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Content Marketing
Don’t be a Punk, be a Hunk and Chunk Your Content
That stunk, sorry! Hopefully, it got your attention. Dan Zarrella has an excellent post on chunking your content. I’m repeating some of his advice and throwing in a little of my own. Chunkless: There has been a tremendous amount of research on web visitor behavior and how they read and transverse articles and pages in a web browser. A common…
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Advertising Technology
MassiveImpact: A Cost Per Action Mobile Ad Network
Views, impressions, clicks… I seriously wonder why we still measure and advertise based on these metrics. MassiveImpact is a mobile ad network reaching more than 1 billion mobile internet users from 190 countries and they don’t. They use CPA, or cost per action, to determine their ad pricing. That’s right… you only pay when there’s an actual conversion! This means…
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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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Content Marketing
Are Content Marketers Ready for Disruption?
In a new study commissioned by Kapost from the Aberdeen Group, research found few marketers who feel they’re adequately producing and tracking their content. And an exploitable gap is emerging between content leaders and content followers. Kapost calls the transition period where demand is high but smart planning is in short supply Content Chaos. They designed the infographic below to…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Getting Your People in Search Results
Because of employee turnover, many companies are hesitant at promoting the people within the business. The truth is that it’s a mixed strategy… if you don’t promote your people, they’ll go somewhere where they do get the spotlight. If you do promote your people, they may get an offer to go to a better place. That’s the risk of all…
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Content Marketing
Affordable Market Research from Market Tools
Last month SurveyMonkey joined Martech Zone as our technology sponsor. We’ve had a great time using their easy survey tools and, most of all, learning how to design polls and surveys that produce results. It wasn’t until our interview with the great folks on their team that we realized SurveyMonkey was much more than a survey solution, though. Parent company…
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Analytics & Testing
The Value of Visitor Actions
We measure a lot with analytics, but we don’t often put a value on each of the actions a visitor takes when they connect with us online. It’s important that companies pay attention to more than visits and conversions… there are a ton of interactions in between and after that provide value. In the above chart I have two axis……
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Freedom of the Press
This week has been fascinating with regard to the Web. I’m a firm believer in both capitalism and in freedom. They are two sides of a careful scale. Without freedom, the wealthy will rule. Without capitalism, you’ll never have the opportunity for wealth. The First Amendment of the Constitution: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Half of Companies Polled have a Google+ Page
We ran a SurveyMonkey poll on our sidebar for the last few weeks to get a clear picture of how many companies had adopted a Google+ page. The poll results were a perfect split… only 50% of readers said their company had a Google+ page. While that may seem low, I think the real numbers may be much lower. I…
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Customer Data Platforms
Appointiv: Streamline and Automate Appointment Scheduling Using Salesforce
One of the significant behavioral changes that have occurred in the buyer’s journey online is the ability to self-service. As a buyer, I want to research problems online, identify solutions, evaluate vendors, and… ultimately… get as far to the finish line as I can before ever having to contact a salesperson. Automated Appointment Scheduling We’ve all been through scheduling hell……