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E-commerce and Retail
Causes: Charity + Facebook = WIN!
I’m not a fan of Facebook, that probably won’t change anytime soon. Aside from the ridiculous ads that won’t go away no matter how many times I ask (see screenshot below), Facebook is a closed system – they want all activity to happen within their platform. This is constraining… and lessons should have been learned from AOL and MySpace. In…
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Content Marketing
WordPress: Publish Future Posts as Upcoming Events
We built a WordPress micro-site for Corporate Blogging for Dummies and wanted to have a section where we displayed upcoming events in the lower sidebar. The solution to do this is actually quite simple and built directly into WordPress. Within your theme, you can add a loop that only queries and displays future posts for a specific category that is…
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Content Marketing
Are Your Video Ads Being Seen?
A little more than half of all advertisements on video pages are seen across the web, a difficult situation for marketers hoping to take advantage of the growing video viewership across devices. It’s not all bad news… even a video ad that was partially listened to still had an impact. Google analyzed their DoubleClick, Google and YouTube advertising platforms to…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Blogs Heating Up
This week was a difficult week. My job is fantastic, and my peers and my clients appreciate me. For the first time, though, I believe my blog interfered with my professional relationships. Having spoken with them at length, I don’t believe there is a concern with my employer. My leaders believe in blogging as a healthy expression. Of course, they…
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Marketing Infographics
How Businesses are Making Friends on Facebook
Sometimes we get in the weeds on our posts here at Martech so this infographic is a nice change. As an overall marketing strategy, how are businesses leveraging Facebook? This infographic does a great job of explaining how! Today’s consumer is turning to online mediums to make informed buying decisions—wanting to feel as if they are a valued consumer that…
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Content Marketing
4 Keys to Making Your Social Video Strategy a Success
We’ve shared a great infographic on the starter guide for social video, now here’s a great infographic from The Media Octopus on tips for leveraging social video for your brand. There has never been a better time for a brand to invest in creating and distributing content that causes people to laugh out loud, tingle with anticipation or feel the…
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Advertising Technology
impact.com: Drive 3X More Revenue With Partnership Automation
Partnerships have always played a vital role in driving business growth. Whether through alliances, co-marketing, or customer referrals, businesses succeed when they collaborate. But in today’s digital economy, traditional approaches to partnerships—such as affiliate networks or basic referral programs—can’t keep up with the complexity of modern ecosystems. The landscape now includes influencers, mobile apps, SaaS integrations, business development partnerships, card-linked…
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Bubbles, Reflections – now Ambient Glow!
After scrapping my old theme, the default Kubrick theme started to grow on me… it’s clean and simple. After getting quite a bit of ribbing about my last theme (very, very, very customized aka hacked Anaconda theme) breaking with WordPress 2.1, I was motivated to get a new theme up and going quickly. Perhaps the worst (or best) ribbing I…
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Content Marketing
Who’s Holding Your Oil Can?
All day – every day – folks email me, text me, twitter me, visit me, call me and instant message me with questions regarding domains, capabilities, CSS, competition, keyword strategies, client issues, sales positioning, marketing strategies, blogging, social media, etc. I get invitations to speak, to write, to help, to meet… you name it. My days are busy and incredibly…
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Content Marketing
Slideshare – Quiet Giant of Content Marketing
According to ComScore, Slideshare has five times the traffic from business owners than any other popular websites – including LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube! Slideshare is now one of the top 150 sites on the web with 60 million visitors a month. Content on Slideshare is viewed across the web thanks to their embedding methodology to the tune of 3…
