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- Content Marketing
Reachli: The Visual Advertising Network
We’ve shared other content recommendation systems like Outbrain. What if your content isn’t textual in nature, though, and it’s more visual – like coupons, informational graphics, sales graphics, calls-to-action or photographs? Reachli is a visual advertising network. Reachli has over 70,000 advertisers that get over 3.5 million views on a monthly basis! Reachli has a proprietary pair-and-match technology uses keyword,…
- Content Marketing
How to Keep Your Users Happy When Releasing a Major Update to Your Application
There’s an inherent tension in product development between improvement and stability. On the one hand, users expect new features, functionality and maybe even a new look; on the other hand, changes can backfire when familiar interfaces suddenly disappear. This tension is greatest when a product is changed in a dramatic way – so much that it could even be called…
- E-commerce and Retail
Nudgify: Increase Your Shopify Conversions With This Integrated Social Proof Platform
My company, DK New Media, is assisting a fashion company launch its direct-to-consumer strategy domestically. Because they’re a traditional company that only supplied retailers, they needed a partner that would help be their technology arm and help them with every aspect of their brand development, ecommerce, payment processing, marketing, conversions, and fulfillment processes. Because they have limited SKUs and don’t…
- Content Marketing
Why Creative Collaboration Tools Are A Necessity For Your Team To Prosper
Hightail has released the results of its first State of Creative Collaboration Survey. The survey focused on how marketing and creative teams collaborate to deliver the mountains of original content needed to drive campaigns, deliver business results and increase sales and revenue. Lack of Resources and Increased Demand are Hurting Creatives With a growing output of content throughout every industry, the…
- Social Media & Influencer Marketing
VideoPeel: Request, Capture, and Share Your Customer Video Testimonials Easily
A critical stage in every buyer’s journey is researching the business, the product, or the services offered to validate the business. Trust may be even more critical than other factors like price and refund policies when a business or consumer is deciding whether or not to make a purchase, so customer testimonials are critical in helping ease the buyer through…
- Content Marketing
The Myth of the “Best Medium” and the Reality of the Buyer’s Journey
Sales and marketing professionals often seek the holy grail of lead conversion—the single, infallible medium that guarantees success. However, pursuing the best medium to close leads is fundamentally flawed. Modern buying behavior is far more complex and nuanced, requiring a sophisticated, multi-faceted approach that addresses every stage of the buyer’s journey. Table of ContentsUnderstanding the Buyer’s JourneyAwareness Stage: Considering and…
Newspapers Continue to Needlessly Kill Themselves
Through Ruth’s blog, I just got done reading a New York Times piece on the Tribune planning to cut 500 pages from 12 of their largest newspapers each week. Newspapers = Toilet Paper I can’t even tell you how insanely upset this makes me… and, as consumers, you should be extremely upset as well. It appears that the Newspaper Industry,…
- Content Marketing
OpenID Installed and at the Ready!
If you’ve not heard about OpenID, it’s an interesting new technology on the web. Given all of the different websites and logins/passwords that one needs to remember these days, this technology could be either a blessing or a curse. On the bright side is the fact that you store your encrypted login and password on your server and anytime you…
- Customer Data Platforms
Please Stop Comparing NSA Spying with Marketing
One of the conversations I continue to see rising to the top of the NSA spying controversy is that companies are already collecting this kind of data on Americans for marketing efforts. For those outside the United States, the Constitution is quite clear with the Fourth Amendment to our Bill of Rights as citizens. The Fourth Amendment to the Bill…
- Event Marketing
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…
