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Email Marketing & Automation
Seven Steps to Supercharge Your Holiday Marketing Campaign
The holidays are here, and with them comes a golden opportunity for brands to shine. Q4 is a pivotal time for businesses, as consumers are actively hunting for gifts and’ll either land on your products or someone else’s. 84% of consumers said they found ads helpful during holiday shopping, and 43% said they plan to shop more this year than…
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Artificial Intelligence
Common Mistakes When Integrating a Voice API for Developers and How to Avoid Them
I’ve been in the trenches with voice tech for years now, and let me tell you – implementing a voice API for developers can be a real headache if you don’t know what you’re getting into. After watching countless projects go sideways (including a few of my own), I thought I’d share some hard-earned wisdom about the pitfalls that seem to…
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Advertising Technology
Wayin Launches Lightning Fast Mobile Social Stories
Digital advertising has reached a tipping point. 50% of adults actively avoid ads on mobile and desktop and another 47% actively avoid in-app ads. These are the numbers driving Wayin’s tool, Social Stories, an important tool for brand marketers and advertisers. Today, if users on Instagram click or swipe up on a Sponsored Story, it often takes a full five seconds…
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Content Marketing
Why Inbound Marketers Use Infographics
We’ve shared many infographics on Martech and developed many of our own infographics for the blog, its sponsors and for our other clients. This infographic from Performancing touches on why inbound marketing companies utilize infographic… including that they are versatile, linkworthy, and controllable. That’s not all, though. As we develop infographics we’re not just looking to build linkbait. We find…
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Event Marketing
Localist: Publish, Manage and Promote Your Events Online
Marketers are using events more than ever, and the impact is obvious. In fact, marketers rank tradeshows and events as their second most effective tactic after the company website Events help to bring in new leads, convert interested prospects to customers, and better explain a product or service in real-time. However, many marketers struggle to not only leverage events in an…
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Customer Data Platforms
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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E-commerce and Retail
Choice Overload: The Case for Smarter, Not Fewer, Options
Starbucks made headlines recently by announcing a significant reduction in its menu, cutting approximately 30% of its offerings by the end of the year as part of CEO Kevin Johnson’s Back to Starbucks strategy to streamline operations and enhance the customer experience. This bold move, aimed at reducing wait times and simplifying choices for both baristas and customers, underscores a growing trend among…
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Content Marketing
Should Your Business Be On Pinterest?
This decision tree from Zoom Creates Blogs is a great tool for businesses to decide whether or not they have the resources and should invest the time and energy in building a Pinterest strategy. It’s a beautiful infographic and very practical. If your business decides not to develop its own Pinterest strategy, though, it doesn’t mean you can’t piggyback on…
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E-commerce and Retail
Free Shipping versus Discounting
I’m not so sure you can equate these two strategies of customer enticement. It seems to me that discounting is a great means of getting someone to your e-commerce site, but free shipping may be the way to increase conversion rates. I’m also curious how loyal bargain shoppers are. If you steeply discount, do folks some day return and purchase…
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Content Marketing
Why do great employees leave? Why must great companies still recruit?
Over the last decade, I have had the pleasure of working for several companies. The company that I measure most to is Landmark Communications. The Corporate Staff at Landmark empowered employees to develop themselves as much or as little as they would like. The company did so without fear of the investment that they would make in employees that may…
