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Combining Tactics to Increase Your Email Engagement
Email has lent itself to marketing since the platform’s inception. Where “electronic mail” once mirrored postal mail in form and function, the platform’s versatility means that each message should be personal, adaptable and engaging to a variety of audiences. This year, marketers need to stop considering email technologies and tactics as standalone tools, but rather as parts of a much…
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How Your Eyes Move on a Website
For creatives, I’m sure there’s someone inside screaming at them to be different and avoid building a website that looks and acts like everyone else. From a marketing perspective, though, we’ve educated our visitors over a decade now as to what to expect on a website and how to navigate one effectively. As a user, there’s nothing quite as frustrating…
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How to Become a Mobile App Developer
I always thought that mobile browser applications would overtake mobile apps – much like SaaS applications have overtaken desktop software. However, with privacy issues, geolocation, swiping and other mobile capabilities… it looks like mobile applications are here to stay. This infographic from Schools.com spells out the demand and the process your team can take to become mobile app developers. Gartner…
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Next Generation CDN Technology is About More than just Caching
In today’s hyper-connected world, users don’t go online, they are constantly online, and marketing professionals require innovative technologies to deliver a quality customer experience. Because of this, many are already familiar with the classic services of a content delivery network (CDN), such as caching. For those who are not as familiar with CDNs, this is done by temporarily storing replicas…
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MessageGears: Mobilize Your Retail Enterprise Customer Data for Scalable Cross-Channel Marketing
Enterprise organizations have invested significant time, resources, and effort into consolidating their customer data into unified repositories such as data lakes, data warehouses, and Customer Data Platforms (CDPs). This monumental undertaking aims to create a comprehensive, 360-degree view of each customer, bringing together information from various touchpoints and interactions across the organization. The benefits of such data unification are immense.…
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14 Troubling Trends with Agencies
Since we operate our own agency assisting marketing technology companies, we know all to well the trials and tribulations of the agency industry. As a boutique agency, we have an advantage in that we can be very picky with our clients. On the other side, we often struggle because enterprise companies don’t want to balance another agency in their marketing…
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Slick Kick: A Global Multi Channel Marketing Platform
While their site announces their platform as a Marketing Automation system, I’m not sure I’d agree given a review of Slick Kick’s features. Marketing automation typically includes campaign flows and lead scoring to assist with an inbound marketing program… which Slick Kick doesn’t appear to support. But I will attest to their multi-channel marketing capabilities as you’ll see from the…
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PIPA/SOPA: How Free Content Might Kill Us
Many companies are blacking out their sites in an effort to fight the Protect IP (PIPA)/SOPA Act that’s under review here in the United States. Rather than climbing onboard the wagon and shutting down my site, I thought it would be more constructive to share my reaction with you. We have over 2,500 blog posts that promote technology that assists…
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Navigating the SaaS Pricing Labyrinth: Strategies, Structures, and Customer Value
Founders of the first large MarTech company I worked for said that SaaS was like making money in your sleep. Within a few years, they’d multiplied their development team, had a mile-long product backlog, and had competitors chipping away at their market share. Developing software solutions isn’t a set-it-and-forget-it business. If you’re not innovating and listening to customers, a competitor…
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Searchspring: Personalize Your Shopper’s Buying Experience with AI
Retailers face numerous challenges. From improving product discovery to increasing conversions and delivering personalized experiences, the pressure to meet and exceed shopper expectations is constant. As consumer behaviors evolve and technology advances, staying ahead of the curve has become more crucial than ever for online businesses. Searchspring Searchspring is an all-in-one conversion platform designed specifically for e-commerce. Combining AI-driven technology…
