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E-commerce and Retail
Mobile Payment Hacks for Business
Does your business provide a mobile payment option? As payment services and mobile technologies become ubiquitous, the opportunity to turn a prospect into a customer through a mobile payment option should be on your radar! Mobile payments are clearly the trending technology for businesses of all sizes. In 2012 there were $12.8 billion in mobile transactions in the U.S., by…
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E-commerce and Retail
Marketers: Recognize These Behaviours Central to British Buying
Did you see what I did there? This Midwesterner used the British spelling of behaviour rather than behavior. I just wanted to prove to everyone how worldly I am… or not. I’ve actually never been to the United Kingdom despite Scottish and British heritage on my Mum’s side of the family. (See that? I did it again!) Ok, humour aside…
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Analytics & Testing
Stirista Powers Its New Identity Graph with Real-Time Data
Consumers make purchases at an online store from your home computer, visit a product page at another site on a tablet, use a smartphone to post about it on social media and then go out and physically buy a related product at the nearby shopping center. Every one of these encounters helps to develop a complete user profile, but they…
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Content Marketing
10 Ways to Ensure Content Marketing Success
Ready to give your content marketing efforts a boost? It takes some time and forethought to make your content work for you, but with a little planning, it’s more than possible. Here’s a checklist for you to follow to take your already awesome content to the next level. 1. Be Purposeful Before you even get started with your content marketing…
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Advertising Technology
Predictive Bidding and AI’s Role in Transforming the Programmatic Ecosystem
The programmatic advertising industry is experiencing a rapid blooming time: new companies are entering the market, technologies are snowballing, and powerful transformations are in the air. All of this is incredibly complicating the advertising ecosystems, creating conditions for increased fraud and waste. This is where trending solutions that use machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) models to predict rates…
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
How to Sell to Executives: A Comprehensive Guide
Selling to executives presents a unique set of challenges and opportunities. Senior leaders are tasked with steering their organizations through unprecedented change while maintaining growth and profitability. They understand their business challenges intimately but may not have the time or inclination to delve into technical details or implementation specifics. This creates a delicate balance for salespeople: they must demonstrate deep…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Could a Snap Be The Next Step In Your Buyer’s Journey?
In many ways, this all depends on who your customer is and what their journey is. Everyone knows about Snapchat at this point, right? Anyone still in the dark on this one? If so, here’s all you need to know… It’s one of the most popular social networks among 16 – 25 year olds, it’s worth a rumored $5 Billion,…
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Marketing Infographics
The Economics of Going Viral
I’m not a fan of companies risking it all on trying to go viral… most can’t get the formula down and risk too much. That doesn’t mean you can’t capitalize on the huge growth in viral videos, though. One HUGE statistic on this infographic from Masters in Marketing, The Economics of Going Viral, stands out… the advertising. Purchase consideration/intent increases…
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Content Marketing
How To Repurpose Content Effectively
Most marketers understand the value of high-quality content, but fewer consistently maximize its value through effective repurposing. Repurposing content is the practice of taking an existing asset and transforming it into multiple formats, experiences, and channels to reach broader audiences and drive stronger results over time. With so much competition for attention across platforms, repurposing is no longer optional. It…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Email Preference Center and Unsubscribe Pages: Using Roles vs. Publications
We’ve been working with a national non-profit on a complex Salesforce and Marketing Cloud migration and implementation. Early on in our discovery, we pointed out some key issues regarding their preferences, which were very operations-based. When the company designs a campaign, it creates a list of recipients outside its email marketing platform, uploads it as a new list, designs the…
