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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
Pictogrammers: The Ultimate Resource for Open-Source Iconography
Icons are the visual shorthand of our digital world. Whether you’re crafting a website, designing a presentation, or building a mobile app, iconography plays a pivotal role in communicating ideas quickly and effectively. A well-designed icon can transcend language barriers, enhance usability, and make complex information digestible in seconds. As our digital interactions evolve, the demand for accessible, high-quality icons…
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Artificial Intelligence
Apple and Google Accelerate the Collapse of Open Web – What’s Next?
The open web as we know it is under siege, and the latest confirmed news and rumblings from Apple and Google may be the final nails in the coffin. As reported by Bloomberg, Apple is expected to unveil a new AI search product or capability. Much like Google’s Gemini-powered results, this move signals a rapid shift away from traditional, link-based discovery…
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Analytics & Testing
How Do You Measure Content Marketing?
This is a beautiful infographic from Brandpoint on Measuring Content Marketing Success. Not every piece of content is going to drive a sale, but the momentum and collection of content definitely drives awareness and consideration, eventually leading to conversions. Content marketing tactics such as blog posts, feature articles, optimized website copy, white papers, social media content and press releases move…
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Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
Page Speed and Your Visitors
One of the factors that’s very difficult or costly to impact is the speed at which your site loads. This is a constant battle here on Martech… social integrations and advertising slow the page load times way, way down so we’re always trying to tune it up through a number of means. We know that we lose some visitors over…
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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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Marketing Books
Share Your Favorite Marketing Books via Audible
It’s been a while since I was an Audible subscriber but I recently started back up. Audible content includes more than 250,000 audio programs from leading audiobook publishers, broadcasters, entertainers, magazine and newspaper publishers, and business information providers. Audible is also the preeminent provider of spoken-word audio products for Apple’s iTunes Store. I have a lot more time to listen…
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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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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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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…
