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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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Marketing Books
It’s Not Their Fault. It’s Yours
I am again in the middle of a book binge, with four on my plate right now. I picked up Small is the New Big, by Seth Godin this weekend. I’m already enjoying it, although Mr. Godin took me by surprise. Had I read more about the book, I would have noticed that the material is a compilation of his…
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Content Marketing
DivvyHQ: High Volume Content Planning and Workflow
If you’re working at an enterprise company, content planning and execution is central to your overall marketing strategy. The challenge is managing ideas, resources, assignments, and reviewing overall production status. DivvyHQ‘s platform provides all the tools necessary from ideation to execution. The platform was designed for both content and social media publishing. DivvyHQ is a cloud-based, content planning and production…
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E-commerce and Retail
Integrate Shopify Seamlessly With Your WordPress Site
We’ve been setting up quite a few WooCommerce sites for clients… and it hasn’t been easy. The WooCommerce interface is a bit clunky and additional features are mostly available through a plethora of plugins that require paid subscriptions… and more configuring. Lots and lots of configuring. If you’ve never seen Shopify, we shared a video that shows you how to…
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Artificial Intelligence
3 Keys To Building a Successful Chat Marketing Program
AI chatbots can open the door to better digital experiences and increased customer conversions. But they can also tank your customer experience. Here’s how to get it right. Today’s consumers expect businesses to deliver a personal and on-demand experience 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days of the year. Companies in every industry need to expand their…
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Randomize Your WordPress Headlines Easily
I was looking for a plugin or some code to shuffle headlines on our home page at DK New Media to have some fun and dress up the home page a bit. The problem was that I have a theme applied that has specific fields for the tag line and description of the site, and I didn’t feel like tearing…
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Advertising Technology
Hey Twitter, I Tried Ads and Here’s What Happened
I’ve read mixed reviews on Twitter Advertising. Not having used it myself, I thought it might be worth giving a shot. I’d like to attract some more folks to the Marketing Technology Twitter account and I wanted to see whether some ads would help. I guess I don’t get to find out. Hey @TwitterAds, I tried to spend money with…
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Content Marketing
Factors in Purchasing a Marketing Automation Platform
There are so many marketing automation systems out there… and many of them define themselves as marketing automation with a varying degree of actual features that support it. Still, we watch as many companies make huge mistakes in either spending far too much money, far too much time or buying the wrong solution altogether. Specific to marketing technology, we always…
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Analytics & Testing
The Visual Display of Information: Omniture vs Webtrends
We have clients that utilize both Omniture and Webtrends. Of course, if you’ve read this blog, you know that Webtrends is a client. That’s full disclosure that I may have a biased view of things… but hopefully one look at the new user interfaces developed for each version will provide you some food for thought. I’ve said before that the…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Personalization is not Automated
Direct responses via email, Facebook and Twitter are getting more and more sophisticated, allowing people to substitute strings in their messaging. Software applications make the mistake of calling this personalization. This is not personalization. This is customization, not personalization… and it must be done carefully. If it’s not, it can be deemed as insincere. If you wish to personalize a…
