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Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
Steve Jobs: Let Them Eat Case!
I’m writing this on an Apple keyboard, with my Apple MacBookPro, on my Apple Cinema Display, with my Apple mouse… connected to my Apple Time Machine. I don’t call myself an Apple fanboy, but the quality of their products is always worth the additional cost in my opinion. It’s not just the beauty of their products that I appreciate, it’s…
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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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Marketing Infographics
Mobile Marketing and Advertising
This infographic was put together by the folks at Microsoft Tag. Did you know that a third of Facebook’s users are accessing it via mobile? Or that 200 million YouTube videos are viewed via mobile? Or that, on average, we spend 2.7 hours a day on mobile devices… with 91% of the activity being social? In case you weren’t aware…
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Analytics & Testing
A Great Tool to Troubleshoot Google Analytics Tracking Codes
Oh, those smarties at Google with all their tools! Last week, a client was having some issues with their Google Analytics tracking, trying to segment visitors that were logged in versus those who were not. Central to the troubleshooting was ensuring the right events and data were being passed in to Google. I showed him how I would troubleshoot using…
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Content Marketing
Your Website is Not a Project
We’re in the midst of assisting a new client with a website redesign. Their current site appears to have been done quite a few years ago and appears that way. It’s fixed HTML with no responsiveness, a difficult URL structure, and no content management system behind it. At the time, the site was quite an undertaking and I’m quite sure…
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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
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…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Watch Your Keyword Matching Options in Adwords
This week I was in Houston and Austin speaking and being a panelist for their respective Online Marketing Summits. Be sure to check out their Cities and Agendas page and attend an event… the quality of the presentations were outstanding and conference host, Aaron Kahlow, kept the events engaging and fun. Yesterday I shared a tip from Apogee Search on…
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Agencies need this Book on their Coffee Table
Many years ago I went to my boss with, what I thought, was an incredible idea to boost garage sale classified advertisements. Build an online application where a subscriber can find their home and plot a day of garage sale visits. In between, advertisers could put a coupon or two for lunch or coffee. The route plotted would provide the…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
Video: Market Like Beyonce (NSFW)
Just a heads’ up that this video does have some colorful language. If you’re at work, you may need to put on the headphones. This is a pretty straight forward message from Gary Vaynerchuk. I love the message that social media is a long-term strategy and it’s one that most companies fail to understand. I always tell folks that it’s…
