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Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
Mobile Sites, Apps, SMS & QR Codes – Luxury or Required?
By 2015, the mobile Internet will overtake desktop usage and in the last year its use has doubled. More and more decision makers are utilizing the mobile web in order to access the information they need to make buying choices. Up to 50% of online opportunities may be missed by not having and deploying a mobile strategy for a company…
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Content Marketing
Prepping Your Photos For The Web: Tips and Techniques
If you write for a blog, manage a website, or post to social networking applications such as Facebook or Twitter, photography probably plays an integral part of your content stream. What you may not know is that no amount of stellar typography or visual design can make up for lukewarm photography. On the other hand, sharp and vivid photography will…
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Content Marketing
Clarity Attacks Buzzwordsmithiness On Contact
A good friend of mine for many years is Steve Woodruff, a self-proclaimed (and very talented) Clarity Consultant, continues to share some rather ridiculous marketing-speak amongst websites and social media profiles. He shared his all-time favorite with me from a couple of years ago: We have pioneered a new model for sustainable, consumer-driven growth based on principles of complex adaptive…
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
I Have No Competition
I know that sounds arrogant. I don’t mean it that way. Whenever anyone mentioned competition at a company I worked at, I scoffed. I always have. Someone told me once that it’s impossible to look behind you and still race forward at top speed. I believe fear paralyzes companies. I believe in co-opetition. I’m not advocating ignoring your competition… every…
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E-commerce and Retail
SmartPhones and Coupons Work
One thing that we’ve always noticed that has worked when it came to mobile was the convenience of sending a discount to the phone. Whether it was a text message sent by a restaurant or an app displaying a discount, mobile is the perfect medium for coupon redemption. Why? It’s the only technology that’s carried by the consumer when they’re…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Adphorus: Facebook Ad and Social CRM Platform
Adphorus is a Facebook Ad Optimization platform that works on top of Facebook Marketing API and Social CRM, allowing you amplify your return on investment based on existing customer data. Adphorus Features: Actionable Dashboards – Use dashboards to track your campaigns and your KPIs. Performance Marketing – conversion tracking, optimization based on CPA, and test multiple target group, creative, placement…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Add a Tweetwall to Your Next Event With Hootfeed
Have you ever wanted to have a Tweet wall in your office or at an event? There are quite a few solutions out there, but none might be as simple to use as Hootsuite’s Hootfeed. The HootFeed is an easy-to-customize tool, which animates the Twitter activity you care about live; encouraging your guests to interact with the event’s feed. By…
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My Happiness Manifesto
Hugh MacLeod at GapingVoid.com had a great post today asking folks for their ‘manifestos’. Thanksgiving inspired me to write mine on happiness. Here’s what I wrote and what Hugh posted (with a couple grammatical edits and Hugh’s wonderful illustration!): Our culture is inundated with messages that lead us down a path of self-destruction. Happiness is equated with things we do…
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Browser Wars: Internet Explorer continues to Lose to Firefox, What’s Safari?
Click the chart to see it full size. The two browsers to keep an eye on are Internet Explorer and Firefox. Internet Explorer’s total penetration is dropping and Internet Explorer 7’s share seems to be dropping off under Firefox! Data source: W3Schools Safari hasn’t even made any impact, even with its attempt to push into the Windows market. Perhaps part…
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Advertising Technology
Does Apple’s Marketing Suck?
Who’s marketing is really winning here, Apple or Microsoft? This post was inspired by a conversation I joined regarding Microsoft gaining some ground back against Apple. The conversation continued on Twitter with a great tweet from Kara: https://twitter.com/karaweber/status/1931656148?s=20 I hope this sparks a huge debate. Apple is regarded as one of the best marketing teams in Technology today, but I’m…
