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My Freakonomics: How To Save Your Personnel Budget By Increasing Wages
I just completed reading Freakonomics. It’s been a while since I couldn’t put down a business book. I purchased this book on Saturday night and started reading it on Sunday. I finished it a few minutes ago. It took up some of my mornings, even making me late for work. At the core of this book is the unique perspective…
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Sell, Service and Market with Salesforce1
Last week, Isaac Pellerin from our client TinderBox stopped by and demonstrated the Salesforce1 mobile application to me. Wow. Salesforce1 allows companies to create apps using Salesforce Communities, Heroku1 and the ExactTarget Fuel Platform and the user interface is simple and very usable. The Salesforce1 Platform delivers powerful services like point-and-click development, business logic, mobile SDK, analytics, multi-language development, social…
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61.5% of Your Traffic is NOT Human
Last March, Incapsula published a study that showed the majority of website traffic (51%) was generated by non-human entities, 60% of which were clearly malicious. Bad news… bot traffic is up and up tremendously. In fact, up to 61.5% of the traffic you’re seeing in Google Analytics wasn’t generated by a human at all, but a bot. This was a…
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7 Videos You Should be Producing to Increase Marketing Results
60 per cent of site visitors will watch a video first before reading the text on your site, landing page, or social channel. Want to increase engagement with your social network or web visitors? Produce some great videos to target and share with your audience(s). Salesforce has put together this great infographic with specifics on 7 places to incorporate videos…
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WordPress: Add Featured Image and a Sortable Last Edit Date To WordPress Admin
We’re launching a new WordPress site I designed and developed at my company. Having developed and deployed hundreds of WordPress sites, I always install some essential plugins and make customizations to manage the site more effectively. One example is the admin panel’s page, posts, and custom post type (CPT) lists. I like ensuring each entry has a featured image, and…
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Remote: Simplify Payroll for Global Marketing, Technology, and Development Teams
In our global economy, marketing, development, and tech teams aren’t bound by borders—and neither is talent. But as you scale your business with specialists from Europe to Asia to Latin America, managing payroll across time zones, currencies, and legal systems becomes overwhelming. Juggling contractors, full-time employees, local tax codes, and payment processors is enough to stall any momentum. Remote Remote…
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Adobe Social and the Adobe Marketing Cloud
When Adobe made the Omniture purchase, I was concerned that they would just give up on the analytics front and the products would be lost among their publishing tools. As we work with more and more clients and see the Adobe Digital Marketing Suite truly assemble, I’m starting to change my mond. Test & Target is a great platform and…
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The Power of Personalization in Email Marketing
A bad email marketing program is like a really annoying sales person, but with a little effort and a lot of personalization you can turn email into your sales top-producer. Best of all, it's easy and inexpensive to do.
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What Facebook Likes Reveal About Us
It’s hard to believe that by simply clicking a few likes, a platform can accurately predict much more about the consumers using it than they could imagine – but it’s true. This is the power of database marketing and may point to a fundamental flaw in many social media marketers’ logic. While we all wish to be treated as individuals,…
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Microsoft Photosynth Technologies
There are two key features discussed in this TED presentation from Microsoft that are revolutionary. The first is that data can be displayed on a screen, regardless of screen resolution, and only utilize the resources necessary to properly display the result. Basically, this provides depth to images, not just height and width. This could substantially change the user experience! The…
