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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:…
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Old Content, New Value: Why Updating Your Articles is a Must
Your work doesn’t end when an article is published. Maintaining a content library is just as crucial as creating new content. If a website has been around for years, chances are, older articles may contain outdated information, broken links, or references to products and services that no longer exist. Neglecting these issues can frustrate readers, erode credibility, and hurt search…
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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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Marketing Automation Trends, Challenges, and Success
Holger Schulze and the Everything Technology Marketing blog conducted a survey of B2B marketers in the B2B Technology Marketing Community on LinkedIn. I asked Troy Burk, CEO of Right On Interactive – a marketing automation platform that’s been identified as a leader in the industry – to provide feedback on the survey results. The survey was nicely done and provides…
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The FTC’s “Click-to-Cancel” Rule Takes Effect This Month—Is Your SaaS Business Ready?
It’s a story nearly every SaaS customer has lived through: signing up is a breeze—just a few clicks, your credit card number, and you’re in. But when you try to cancel? Suddenly, it’s like trying to escape a maze. You’re told to call a customer support line. Or open a ticket. Or worse, navigate multiple screens only to find the cancel button…
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Top 5 Ways To Accidentally Become a Spammer
The worst possible insult you can receive on the Internet is to be accused of being a spammer. Any other attack on your character doesn’t have the same staying power. Once someone thinks you’re a spammer, you’ll almost never get back on their good side. The road to spamville is one-way only. Worst of all, it’s surprisingly easy to take…
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Pirate Metrics: Actionable Analytics for Subscriptions
We live in times where it’s getting easier and easier to develop your own solutions. So much of the traditional tools on the Internet were built in a different era – where SEO, content marketing, social media, ajax, etc. didn’t even exist. But we still keep using the tools, letting visits, pageviews, bounces and exits cloud our judgment not knowing…
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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…
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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…
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Where are Retailers Spending Their Advertising Dollars?
It appears that some dramatic shifts are taking place on the retail front as it pertains to advertising. Digital technologies are offering measurable opportunities that are driving greater results – and retailers are taking note. I would not misinterpret these results as thinking it’s traditional versus digital marketing. It’s a matter of sophistication. Advertising on television, for instance, is growing in…
