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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Can I get my money back, Wikipedia?
I’m not a huge contributor to Wikipedia. However, in the past I have donated some money to the foundation and contributed content to their site. I love Wikipedia… I use it all of the time and I reference it often on my blog. Wikipedia assisted me as well – generating some hits for my site AND Wikipedia improved my overall…
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Content Marketing
Are You Investing in Promotional Items?
Last weekend I was invited by the team at Site Strategics to be on their Edge of the Web radio show and to speak to some New Media Communication students who came down from IU Kokomo to speak with us. It was a fantastic event and the students were enthusiastic and asked a ton of questions – not just about…
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Analytics & Testing
Google Launches Google Tag Manager
If you’ve ever worked on a client site and had to add conversion code from Adwords into a template but only when that template was displayed with certain criteria, you know the headaches of tagging pages! Tags are tiny bits of website code that can help provide useful insights, but they can also cause challenges. Too many tags can make…
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Analytics & Testing
Putting Your CMO in Charge of Marketing Technology Pays Off!
A new study by the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council and Tealium shows that business and marketing performance improvements are directly related to having a formal roadmap for managing digital marketing technologies and integrating the data produced from multiplying customer touchpoints. Entitled Quantify How Well You Unify, the new report explores the degree to which chief marketers are architecting digital…
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Content Marketing
The Cost of Poor Web Performance
It’s always hard to listen to someone selling their products or services tell you that you have to buy their product or service in order to make more money. With the Internet, it’s simply true, though. Fast sites, good tools, great design and a little bit of consulting can truly make or break a company online. The Cost of Poor…
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Content Marketing
Evidence Points to a Correlation Between SERP Ranking and Web Host
In late August, Matt Cutts explained that Google looks at site speed as a factor in where a website shows up on the search results page. In his Webmaster Help video, he stated: “If your site is really, really slow, we’ve said that we do use page speed in our rankings. And so all of the things being equal, yes,…
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Analytics & Testing
Matomo: The Privacy-First, Open Source Alternative to Google Analytics
Businesses struggle to balance powerful analytics capabilities with data privacy concerns. Many organizations find themselves caught between needing detailed visitor insights and maintaining compliance with data protection laws. Marketing teams need detailed insights into user behavior, while IT departments must ensure compliance with increasingly strict privacy regulations. Matomo Matomo is an open-source analytics platform that offers complete data ownership while…
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Sales and Marketing Training
Designing for SaaS Success: Why UI/UX Is Critical
Think about the last time you used a confusing or clunky platform. Did you want to return? Perhaps not. Here, we will explore why UI/UX design is vital for SaaS platforms. SaaS, or software as a service, is a delivery model for software that enables customers and users to access apps through the Internet. While UI deals with the look, UX…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Why Silence Is Sometimes the Strongest Brand Strategy in a Divisive Digital World
In a digital environment where controversy drives clicks and algorithms reward outrage, brands face increasing pressure to weigh in on every politically or culturally charged topic. Yet not every brand is equipped—or even obligated—to speak publicly in these moments. Thoughtful silence is a valid and… sometimes the strongest choice. The modern attention economy, fueled by social media platforms and search…
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Marketing Infographics
More Data, More Challenges
Big Data. I’m not sure about you folks but most of our clients are drowning in it. While the piles of data continue to accumulate, we typically find that most our clients aren’t handling some of the fundamental marketing strategies necessary to acquire, retain and improve customer value. Not only that, they struggle with a huge disconnect between IT and…
