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Rock Social Media in 30 Minutes a Day
We’ve got quite a large following on social media and we share and respond a ton throughout our audiences on different social mediums. We’re a small team, just a handful of folks, but I think we do a great job of helping our readers throughout the day and responding in a timely manner to them. That said… if all we…
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The Internet Runs Better without Flash
Steve Jobs was right. The first person who advised me to get a Flash blocker was Blake Matheny. Blake is one of the best engineers I’ve ever had the pleasure to work with – and I’ve worked with him both at Compendium and at ChaCha. You’d think that I would have listened to a guy that transformed the entire infrastructure…
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Attention Universities: I’m Not Hiring Business and Marketing Graduates Without A TON of AI Experience
The future of education is approaching a breaking point—and for marketers, sales professionals, startup entrepreneurs, and business executives, the lesson is not an academic one. It is the same lesson that reshaped the media industry: adapt to technology, or watch as it bypasses you entirely. Consider the cautionary tale of the newspaper industry. For decades, newspapers enjoyed unrivaled dominance. They…
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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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Marpipe: Arming Marketers With The Intelligence They Need To Test And Find Winning Ad Creative
For years, marketers and advertisers have depended upon audience targeting data to know where and in front of whom to run their ad creative. But the recent shift away from invasive data-mining practices — the result of new and necessary privacy regulations put in place by GDPR, CCPA, and Apple’s iOS14 — have left marketing teams scrambling. As more and…
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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…
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Bike Advertising: Pedaling the Future of Outdoor Marketing
As spring arrives and people step out to enjoy warmer weather, city streets, parks, and neighborhoods come alive with activity. It’s the perfect time for brands to take their message outdoors (OOH) — directly where their audiences are. Among the most engaging and eco-friendly strategies is bike advertising, a mobile, eye-level approach that moves with the crowd. Whether launching a…
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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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The Hidden Lessons of Google and Facebook
A few years ago, I was strung out on SEO. I’m not kidding… the traffic that Google was sending our blog kept me up at night, writing, tweaking, writing, tweaking, writing. I was chasing the algorithm, my competition, and it was driving every decision that I had with the blog. I was able to squeeze more and more visits, incrementally,…
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How a Lack of Social Response is Hurting Your Business
We’ve already quantified the business impact of poor customer service with regard to social media. What about simply responding? Did you know that 7 out of 8 social messages directed at brands go unanswered within 72 hours? Compound that with the fact there’s been a 21% increase in messages to brands globally (18% in the United States) and we’ve got…
