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- Content Marketing
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…
- E-commerce and Retail
ReferralCandy: A Complete E-commerce Referral Platform You Can Launch In Minutes
For the last few weeks, we’ve been sharing our successful launch of our client’s site where you can buy dresses online. One strategy we wanted to deploy was building out a referral program for customers, affiliate marketers, and influencers. Some of our needs: We wanted to have it work with Shopify so that we could include a discount for the…
- 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.…
- Marketing Infographics
Your B2B Sales Strategy Hasn’t Adjusted to the Buyer’s Journey
Alright… this is going to sting a little, especially to my friends in sales: Sales teams are struggling to engage with customers and meet their targets leading to a loss in sales productivity. The customer is increasingly difficult to reach, leading to sales productivity metrics dropping of a cliff. When sales reps finally speak with their target, they are viewed…
- 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…
- Content Marketing
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…
- Content Marketing
Self-Service and Search Engines
One means of improving customer retention and overall customer satisfaction is to produce content that helps customers help themselves. Not only are there improvements to customer satisfaction, there’s a direct cost-savings associated with customers not tying up your customer services lines. Publishing your knowledge base, frequently-asked questions, snippets and examples where search engines can find them makes this possible –…
- Content Marketing
WordPress .htaccess Rules Have Exceptions, Too
WordPress made a major evolutionary step forward in the blogging platform, moving it closer to a full-fledged content management system with revision tracking, more support for custom menus, and–the most intriguing feature for me–multi-site support with domain mapping. If you are not a content management system junkie, it’s okay. You can skip right past this article. But for my fellow…
- Email Marketing & Automation
No, Email Is NOT Dead!
I noticed this tweet from Chuck Gose yesterday. It referenced an article on the New York Times website called Email: Press Delete. Every so often, we all see these types of articles that make the cry that email is dead! and suggest that we should look at the habits of the younger generation to see how we will communicate in…
- Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Heartbeat: Reach Over 150,000 Passionate Female Millennial Consumers
Brands today are spending $36 billion on social channels to engage and acquire new millennial consumers using Influencer-style campaigns with celebrity names. However; engagement and conversions are low because millennial women trust and engage more with friends’ recommendations exclusively when choosing between one product or service and another. Heartbeat is a platform for millennial women to promote brands within their…
