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- Content Marketing
How to Save a Struggling Content-Led Link Building Campaign
Google’s algorithm is changing with time and due to this companies are enforced to re-think on their SEO strategies. One of the crucial actions for increasing ranking is content-led link building campaign. You might have faced a situation where your SEO team works hard to send outreach emails to publishers. Then, your writers dedicatedly create content. But, after a few weeks of…
- Content Marketing
LinkedIn Expands Company Page Functionality
While Facebook has largely abandoned pages for organic reach, it appears LinkedIn is taking the opportunity to help businesses drive social engagement with the addition of some great new features in company profile pages. Communities are core to the success of every business. Employees, partners, customers and job candidates comprise a community, and together, can help drive your company’s growth…
- E-commerce and Retail
Extole: Brand Advocacy and Referral Marketing
As consumers become more tone-deaf to interruptive marketing, it’s imperative that brands identify their advocates and provide them the tools necessary to help refer their products and services. Extole’s referral marketing platform creates advocacy programs that scale for the biggest brands. On-Brand Sharing Create an effortless, integrated advocate-sharing experience. A referral program tailored to your brand will turn more of…
- Advertising Technology
The Power of Big-Ticket Events: Optimizing Ad Spend for Maximum Impact
As the Paris Olympics make history with more than $1.2 billion in ad sales and billions of viewers tuning in for the sports action, high-level competition, and cultural celebrations, marketers should be paying close attention. Big ticket events—think the World Cup, World Series, and Super Bowl-sized spectacles—provide unique, huge advertising platforms for brands to get attention and reach a massive…
- Marketing Infographics
How to Select a Sales Automation Solution
While marketers may have the most options available at this point, other industries are delving into the automation space to make lives and jobs easier. In a multi-channel world, we can’t manage everything and that also means simple administrative tasks that once accounted for 20% of our day. A primary example of one of the industries that are taking a…
- Marketing Infographics
The Gold Rush for Top Level Domains
If you’ve not heard all the noise about TLDs, you probably aren’t a billion dollar company (that’s sarcasm). Personally, I despise the fact that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has put these up for sale out of the reach of any average small business. It costs $185,000 to apply and $25,000 per year to maintain a…
- Analytics & Testing
Plausible: A Lightweight, Cookieless Alternative to Google Analytics
This week I was able to spend some time with some marketing seniors from a local University and they asked what foundational skills they could work on to be more desirable to employers. I absolutely discussed Google Analytics… mostly because it’s quite a complex tool that I see a growing number of companies make terrible decisions with. Ignoring filters, events,…
- Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Did Information Access Really Kill the News Industry?
Throughout human history, the control and dissemination of information have been intrinsically linked to power structures and social organization. From ancient scribes to modern social media, the journey of how we share knowledge reflects our evolving society and its power dynamics. Early Information Sharing and the Rise of Literacy In ancient civilizations, knowledge was preserved and transmitted through oral traditions…
- Social Media & Influencer Marketing
LinkedIn Requests: The Social Media Rules Police Strike Again!
For as long as people have known me, I’ve been railing against the rules police in social media. They truly drive me insane. For ten years, one of the arguments that continues to surface is whether or not you should connect with people you don’t know online. It surfaced again yesterday when I shared Dan Schawbel’s post, Why I Accept…
- Analytics & Testing
Semrush: Research, Plan, Write, and Analyze Your Content For Improved Search Engine Visibility
There’s not a single client that we work on that we’re not continuously working to optimize their content marketing as part of their overall digital marketing strategy. At its core, content provides the breadcrumbs that lead the prospect to do business with you. While engaging content requires a ton of creativity to differentiate itself, it also should be based on…
