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E-commerce and Retail
Reasons Why People Abandon Shopping Carts
You’re never going to attain 100% of sales after someone adds the product to your shopping cart, but there’s no doubt that it’s a gap where revenue is slipping through. There are strategies to draw folks back in… remarketing is one of them. Remarketing campaigns follow people after they abandon the shopping cart and remarket advertisements to them as they…
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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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E-commerce and Retail
Easyship: Simplify Your Shopify Shipping Integration
Managing shipping logistics for your Shopify store can often feel overwhelming, from comparing courier rates to handling international customs. Finding a streamlined, cost-effective solution for growing e-commerce businesses is critical to scaling efficiently. Enter Easyship—a powerful platform designed to make shipping seamless and cost-effective for Shopify merchants. Easyship Easyship offers Shopify store owners a robust shipping solution that connects directly…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
What Makes a Great Analyst?
At the eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit, we had an interesting conversation on what makes a great data analyst. With a room full of analysts in the room, it’s an excellent question. Generally, the team I worked with agreed that there were business analysts and data analysts – and the expectations on each were a bit different. Business analysts provide information…
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WordPress Please Filter Incoming Links
The other day I commented on Robert Scoble’s post, The anti-community list. It was a great post on methodologies that tools like Friendfeed use to try to promote following between members. Outside of lists that match your current relationships (e.g. your email contacts), I think these tools blur the incredible power of social networking. Enough of that, though. Yesterday I…
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Content Marketing
Rant: The Online Piracy Market
The music industry and piracy, the movie industry and torrents, newspapers and online news. What do all these have in common? Supply, demand and a shifting market. I’m a big fan of capitalism and lean quite a bit to the libertarian side of the political spectrum. I believe that free markets almost always find the right direction to move to.…
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E-commerce and Retail
Costs of Website Testing
Monetate has put out an informative infographic on what to think about and how to justify the expense of a website testing tool. It’s a comprehensive look at the challenges, costs, impact, direct costs, indirect costs and opportunities that website testing can provide. The near century-old financial estimate known as Total Cost of Ownership (TC)) can help determine direct and…
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Content Marketing
The Premature Death of Outbound Marketing
The SBA estimates that 600,000 new employer businesses are incorporated every year. Not many of them benefit from a brand name like IBM or Coca Cola. In order to survive they have to hunt for new business. Even major corporations like EMC, Cisco and Hewlett Packard have huge teams dedicated to prospecting for new business in both their installed base…
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Advertising Technology
What’s the Impact and Alternative to Ad Blocking?
To experience the Internet without advertising interrupting you every few moments sounds fantastic. Unfortunately, it’s not. By blocking a significant amount of ads, consumers are forcing publishers to take drastic actions. And when iOS 9 allowing Safari mobile browser extensions on iPhone, ad blocking extensions took off hit the market for mobile users – a high ad growth medium. One…
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
Scared Salesless
This week, I sat down with a business owner that I’ve worked with on a few projects. He’s very talented and has a growing business that’s doing well. As a young small business, he’s challenged with carefully balancing his calendar and budget. He had a major engagement that was planned with a new client unexpectedly get delayed. It put the…
