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Email Marketing & Automation
What Makes People Click… 72% More?
Dr. Todd’s, an e-commerce site for quality foot care products, turned to SmallBox for a custom web marketing package. One key component of Dr. Todd’s marketing mix is email marketing. We created a new content strategy, a fresh design and mapped out an editorial calendar. We’ve analyzed one of Dr. Todd’s promotional emails to show what makes people click and…
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Analytics & Testing
Water Torture – An Analytics Analogy Goes a Bridge Too Far
Data, like water, comes in many forms. The human mind has evolved to filter out most of the data that comes our way because there’s simply so much of it. When you open your eyes and ears, data is everywhere. The color of the wall, the sound of the air conditioning and the smell of your neighbor’s coffee are treated…
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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…
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Marketing Infographics
Top 20 Marketing Automation Solutions
Marketing automation is becoming a conversation we’re having with clients more and more each week. Today we discussed HubSpot (used by a customer), Act-On (which we implemented for two of our customers) and Optify with a client and I was just talking to the team last week about their success. It’s important to note that there’s really not one marketing…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Responsys Launches Interact Preference
As large marketing technology companies merge and acquire other applications into their product mix, there’s often a gap in the ability for the customer to set communication preferences. If you want email, you go to one site, if you want mobile alerts, another… if it’s SMS still another. According to Forrester, 77% of consumers want to be able to decide…
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E-commerce and Retail
The Top 5 Things that Kill Customer Loyalty
A story that I often share with companies is that I worked for a company that grew from a few employees to a purchase of billions of dollars – and the user experience was terrible. Sure, there were aspects of the system that were a competitive advantage… but for the most part, it was a nightmare. What grew the company…
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Content Marketing
Overfuel: Dominate Local Search With Your Used Car Dealership and Unlock 49% More Leads
In the automotive landscape, used-car dealerships face unprecedented challenges. With over 70% of car research happening on mobile devices and consumers visiting just 1-2 dealerships before making a purchase, having a solid online presence is no longer optional – a superior digital customer experience (CX) is essential for survival. Until now, dealerships have struggled with slow websites, disconnected tools, and…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Consumer vs Business Behavior in Social Media
SurveyMonkey surveyed decision-makers in U.S. businesses with less than 1,000 employees and consumers to understand their use of social media, particularly Facebook, to interact. A SurveyMonkey online survey was used to collect and analyze the data, and the results were published: Marketing in a Digital World SMB & Consumer Survey Results, 2011. In total, 1180 small and medium-sized business (SMB)…
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Marketing Infographics
Google+ for Business
Kudos to our friend and social media mentor, Chris Brogan, on this incredibly robust infographic on why and how businesses should be using Google+ to advance their online marketing. Key for our clients has been the deep search integration. I think it would have been great if the infographic also spoke to the Authorship advantages! That’s where we’re currently seeing…
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Content Marketing
When Should You Be Redesigning Your Logo?
The team from Clear Designs have published this beautiful infographic with some thoughts around what you need to know about logo redesign, reasons why you should redesign, some do’s and don’ts of redesign, some logo redesign mistakes, and some feedback from industry experts. Three Four Reasons to Redesign Your Logo Company Merger – mergers, acquisitions, or company spin-offs will often…
