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Information Overload and Infographics
Every day we review our alerts from Meltwater, or sponsor, and review dozens of marketing-related infographics on the web. Each week we choose not to publish hundreds of infographics, though. We develop infographics ourselves and it’s not that we’re snobs… it’s simply that we understand what makes an infographic work and what doesn’t. A well-designed infographic without information overload has…
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Monitoring Keyword Rank Distribution?
Since search engine optimization continues to drive down costs for our clients, we work hard to get them ranked well. When you’re trying to rank on a few words, it’s pretty simple to see if you’re doing the right things… using a tool like Authority Labs, you can monitor day to day ranking. We do this for all of our…
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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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Boost Your Brand with Custom Patches: The Ultimate SWAG for Lasting Impressions
Standing out is everything. Whether you’re a small business, event organizer, or creative brand, you need unique, cost-effective ways to get noticed. Custom patches are one of the best-kept secrets in marketing—an affordable, stylish, and durable way to showcase your brand and turn customers into walking billboards. Unlike traditional SWAG giveaways that get tossed aside, patches are a high-impact promotional…
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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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Our Social Responsibility in Social Media
1.webp” alt=”” title=”WIBC” width=”200″ height=”103″ class=”alignright size-thumbnail tie-image15326″ />Whether you like it or not, as your company begins to build a dialogue in social media you have a responsibility. You have a responsibility to your audience and your company to uphold the quality of those conversations. I hate visiting a major media outlet and seeing nothing but lies, trolls and…
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Not All SEO Professionals Are Created Equal
While I was at a content management platform I cofounded, I was often confronted by SEO professionals who liked to challenge every little thing across the application. At issue was that these folks were used to working on a set number of pages with a few keywords and then maximizing the impact of those select pages. They weren’t used to…
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Robocalls- We won’t miss them!
We all get them, and almost universally hate them, the annoying call promoting some product or event that plays a recording or, even worse, speaks to you in a mechanical voice. Well, the FTC has enacted new rules and regulations regarding the placing of these calls. Jon Leibowitz, Chairman of the FTC, had some pretty harsh words on the subject.…
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Handwriting and Direct Mail: More Opens
When I was in charge of direct mail services at a newspaper, I used to educate our clients that the time they had to attract a prospect was the distance between their mailbox and the trash. Handwritten fonts are one of the techniques that modern marketers are deploying. I received a blue envelope that had my name and address neatly…
