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- Content Marketing
6 Simple Ways To Improve Your Content Marketing Impact
There are still companies out there that struggle with the strategy and resources necessary to produce effective content. And many of those companies don’t realize the return on investment that a content marketing strategy can bring because they either give up too soon or they don’t fully understand what to write, how to write it, and where to write it.…
- Content Marketing
The Playbook for B2B Online Marketing
This is a fantastic infographic on the strategies of every successful business-to-business (B2B) online system. As we work with our customers, this is relatively close to our engagements’ overall look and feel. Simply doing B2B online marketing is not going to maximize success and your website isn’t going to just magically generate new business because it’s there and it looks…
- Content Marketing
This is a Tribute, to the Greatest Blog Post in the World…
This is the not the greatest blog post in the world… nooo… this is just a Tribute. All joking aside, I deleted 3 post drafts this morning. They were drafts that I had started long ago but I just couldn’t seem to fine-tune them enough for publishing. Perhaps one of them was the greatest post in the world. We just…
- Marketing Books
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
This groundbreaking book, written by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams, explores the revolutionary impact of collaboration and participation on businesses, economies, and society as a whole. Published in 2006, it remains a critical read for sales and marketing professionals who wish to stay ahead of the curve in an increasingly connected and collaborative world. The authors argue that the…
- Analytics & Testing
Getting Personal in a Crowded World
In today’s competitive retail space, personalized offers differentiate brands in the fight to capture consumers’ attention. Companies across the industry are striving to deliver a memorable, personal customer experience to build loyalty and ultimately improve sales — but it’s easier said than done. Creating this kind of experience requires the tools to learn about your customers, build relationships and know…
- E-commerce and Retail
The Rise of Mobile Commerce, and the Benefit to Marketers
Now that consumers can make online purchases anytime, and in any place that has a mobile signal or wifi, the most successful companies are optimizing their mobile platforms to meet their customers’ needs. Only a few years ago, retailers were beginning to think email marketing was a dying approach, but the recent boom in M-commerce is proving quite the opposite.…
- Email Marketing & Automation
How to Guarantee Your Site is Blacklisted for Email
We were reviewing one of our clients’ sites today. They’re going to be moving to our email integration soon – which is a good thing. I’m guessing their websites are probably already blacklisted… here’s why… They have a contact form on their website. It’s nice enough, a bunch of fields to send all your personal info to them to sign…
- Content Marketing
Blog Tag: 5 Secrets about Me
Shel Israel has blog-tagged me. The game is to tell five secrets about yourself and then link to five other people you know and then they have to tell five things you probably don’t know about them. Ophidiophobia: That’s me. Can’t stand them! I joked that if I ran into a snake, I’d throw my kids at it and run…
- E-commerce and Retail
How Does Payment Processing Work? Credit Cards, Gateways, Processors, and More
Retail and digital commerce environments continue to evolve, and understanding payment processing technologies is in the best interest of every business. Payment processing impacts businesses in several critical ways. Transaction fees can eat profit margins, particularly for small businesses or those handling high-volume, low-margin sales. Time to settlement—when a transaction is completed and funds are available in the merchant’s account—can…
- Content Marketing
Add a Links Page to your WordPress Template
We were working on a client site today to add an iPad Cover Review list to the site. Rather than listing them all out in a page or a post, we decided to build a template page that pulled one link category from WordPress’ build in Links section, called “Reviews”. The WordPress API already has a built in function, called…
