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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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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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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
I’m Testing Twitter’s New Amplification
Twitter is testing a beta advertising program where they amplify your tweets. It’s $99 a month and you select the geography as well as some target categories. I’m still a fan of Twitter and I’m intrigued by this offering, so when I received the email asking me to join the beta I had to say yes. I wanted to share…
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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…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Using Social Networks for CRM
According to Dr. Ivan Misner, the father of BNI, The best CRM application is the one you will use. This is a great way of saying that all the fancy CRM programs and features in the world will not make a difference if your software is too complex or no fun to use. For that reason, I know many people…
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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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Content Marketing
Your Value Proposition Is NOT What You DO
My daughter is a recent graduate who is making waves in the public relations and event management space. I’m incredibly proud of her, and perhaps the best part of my week is when she stops by to “talk shop” with me. Kait recently shared that she’d learned about a company that was struggling to get traction despite some amazing work…
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Content Marketing
The Strategies That Are Killing Your Content Marketing #CONEX
Yesterday I shared how much I learned about building ABM strategies at CONEX, a conference in Toronto with Uberflip. Today, they pulled out all of the stops by bringing in every marketing superstar the industry had to offer – Jay Baer, Ann Handley, Marcus Sheridan, Tamsen Webster, and Scott Stratten to name a few. However, the vibe wasn’t your typical…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Winday: How To Utilize a Marketing Gamification Platform For Acquisition, Upsell, Retention, and Data Capture
Let’s start off with some remarkable statistics regarding the challenges of acquisition and loyalty online: 75% of customers are ready to abandon their brand for a similar one. CapitalOne 60-80% of filled carts never get to the purchase stage. Baymard Institute Only 27% of customers will return to make a purchase from your business for the second time. Shopify Meanwhile:…
