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Content Marketing
The 5 Reasons Visitors Landed On Your Website and How Audience-Centric Content Drives Conversions
Many companies design websites, social profiles, or landing pages with internal motivations in mind. Product managers push for feature lists, leaders want to highlight recent acquisitions, and sales teams clamor for lead-generating offers. While these elements have their place, it’s crucial to remember the most critical aspect of web design: We don’t design and build websites for companies; we design…
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Analytics & Testing
The Book Every Analytics Professional Must Read
A few years ago my good friend Pat Coyle, who owns a sports marketing agency, encouraged me to read Moneyball. For one reason or another, I never put the book on my reading list. A few weeks ago I watched the movie and instantly ordered the book so I could dig into the story even deeper. I’m not a sports…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
The B2B Social Media Mirage: Why It’s Not Always the Growth Engine It’s Sold To Be
Everything I’m about to say is anecdotal. However, the pattern is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore. I haven’t conducted a multi-year research study. I haven’t parsed datasets or reviewed industry-wide analytics dashboards. What I have done is listen to a growing chorus of quiet confessions—marketers, founders, even clients—admitting they’ve stopped trying to drive growth with social media. And here’s the…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
How To Add Your Agency To Manage Your Google Business Listing
We’ve been working with several customers where local search visitors are critical to the acquisition of new customers. While we work on their site to ensure it’s geographically targeted, it’s also critical that we work on their Google Business Listing. Why You Must Maintain a Google Business Listing Google search engine results pages are broken up into 3 components: Google…
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Analytics & Testing
Convert Customers into Advocates with Zuberance
The best way to promote a brand is by having a bunch of highly satisfied customers talk about it. The best customer to do it is a brand advocate – a customer whose satisfaction has reached the level of passion. Such brand advocates make powerful recommendations that usually have a long lasting impact. But brands need a clear cut way…
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Marketing Infographics
What $22 Billion Can Get You: Facebook’s Acquisitions in Perspective
Imagine if your company had so much money that you could spend $22 billion on acquiring other companies. While this would only happen in most people’s wildest dreams, it is the reality for Facebook. In 2013, Honduras and Afghanistan brought in less money than Facebook’s acquisitions. The top 13 big budget blockbuster films combined only total $2.4B, yet that $22B in…
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E-commerce and Retail
How Can Retailers Capitalise on the International E-commerce Opportunity this Christmas?
With the global market for cross-border e-commerce now valued at £153bn ($230bn) in 2014, and predicted to surge to £666bn ($1 trillion) by 2020, the business opportunity for UK retailers has never been greater. International consumers are increasingly favouring shopping from the comfort of their own homes and this is even more appealing during the holiday period, as it avoids the…
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Analytics & Testing
Top 3 Marketing Mistakes New Businesses Make
Why did you start your business? I’ll bet the farm that “because I wanted to be a marketer” wasn’t your answer. However, if you’re like the hundreds of small business owners I’ve worked with you probably realized about 30 seconds after you opened your doors that if you didn’t become a marketer, you weren’t going to be a small business…
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Content Marketing
The Four Pillars of High-Impact Content: Driving Business Results Through Strategic Messaging
Creating content that informs and drives business results requires a strategic approach. While creativity and storytelling play significant roles, businesses need a framework to ensure their content resonates with the audience and leads to action. A powerful approach comprises four key pillars: Efficiency, Emotion, Trust, and Facts. These pillars serve as a guiding framework to make content more persuasive, actionable,…
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Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
Optimize Your Mobile App Store Visibility with Mobile Action
Mobile Action currently helps over 70,000 apps acquire users with a selection of user acquisition tools, analysis, and newly released predictive analysis. The company has built a Big Data engine that provides app developers with a visibility score that factors in over 8 billion data points, including category, location, season, market, competitors, organic/paid growth, and more. Based on this extensive…
