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Content Marketing
Happy 500th Post to You!
Thanks to all of you for reading my blog and keeping me going. This is my 500th blog post and there's so much to celebrate!
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Content Marketing
Tips to Writing Whitepapers that Drive Sales
Each week, I download whitepapers and read them. Ultimately, the power of a whitepaper is measured, not in the number of downloads, but the subsequent revenue you’ve attained from publishing it. Some whitepapers are better than others and I wanted to share my opinions of what I believe makes a great whitepaper. The whitepaper answers a complex issue with details…
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Content Marketing
Is Your Marketing Illegal?
Attorney David Castor, an attorney firm specializing in startups and SaaS businesses, emailed me over the weekend with the news that the FTC has settled with its first victim of new disclosure laws. As part of the proposed settlement (PDF), PR firm Reverb Communications and owner Tracie Snitker must remove any iTunes reviews that were written by Reverb employees posing…
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Analytics & Testing
How to Score the Winning Goal in the E-Commerce Game
While in the World Cup there can only one winner, many companies can experience success in the game of e-Commerce. There are proven tactics that have helped retailers score. Baynote shows you how to field the best players and a create a dynamic game plan so that your e-Commerce business can bring home a win. Before the season starts, teams…
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E-commerce and Retail
Holiday Marketing Tips for Retail and Ecommerce
It’s no surprise that 78% of shoppers will be researching their next purchase online, but what is a surprise how many retailers and e-commerce companies are leaving their online presence out of the equation. One of those missing elements is Pinterest – the leading social network for gift inspiration. In the last 15 years, 75% of retail growth has been…
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Content Marketing
Do Search Engines Care If You Use Drupal?
How much do Content Management Systems (CMS), like WordPress, Drupal, Joomla!, play a part in search engine optimization (SEO)? Certainly bad site design (not clean urls, bad content, poor use of domain names, etc) in a CMS like Drupal is going to affect SEO (great tools used in a bad way idea). But do content management systems themselves lend to…
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Content Marketing
Ways to Target Your Website Traffic
We’re behind on customization of our mobile and iPad versions of the new theme on Martech… it’s in the works, though! One thing you will notice is that, based on the categorization of the post, we have different advertisements on the page. We did this by customizing our own dynamic widgets and utilizing iSocket for self-service placement of the ads.…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
4 Tips For Businesses To Better “Socialize” On Social Media
If you’re reading Martech Zone, chances are someone has clued you in already to the fact that it’s going to be more critical than ever to get your business social this year. A recent survey revealed that 40% of small to midsized business decision-makers plan to use social media in 2012. GrowBiz Media I recently heard a guest on Business…
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Content Marketing
Will Your Branded Content Idea Work? 5 Ways to Know
Branded content is not one size fits all. What works for one brand may not work for all, and it’s good to know if your content idea is likely to work before you pour resources into executing it. Column Five has come up with 5 questions you can ask yourself and your team to see if your brilliant ideas will translate from the…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Unlocking the Full Potential of Your Product With Customer Innovation
Many years ago, I was a product manager over the API of an enterprise marketing platform. I sought feedback from customer service, developers, sales, marketing… and most importantly… our customers. While many people utilized our UI for the tasks that we focused on, I was almost always stunned at how innovative customers incorporated some amazing features. Specific to email, here…
