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FlexClip: AI-Powered Tools That Enable You To Create Videos Effortlessly
Modern marketers are under pressure to publish video everywhere—fast. Budgets are tight, teams are lean, and attention spans are shorter than ever. You still need on-brand intros, promo spots, product explainers, social shorts, webinars, and event recaps… ideally without wrangling complex software, expensive stock libraries, or a weeks-long learning curve. FlexClip Meet FlexClip, an online video creation platform built to…
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Community Management Done Right
Although their roles may greatly differ from one industry to the next, community managers are usually the ones responsible for brand audience growth and engagement. Always the first in line to cater to your clients’ needs and requests, they stay focused on what’s best for your company: helping retain brand community fans, defeat inevitable trolls, and improve your brand’s overall…
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Who’s Your Search Engine Marketing Villain?
It doesn’t matter how much initial education you put into a new engagement, a Search Engine Marketing Villain will pop up when you least expect it. I have identified a short list of the Villains that we seem to come across when engaging new prospects. Can you relate to any of these? Lack of Goals Don’t Tell How Much You Want…
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Yes, There Are Still Great Blogs Out There To Discover… Here’s How to Search for Them
Blogs? Am I really writing about blogging? Well, yes. While the official umbrella term we now apply in the industry is content marketing, blogging continues to be the most common format that companies are utilizing to reach their perspective and current clients. I never actually realized that the term blogging would grow to obselecense, but it’s used a lot less…
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Leaderpromos: Great Promotional Products, Great Service!
As my trip to the Webtrends conference was looming, I was looking for promotional merchandise to distribute at the event. As a sponsor of the event, one of the options was to distribute notepads out to the attendees. As a small business, of course, this was an investment that I was very concerned about. How could I balance a tight…
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Which End of the Sales Funnel?
Marketing strategies are often designed to find more leads or upsell current customers. One of the issues we often find with clients is that they’re often working on the wrong end of the sales funnel. Many companies get less visitors a month to their website than they would like… but if they were able to convert twice as many of…
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Online Testing Essentials
So you’ve finally deployed all of your online marketing strategies and they’re integrated and functioning well. You’re able to measure and see the impact of each strategy independently… now it’s time to begin testing. Where do you start? From KISSmetrics: A well-built sales funnel is never complete until every part of it has been tested and optimized. For maximum success,…
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Connecting the Dots
Whether you’re selling a product, pushing a website, or marketing your services… all of us have three dots on our sketchpad… acquisition, execution, and retention. For a long time, each of these dots were handled independently. We even organized our departments unique to each of the dots: Sales Department – for acquisition. Production and Operations Department – for execution. Customer…
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WordPress: How To Build a Shortcode Plugin For A Simple Before and After Image Slider
I was publishing an article earlier that included a before-and-after image with a slider overlay. While there are numerous plugins available that perform this function, I prefer not to use third-party plugins due to the additional overhead, including limited features and advertisements for upgrades. I like to keep my WordPress instance as lean as possible, so I created a plugin that utilizes WordPress and…
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Understanding WordPress Custom Post Types (CPTs): Creating a Glossary with Custom Taxonomies and Theme Templates
WordPress is more than a blogging platform—it’s a flexible content management system that can be extended far beyond posts and pages. One of the most powerful features enabling this flexibility is Custom Post Types (CPTs). These allow developers and content managers to structure content for specific use cases like portfolios, events, product directories, podcasts, or glossaries—each with their own admin…
