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The Importance of Intent and Placement With Reach
Reach is often a metric that attracts marketers because they strive to reach as many people as possible, hoping to maximize their brand’s exposure and potential customer base. However, focusing solely on reach can be misleading, as it fails to consider two crucial factors: placement and intent. Let’s explore the significance of these factors and how they impact the effectiveness…
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Dummies: A Reference for the Rest of Us!
Last week there was an Indy Christian Geeks lunch at my favorite coffee shop. During lunch, I had a special gift delivered from the good folks at Wiley Publishing (also here in Indianapolis!). The guys had some fun… snapping some photos and uploading them to Twitter within minutes with great titles like, The Secret is Out! Kidding aside, Wiley has…
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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…
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The Four Universal Truths of Marketing: Based on First Principles
First principles thinking is a problem-solving approach that breaks complex issues into their most basic, undeniable truths, free from assumptions or conventional wisdom. Popularized by thinkers like Aristotle and later applied by innovators like Elon Musk, it involves questioning established practices and rebuilding solutions from the ground up. In marketing, first principles mean moving beyond trendy tactics or outdated playbooks…
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Corporate Blogging: The Infographic
It was great bumping into John Uhri of Red Bit Blue Bit at Blog Indiana, this year. John does a really cool thing – rather than writing typical notes during discussions; he draws creative informational graphics (an infographic). So, here’s a great infographic of Corporate Blogging for Dummies he did after reading through the book. Thanks, John! It’s great to…
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Meltwater Buzz Updates: Curation, Value and Authority
People often ask me how in the world we’re able to find and write about so many marketing technologies out there. It is true that we get pitched quite a bit by public relations professionals, but Martech Zone isn’t a news site – we’re a site to help marketers find technology they can leverage. Many of the tools we share…
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The Most Important Skill Salespeople Need to Learn
My wife finally had a chance to replace her 8-year-old laptop, which was starting to function more like a Brother word processor from the late 80s, only not as fast. It was a Dell with 512 MB RAM, and a 80 MB RAM hard drive. It was slow, unstable, and the crank-up handle had snapped off the front. She ended…
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3 Essential Requirements for any Web Application
More and more, I find myself asking vendors and companies the same questions over and over. If you’re thinking about developing your own application, these are 3 features that need to be integrated from day one in your application if you wish to conserve resources later. Does your application… Have an API? It doesn’t need to be special or a…
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Top 7 AI Automation Testing Tools in 2025
Software testing isn’t what it used to be. With the explosion of complex web applications and continuous delivery cycles, traditional testing methods are buckling under pressure. Manual testing struggles to keep pace with fast-changing codebases, and QA teams often face poor test coverage, missed defects, and inconsistent release quality. In 2025, the shift toward intelligent automation is no longer optional…
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4 Seconds or Bust
Remember the days of going to bed with your modem humming along downloading pages so you could view them the next morning? I guess those days are far behind us. John Chow posted a note on this study put out by Jupiter that states that most online shoppers will bail out if your page doesn’t load in 4 seconds or…
