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- 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
4 Ways that Big Data Applications Are Providing Results
According to this infographic from SingleGrain, companies are now collecting over 75,000 data points on a single individual. That’s a lot of data… but is it being utilized? Big data is a new term used to describe the growth and availability of large data sets which, when properly analyzed, can help make better business decisions, such as improving customer relations,…
- Sales and Marketing Training
B2B Lead Scoring: From Rules-Based Models to Predictive Intelligence
In B2B marketing and sales, not all leads are created equal, and treating them as such wastes time and resources. That’s where lead scoring comes in. Lead scoring is a methodology for ranking prospects based on their potential value to the business, typically to determine sales readiness. It’s the bridge between generating leads and prioritizing them intelligently. Over the past…
- Marketing & Sales Videos
How Do You Justify a Video Marketing Strategy?
It’s not just anecdotal evidence that supports the use of video, it’s the science of video that captures the attention and emotion of the viewer or subscriber. We’ve been pushing all of our clients to make the move to video and have been sprinkling them throughout their sites… from product explainer videos, to complex animations, to customer testimonials and common…
- 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…
- 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…
Set Expectations with an Acceptance Agreement
As a marketer, you’re probably relying on a lot of third party applications and resources to bring your campaigns to life. I’ve written before about how setting expectations with your customers drives customer satisfaction… there’s also a way that you can help drive your own satisfaction – build an acceptance agreement to set the tone with your third party relationships.…
- 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…
- Content Marketing
Domain Discovery: Enterprise Management of Domain Assets
Chaos lurks in the digital world. Any company can easily lose track of its digital assets in an era when domain registrations happen in dozens of different ways and when mergers and acquisitions constantly add new websites to the mix. Domains that are registered and never developed. Websites that go years without updates. Mixed messages across marketing platforms. Redundant expenses.…
- 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…
