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Dear AT&T U-Verse
Dear AT&T, I’m already a customer of yours. I have both home phone and DSL through you (previously SBC). I like the service but wish to upgrade the DSL as well as take advantage of the great TV service you have. You see, my apartment only offers a basic package and I’d like to upgrade. For the last couple years,…
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Content Marketing
Weebly: A Remarkably Simple Site Hosting and CMS
When my friend Jenni told me that a mutual friend talked her into starting a web site with , a free hosting service and content management system (CMS), I really gave her a hard time. I just knew that I was going to wind up working all night to implement the nice site that was designed for her by Right…
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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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E-commerce and Retail
Securify: How to Lock Down Your Shopify Store With Country and IP Blocking
When you launch a Shopify store, it’s wide open to the world—literally. Anyone, anywhere, using any device or network, can access your site. While that openness is great for global commerce, it also exposes your store to unnecessary risks: fake traffic, bots, fraudulent orders, stolen content, and even costly chargebacks. Worse, you’re unknowingly wasting bandwidth and computing resources handling traffic…
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Is it really “Social” Media?
I’ve got 36 friends on Facebook, 122 connections on LinkedIn, 178 Members in my MyBlogLog community, a couple dozen on MySpace, about 60 friends on Yahoo! Instant Messenger, 20 on AOL Instant Messenger and a whopping 951 contacts on Plaxo! I’m also on Ryze, MyColts.net, Jaiku, Twitter and I read about a dozen friends’ blogs (among the 300 or so…
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Content Marketing
Become a Brand of Choice
In a recent post, Seth Godin asked an important question I think every business owner needs to answer : Why You? Why Now? Lets face in most product categories, but certainly in internet services we have choices. When it comes to Email providers, web hosts, and customer relationship management software , the smart business owner should ask a potential…
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Real-Time Publishing and Search
Real-time… it’s becoming quite an important element. Webtrends has released real-time search combined with alerts. PubSubhubbub is emerging for blogs to push their feeds rather than have them retrieved. Search reaction time is shrinking… people are expecting answers to questions that have only been asked a few minutes ago. For publishers, the challenge is to react when news happens and…
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Email Marketing & Automation
What Annoys People About Emails
The folks at ccLoop have put together this infographic on what annoys people about email. 95% of U.S. online consumers use email for communication and business. It’s a great tool to interact and reach new, existing, and future clients. However, email is not without its annoyances. Despite these issues, email has never been replaced and will continue to grow in…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
You Don’t Pay for Social Media Consultants
With the wide focus of Martech Zone, I may not get the social amplification that a great blog like Convince and Convert gets (Great post from Jay!)… but I do appreciate the community we’ve built here at Martech Zone. The most recent SurveyMonkey Poll we added on social media strategies fills me with pride… you folks are sophisticated marketers! You’re…
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Content Marketing
Torchlite: Digital Marketing with a Collaborative Economy Solution
By now, you’ve probably come across this quote from Tom Goodwin, senior vice president of strategy and innovation at Havas Media: Uber, the world’s largest taxi company, owns no vehicles. Facebook, the world’s most popular media owner, creates no content. Alibaba, the most valuable retailer, has no inventory. And Airbnb, the world’s largest accommodation provider, owns no real estate. There…
