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Email Marketing & Automation
Your Email Open Rates May Be Low Because You’re Not Utilizing Alt Tags On Images
Tonight I received an email from Panera Bread. Like so many email programs nowadays, my email application automatically blocks images. As a result, here’s what the email looked like: Not too compelling… especially for a beautiful email that looked like this when all of the images were loaded: I can’t imagine how many people deleted the email without reading it…
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Marketing Infographics
Mobile Marketing: Make it Personal
Hipcricket’s 2014 online survey, Consumer Attitudes on Mobile Marketing, was conducted in April 2014 and targeted 1,202 adults in the US. The survey found that Marketers are already adopting mobile and consumers are responding. Two-thirds of respondents said they’d received a text message from a brand in the last 6 months and almost half of consumers found the text message…
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Sales and Marketing Training
Navigating Time Challenges in an Era of Shrinking Budgets, Expanding Strategies, and Limited Resources
It’s been 20 years since I first wrote about the challenge of time with respect to marketing. Marketers continue to grapple with a persistent and escalating challenge: the lack of time to manage every channel and medium effectively. With budgets stagnating or shrinking amid economic uncertainties, teams are stretched thin, often forced to juggle multichannel strategies without adequate resources. In…
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Content Marketing
Get offline, get unplugged, at least for a while
I first got online and got my first e-mail address in early 1995. In late ’95 I launched my Web design business. Having my own company meant being online and available to my customers all the time. I was always plugged in. Even on vacation I brought my now vintage NEC laptop. As time went by I joined various startups.…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Is Twitter in Your Service Channel Yet?
If I call your company with a complaint or question, only your customer representative hears me. If I ask on Twitter, though, my 8,000 followers hear me… and those that retweet expand the audience into their networks. Twitter is quickly becoming a democratizing factor to customers who want answers. Are you listening to Twitter? Twitter isn’t a fad or a…
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It Is Not the Critic Who Counts
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again…
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Content Marketing
Lusso Launch: Brand an Exotic Car Running the Las Vegas Strip
Lusso Launch is a sports car meets customer pick-up service in major cities (currently Denver and Las Vegas). Imagine getting picked up in a Lamborghini, Ferrari, McLaren, Porsche, Aston Martin, Bentley, Rolls Royce, Mercedes, Corvette, Viper, BMW i8, Ford GT, or Nissan GTR for your next night out. Lusso Ride has a variety of service offerings to meet your transportation needs. Our…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
How Marketers Can Weather a Possible TikTok Ban
For marketers, these past weeks have been a nail-biting rollercoaster ride as the deadline came and went for the potential ban of TikTok in the U.S. For now, with the new presidential administration in its corner, the Chinese-owned social media platform continues to operate normally following a brief 12-hour shutdown. However, that could change in a few months should the…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
The Prestige Formula: Inside Abdulbasyr Makhtibekov’s Method for Engineering Desire in the High-End Auto Market
A seasoned marketing expert reveals how identity, emotion, and cultural context drive demand in the world of luxury automobiles. As global demand for luxury automobiles continues to surge, the market is projected to grow from $623.9 billion in 2024 to $920.17 billion by 2029. It’s no longer enough for high-end brands to rely on horsepower or heritage. In a space where technical…
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Event Marketing
Navan: Effortless Event Travel Management for Employees, Speakers, and Influencers
Planning an event is stressful enough—juggling speakers, sponsors, and attendees while tracking hundreds of moving pieces. But when you also have to manage travel for VIPs, staff, and guests, it can quickly spiral into chaos. Spreadsheets, last-minute flight changes, and hotel mix-ups don’t just waste time—they create friction that reflects poorly on your brand. At the last Adobe Summit, I…