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Analytics & Testing
Your Marketer Is There to Help You
I have a lot friends who run marketing agencies and a lot of marketing professionals throughout the Internet that I’m friends with. I’m not exaggerating when I say that the most frustrating thing that I and others find about our job is the resistance of the businesses we’re working with. We are paid to come consult with clients and assist…
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Analytics & Testing
‘Tis the Season… to Benchmark Against Seasonal Trends
For sites like my own, the holiday season could look quite depressing as I review analytics. Overall traffic is down along with organic traffic as my audience shifts to holiday mode and begins to put off efforts until after the New Year. It’s also a time when I have to reassure both myself and my clients that we’re performing well…
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E-commerce and Retail
Building High-Value Pipelines: How High-Ticket Ecommerce Merchants Win with Personalized Retargeting
High-ticket ecommerce faces a fundamental challenge that most conversion optimization advice ignores: the customer journey operates on entirely different timelines and decision-making processes than typical online shopping. When someone purchases a $50 sweater, they might decide in minutes. When they’re considering a $5,000 home gym setup or $15,000 luxury watch, the journey spans weeks or months, involves multiple stakeholders, and…
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Content Marketing
It is All About Reusable Code? er… Content
I am not a techy! Not really, but I spend a lot time around tech wizards, like my host, Douglas Karr. One of the most important lessons I learned from one of the programmers I worked with, was the value of reusable code. While every client likes to think they are unique, he explained once you write code to automate…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Email Viewing Habits are Rapidly Changing
This incredible infographic from Litmus shows the drastic change in email viewing behavior just in the last year! From the infographic: Email remains the strongest online activity around the globe. In fact, email users are expected to reach 3.8 billion by 2014; that is nearly half of the earth’s current population, and a significant climb from 2.9 billion reported users…
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Content Marketing
Why Every Publisher Should Implement a trust.txt File—and How to Do It Right
In an era where misinformation spreads faster than facts and AI models are trained on everything that isn’t nailed down, publishers have an increasing obligation to transparently assert their identity, affiliations, and data usage policies. The trust.txt file is an emerging standard designed to do precisely that—and it’s time for every publisher to consider implementing it. Here’s everything you need…
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Analytics & Testing
Hubspot: How To Test Call-To-Action Variations for Explosive Business Growth
Understanding your audience is paramount to success. But how can you truly know what resonates with your customers and drives conversions? Enter A/B testing, a simple yet powerful tool that can transform your marketing strategy. HubSpot, a leading CRM platform, offers comprehensive A/B testing features to empower marketers to make data-driven decisions and optimize their campaigns for maximum impact. Hubspot…
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Content Marketing
The Break Up
What if we dated people like we marketed to them? It might go something like this… Hat tip to Mack at The Viral Garden blog.
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Content Marketing
WordPress: Related Post Tweaking
If you’re using WordPress, one of your required plugins should be the Related Post plugin. That said, I noticed that the volume of keywords that were being posted with my Daily Reads were really skewing the Related Post results. As well, I was really surprised that the Related Posts plugin only provided a list of related posts before the post…
