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- Customer Data Platforms
Top 5 Tips for Survey Greatness
There is a simple truth presented by the Internet era: Soliciting feedback and gaining insight into your customer base and target market is easy. This can be a wonderful fact or a fear-inducing one, depending on who you are and what you’re looking for feedback about, but if you’re in the market to connect with your base to get their…
- Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
Haptic Feedback: The Evolution of Touchscreens
If you’ve not heard of Haptic technologies, you will. Over a decade ago, researchers at MIT started developing devices that provide direct stimulation for people to feel virtual objects. In the last decade, the technology has begun to make it’s way onto touchscreens. Last year, Immersion demo’d a touchscreen at CES that provided haptic feedback. By adjusting the frequency and…
- 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 and Marketing Training
The MarTech Optimization Playbook for Modern CMOs
Marketing technology (MarTech) is the marketing strategy of today’s leading companies. It’s the right move. MarTech has seen a significant jump in popularity as expansive data availability, new digital tools, and advanced analytics empower businesses to optimize customer engagement and drive targeted marketing strategies. However, many companies are significantly underutilizing the MarTech stacks. Even as they invest heavily in the…
- 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…
- Marketing Infographics
How Leads are Generated through Marketing Automation
We’ve written in-depth about marketing automation strategies, what features are critical, and the challenges with executing those strategies to drive leads. The goal of marketing automation is to bridge a critical gap between sales and marketing, ultimately driving great leads to the sales department at the right time. This helps to improve the lead quality as well as reduce the…
- 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…
- Analytics & Testing
Tellagence: Social Marketing Intelligence
Marketers tend to treat social media as they would other traditional media. Find where the most eyeballs are and chase them. The difference is huge, though. Within social networks, there are three activities: Observation – an audience that simply follows and captures the information for their own personal use. Interaction – a community that responds and provides feedback to the…
- Marketing Infographics
Responsive Web Design
Ok, I’m old so I can remember this but you guys may not be able to. Do you remember when we used to be able to fix cars? A good Sears toolset and we were good to go… just needed some rags and some muscle and you could just about fix any problem with a car. Not anymore. I barely…
- Content Marketing
5PM: Full-featured Project Management SaaS
One of the challenges with having an out-sourced or offshore development team is simply trying to track and prioritize your work. I work with no less than three outsourced resources, one of them offshore. It seems when you split the workday between time zones, you naturally introduce a delay to everything you do. I got some press when I canceled…
