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AT&T: The Next AIG?
Almost every day I get home, I get a beautiful piece of direct mail from AT&T about U-Verse. They’ve sold me. I want it. I want a big ‘ol fat package with increased download speeds, the advanced ability to control my television programming, the DVR… I want it all. But I can’t have it. Following the instructions on one of…
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Set Expectations with an Acceptance Agreement
1.webp” alt=”handshake” title=”handshake” width=”200″ height=”133″ class=”alignright size-full tie-image3686″ />As a marketer, you’re probably relying on a lot of third party applications and resources to bring your campaigns to life. I’ve written before about how setting expectations with your customers drives customer satisfaction… there’s also a way that you can help drive your own satisfaction – build an acceptance agreement to…
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Flot AI: The AI That Remembers, Writes, and Works Wherever You Do
If you’re a business owner, marketer, or salesperson, you know the real productivity killer isn’t just too much work—it’s scattered work. You’re jumping between emails, documents, CRM systems, marketing tools, Slack messages, and web research. Half your day is spent switching tabs, rewriting the same message, or trying to remember where you saved that great idea or insight. Flot AI…
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When and How to Hire Developers for Complex Marketing Technology Integrations
Marketing tech stacks have grown significantly more complex and must accommodate a number of tools for seamless customer journeys. Demand for extremely skilled developer resources to perform these integrations is off the charts. The answer is nearshoring. What is Nearshoring? Nearshoring is the practice of outsourcing business or development tasks to companies or teams in nearby countries, offering geographical proximity,…
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Marketing Projects versus Processes
Many of our clients require a bit of re-education when we onboard them. They’re used to working with their marketing vendors like they shop for groceries. They want to itemize, price and checkout. We’ve done marketing projects in the past and we really shy away from them now. Unless we can price a project to accomodate several iterations, we typically…
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Google Facts – Organic and Paid Search
Whether you appreciate them or not, Google owns the playground that marketers must be working in. Whether it’s paid advertising with Google or organic placement in the search engine, you might be underestimating the reach of Google. This infographic from Wordstream puts it all into perspective. From Wordstream’s Google Facts Infographic: Our research for the infographic included over 2,600 AdWords…
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25 Awesome Content Marketing Tools
We recently shared 25 Awesome Social Media Marketing Tools from the 2013 Social Media Strategies Summit. This is not a comprehensive list, just some tools that you can use to augment your brand’s content marketing strategy, including stand-out examples of five tools across five categories of content marketing: Curation – These tools help in the process of discovering and gathering…
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Tracx: Gain Insights, Grow Engagement, and Measure Impact With Your Social Enterprise
Enterprise corporations continue to unlock the potential of social media. Monitoring reputation, soliciting customer feedback, providing word-of-mouth marketing, promoting content and offers, educating and nurturing prospects and customers. Social media offers it all – acquisition, upsell, and retention. The velocity of information and the logic utilized to delegate social strategies in the enterprise requires a platform to monitor, measure and…
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What Measures Marketers Need to Take to Succeed Online
The 21st century has the seen the emergence of so many technologies that enable us to successfully market businesses in a more integrated and impactful way compared to the past. From blogs, e-commerce stores, online marketplaces to social media channels, the web has become a public arena of information for customers to search and consume. For the first time, the…
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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…
