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Marketing Tools
Snappy: An Enterprise Gifting Platform To Reward Your Customers or Employees
Meeting the expectations of your customers is the baseline in a B2C or B2B relationship. If I were to quantify meeting expectations, I’d provide a letter grade of a C+. Creating a memorable or delightful experience requires a different approach. Over the years of working with clients, I’ve always tried to think of something unique that the client never expected…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
PageRank: Newton’s Gravitational Theory Applied
Newton’s theory of gravitation states that the force between two masses is proportional to the product of the two masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between those masses: The Gravitational Theory Explained: F is the magnitude of the gravitational force between the two point masses. G is the gravitational constant. m1 is the mass of the…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
Huddle: Online Collaboration and File Sharing
Rolling out or orchestrating a marketing campaign involves content management and collaboration bottlenecks. I bet you are fed up with making endless changes to VPN or firewall configuration to facilitate increased collaboration! Chances are that you are using either an obsolete intranet or SharePoint. Switching over to the seamless experience that the cloud based Huddle workspace provides would actually make…
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Content Marketing
Publicfast: Find Influencers, Build Campaigns, and Measure Results
My firm is working with a manufacturer right now that is looking to develop a brand, build their e-commerce site, and market their products for consumers with home delivery. It’s a technology that we’ve deployed in the past and one key factor in expanding their reach was identifying micro-influencers, geographically targeted influencers, and industry influencers to help build awareness and…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Hiding Your Unsubscribe Isn’t a Retention Strategy
We evaluate a lot of services so that we can write about them on the blog or utilize them for our clients. One technique we’re starting to see more and more is services that allow you to easily start an account, but they lack any means of canceling it. I don’t think this is an oversight… and it immediately turns…
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Email Marketing & Automation
How to Reverse Plummeting Email Engagement Rates
It’s quite a surprise to most companies when they find out that 60% of subscribers in the average email list are dormant. For a company with 20,000 email subscribers, that’s 12,000 emails that have dropped off. The vast majority of email marketers are petrified at dropping a single subscriber off of their list. The effort it required to get these…
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Content Marketing
How to Make Your Content More Shareable
The title of this infographic is really The Secret Formula for The Perfect Viral Share. I love the infographic but I’m not a fan of the name… first, I don’t believe there’s a formula. Next, I don’t believe there’s a perfect share. I believe there are a combination of factors and events that lead up to great content being shared.…
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Advertising Technology
Everyone Hates Advertising… Does Paid Advertising Still Work?
There’s been a ton of conversations online about the demise of advertising. Twitter hasn’t been too successful with its advertising package. Facebook is successful, but consumers are growing weary of ads splattered everywhere. And paid search continues to drive incredible revenue… but search is declining as other methods for seeking and finding information online grow in popularity. Of course, if…
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Sales and Marketing Training
Product Marketing: Does Marketing Make The Product?
I know a few companies where marketing outpaces the product’s user experience and services. I’ve seen sales demos where the rep won’t open the application, instead working off a bright, shiny, photoshopped mockup. That’s not an issue when your product is advertised, but I’ve seen it tear some companies apart when the marketing overhypes the reality of the product. RC…
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Content Marketing
Body Background Images Done Easily
A nice feature you’ll find on many sites is where the center content area appears to overlay the page with a drop shadow behind it. It’s actually a fairly simple method to making your blog look nice (or other website) with a single background image. How is it done? Figure out how wide your content is. Example: 750px. Build an…
