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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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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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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…
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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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Analytics & Testing
Game Day Success: Best Practices for Super Bowl Campaign Measurement and Optimization
For brands, the Super Bowl is a moment of immense opportunity and risk. With $8 million being spent on just 30 seconds of airtime, every decision—from media buying to audience targeting—needs to yield tangible results. To achieve true ROI, leveraging AI-powered tools and first-party data has become critical in providing real-time, actionable insights that help brands optimize their Super Bowl…
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Artificial Intelligence
App: What Is Your Site’s Machine Experience (MX) Score?
Web designers and marketers have spent the last two decades honing User Experience (UX)—the art and science of creating intuitive, engaging, and accessible websites for humans. With the advent of AI and browser usability features, perhaps a new metric needs to emerge that is equally critical: Table of ContentsMachine ExperienceWhat is Semantic Markup?Machine Experience CalculatorHow AI, Reader Views, and Text-to-Speech…
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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…
