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The Blurry Lines of Marketing Return on Investment
Yesterday, I did a session at Social Media Marketing World called How to Shift From Growing Followers to Producing Results With Social Media. I’m often a contrarian to the advice that’s continually pushed in this industry… even leaning a bit on the controversial. The genuine premise is that businesses continue to look for fan and follower growth in social media…
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VisualVisitor: Identify Anonymous Website Consumer and Business Website Visitors
Are you missing out on valuable leads hiding within your website traffic? Many businesses struggle to identify their anonymous website visitors, hindering their ability to nurture and convert them into customers effectively. Visual Visitor offers a solution to this challenge, providing a powerful platform that unveils the identity of those anonymous visitors and empowers businesses to turn them into qualified…
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The Hidden World of Data Brokers: What Marketers Need to Know
Consumer privacy concerns have reached unprecedented levels as the shadows of data misuse and breaches loom large. From unauthorized data sharing to aggressive targeted advertising, consumers are increasingly wary of how their personal information is collected, traded, and exploited. This heightened awareness has sparked a privacy-first movement, with consumers actively deploying data removal tools to scrub their digital footprints from…
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AI Is Changing How Marketers Train Their Teams—Here’s What They Need To Know
As AI impacts marketing, it’s also redefining what human expertise needs to look like in this landscape. Brand marketers now have a unique responsibility: balancing AI-driven efficiency with the irreplaceable qualities that only people can bring. This shift is no longer a distant concern; a recent report by MIT suggests that while AI systems can improve productivity, their potential risks…
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How to Use Google Analytics to Improve Your Marketing Efforts
Sometimes I think they should change the name of analytics to questionalytics because analytics doesn’t ever seem to provide the analysis you’re looking for… it often generates more questions. If you don’t understand the data behind the filters, segments, and charts – you may be making some terrible assumptions based on how you pull specific reports. Case in point, the…
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Super Festive Facebook Holiday Contest Ideas
ShortStack analyzed more than 50,000 active Facebook Pages and 300,000 custom Facebook Page apps that serve more than 1.4 billion Facebook fans, and among the things they discovered: Engagement in December increased by as much as 66 percent on custom Facebook Page apps! Other data they uncovered about brands using Facebook Page apps during December: Brands see a 66% increase in contest submissions Brands…
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The New Blueprint For Social Media Marketing Strategies in 2025
Social media has undergone a seismic shift in the last decade. What began as an open, democratic environment where brands could authentically engage with their audiences has transformed into a complex, often expensive landscape dominated by algorithms, advertising, AI-driven content, and competitive bidding. For today’s businesses, especially those seeking to drive tangible results throughout the entire customer journey, rethinking their…
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Inbound Brew: Run Your Inbound Marketing Strategies Directly from WordPress
The number of solutions and complexity of integrated partners that extend WordPress is pretty amazing. Inbound Brew is a full-service digital marketing, web development, and software development firm, that helped small businesses utilize content marketing to drive engagement and leads. They’ve now published an inbound marketing plugin that provides all the tools necessary to do this – directly from WordPress! The plugin…
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Judge Name Ideas From Audience’s Perspective
When judging naming ideas, keep in mind the real world experience, not the pseudo-experience of creative presentations. Here’s the thing, when you say or show a name idea to someone with the intention of getting her buy-in or feedback, she doesn’t have the same experience that the consumer in the field will have. When you present the name ideas, your…
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ACTIVE Network and Viralstyle: Participant Management and Merchandising
ACTIVE Network annually processes nearly 100 million registrations and more than $3B in payments for over 47,000 organizers and 200,000 activities and events. ACTIVE Network® is the leading global marketplace for activities and events, connecting participants and activity organizers, while offering unparalleled business intelligence through our industry-leading data solutions and insights platform that helps organizers drive increased participation and revenue.…
