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Analytics & Testing
Pinfluencer: Marketing and Analytics From Pin to Purchase
Companies have found some incredible results utilizing Pinterest to grow their marketing reach. As with any social platform, Pinterest has its own marketing best practices, campaign opportunities and influencers. Pinfluencer is a marketing and analytics platform that integrates with your site’s analytics to provide you with return on investment data. They’ve also added a new Pinterest promotion platform that enables…
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Content Marketing
Here’s Why People Hate Your Content
The web is undeniably a key resource of information for all audiences and it’s important to ensure it’s both effective and impactful in order for people and businesses to strive. The digital revolution is demanding. Websites need to be unique, relevant and fresh and content immediately needs to engage the reader. Content needs to be sharp, it needs to be…
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Marketing Books
Mass Behavior: Herd Succumbs To Its Own Theory
My content on the site has been a little light the last couple of weeks – it will pick up soon. I’ve been much more active reading, speaking, and working the previous month, affecting the blog. Though the content is down now, my mind is racing with content for the next few weeks, so be sure to stick with me.…
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Saving a Dime to Spend a Dollar
Last night I watched the beginning (but missed the rest) of Oprah’s Big Give show. I loved the premise – provide someone with $2,500 and the person who does the best job at raising the most money wins. At the heart of the show was that you had to go and meet the person or people you were helping. As…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Why I don’t like Facebook
Those of you who have seen me speak have often heard me speak out against Facebook. I’m on Facebook, I participate on Facebook… but I don’t like it. There are quite a few things I don’t enjoy on Facebook: The navigation makes no sense to me. There are menus, side menus, navigation that appears… I get lost and don’t believe…
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Advertising Technology
PPC + Organic = More Clicks
Even though it’s a self-serving piece, Google Research has developed this infographic to provide evidence of how click-through rates change when an organic search result is accompanied by a paid search advertisement. Pairing up the two can help your marketing from two different angles… providing a little more real estate to click on on the search engine results page. The…
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E-commerce and Retail
FlockTag: Universal Loyalty System and Intelligent Deals
This afternoon I went for a visit down to my favorite coffee shop, the Circle City Coffee Shop, and FlockTag had setup shop there! What impressed me was the ease of use for the both the customer and the business owner. To register the loyalty card, FlockTag setup a secondary, mounted tablet. The customer taps their card on the reader…
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Content Marketing
Improving Sales Proposal Effectiveness
In a world where there are so many different options and all the information available to us with a quick search and click, the sales cycle has gotten longer over the past decade. In fact, the average sales cycle is 22% longer than it was five years ago. What gives? Our sales proposal automation sponsor, TinderBox, actually did a study…
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E-commerce and Retail
Google Launches Shopping Insights… and it’s Awesome!
One of the large businesses that we worked with had an issue that’s really common throughout most national businesses. As marketers, we tend to focus on our business as if there were no geographic boundaries or changes over time – but the reality is both have an enormous impact. If you can write content on topics that take advantage of…
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Artificial Intelligence
The Missing Ingredient in AI Success: Human Readiness
In the rush to deploy the latest AI algorithms and machine learning models, organizations often focus on technical prowess and infrastructure. They invest in fancy data centers, cutting-edge hardware, and intensive technical training. But here’s a shocker: all that fancy tech is nothing if your people aren’t prepared for the emotional and cognitive leap that AI demands. Technical skills are…
