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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
Three Sources for Finding New B2B Sales Leads in Social Media
At least three primary lead sources are available to you on which you can focus your B2B sales efforts to increase your revenues. They are … Your existing customers People that others know but who you do not Folks that you presently have absolutely no connection to Social media can and should play an integral part in your b2b sales efforts…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
Helpdesks Have Sucked Since Medieval Times
Poor helpdesk etiquette significantly affects customer loyalty and happiness. Bad experiences can lead to a negative perception of a company, directly impacting customer retention rates. 50% of customers will switch to a competitor after just one bad experience. Zendesk Dealing with an IT helpdesk can be frustrating and intimidating for many due to factors like a lack of technical knowledge,…
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Content Marketing
Setting Promotions on Fire with WildFire
Marketers love and hate sweepstakes and contests. While effective tools to build brand awareness and generate prospect lists, they tedious, time consuming, and challenging to administer.
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Analytics & Testing
Designing the Optimal Marketing Organization.
In a conversation with my friend and colleague Joe Chernov, VP Marketing at Kinvey we were exchanging some of the most asked questions we both received within our teams and from peers in the industry. With Joe being the content marketer of the year you wouldn’t be surprised to know that one of his most asked questions is: How do…
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Marketing Infographics
The Future Isn’t Jobless and Never Has Been
The paranoia regarding the future of artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and automation needs to stop. Every industrial and technical revolution in history opened humans to unlimited opportunities for applying their talent and creativity. Not that specific jobs don’t disappear – of course they do. But those jobs are replaced by new jobs. As I look around my office today and…
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Content Marketing
The Build Versus Buy Dilemma: 7 Considerations To Deciding What’s Best For Your Business
The question whether to build or buy software is a long on-going debate between experts with various opinions on the internet. The option to build your own in-house software or buy market ready customized solution still keeps a lot of decision makers confused. With the SaaS market booming to its full glory where the market size is projected to reach USD 307.3 billion by 2026,…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Why Marketing and IT Teams Should Share Cybersecurity Responsibilities
The pandemic heightened the need for every department within an organization to pay more attention to cybersecurity. That makes sense, right? The more tech we use in our processes and day-to-day work, the more vulnerable we could be to a breach. However, the adoption of better cybersecurity practices should begin with well-versed marketing teams. Cybersecurity has typically been a concern…
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E-commerce and Retail
Rewardful: All-In-One Affiliate Marketing Management for SaaS Providers
Affiliate programs are very effective marketing strategies in which businesses incentivize individuals or other businesses (affiliates) to promote their products or services in exchange for a commission on successful referrals. This performance-based model is particularly effective in the SaaS industry, where recurring revenue and customer lifetime value are paramount. Affiliate marketing is responsible for 16% of all internet orders in the United…
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Sales and Marketing Training
How the Order of Operations prepared me for Programming
Algebra has always been a favorite subject of mine. There’s not much theory involved, just a toolbox of methods and the order of operations to solve. If you reach back into high school, you’ll remember: First, all operations that lie inside parentheses must be done. Next, do any work with exponents or radicals. Working from left to right, do all…
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Content Marketing
WordPress: How To Prepend Text With A Custom Field To Your Custom Post Type Content
in WordPress, add_filter() is a function used to hook a custom function or an existing WordPress function to a specific filter action. Filters are one of the two types of Hooks, the other being Actions. They provide a way for functions to modify the data of other functions and are the cornerstone of WordPress’ plugin functionality. Here’s the basic syntax…
