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Public Relations
Punching Through: Strategies to Assess and Respond to Vocal Minorities and the Echo Chamber Online
The phenomenon of a vocal minority wielding disproportionate influence on public perception and business decisions has become increasingly prevalent. Often, these small groups can generate a level of noise that belies their actual size, leading businesses to make hasty or ill-informed decisions. This article explores strategies for businesses to punch through this negativity, stay firm in their strategies, and make…
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Analytics & Testing
Website First Impressions
So many companies simply don’t perform well on the Internet due to the aesthetics of their site. Design may be one of the most under-rated investments you can make, mostly because it’s so difficult to measure the return. You have to invest and invest heavily before you’ll ever find out how well your site is performing. This infographic, the Power…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Social Signals, SEO, and Their Impact on One Another
Matt Cutts shared a video where he discussed the challenge that engineers might have if they had created dependencies between the Google ranking algorithms and social signals. In short, it would be far too risky to build these dependencies in the event the other social media platform either blocked search or fell in popularity. I have no doubt this is…
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E-commerce and Retail
Retailers are Improving Experience and Driving Revenue with Text Messaging
The statistics are overwhelming that consumers pay more and engage further with companies that offer a great user experience with increased communication. Text messaging has evolved into one of the universal communication methods that retailers are deploying to improve customer experience and drive revenue. OpenMarket’s recent Retail Mobile Messaging Report conducted by Internet Retailer, polled 100 e-commerce retail professionals about…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
ReviewInc: The All-in-One Reputation and Visibility Platform for Service Brands and Multi-Location Businesses
Today’s buyers don’t just trust online reviews—they rely on them. Whether it’s a patient choosing a new clinic, a customer looking for a reputable HVAC technician, or a parent evaluating a childcare provider, the verdict is almost always rendered before a single call or visit. For multi-location businesses and service providers, online reputation isn’t just brand equity—it’s a growth engine.…
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Analytics & Testing
How to Generate Value from Digital Marketing
Just this week I was interviewed about the optimization work we do and one of the problems we find central to many of our prospect and clients’ marketing efforts is that they want they don’t build the sites for their prospects and clients – they build it for themselves. Don’t bet me wrong, of course your company wants to love…
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Content Marketing
Termly: Easily Manage Compliance For Your Sites and Apps
With state-level data privacy and compliance arising with the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA), the future of intrastate and international compliance is becoming a labyrinth of red tape. I’m not opposed to regulation when corporations continue to skirt and abuse consumer data, but it makes it more difficult for responsible brands to ensure compliance. Expecting a small, global business to…
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Marketing Infographics
How to Make Marketing Automation Work for You
There’s a lot of confusion in the online front today on what exactly marketing automation is. It seems that any company who figures out how to send an email based on a triggered event calls themselves marketing automation. We’ve learned from our marketing automation sponsor, Right On Interactive, that there are very distinct characteristics of a marketing automation system that…
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Sales and Marketing Training
How to Estimate Your Next Web or Development Project
When is it going to be done? This question looms over every project, often posing one of the most challenging aspects of quoting timelines. While experience should theoretically make estimation more predictable, each new project is unique, carrying its unseen obstacles. Projects can be delayed by factors entirely out of your control, from minor API changes to unforeseen client delays.…
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Marketing Infographics
Is Social Media Turning Us Into Psychopaths?
Time for some Friday fun! Many people unfollow me and don’t appreciate my blunt force social tactics online. I’m not sure anyone has classified me as a psychopath publicly or not, but there are probably a couple folks wondering. I don’t believe I am – but I am passionate in my debates online. I even get heated once in a…
