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Customer Data Platforms
CRM: Data Cleanliness is Next to Data Godliness
I wrote a colleague today reinforcing how important Data Cleanliness is in your CRM efforts. Says I, “Data Cleanliness is next to Data Godliness.” Says She, “Then I will be in Data Heaven!” We chuckled, but it’s no small feat. Data cleanliness and accuracy are critical for effective sales and marketing efforts. Ensuring clean and deduplicated data is essential for…
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E-commerce and Retail
Prediction: Your Business Will Be an E-commerce Business
Have you seen our newly launched site? It’s quite incredible. We worked on the designs and development of our publication for over six months, and I can’t tell you how much time we spent. The issue was simply that we couldn’t develop fast enough or finish quickly enough. In my opinion, anyone building a theme from scratch today is doing…
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Analytical + Creative = Social Media Success
What are the characteristics that drive success in social media? As we continue to grow at work, we’re looking for talent and need the right mix. My son is an honors math student… and a musician. My daughter is a singer… and a math wiz. I’m very analytical… but love being creative in my writing and design. Music is definitely…
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Content Marketing
Who’s Your True Audience?
As you’re writing your content or joining in conversations via social media, are you aware of who might be reading, observing and taking notice? Many of the corporate blogs and personas I see in social media are transparent, but perhaps a little too forward. It’s important to keep in mind that the primary audience isn’t your entire audience online. Your…
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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
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…
