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Content Marketing
Dos and Don’ts of Content Marketing
Alright, here’s your chuckle for the afternoon. Using Meltwater Buzz, we just saw this simple and beautiful infographic providing a good checklist of items that one may want to keep in mind when developing their content marketing strategy. One of the rules with regard to blogging is Don’t publish a badly written blog. I’ve seen a lot of bad writing…
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Content Marketing
Drip, Drip, Drip… Buy
No one is waiting for your next tweet, status update or blog post to make their next purchase. There’s always the chance that you might motivate someone to purchase, but it’s impossible to predict when prospects are ready to make their next purchase. That’s why it’s so important to be there when your prospects are ready to decide. Where will…
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Analytics & Testing
Analyzing Social Streams with DataSift
DataSift is a powerful real-time social media data-filtering platform and is one of only two companies in the world with a license to make Twitter data commercially available for non-display purposes, allowing users to search for posts using metadata contained in tweets. And it does so with an incredibly beautiful interface as well as a developer console and robust API…
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Content Marketing
Relaunch!
The ol’ theme was starting to get a little boring for me, so I decided to throw caution to the wind and really soup up the site. I started off with the Squible beta theme and tweaked it out totally. I even added the Google Video bar, it does a search of random sets of tags from Google Video. You’ll…
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Content Marketing
Transistor: Host and Distribute Your Business Podcasts With This Podcasting Platform
One of my clients already does a fantastic job at leveraging video throughout their site and via YouTube. With that success, they’re looking to do longer, more in-depth interviews with guests, customers, and internally to help describe the benefits of their products. Podcasting is quite a different beast when it comes to developing your strategy… and hosting it is unique…
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Advertising Technology
LinkTrackr: Supercharge Affiliate Tracking & Cloak Links Like a Pro
Affiliate marketers face an uphill battle today. Between ad fraud, commission hijacking, and poor tracking by affiliate networks, it isn’t easy to trust the data or the dollars. Worse, long and ugly affiliate URLs can turn off savvy visitors or expose your commissions to savvy competitors. That’s where link cloaking comes in. What is Link Cloaking? Link cloaking is the…
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
Airslate: Design and Automate Any Document Workflow in Minutes
Disconnected tools are one of the biggest obstacles to modern business productivity. Teams juggle multiple platforms—one for building forms, another for signatures, another for automation—only to discover they still need yet another tool to get the work done. These disconnected interactions waste time, cause errors, and delay critical decisions. When your business relies on accurate and timely documentation, every delay…
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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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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Oh Uh… Google Just Launches the SEA Industry
Search Engine Assassination. Have you heard about it? You will. This week, the SEO world was turned upside down when Google decided to drop JC Penney off the index because of spammy, keyword-rich backlinks found on sites other than its own to push up ranking. While the entire industry is acting shocked, most of us within the industry know that…
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Analytics & Testing
What’s your Strategy for Customer Recovery?
In many posts I’ve spoken about “get, keep and grow” strategies for companies to grow their business, but one aspect I don’t think I’ve ever written about is recovering customers. Since I’m in the software industry, I’ve rarely seen customers return so we’ve not incorporated tactics to try to win a customer back. That’s not to say it should not…