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Content Marketing
Google Docs Explained
Google Docs has really been a blessing for the company I work for. We’re a young company of 5 (just hired our fifth!) and we don’t have a server or shared network appliance. Quite honestly, we don’t need one. When I started, all documentation was simply passed around via email and quickly became confusing! I fired up Google Docs and…
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Content Marketing
Ideas for Turning Content into Conversions
If you’ve not heard of ion interactive, you really should check them out. Not only do they have some fantastic web-based software for creation and testing effective landing experiences, they also provide tons of supporting data and best practices for businesses. They speak at many events throughout the country as well and always provide great content. This infographic is no…
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E-commerce and Retail
Shopify POS: Transform In-Person and Online Sales with Seamless Integration
Retailers face an overwhelming challenge when managing sales across online and in-person channels. Many POS systems on the market act as separate add-ons, requiring cumbersome integrations with existing platforms and resulting in fragmented operations. Shopify’s POS system is an exception, offering an incompatible solution and an inherent extension of the Shopify ecosystem. Shopify POS A few years ago, a local…
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Advertising Technology
How to Avoid MarTech Bloat and Stop Bottlenecking Workflows that Drive Key Business Outcomes
Marketers are only using 33% of their MarTech stack’s full capabilities. Gartner When you consider the cost of various marketing technology solutions, from marketing automation and email marketing platforms to analytics and data solutions, utilizing only a third of any technology investment is a massive drain on an organization’s marketing and IT budget. But it’s not just a budgetary issue.…
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Content Marketing
Fix Caching Issues with Flash, JavaScript, XML, KML or Google Maps
This is a short and sweet post on caching issues. Sites and browsers are built to really optimize resources. They do it so well sometimes that the end result actually breaks your dynamic website instead of updating it as often as you’d like. Today I was working with JW Player, a Flash Movie player that pulls in a list of…
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E-commerce and Retail
Loyalty Rewards
When I worked at the newspaper, I always felt like we did things backwards. We offered several free weeks of the newspaper to any new subscriber. We had subscribers who had paid full price for twenty plus years and never received a discount or even a thank-you message… but we would give someone with no allegiance to our brand with…
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Sales and Marketing Training
I Wish Marketers Would Stop Saying This…
Jenn and I visited the headquarters of Genesys this week and got to sit down their their digital marketing team and one of the questions that popped up was if we ever put an infographic behind a registration. We quickly answered that we had never done that before. The Interactive team said they’d done a test with both a whitepaper…
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Content Marketing
What’s Changed About Corporate Blogging Over The Years?
If you’ve been following me over the last decade, you know that I wrote Corporate Blogging for Dummies back in 2010. While the landscape of digital media has had immense changes over the last 7 years, I’m honestly not sure there’s been too many changes when it comes to the book and companies developing a corporate blogging strategy. Businesses and…
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Artificial Intelligence
Engagement is a Two-Way Street: Using Conversational Customer Experiences to Build Customer-Brand Relationships
The relationship between brands and their audiences has long been a one-way street – brands, using catchy billboards, quirky TV commercials, or even the antiquated newspaper ads, talked at us, not to us. Tech advancements have made it possible for these relationships to become more interactive, thanks to the rise of social media, new consumer devices, and, of course, continued…
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Analytics & Testing
Lightspeed: Supercharge Retail With Unified Commerce POS and Reporting Tools
Retailers today are under constant pressure to streamline operations, delight customers across every channel, and adapt quickly to market changes. Managing inventory, payments, e-commerce, and customer data across multiple locations — all while trying to grow — can overwhelm even seasoned merchants. Many turn to retail POS systems to ease the burden, but they often find these tools lacking in…
