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Artificial Intelligence
Dell EMC World: 10 Terms Transforming Information Technology
Wow, what a couple weeks! If you’ve noticed I haven’t been writing as frequently, it’s because I made one heck of a trip out to Dell EMC World where Mark Schaefer and I had the honor of interviewing the leadership across Dell Technology companies for their Luminaries podcast. To put this conference into perspective, I walked 4.8 miles the first…
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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…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
RelateIQ: A Relationship Intelligence Powered CRM
RelateIQ is a simpler CRM that integrates with your email inbox to automatically digest and organize data from each data source. RelateIQ automatically syncs the data from your inbound and outbound emails, calendar, and smartphone calls (though the mobile app) to eliminate manual data entry into the CRM. It’s so advanced that if someone emails you and you don’t reply,…
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
The 5 Questions That Will Always Qualify A Lead
Matt Nettleton is a professional sales trainer and my personal sales coach in Indianapolis. The work that he’s accomplished thus far has changed my (negative) attitude on selling and honed my marketing skills. Sales is a lot more complicated than it used to be… by the time folks are calling your sales team, they are very well-informed. I believe it’s…
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E-commerce and Retail
Should You Invest in Online Review Monitoring to Manage Your Reputation?
Amazon, Angie’s List, Trustpilot, TripAdvisor, Yelp, Google Business Profile, Yahoo! Local Listings, Choice, G2 Crowd, TrustRadius, TestFreaks, Which?, Salesforce AppExchange, Glassdoor, Facebook Ratings & Reviews, Twitter, and even your own website are all places to capture and publish reviews. Whether you’re a B2C or B2B company… chances are that there’s someone writing about you online. And those online reviews are…
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Content Marketing
WittyParrot: Knowledge Automation for Sales and Marketing Communications
In a report from the McKinsey Global Institute, The social economy: Unlocking value and productivity through social technologies, researchers found that the average knowledge worker wasted 28 hours per month searching and recreating documents. Only 10% of documents at a company were in a useful format. And up to 80% of sales and marketing collateral was never even used. Marketers…
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Artificial Intelligence
Will You Lose Your Marketing Job to a Robot?
This is one of those posts that you snicker at… and then go get a shot of bourbon to forget. At first glance, this seems like a ridiculous question. How in the world could you replace a marketing manager? That would require the ability to study consumer behavior thoroughly, analyze complex data and trends objectively, and think creatively to come…
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Content Marketing
OneUp: Automatically Post To Google Business Profile From Your RSS Feed
If you’re a local business, it’s critical that you maintain both a website that’s well-optimized as well as a Google Business Profile Account. The vast majority of search engine users never scroll or navigate to organic results that find your website… they interact with the map pack on the search engine results page (SERP). The map pack is the section…
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Content Marketing
Elementor Cloud Website: Build Your Elementor WordPress Site On This Fully Supported Dedicated Hosting
For the last few months, I’ve been assisting a client in optimizing their website built on WordPress and utilizing the Elementor Builder… which I believe is the best you can find. It’s listed as one of my recommended WordPress plugins. At one time, the Elementor Builder was a great add-on to any theme. Now, the builder has gotten so robust…
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Sales and Marketing Training
Scaling Your Applications: A C-Suite Guide for Getting Enterprise-Ready
Scalability is an architectural approach in which system components are designed for efficiency, modularity, and growth. An excellent resource on application scaling techniques is Acropolium, a firm that has assisted in scaling over 100 applications since 2005. I’d encourage you to read their articles, which share methodologies, frameworks, and tips for scaling. At it’s foundation, the process to scale your applications or…
