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Content Marketing
5 Marketing Lessons Learned from Curse of the Golden Flower
My son and I rented this amazing movie, which got me thinking. The 2006 Chinese historical drama Curse of the Golden Flower, directed by Zhang Yimou, tells a story of palace intrigue, secrets, and betrayal within the imperial family during the Late Tang dynasty. While it may seem like the film has little to do with modern marketing, a closer…
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Analytics & Testing
Appboy: Understand, Test and Engage Mobile Users
The mobile ecosystem has exploded to over 1 million apps in the last three years. Companies are struggling with high user acquisition costs and low retention rates. Less than 60% of mobile apps provide a positive return on investment. Appboy is a data-driven solution that enables mobile app marketers to create rich user profiles on their mobile audience, and then…
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Content Marketing
5 Strategies to Get Attention on the Web
This might be an ironic post given the fact that my blog is in a slight decline in readership. The truth is that I know what’s causing it, but I lack the time right now to invest to stop it. No worries, though, I’ll turn it around soon! With that, I’ve been thinking a lot about what paths that companies…
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Content Marketing
MyRepono: A Simple, Affordable Offsite WordPress Backup Plugin
I didn’t have a WordPress backup plugin for quite a while. So… the first time that I lost my WordPress database was a nightmare! It was my fault… I was making some updates to the database and dropped the entire database by accident. I was wondering how in the world I would recover my blog posts since I didn’t have…
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Marketing Infographics
Who Owns Teleprospecting? Clarifying Roles to Align Sales and Marketing
Teleprospecting remains a critical function in B2B lead generation and revenue growth. However, the question of ownership—whether Marketing or Sales should control teleprospecting efforts—continues to be a point of friction in many organizations. Without clear roles and coordination, businesses risk losing productivity, wasting budget, and missing out on high-quality leads. This article aims to define teleprospecting, diagnose common dysfunctions between…
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Marketing Infographics
Social Media Usage by US Region
While Silicon Valley, New York and Chicago may be the hot-beds of technology, media and advertising, a new survey shows that small and mid-sized businesses in the Great Plains and Southeast are leading the nation in social media adoption. Looking at the national findings, 75% of respondents say their business does not currently have branded social media sites. Do these…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
#GetVaccinated Campaign Earns Influencers Mainstream Respect
Even before the first COVID-19 vaccination was administered in the U.S. in December 2020, high-profile figures in entertainment, government, healthcare, and business were imploring Americans to get vaccinated. After an initial surge, however, the pace of vaccinations fell even as the vaccines became more widely available and the list of people who were eligible to get them grew. While no…
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Analytics & Testing
How to Drive Business Success with the Power of Competitive Intelligence Research
You are a business that can’t wait to take the markets by storm with your cutting-edge products and robust services. But wait—you’re not the only player in your market segment. In today’s hyper-competitive markets, staying blind to your competitors’ moves is a surefire recipe for falling behind in the race to gain market traction. So, how do you see through…
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E-commerce and Retail
The New ABC’s of Retail: Always Be Connecting
Brick and mortar retail outlets still drive a lot of purchasing power to their stores – and it won’t be going away anytime soon. But behaviors are changing, requiring the internal sales strategy within stores to build better relationships and experiences with their customers to ensure they keep coming back. This infographic from DirectBuy is a transparent look at their…
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Analytics & Testing
3 Ways That Digital Experience Analytics Maximizes Your Marketing ROI
The uncertain economic outlook that we are facing: the energy crisis, high-interest rates, and macroeconomic factors that affect global markets and the supply chain, means that the budgets allocated to marketing continue without recovering, leaving the pre-pandemic figure far behind, which was by 11%. (Source: Gartner) However, the pandemic has shown that brands remain willing to invest, albeit in areas…
