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Customer Data Platforms
CrankWheel: Bypass Scheduling and Downloads With Instant Browser-Based Demos
Every interaction that’s required between a prospect with an intent to make a purchase and the ability for your sales team to help them convert is likely to reduce the chances of conversion. That includes time to respond, number of clicks, number of screens, number of form elements… everything. The sales professionals that I know just want to get in…
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Marketing Infographics
How Advocates Drive More Instagram Activity than Influencers
By 2019, spending on #Instagram Influencers is expected to reach $2.3 billion That’s an incredible amount, but points directly to the power of a visual program that’s widely adopted in influencing purchase decisions. In fact, a whopping 72% of Instagram users report to making a purchase decision based on images shared on the platform Instagram side note… you can follow me @dknewmedia!…
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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…
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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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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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E-commerce and Retail
Is Vine the Diamond in the Rough of Social Commerce?
While I was at the IRCE, I was pretty excited when one speaker, Danny Gavin, stopped me and told me he had seen me speak years ago at an event in Austin. Danny is one of the Internet’s top marketers… developing cutting-edge Internet marketing and social media campaigns for Brian Gavin Diamonds. With his expertise, he’s helped to propel BGD…
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Content Marketing
B2B Marketers Find Success With Content Marketing
Every year, the amount of money invested in content marketing strategies seems to be on the rise. Specifically, B2B content marketers seek to gain brand awareness, lead generation, customer acquisition and loyalty, website traffic, and sales through their content creations. As marketers get more savvy with the strategies they use to distribute their content, which tactics, platforms, and trends are…
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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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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…
