m not going to mess around – it’s honestly the best New York style pizza in Indy. James has helped us out quite a bit, bringing his amazing Indianapolis pizza truck to a fundraiser last year and catering an upcoming event this week we’re having. In return, we set out to…
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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…
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Onollo: Social Media Management for Ecommerce
My company has been assisting a few clients with implementing and expanding their Shopify marketing efforts over the last few years. Because Shopify has such a huge marketshare in the e-commerce industry, you’ll find that there are a ton of productized integrations that make life easier for marketers. US social commerce sales will grow more than 35% to surpass $36…
