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Analytics & Testing
The Path to Conversion: Ensuring Every Page Guides Users Forward
When discussing website conversions, many immediately think of the final sale, lead submission, or sign-up. However, conversion is more than just a destination—a journey. Every visitor’s step toward becoming a customer, subscriber, or engaged user is a conversion. Each of these steps are conversions: Engagement Conversion: A visitor lands on the homepage and clicks on a featured blog post that…
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E-commerce and Retail
The Joy of Clicking
Ecommerce is a science – but it’s not a mystery. The best online retailers have cleared a path for the rest of us by implementing thousands of testing strategies and providing reams of data for others to see and learn from. Today, nearly one-third of the total Internet population shops online. For retailers, this number proves the growing power of…
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Content Marketing
Masterful Branding: West Baden
My husband, the fabulous and talented creative director Steve Nealy (shameless plug), and I spent a few days this week at the historic West Baden Springs Hotel in southern Indiana. Let me say before I get into the meat of this that if you live within a drive (or even beyond) of this hotel and the rest of the French…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Objection Management on Social Media: A Business Guide for Building Trust Through Public Dialogue
Industry-specific forums, such as Reddit threads, LinkedIn Groups, Facebook Groups, Slack communities, and Discord servers, are becoming increasingly valuable spaces for brands to establish authority and cultivate genuine connections. These communities are not just platforms for marketing—they are dynamic ecosystems where professionals gather to trade insights, share experiences, and seek product recommendations. When navigated skillfully, they offer a powerful blend…
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Marketing Tools
Clean Email: Clean Up Your Inbox Once and For All
You’re not alone if your inbox is bursting with thousands of unread emails, marketing junk, or years of digital clutter. Managing email overload can be frustrating, overwhelming, and downright exhausting, especially when the tools at your disposal seem only to skim the surface. But what if your inbox could practically manage itself? Clean Email Clean Email is the intelligent assistant…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Top 9 Ways to Save Time and Money with Marketing Automation
Automating repetitive marketing tasks like emails, social media updates, and other website actions can free up valuable time, allowing you to focus on bigger-picture strategies. Here are nine marketing automation strategies to help your business save time, money, and resources. Table of ContentsSocial Media Updates & PostsDynamic ContentContent AmplificationClient Reservations & AppointmentsLead ManagementPost-Purchase Email SeriesLead Scoring & SegmentingUpsell OffersIncentive &…
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Customer Data Platforms
How to Write Unbiased Survey Questions That Deliver Honest and Actionable Feedback
Creating effective survey questions is a balancing act that requires clarity, neutrality, and strategic structuring. Poorly crafted questions can lead to biased responses, compromising the quality of the data collected. This guide explores how to craft unbiased survey questions that elicit genuine, actionable responses while respecting the recipient’s autonomy. Well-designed surveys and their questions provide excellent benefits to organizations: Decision…
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Book Release! Renée Pawlish: Nephilim, Genesis of Evil
For two and a half years I worked with Renée at a Newspaper Database Marketing firm in Denver, Colorado. Like many talented employees, Renée had creative outlets that blew me away. I was lucky enough and thrilled to read the transcripts of Renée’s first murder mystery book. It was an awesome read, fun and unpredictable! Renée just wrote me and…
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Marketing Tools
Income Change Calculator: How I Learned to Code
Over 25 years ago, I shifted my career from an industrial electrician to an analyst. While I had already accumulated a ton of networking and PC experience and had to periodically program PLCs, I didn’t have any experience with modern development languages. Modern programming languages utilize new paradigms like object-oriented, procedural, or functional programming. They use text-based syntax with keywords,…
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Google Adsense for Search: Embed Results in WordPress
While I did quite a bit of template work on WordPress this weekend, I saw a note about embedding your Google Adsense for Search results within your Search Results page. This is pretty simple if you have a static website, but working within WordPress it’s a little more difficult. Thankfully, Google did a nice job (as usual) with writing some…