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Content Marketing
Chekkit: Centralize Your Review Management, Website Chat, Text Messages, And Even Collect Payments In This All-In-One Inbox
If you start to add up the channels and strategies that your local business must use to manage its reputation, respond to leads, communicate with customers, and accept payments… you typically need to deploy multiple platforms or apps to manage it all. Reviews – the lifeblood of a local business is its visibility in local search map packs… and soliciting…
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Sales and Marketing Training
The ABCs of an Online Presence in 2024
Many years ago, I went through a creative exercise where I took each letter of the alphabet and applied a term to it that helped marketers evaluate the balance of their online presence. That presentation was quite outdated, so I thought it was a good time to publish a new list with updated strategies. Having a well-rounded and effective online…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Re: Trust
It happened again. While I was reviewing the (unstoppable) list of emails that were hitting my inbox, I noticed the reply email. The subject line, of course, started with RE: so it caught my eye and I immediately opened it. But it wasn’t a reply. It was a marketer who thought they’d increase their open rate by lying to all…
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Content Marketing
Strikingly: Build A Personal Website, Small Business Site, or Online Store in Minutes
There are many people in the digital marketing industry that promote content management or e-commerce platforms simply because they have experience in deploying them. I’m definitely not knocking those agencies, designers, or consultants for executing what they do well and with the tools, they have experience with. However, I do wish more folks with expertise in developing a digital presence…
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Content Marketing
The Six Insider’s Secrets of Contagious Content
Our very own Jenn Lisak was showcased for her advice when developing content. What does it take, exactly, for content to become contagious? Marketing professor Jonah Berger wrote about it in his book, Contagious: Why Things Catch On. According to Professor Berger, the first step is emotion. If your content fails to connect with the audience emotionally, there’s no chance…
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Content Marketing
VerbalizeIt: App, Text, Audio and Video Translation
VerbalizeIt’s translation platform routes your uploaded content to a curated community for translation, review and return within 24-48 hours. Only the top 10% of eligible applicants are invited to join the translation community and a feedback loop from VerbalizeIt community leadership, customers and continuous testing is used to ensure they reward the highest quality translators, train high potential translators, and…
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Content Marketing
Migrate from CMS to CMS
WordPress, Joomla, K2, Drupal, TYPO3, Blogger, Tumblr… have you ever needed to migrate from one site to the other? We have and it’s often torturous and requires a ton of manual effort. Not only that, but even once you have the content transferred, it often doesn’t deal with users, category and tag taxonomies, URL slugs, comments or images. In short,…
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
Recruit’em: Find Business Connections on Google
If you’re looking for a business connection across social networks, Google is a great tool. I often do a search of Twitter + name, or LinkedIn + name to find a profile. LinkedIn, of course, has a great internal search engine (especially the paid version) and there are also sites like Data.com to find connections. More often than not, I…
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Buying Behavior Has Changed, Companies Have Not
Sometimes we do things simply because that’s the way it’s been done. No one remembers why exactly, but we keep doing it… even if it hurts us. When I view the typical sales and marketing hierarchy of modern companies, the structure hasn’t changed since we had sales people pushing pavement and dialing for dollars. In many of the companies I’ve…
