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- E-commerce and Retail
Zyro: Easily Build Your Site Or Online Store With This Affordable Platform
The availability of affordable marketing platforms continues to impress, and content management systems (CMS) are no different. Over the years, I’ve worked with a number of proprietary, open-source, and paid CMS platforms—some incredible and some quite difficult. Until I learn a client’s goals, resources, and processes, I don’t make a recommendation on which platform to utilize. If you’re a small…
- Marketing Infographics
Will Enterprise IoT Help Jumpstart the Retail Industry?
Lenders are backing off financing an already ailing retail industry. Bloomberg is even predicting the Retail Apocolypse may quickly be upon us. The retail industry is starving for innovation, and the Internet of Things just may provide the boost needed. In fact, 72% of retailers are currently engaged in Enterprise Internet of Things (EIoT) projects. Half of all retailers are…
- Marketing Infographics
Navigating the Wacky Rules of Facebook Contests and Sweepstakes
Did you know that you can require entrants in your Facebook contest or sweepstake promotions to like your page, but you can’t require or even ask them to share your page? Hey, it’s their platform and their users, so they can make the rules however they’d like. If you want to get at their users, you have to navigate some…
- Marketing Infographics
Negative SEO Works!
Over a year ago, I wrote about the SEA industry… Search Engine Assassination. It didn’t really have a term associated with it until the most recent algorithm updates. It’s now known as Negative SEO… and Google may be in big trouble because it actually works. The folks at Tasty Placement ran a test where they purchased a bunch of poor…
- Marketing Infographics
What’s Stopping Organizations from Implementing Social Selling Strategies?
As we head into 2016, organizations are still struggling with their social selling strategies. We’ve shared the foundations of social selling in past posts and there’s no denying the benefits of a team that adopts social selling practices: 61% of organizations engaged in social selling report a positive impact on revenue growth, which’s over 20% more than non-social sellers! With…
- Customer Data Platforms
The 4 Steps To Implement Or Cleanup CRM Data To Maximize Your Sales Performance
Companies that wish to improve their sales performance typically invest in implementing a customer relationship management (CRM) platform. We’ve discussed why companies implement a CRM, and companies often take the step… but the transformations frequently fail for a few reasons: Data: At times, companies opt for a data dump of their accounts and contacts into a CRM platform, but the…
- Social Media & Influencer Marketing
5 Secrets to Making Influencer Marketing Work for Your E-Commerce Campaigns
An old rule for salespeople is to stay in front of their target audiences. Today, that means being visible on and available through popular social media channels. After all, Pew Research suggests that around seven out of every ten consumers use social media. This trend keeps growing year after year and shows no signs of reversing course. Yet being on…
- E-commerce and Retail
DandyLoop: Share Online Shoppers Between Stores
A very common practice on many online fields is the cooperation between different companies working in that field, big or small. This is very common in mobile apps, in online gaming, in video content, and of course in content sites. In content sites we see the mutual recommendation of content between sites, even when they are competitors. It’s hard to…
- Analytics & Testing
The Data Points to a Surprise Super Bowl Commercial Winner
The most effective Super Bowl commercials may not be the ones you think. While our ability to collect data is growing, our ability to understand data is still catching up. At Perscio, our team of data scientists did a deeper analysis of Twitter activity during the Super Bowl and found that the most popular commercials aren’t necessarily the ones getting…
- Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Your Brand Should Be On Social Media
Every now and again I come across posts talking about how people don’t want to “engage” with brands on social media and that your brand shouldn’t be there, it should be people, etc., etc. The latest was a post from Mike Seidle, a local blogger and business person. I want to preface that I don’t know Mike and I have…
