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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…
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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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Email Marketing & Automation
Notablist: Design Inspiration and Competitive Research for Email Marketers
Notablist markets themselves as the Email Newsletter Search Engine, having indexed over 5 million search email newsletters across over 400,000 Publishers. Tools like these are fantastic for designers who wish to get inspiration from key brands or digital marketers who want to see when their competitors are sending and what kind of newsletters and deals are being communicated. If you’re a…
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Content Marketing
Put Tips in your Text Fields with JavaScript
Real estate is a premium on a web site, so I’m trying to be a little more efficient with mine. I found this nifty little script with the Cutline WordPress theme from Tubetorial. You can build a couple events directly in your text field HTML that will show and hide data as the field is entered and exited. Try it…
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Content Marketing
Diners Club Interview: Building a Social Brand
Diners Club is a sponsor of Social Media Marketing World and was interviewing some of the speakers yesterday (and will be doing more today). I had the pleasure of speaking with Eduardo Tobon and discussed the advancements that I saw in the online marketing space. The first question was about corporate blogging and 3 tips that I’d provide. If I…
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
You Don’t Need a Business Degree to Understand This
Okay, it’s time for a rant. This week I’ve been beat up a couple times and I’m truly at a loss that some of these folks have made it as long as they have in business. I want to get a few things straight when you go to negotiate and purchase services from your next Agency. The Price is What…
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Content Marketing
How to Buy a Domain That’s Already Registered
You’ve been there… scratching down the new billion dollar idea on a cocktail napkin, then going home and finding out the domain is already taken. The other half continues to collect domain names waiting to make the billion dollars. Most of us are somewhere in between… domain owners who aren’t using their domains will typically sell them. And the entrepreneurs…
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Marketing Infographics
Technology Isn’t Slowing Down a Bit… er Flop!
Gordon E. Moore was the co-founder of Intel and Fairchild Semiconductor who wrote a paper 50 years ago that predicted a doubling of the number of components per integrated circuit every year. 10 years later, in 1975, he revised the forecast to every 2 years… and his prediction has been largely accurate. It’s now known as Moore’s Law. To provide…
