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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
The First Step in Social Business: Discovery
I recently finished reading (for the second time) the excellent book, Social Business By Design: Transformative Social Media Strategies for the Connected Company, by Dion Hinchcliffe and Peter Kim. The question I often hear is, Where do we start? The short answer is that you should start at the beginning, but how we define the beginning is probably the most…
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Customer Data Platforms
Bluecore’s Real-Time Decisioning Platform for eTail
You’re the marketer. What are you going to do next? This is a question marketers ask themselves constantly. Data is now flowing into organizations at record speed and volume, and the process of organizing and acting on this data can be paralyzing. For starters, you’re tasked with knowing a variety of things about your customers: Who are my most valuable…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Sitechecker: An SEO Platform With A Personalized Checklist On How To Optimize Your Website
One area of expertise I pride myself on is my ability to assist our clients in growing their businesses through organic search engine traffic. I’m a huge proponent of SEO for a few reasons: Intent – search engine visitors enter keywords, phrases, or questions in search queries because they’re actively seeking a solution to their problem(s). This is far different…
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Content Marketing
Swiftly: Small Design Changes for $15
Did you ever have a project that just needed a little tweaking? Even though we have an amazing full-time designer, I almost feel guilty asking him to adjust a graphic or output a file in a different format because I’m not Photoshop-fluent. He’s a master, so I want him spending his time designing amazing infographics, whitepapers, calls-to-action and our branding.…
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Advertising Technology
Weathering The Storm With Your Digital Marketing Strategy: A Step-By-Step Guide To Protect Profits In Unsteady Markets
It’s no secret that market conditions have changed significantly over the last year. High inflation, the impact of the war in Ukraine, and several other factors have led to the lowest growth rates seen for many years. Luckily, marketing strategies don’t have to haphazardly transform along with the unsteady market. Instead of immediate cost-cutting, there are strategic shifts companies can…
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Customer Data Platforms
Building Value into Every Step of Your Customer Journey
Closing a sale is a big moment. It’s when you can celebrate all the work that has gone into landing a new customer. It’s where the efforts of all your people and your CRM and MarTech tools have been delivered. It’s a pop-the-champagne and breathe a sigh of relief moment. It’s also just the beginning. Forward-thinking marketing teams take an…
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Customer Data Platforms
Formidable Forms: How To Build A Multi-Purpose Form In WordPress To Collect Leads for Multiple Products or Services
One of the efforts I’m making on this site is to make it easier for visitors to request assistance. We have a manned chatbot that prompts our users, but sometimes that’s a bit too intrusive. We have a contact form in our footer, but that’s often too general. What I really needed was a lead collection form that I could…
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Advertising Technology
Embedded Finance and How It Addresses Cash Flow Problems in Affiliate Marketing
Recent technological developments are driving seamless payments and more cost-effective payment options. These factors make them a key driving force in the growth of embedded finance, a market whose value is projected to surpass $228 billion by 2028. What is Embedded Finance? Embedded finance, or embedded banking, refers to integrating financial services or tools within a non-financial company’s products, services,…
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Content Marketing
Attention Shoppers: Retail Earns More Reviews than Restaurants on Yelp
You hear TripAdvisor, you think hotels. You hear Healthgrades, you think doctors. You hear Yelp, and chances are good that you think restaurants. That’s exactly why it comes as a surprise to many local business owners and marketers to read Yelp’s own statistic which states that, of the 115 million consumer reviews Yelpers have left since launch, 22% relate to…
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Analytics & Testing
How to Measure and Improve Your Twitter Marketing Strategy
There’s not too much news on the Twitter front and I have yet to hear back from Jack on my Open Letter to Twitter. That said, I still use Twitter daily, find value amongst the deafening noise, and wish for it to succeed. Can you utilize Twitter to help promote your personal brand, corporate brand, products, or services? Of course! Fifty-seven…
