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- Marketing Infographics
Customer Service in Social Media
In our social media engagements, our first priority with companies we work with is to ensure their business is fully prepared for engaging prospects and customers online. While the companies may see social media as a potential marketing opportunity, they don’t realize that people online don’t care what their purpose is… they only care that there’s an opportunity to speak…
- Analytics & Testing
Three Apps You Need to Run Your E-commerce Business Efficiently
There are so many e-commerce retailers out there – and you’re one of them. You are in it for the long haul. As such, you need to be able to compete with the best of the hundreds of thousands of online stores currently on the Internet today. But how do you do that? You need to make sure your website…
- Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
WiFi in Cars? The Auto Industry Doesn’t Understand Me
One of the luxuries I do enjoy in life is a beautiful car. I don’t go on expensive vacations, I live in a blue-collar neighborhood, and I don’t have expensive hobbies… so my car is my treat to myself. I drive a ton of miles every year and enjoy driving to any destination within a couple of days drive. My…
- Sales and Marketing Training
How to Get Started with Staff Augmentation, From First Contact to Onboarding
So, you looked through your options and decided staff augmentation is your best bet, but where do you begin? Staff augmentation might be ideal if you need extra hands to meet deadlines, add additional skills to your team, or just want to increase your team without long-term commitment. But like any new idea, getting started can feel daunting if you’re…
- Advertising Technology
Reconsidering The Open Web For Your Next Ad Campaign
The open web and walled gardens represent two distinct approaches to the digital advertising landscape. The open web encompasses the vast expanse of the internet that is freely accessible, including websites, blogs, forums, and apps outside the control of dominant platforms. It thrives on interoperability and offers advertisers diverse opportunities to reach audiences across independent publishers and platforms. In contrast,…
- Email Marketing & Automation
The Importance of a Click Whitepaper
Delivra, our client email marketing sponsor, has created a whitepaper demonstrating the importance of a click as it can be the difference between making the sale. The Importance of a Click whitepaper discusses the rationale behind every click, the tactics to improve the click rates, and some real life experiences to reveal how understanding the importance of a click will…
- Social Media & Influencer Marketing
10 Takeaways From Gary Vaynerchuk’s Speech On Customer Retention and the ROI of Social Media
I’m not sure I’ve heard a speech that more closely matched the way we work with our customers. Like many of the other folks I respect in the online marketing industry, Gary Vaynerchuk isn’t just blowing smoke with theory… he’s aggressively applied, tested, and fine-tuned his approaches to online marketing – and succeeded. This is a matter-of-fact style speech (warning:…
- Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
A Unique Business Card… er Chip
This afternoon, I had a great meeting with our business consultant Harry Howe and our business insurance agent, Joe Glaser. It was a great meeting because Joe and Harry are masters at dialing down all the nuances of risk and insurance into a concise meeting where they basically tell me what I should do and I trust them to get…
- Advertising Technology
PPC versus SEO: Spy vs. Spy
Does anyone remember the old Spy vs. Spy comics? Funny stuff! Each Spy always scheming to outdo the other. There is a similar business mindset today when companies are considering a search engine marketing strategy. Business’s immediately pick sides: Pay Per Click (PPC) versus Organic Search (SEO). The goal of a search marketing strategy is to generate leads or sales.…
- Marketing Infographics
Why Video Marketing Drives Sales
I believe there will be a day that the average website will have video integrated carefully into every page and nearly every post that is published. The costs of recording, publishing and distributing video content has dropped significantly, making it affordable to nearly any business. That said, you still want to impress your visitors and avoid crappy audio, mixing, recording…
