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Customer Data Platforms
PowerChord: Centralized Local Lead Management and Distribution for Dealer-Distributed Brands
The larger brands get, the more moving parts appear. Brands sold through a network of local dealers have an even more complex set of business goals, priorities, and online experiences to consider — from the brand perspective down to the local level. Brands want to be easily discovered and purchased. Dealers want new leads, more foot traffic, and increased sales.…
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Content Marketing
Oxygen: The WordPress Visual Builder That Designers and Developers Actually Love
If you’ve ever wrestled with bloated code, sluggish page builders, or design tools that limit your vision, you’re not alone. For too long, WordPress professionals have been forced to choose between speed and creative freedom. But that’s changing fast. A new generation of creators is demanding more—and getting it. Oxygen Meet Oxygen, the performance-obsessed visual builder that’s taking WordPress by…
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Artificial Intelligence
Microsoft Research: Marketing and Sales Will Collaborate with AI, Not Compete Against It
There’s a lot of anxiety around this report across the Internet… but I’m far more optimistic having been through several disruptions in my career. I’m not trying to downplay how impactful this may be, but I want to bring some positive points to the conversation. People are using Copilot to provide services for the execution of knowledge work activities, and…
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Content Marketing
Rise of the Visual Social Networks
Flickr, Pinterest, Instagram, Path, Facebook and Twitter are all focusing quite a bit of attention on visuals. It’s long been understood by marketers that visuals are essential to all content marketing efforts – but not it appears more important than ever as these tools fully leverage the image to enhance the user experience and shareability of the content presented. John…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Finally – A Resource to Keep Abreast of Social Media Marketing!
The incredible folks at Social Media Examiner have launched their exclusive membership community, The Social Media Marketing Society. The purpose of the Society is to help you discover new ideas, avoid trial and error, implement the newest social tactics and find what works best with social media marketing. When you join the Society, you’ll receive three original training sessions each…
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Marketing Infographics
Social Media Timing
Some very intriguing stats on social media timing from @danzarrela, put into a beautiful infographic by the folks at Kissmetrics. Utilizing techniques to schedule your social media engagement can maximize the exposure your content will get in social networks. Included are stats for Facebook and Twitter on what days and times are best to maximize the audience size and the…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Checking Your Site’s Rank with Personalized Search
One of my clients called last week and asked why, when she searched, her site was first in the rankings but another person had her down the page a bit. If you hadn’t heard the ruckus, Google has turned on personalized search results permanently. That means that based on your search history, your results will differ. If you’re checking your…
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Content Marketing
The Power of Corporate Blogging for Content Marketing
This morning, I had a fantastic time on the Open for Business radio show with Trey Pennington and Jay Handler, accomplished speakers and consultants assisting businesses to take it to the next level. The topic, of course, was Corporate Blogging! During the show, Dan Waldschmidt asked some fantastic questions that I wanted to share since we couldn’t go into too…
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Content Marketing
Integrate Chat with your Site in 5 Minutes
Over at WP Engine, I noticed they were running a really nice online chat program that popped up after about 45 seconds on the site. More and more of our clients had been asking for such a solution, so I did some digging and was surprised what I found! SnapEngage is a ridiculously simple Chat program for your website that…
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Content Marketing
Sitelock: Protect Your WordPress Website and Visitors
WordPress security is one of those things that’s often left until it’s too late. About once a quarter I’m asked to help clean up a site that’s been attacked. The attacks happen because WordPress is left without updating and a known security hole is taken advantage of. Or, more often, it’s a poorly developed theme or plugin that’s not been…
