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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…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
The Future of Interactive 360 Degree Video
This is a pretty amazing technology when you start to think about the possibilities. Perhaps you could record multiple storylines and have the user click and enter the next. Could make for one heck of a horror movie! 🙂 See the world like never before with 360° video. Can you imagine? People like to look at 360° photos of the…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
The Three Buckets of Social Media Marketing Speakers
What an amazing week this has been at Social Media Marketing World! I moderated a session on corporate blogging with Justin Levy and Waynette Tubbs. Justin leads the charge at Citrix for their social and content strategies, and Waynette leads the help of SAS content strategy efforts. Two amazing people that are running enormous strategies efficiently and practically. Since I…
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Analytics & Testing
Parsely: Content Publishing Analytics Done Right
If your company is investing in the development of content, you’ll find standard analytics nothing less than frustrating. Here are a few reasons… authors, categories, publication dates and tagging. There are specific questions you get asked by your company that you simply can’t answer: What content that we published this month performed the best? What author drives the most traffic…
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E-commerce and Retail
Five Steps You Can Take Today to Boost Your Amazon Sales
Recent shopping seasons were certainly atypical. During a historic pandemic, shoppers abandoned brick-and-mortar shops in droves, with Black Friday foot traffic falling by more than 50% year-over-year. In contrast, online sales surged, particularly for Amazon. In 2020, the online giant reported that independent sellers on its platform had moved $4.8 million of merchandise on Black Friday and Cyber Monday —…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Maropost Marketing Cloud: Multi-Channel Automation For Email, SMS, Web, and Social Media
A challenge to today’s marketers is to recognize that their prospects are all at different points in the customer journey. On the same day, you may have a visitor to your website who isn’t aware of your brand, a prospect who is researching your products and services to solve their challenge or an existing customer who is seeing if there…
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
B2B Tech Marketing in 2025: Budget Growth, Reasonable KPIs, and Strategic AI Investments
B2B marketers in tech are navigating uncertain economic conditions with a mix of resourcefulness and strategic spending. According to the latest research: Marketing budgets are being allocated and evaluated in new ways. In 2024, 65% of marketing executives reported budget increases. Surprisingly, 54% of those who received additional funding did not face stricter KPIs—a notable shift from previous years, where…
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Content Marketing
The Ultimate Sales Machine: Mastering the Art and Science of Sales Success
In his groundbreaking book The Ultimate Sales Machine, the late Chet Holmes presents a masterful framework for sales excellence that has stood the test of time. Drawing from decades of experience working with companies of all sizes, Holmes distilled the essence of sales success into twelve core strategies that, when implemented with what he calls pigheaded discipline and determination, can…
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Analytics & Testing
Statdash: Build the Ultimate Dashboard
It seems like each day we’re having to add another tool to monitor some new metrics that provide feedback on our clients. Over time, we’ve collected a number of SaaS subscriptions that we’re logging in and out of on a daily basis. It’s so complex that we’ve sought out development resources – but it’s going to be costly to integrate…
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Content Marketing
WordPress: How to Build And Publish A Tag Cloud
It may seem a bit outdated, but I still appreciate the usefulness of tag clouds. Internally, tag clouds visually display what the focus of my content has been and allow me to identify whether I’m writing too much content about some terms and, perhaps, not enough about terms that I should be writing about. What is a Tag Cloud? A…
