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The Offense and Defense of Demand Generation
With March Madness Sweet Sixteen games underway, Integrate thought this would be a perfect time to exploit their target personas’ collegiate sports enthusiasm. The new Integrate infographic is a timely, fun infographic uses thinly veiled, yet hopefully informational basketball metaphors to illustrate the benefits of automating third-party demand generation efforts. Key...
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Email Marketing Stats You Need to Know
I'm not too sure every single email marketing statistic here is imperative to your email marketing, but a few of them really stand out to me: Email Advertising Revenue is surprisingly low and far underutilized. I'm always surprised on our own blog that the header ad consistantly sells out... but no one...
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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...
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ProBlogger: Four Blogging Mistakes I Should Have Avoided
There’s no shortage of blogging books hitting the shelves lately, but few are as grounded and actionable as ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income by Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett. As someone who’s been blogging for a few years now—sporadically and more as a passion project than a...
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Strategic Marketing: How To Move Beyond the Next Campaign or Quarterly Results
Too many marketing departments have become addicted to short-term wins. Campaigns are judged on quarterly results, dashboards glow with conversion rates, and executives demand immediate proof of ROI. In this scramble to hit numbers, strategy is often sacrificed for speed. What gets lost is the very foundation of marketing: building relationships, shaping perceptions, and cultivating...
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Why the Movie Industry is Failing
Me and my kids went and saw King Kong yesterday. The special effects and computer-generated graphics were fantastic. I think the true test of a movie (that depends on special effects) is whether you find yourself empathizing with the computer-generated character. Kong, indeed, had his own character. I thought the end was a little...
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The Strategies That Are Killing Your Content Marketing #CONEX
Yesterday I shared how much I learned about building ABM strategies at CONEX, a conference in Toronto with Uberflip. Today, they pulled out all of the stops by bringing in every marketing superstar the industry had to offer - Jay Baer, Ann Handley, Marcus Sheridan, Tamsen Webster, and Scott Stratten to name a few...
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Sales Training: Even the Pros Return to Training Camp
Why does a team filled with world-class athletes still pack up and head to Training Camp every summer? Why do the Colts—one of the most meticulously prepared, strategically disciplined, and professionally conditioned organizations in the sport—still submit their elite talent to weeks of deliberate drills, mental resets, and relentless fundamentals? On July 30, the Colts...
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Educate Your Readers
We all started somewhere! I was talking to a friend tonight about Social Networking and my future in the Industry. I had a fantastic, inspirational lunch with good friend, Pat Coyle, last week. I've always been a technologist... jack of all trades, master of none... until recent. The last year I've really focused my attention...
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The Six Insider’s Secrets of Contagious Content
Our very own Jenn Lisak was showcased for her advice when developing content. What does it take, exactly, for content to become contagious? Marketing professor Jonah Berger wrote about it in his book, Contagious: Why Things Catch On . According to Professor Berger, the first step is emotion ...