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Organic Social Media Reach Is Dead: How to Grow Your Following in 2025
Social media platforms have evolved into highly competitive spaces where only a fraction of accounts receive meaningful visibility. Platforms like Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and Facebook prioritize content from top-performing creators, leaving most users with very little organic exposure. This dynamic has led many to recognize that a social media promotion service is no longer optional but necessary to grow a…
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Why and How to Set Up a Gravatar Account (Even If You’re Not on WordPress)
Maintaining a consistent online presence is vital. Whether you’re providing guest posts, contributing to forums, or signing up for online communities, your profile picture says a lot about who you are. Gravatar (Globally Recognized Avatar) provides a simple, efficient way to manage your profile image across multiple platforms. While natively integrated and often associated with WordPress, Gravatar is a versatile…
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What Marketers Can Learn from Dell’s IT Transformation Research?
Dell defines Information Technology Transformation as the process of enhancing information and communication technology so as to make human lives more efficient and better. IT transformation also centers on improving infrastructure so as to encourage efficiency in systems due to a reduction in the wastage of resources. I’ve been working with Mark Schaefer and his client, Dell Technologies, over the…
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3 Astounding Stats Supporting Social Selling
One of the common traits I continue to see in the most effective business development people or sales staff is that they’re incredibly well-connected. My good friend Doug Theis of Innovative Integrations, an Indianapolis-based managed services company is one of those people. We attended an Indianapolis Business Journal breakfast and I joked that Doug most likely knew everyone in the…
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Five Questions You Need To Answer When Optimizing Your Content Marketing Strategies
Off and on I notice that some social media pundits tell companies it doesn’t matter where they participate in social media, only that they actually do. Others argue the development of a social media strategy before ever starting. There are five questions you need to ask yourself when creating content on the web: Where should the content be placed? –…
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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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WordPress: Add Author Information in Sidebar
UPDATE: I’ve developed a Sidebar Widget to display your Author Information. Today’s post by Jon Arnold was fantastic on tips for designing a website, but I noticed the first comment attributed the post to me. That’s a telltale sign I need to make the author information more prominent. I’ve not created a widget for this (and I’m surprised that no…
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Zingly: Overcome FORO (Fear of Reaching Out) with a Multichannel CX Experience
Too often, companies begin with a solution and then search for a problem. Juiciero is a prime example. No one needed a high-tech juicer, so the company folded. This product-first approach is backward. The most successful businesses start by understanding customer pain points. Every product decision, feature, and innovation stems from improving customers’ lives. But business isn’t just about building…
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Gannett Needs to Get its Head Out of its Butt
Everyone has heard of the expression having your head up your butt. With Gannett, they really have brought the expression to reality, though. Ruth Holladay is a wickedly sarcastic blogger with a sharp tongue… and she’s dead-on, especially when it comes to Gannett and the Indianapolis Star. We both used to work there, Ruth retiring from editorial and me getting…
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Cross Browser Testing Made Easy
If you’re in web development or web design, you know that one of the most frustrating tasks upon completing a beautiful design is actually ensuring that it works across all browsers. Not only can the browser and operating system severely impact how a page renders, so can the plugins that you are running! We’re launching a site for VA Loan…
