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Analytics & Testing
Google Analytics: Content Grouping for Content Performance Analysis
This feature in Google Analytics may be one of the biggest and most helpful that they’ve released in a long time! As we produce content for clients, we’re always aggregating stats at a topical level to understand what contnet performs well with visits and conversions. We’ve actually mimicked this reporting behavior for clients by creating multiple accounts and adding segmented…
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Customer Data Platforms
How to Perform Search and Replace in a MySQL Field: A Guide Using wp_posts
Performing search and replace operations in a MySQL database is essential for website administrators. In these examples, we’ll apply these to a WordPress database. The wp_posts table, which stores all posts, pages, and custom post types, often requires modifications when updating URLs, correcting typos, or changing specific text. This guide covers various ways to search and replace within a MySQL…
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Content Marketing
Podcast in a Box™ Solves Remote Recording Challenges for Marketing Teams
The Problem: Why Most Marketing Podcasts Fail Podcasts have become a powerful way for brands to build authority and connect with audiences on a deeper level. Marketing teams understand this, which explains why so many companies launch podcasts with enthusiasm and big plans. Yet the marketing podcast graveyard continues to grow. A quick glance at industry research reveals most podcasts…
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Content Marketing
Speaking Your Audience’s Language
It’s only fitting that I write a post about communication sitting in a conference room in France. Last night we had dinner scheduled for 8 PM with a company at Le Procope, the oldest restaurant in Paris (est 1686). We were excited – this restaurant had patrons like Danton, Voltaire, John Paul Jones, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson. We’ve been…
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Marketing Infographics
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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Marketing Infographics
What Works in Mobile Rich Media Advertising?
Mobile growth is unrelenting and indisputable. However, within the realm of mobile marketing strategies, the wave of high bandwidth smartphones are bringing some lucrative results when it comes to rich media advertising. This infographic from Celtra reflects engagement data from nearly 60 handset and tablet campaigns across 4 industries: entertainment, retail, finance and auto. Key metrics include: Engagement rates, expand…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
GaggleAMP: Transform Your Team into Social Media Marketing Masters With This Advocacy Platform
Organizations struggle to cut through the noise and effectively reach their target audience. With paid social media costs skyrocketing and organic reach declining, companies seek innovative ways to amplify their message and build authentic connections with potential customers. GaggleAMP GaggleAMP is a comprehensive employee advocacy platform that empowers organizations to harness their workforce’s social media presence for maximum brand impact,…
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Analytics & Testing
Track Multiple Authors with Google Analytics
On a multiple author site, each author can post in a multitude of categories, it’s nearly impossible to identify each author’s contributions to the overall strategy of the site. I was doing some testing with this recently and identified a nice simple way of measuring traffic by each author. Google Analytics has the ability to track additional virtual pages. This…
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Marketing Infographics
How are Marketers Like You Selecting a Marketing Automation Provider?
We’ve written about the loose understandings surrounding what marketing automation is, and shared some of the B2B challenges in the marketing automation industry. This infographic from Marketo, who teamed up with Software Advice, shared this infographic on where they combined the results of hundreds of companies to determine what drives organizations to purchase marketing automation systems. Did you know that…
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Content Marketing
The Focus of Your Content May Be Hurting Your Marketing Strategy
As part of an overall search strategy, we used to have companies focus on recent, frequent, and relevant content driven by keywords that could increase organic ranking and conversions. Writing numerous short articles is one of those bits of advice that we’ve abandoned in recent years. There are a few reasons why: Deep content – search engines rank by the…
