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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
How to Minimize Search Impact When Migrating to a New Domain
As with many companies that grow and pivot, we have a client who is rebranding and migrating to a different domain. My friends who do search engine optimization are cringing right now. Domains build authority over time and ripping out that authority can tank your organic traffic. While Google Search Console does offer a change of domain tool, what they…
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Artificial Intelligence
ChatGPT: How To Utilize Generative AI To Develop Your Ideal Customer Profile
The Gartner Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) framework is a structured approach for defining a business’s most valuable customer segments. This methodology goes beyond basic demographics to paint a clear picture of the ideal customer based on their characteristics, needs, behaviors, and challenges. An ICP helps businesses tailor their marketing and sales efforts toward the highest-value prospects likely to convert, be…
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Content Marketing
Why Your B2B Marketing Needs an Early Warning System
The saying you snooze, you lose applies directly to marketing, but unfortunately not many marketers seem to realize this. Too often, they wait until the last minute to learn about valuable prospects or a customer that is on the cusp from leaving, and these delays can seriously impact an organization’s bottom line. Every B2B marketer needs an early warning system…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
Video Marketing: Social Proof by the Numbers
Today I was meeting with a client and discussing the opportunity for them to overtake their competitors online utilizing video. The company has a strong brand that’s trusted online and there’s no doubt that video production will drive more direct traffic, more search traffic and – ultimately – help them better explain the value of subscribing to their service to…
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Content Marketing
Adapting and Responding to Feedback Drives Content Marketing Results
How quickly and effectively marketers respond and adapt to ongoing consumer feedback has become a new determinant of brand performance. According to 90% of the 150 brand marketers surveyed, responsiveness—or the ability to source, understand and then quickly react to feedback, preferences, and needs—is important, if not critical, to the delivery of an exceptional customer experience. Only 16 percent of…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Are You Really A Social Media Consultant?
Last night I had the incredible opportunity to go to both meet and listen to three-time Indianapolis 500 winner, Helio Castroneves. I was the guest of co-host and performance coach David Gorsage, who asked if I would provide social media updates throughout the event. As I organized hashtags, followed sponsors, and got to know the VIPs in the room, one…
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Content Marketing
HelloBar: Increase Conversions With Notification Bars, Modals, Alerts, Sliders, and Page Takeovers
To date, I’m fairly certain that we’ve built or redesigned over 100 sites for clients across virtually every content management system (CMS). The majority of these platforms have been around for over a decade and I’m always amazed at the website features that aren’t included by default with every platform. A case in point is the opportunity for calls-to-action (CTAs)…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Three Reasons To Think About SEO In Terms of Topics, Not Keywords
In search engine optimization (SEO), it’s common knowledge that keywords are essential. However, topics can often be even more critical in driving traffic and achieving SEO goals. To understand this better, we must first define both keywords and topics. Keywords are the words that people use when searching for something online. They can be exact matches, broad matches, or phrases that match, and…
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Content Marketing
Chasing The Tail: Harry Potter and The Long Tail
Saturday begins with my regular stop at the local bookstore. I happened to see the book If Harry Potter Ran General Electric. This isn’t a review of the book (which I would recommend); it’s an article about the utilization of Harry Potter to accelerate this book’s reach and sales. I’m reading The Long Tail, which speaks to the intriguing concept…
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Analytics & Testing
Infer Net New Leads: Identify and Send the Best Leads in Salesforce
Businesses are struggling to interpret mountains of data about their customers and what motivates them. It’s nearly impossible to see the forest from the trees when people are focused on their system of record vs. extracting useful insights from all the signals in disparate systems like Salesforce, Marketo and Google Analytics, as well as unstructured sources from the web. Few…
