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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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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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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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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
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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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…
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Content Marketing
8 Image Ideas to Market your Business on Instagram
Every once in a while, I come up with a good quote or succinct piece of advice that I’d like to share socially. Rather than just tweeting it out, I open up the Depositphotos mobile application and find a beautiful image. I crop it using my iPhone and then open it in the Over App. Within 10 minutes, I have…
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E-commerce and Retail
Personalizing the Customer’s Shopping Journey
Tailoring the shopping experience to individual consumers isn’t a new idea. Just think about the feeling you get when you visit a local restaurant and the waitress remembers your name and your usual. It feels good, right? Personalization is about recreating that personal touch, showing the customer that you understand and care about her. Technology may enable personalization tactics, but…
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Sales and Marketing Training
Navigating the SaaS Pricing Labyrinth: Strategies, Structures, and Customer Value
Founders of the first large MarTech company I worked for said that SaaS was like making money in your sleep. Within a few years, they’d multiplied their development team, had a mile-long product backlog, and had competitors chipping away at their market share. Developing software solutions isn’t a set-it-and-forget-it business. If you’re not innovating and listening to customers, a competitor…
