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With Mailbox, I Might Make Inbox Zero
When I hear professionals like Michael Reynolds of Spinweb discuss Inbox Zero (reaching a point where you have no emails in your inbox), I quietly snicker and mumble “Your mother is a hampster, and your father smelt of elderberries!”. My inbox has over 3,000 messages. A couple months ago it was over 20,000 messages until I accidentally deleted 17,000. I…
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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…
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Closing Data Gaps Across Different Domains In Financial Services
Targeted advertising and marketing in financial services generates a huge payoff. That payoff can be exponentially increased by six to seven times through personalized messages offered in real-time through contextualized data. These benefits are built on the foundations of real-time customer listening through data collection and identity resolution, making real-time customer data platforms (CDPs) a vital component to driving revenue…
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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…
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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 –…
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Social Influencers
I think too many marketers look at social influence as if it’s some kind of new phenomena. I don’t believe it is. In the early days of television, we used the newscaster or the actor to pitch items to the audience. The three networks owned the audience and there was trust and authority established… so the commercial advertising industry was…
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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.…
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How Does Google Analytics Collect All Of That Data?
Google Analytics 4 (GA4) has revolutionized how businesses collect and analyze data. By utilizing a sophisticated tracking pixel and integrating with Google’s vast data ecosystem, GA4 offers unparalleled insights into user behavior. This integration allows for cross-device tracking, providing a seamless view of the customer journey from initial interaction to conversion. GA4’s event-based data model offers flexibility in tracking custom…
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Gleam: Marketing Apps Designed To Grow Your Business
A friend of mine said that he believes marketing is a job where you make people who don’t want to buy something buy it. Ouch… I respectfully disagreed. I believe that marketing is the art and science of pushing and pulling consumers and businesses through the purchase cycle. Sometimes marketing requires amazing content, sometimes it’s an unbelievable offer… and sometimes…
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Signal: Grow with Email, Text, Social and Sweepstakes
BrightTag, a cloud-based marketing platform for Internet retailers, has purchased Signal. Signal is a centralized marketing hub for cross channel marketing via email, SMS and social media. Signal features include: Email newsletters – pre-built, mobile-optimized email templates to use or create your own. Text messaging – launch an effective program and be compliant with mobile carrier requirements. Social media publishing…
