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Content Marketing
What Businesses Need To Keep In Mind About (Inevitable) Technology Migration
Over the last couple of decades, I’ve had the pleasure of working on either side of the digital transformation industry. I’ve helped Software as a Service (SaaS) vendors develop, innovate and scale their platforms from young pre-revenue startups through enterprise acquisitions. I’ve also helped businesses of every size to implement technology to increase internal efficiency and external customer experience. As…
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Customer Data Platforms
Bugherd: Collect Feedback Visually From Your Clients, Visitors, Or Platform Users With This Platform
It happened again yesterday. I was contacted by a prospect that launched a new site online with another vendor that they had invested heavily in. Months later and they’re not seeing any traffic or conversions. This isn’t uncommon. We’ve seen issues with blocked search engines, forms that are broken or don’t send data anywhere, links that are broken, and videos…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Design a Mobile-Friendly Email
All Internet trends point to enormous growth in how many emails are read on mobile devices. Some stats have shown that 40% of all corporate emails are read on a mobile device. In the last 6 months, reading email on a mobile device is up 150%! Viewing emails on a small screen has it’s difficulties and advantages. Some devices support…
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Content Marketing
7 Surefire Tips for Courting A Guest Blog Post
Guest blogging is an intricate and delicate process that should be treated like the beginning of any relationship: seriously and with care. As a blog owner, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been emailed terribly written, spammy emails. Blogs, like relationships, take a lot of effort and a potential guest blogger shouldn’t treat it as a frivolous process.…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Optimizing Email Design to Capture the Attention of Your Reader
A few months ago at a conference, I watched a fascinating presentation on the steps that an email reader takes as they dive into their email. It’s not the route that most people believe and it works very different from a website. When you view an email, you typically view the first words of the subject line and perhaps a…
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Content Marketing
How to Create Content Ideas for a New Client
Creating content ideas for a new client is a critical process that can significantly impact the success of marketing campaigns. Here’s a structured approach to conceptualizing and strategizing content for a new client. A blank page can be an intimidating thing, especially when you are just getting started with a content project for a new client. But coming up with…
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Analytics & Testing
Mashape Connects Developers and APIs
For the longest time, my goto for finding APIs was Programmable Web – but that may have changed after perusing Mashape. Mashape isn’t simple a searchable directory of APIs, it actually integrates the API directly into their repository. This enables you to sign up, find and test an API without any difficulty at all. Here’s their list of benefits and…
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Marketing Infographics
This Single Aspect of Sales Could be Losing Your Company $4 Million Annually
We tend to talk about sales by the revenue produced, but not by the losses when it’s not going well. Sales is a blood sport at most companies and there seems to be little patience nowadays for sales professionals to ramp up, build relationships, and convert customers. The sales manager even has the unenviable position of having to motivate and…
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Sales and Marketing Training
The Secret Weapon of Success: Confidence
Someone with half your IQ is making 10x as you because they aren’t smart enough to doubt themselves. Ed Latimore While that’s a somewhat skewed view of the world, that quote has more truth than you might believe. In one of my first jobs, I used to have to walk past the boardroom at my company periodically. I revered the…
