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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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Content Marketing
Brand Perfection is Dead
In the past few weeks I’ve spoken with quite a few companies who are trying to deploy strategies to overcome negative search engine results regarding their companies, products or services. It used to be possible to maintain a perfect brand years ago. If bad things happened, you could pay to get rid of the problems or sweep them under the…
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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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Advertising Technology
Why “Made in America” Is More Than a Label—It’s a Strategic Marketing Advantage
Made in America is having a marketing moment in the U.S., and it’s not just about waving the flag. With shifting tariff policies under President Donald Trump reshaping global trade and supply chains, brands are rethinking how they source products and how they tell their stories. At Market Mentors, LLC, a fully integrated marketing, advertising, and public relations (PR) agency…
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The Evolution of a Social Network – Colts Fan Network
My good friend, Pat Coyle has re-branded his blog to Sports Marketing 2.0 and is now writing about the evolution of the Colts Fan Network. This is the Perfect Storm (in a good way) … a captive loyal audience (that can’t be stolen), an online outlet for them to share their loyalty and love for a great team, and the…
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E-commerce and Retail
Where’s the Next Button?
Usability is a science, but some of it is instinctual. I remember having many an argument with people about usability when I worked as a Product Manager. There are some things that are a given – such as how eyes track across a screen (left to right), how they skim downward, and how they expect an action on the bottom…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Increase Email CTRs with Social Sharing
GetResponse has put together an infographic on the overall impact of social sharing on email click-through rates… and the results are quite striking. The number of users who include social sharing buttons in their emails increased from 18.3% to 29.4%. Compared to last year’s results, that’s an increase of 61%. What’s even more striking is the exceptionally high performance results…
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Analytics & Testing
The State of Mobile in the US
Mobile usage among consumers continues to skyrocket. 74% of growth was in smartphones with 79% of US Shoppers browsing and shopping on sites and apps. By 2016 mobile app revenues will hit $46 billion. To quantify what this dramatic shift means for brands the folks at Usablenet put together an infographic that demonstrates just how much mobile Internet usage is…
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E-commerce and Retail
COVID-19: Consumers and #StayAtHome Purchase Statistics
Things are not looking too good for anyone’s economic future, given the pandemic and subsequent lockdown orders from governments around the world. I believe this is going to be a historic event that will have a massive, lasting impact on our world, from rising business bankruptcies and unemployment to food production and logistics. If nothing else, this pandemic has shown…
