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What happened on your Birthday?
There was a time that I cringed when my birthday was coming. What happened on my birthday? April 19th has some really interesting events happen on it… the U.S.S. Iowa explosion, Wako, Oklahoma city… ugh. Going back in history, it doesn’t get much better. It was the day that the American Revolution started! What happened on your Birthday? JanuaryFebruaryMarchAprilMayJuneJulyAugustSeptemberOctoberNovemberDecember12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031 Wikipedia…
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Content Marketing
How to Build Your Brand Online
We tend to get into the weeds sometimes as we’re blogging about specific marketing technologies are techniques. There are still a ton of companies out there that have not built out an adequate web presence to begin acquiring leads or conversions online. This is a solid infographic on how to build your brand online. Today, businesses must establish a powerful…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
BizChat: Team Communication and Collaboration
In the early, high-growth days of ExactTarget (now Salesforce), one tool the company couldn’t do without was Yahoo! Messenger. Aside from the all-to-often hilarious hacked message that sent an “I quit” notification from an employee who left their laptop open and logged in, the tool was indespensible to fast-track communications. Of course, once we got to several hundred employees, the…
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Sales and Marketing Training
10 Reasons A Company May Want to Build A Solution Versus Licensing One (And Reasons Not To)
Recently, I wrote an article advising companies not to host their videos on their infrastructure. There was some pushback from some techies who understood the ins and outs of video hosting. They had some excellent points, but video requires an audience, and many video hosting platforms provide a solution AND the audience. In fact, YouTube is the second most searched…
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Content Marketing
7 Tactics to Boost Your Content Creation
On Tuesday, we had a fantastic webinar with one of our partners, Wordsmith for Marketing, on 10 Content Creation Tactics for When the Well Runs Dry. While we did have fun making jokes and doing little dances behind the scenes, there were some great insights shared on the webinar. Here are 7 key takeaways from our content creation tactics webinar:…
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Analytics & Testing
Get Started on A/B Testing With These 7 Elements
Testing continues to be proven as one of the top means for any business to increase views, clicks and conversions on their website. Building out a testing strategy for landing pages, call-to-actions, and email should be on your marketing schedules. The good news? Almost anything can be tested for optimization! The bad news? Almost anything can be tested for optimization.…
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Content Marketing
The Inbound Marketing Experts You Will Learn From Online
Colleague Dave Morse of Delta Faucet passed on a congratulations to me today for making a list of 18 Must-Know Inbound Marketing Experts in Marketo’s Whitepaper: Amplify Your Impact: How to Multiply the Effects of Your Inbound Marketing Program. What is an Inbound Marketing Expert? Inbound marketing refers to marketing activities that bring visitors in, rather than marketers having to…
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E-commerce and Retail
Reducing Abandoned Carts This Holiday Season: 8 Tips to Impact Sales
I recently watched a video of a Target manager standing atop his checkout, delivering a rousing speech to his staff before opening the door to Black Friday shoppers, rallying his troops as if he was preparing them for battle. In 2016, the mayhem that was Black Friday was bigger than ever. Although shoppers spent on average $10 less than they…
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Event Marketing
BrightTALK Benchmark Report: Best Practices for Promoting Your Webinar
BrightTALK, which has been publishing webinar benchmark data since 2010, analyzed more than 14,000 webinars, 300 million emails, feed and social promotions, and a total of 1.2 million hours of engagement from the past year. This annual report helps B2B marketers compare their performance to those of their industries and see which practices lead to the greatest success. In 2017,…
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Content Marketing
Increase the Chances Your Content Goes Viral with these 5 Tactics
We’ve shared other infographics on the elements of viral content and I’m always hesitant at pushing viral as a strategy. Viral content can bring brand awareness – we see that often with videos. However, I’ve never seen anyone hit it out of the park every time. Some try to hard, some fall short… it’s truly a combination of talent and…
