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Content Marketing
We’re a Top 10 Social Media Blog!
It’s always amazing to be recognized by your peers – but today really takes it up a notch! Michael Stelzner’s Social Media Examiner blog is, by far, one of the most popular, well-branded and well-managed social media blogs on the Internet. Not only does he have great content and incredible events… he’s also selfless in promoting others. Today, my publication…
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Email Marketing & Automation
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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Content Marketing
Corporate Blogging: The Infographic
It was great bumping into John Uhri of Red Bit Blue Bit at Blog Indiana, this year. John does a really cool thing – rather than writing typical notes during discussions; he draws creative informational graphics (an infographic). So, here’s a great infographic of Corporate Blogging for Dummies he did after reading through the book. Thanks, John! It’s great to…
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Content Marketing
How I Raised a Hullabaloo! aka Cheated…
My closest friends know how much I don’t like popularity contests. They seem to pop up all over the Internet, they waste a lot of time, and they aren’t too productive. C’mon – Ashton Kutcher has one of the biggest followings on Twitter. The only thing I remember him doing (besides Demi Moore) is “Dude, Where’s my Car?”. PS: The…
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E-commerce and Retail
Back to the Sizzle: How E-Commerce Marketers Can Use Creative To Maximize Returns
Apple’s privacy updates have fundamentally changed how e-commerce marketers do their jobs. In the months since the update was released, only a small percentage of iOS users have opted into ad tracking. According to the latest June update, some 26% of global app users allowed apps to track them on Apple devices. This figure was much lower in the US…
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Email Marketing & Automation
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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Artificial Intelligence
How Marketers Can Use IVAs to Boost CX to Build Customer Loyalty in 2025
Think about the steps you take before making a purchase decision. What insights from other customers do you examine? Maybe you will make it a habit to read customer reviews. Or perhaps you rely on the number of stars or the customer ratings, which is easy to do—after all, for so many online retailers, the customer rating info appears above…
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Content Marketing
You Don’t Need an SEO Expert!
There… I said it! I said it because I see all of the money spent on search engine optimization by small to mid-size businesses and I think it’s a racket. Here’s my view of the search engine optimization industry: The majority of Search Engine Optimization falls within writing great content, attracting authoritative backlinks to that content and following a few…
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Content Marketing
Stepping into Cross Media Optimization
There were quite a few sessions at the Webtrends Engage 2009 Conference that spoke to the power of data integration and its positive impact on business results. Many companies start with an enormous datamart design and then move backwards – trying to make everything fit into their data model. It’s a flawed process since processes continuously change… you’ll never successfully…
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Marketing Tools
Stop Building Crappy Software – Integrated Software Still Wins
Here is something internal CIO’s and your internal tech teams don’t want you to know: the 18-month software implementation that just cost you $500K – $1MM could be done a hell of a lot cheaper…and should be. They are building job security because most C-level leaders and marketers don’t understand how technology can and should work. As marketers, we all…
