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Sales and Marketing Training
Nobody Knows Who You Are… Craft Your Personal Brand Accordingly
Your personal branding dictates your professional opportunities. Many feel constrained by their past experiences, existing networks, or the lack of a recognizable reputation. The truth is, nobody knows who you are—at least, not yet. This is excellent news because it means you can craft your personal brand in a way that aligns with where you want to go, not just…
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Marketing Tools
From Leads to Sales: The Minimal Martech Stack for Small Business Marketing and Growth
Inbound marketing is a powerful way for small businesses to attract and convert customers without relying on expensive advertising. However, executing a successful strategy requires the proper marketing and sales platforms to create content, capture leads, nurture prospects, and measure results. For small businesses, balancing affordability and functionality is key. Below is a minimal MarTech stack, categorized into free and…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Deadbeats on Display? Twitter – New AP Managment Tool
I was in a bad mood yesterday because I was chasing overdue invoices from three clients. I was grumpy, and needed to vent, so I put un an innocent comment ( well not so innocent) on Twitter. I asked: When a client doesn’t pay a bill and dodges your phone calls, it is bad form to mention them by name…
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Marketing Infographics
The Rise of Social and Mobile Native Ads
With the increasing popularity of smartphones, more people are using their mobile devices to check their social accounts than their desktops. Smart marketers are taking advantage of this shift by increasing their spend to mobile marketing, and integrating their ads seamlessly into the social feeds of their target audiences with native advertising. In the U.S. last year, more than $4.6…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
7 Videos You Should be Producing to Increase Marketing Results
60 per cent of site visitors will watch a video first before reading the text on your site, landing page, or social channel. Want to increase engagement with your social network or web visitors? Produce some great videos to target and share with your audience(s). Salesforce has put together this great infographic with specifics on 7 places to incorporate videos…
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Marketing Tools
Espresso: Editing Email Templates in OSX is Easier With Content Folding
Because email HTML doesn’t respect HTML5 and CSS3, it requires a multitude of nested tables to make anything align well and incorporate responsiveness for mobile applications. When you begin building complex email templates with many sources, embedded code, and varying layouts, it’s easy to get lost in your code. Utilizing email client testing, I could verify that our email newsletter…
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Analytics & Testing
User Experience Is Designing for the Customer and Their Medium, Not Your Company
When developing a presentation, white paper, case study, website, or even a mobile application, one of the most common pieces of client feedback I received was that the final design didn’t align with what they had envisioned. My response, though straightforward, was intentionally crafted to reframe their perspective: We didn’t design it for you; we designed it for your audience.…
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Analytics & Testing
Godin: Intuition vs Analysis
Seth Godin asked a great question that is usually quite a point of contention for SaaS or technology companies and their product managers…. Do you go with Intuition or Analysis? My personal view on this is that it’s a delicate combination of the two. When I think about analysis, I think about data. It could be data regarding competition, use,…
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Marketing Infographics
Building Authority for Search
I’ve been a long-time proponent of search engine optimization for quite some time, but my own experiences recently with Martech have honestly curbed my excitement. I used to think that SEO was the ideal means of growing traffic because it was something you could control. That’s true to an extent, but it can only take you as far as the…
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Marketing Infographics
6 Myths of Social Sharing
There are no rules! This has been my mantra for as long as I’ve been marketing. What I watch that works fantastic for one company barely moves the needle for another. Virtually no two businesses are alike, yet we have an entire marketing consulting industry of so-called experts that give bunk advice every single day. Of course there are strategies…
