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The 7 Habits of a Successful Web or Mobile Application Team
Creating a web or mobile application that achieves widespread adoption requires a strategic approach and adherence to key principles. For product managers, balancing the myriad factors that influence application development can be daunting. They must navigate a complex landscape that includes customer feedback, support issues, prospect needs, competitive pressures, innovation opportunities, and market fit. Simultaneously, they must work within the…
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The Rise of Purpose-Driven Social Marketing
You’ll often find me in some huge debates online on anything related to politics, religion and capitalism… all the red-hot buttons that most people avoid. It’s why I have personal and branded presences across social media. If you want marketing only, follow the brand. If you want me, follow me… but be careful… you get all of me. While I’m…
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Not Enough Agencies Tell Prospects to Take a Walk
One of my surprises in launching our agency 7 years ago was that I figured out the agency industry built more on relationships than it is the value of the services. I’d even go so far as to say it’s also largely contingent on benefits of the relationship as well. Has your client trusted you and have you been working…
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4 Ways You Can Use User-Generated Content to Foster Brand Loyalty
A customer-centric approach is the ultimate key to marketing success. And to stand out from the competition, businesses must implement methods encouraging client brand loyalty. When done right, it builds lasting customer relationships. Moreover, buyers believe that a specific brand fits their requirements and resonates with their values. User-generated content (UGC) is the ideal bridge between your brand’s repeat customers…
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Is Marketing Really Changing Radically?
This infographic pulls together some great results from a Accenture’s CMO Insights of 2014, but I’m afraid that it opens with a dramatic title that’s misrepresented. It states: 78% of Respondents Agree that marketing is expected to undergo radical changes over the next 5 years. Respectfully, I disagree. Marketing is evolving and digital is in the forefront of most strategies.…
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Follow Up Fred: Start Marketing Automation for Your Online Course to Win More B2B Sales
One of the most profitable ways to make money through an online course or eCourse. To get subscribers to your newsletter and to convert those leads to sales, you can offer free, live online webinars or free downloads of ebooks, white pages, or other incentives to get potential B2B customers ready to buy. Start Your Online Course Now that you’ve…
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4 Elements to Drive Lead Generation with Marketing Automation
Research from Venturebeat’s marketing automation study indicates that, aside from the differentiating the features of each platform, the biggest challenge of marketing automation for business is understanding how it fits into their organization. Perhaps that’s the issue… companies are trying to fit marketing automation rather than finding a platform that already matches their internal processes, strengths and resources. I’m weary…
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Social Media As A Crisis Management Tool
We were ahead of our time! About 5 years ago, I partnered up with Adam Small and we built a cool text alert integration with WordPress. Our hope was that crisis management folks would buy in and use it… posting alerts and driving people back to a command center built on WordPress to get their information out. 5 years later…
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WordPress: Add A Custom Class If The Post Was Published Today
I’m constantly getting requests from our clients for customizations I’ve never even considered. Recently, we had a client that wanted some custom styling for their posts published today so that they could be highlighted utilizing a custom CSS class. They wanted to incorporate the class on archive pages, search results, and single post page templates of their child theme. To…
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Seven Steps to Meet the Customer Experience Imperative and Cultivate Customers for Life
Customers will leave after a single bad experience with your company, which means customer experience (CX) is the difference between red and black in your business ledger. If you can’t differentiate by consistently delivering an amazing and effortless experience, your customers will move on to your competition. Our study, based on a survey of 1,600 global sales and marketing professionals…
