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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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Do You Text from the Bathroom?
Chances are pretty good that you do text from the bathroom… in fact 2 out of 3 people admit doing it. It sort of grosses me out thinking about borrowing anyone’s mobile phone now! We appreciate it when our clients use our text messaging services… but thank goodness they’re typically outside of a home for sale! As for the 2/3rds…
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Your Email Open Rates May Be Low Because You’re Not Utilizing Alt Tags On Images
Tonight I received an email from Panera Bread. Like so many email programs nowadays, my email application automatically blocks images. As a result, here’s what the email looked like: Not too compelling… especially for a beautiful email that looked like this when all of the images were loaded: I can’t imagine how many people deleted the email without reading it…
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Pink: When Business Is Bare
1.webp” alt=”Victoria Secret Pink” title=”Victoria Secret Pink” width=”300″ height=”166″ class=”alignright size-medium tie-image4246″ />When my 15 year old daughter came home with a Victoria Secret bag in her hand I almost had a stroke. I welcome all the comments in this post about how terrible a father I must be and that I should better monitor my daughter’s buying habits. Honestly,…
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Unlocking SaaS Growth Through Organizational Maturity
Customer experience (CX), internal collaboration, and agile decision-making are key factors that define market leaders. SaaS companies can no longer afford to operate in silos or underutilize their technology stack. The maturity model developed by the Chess Media Group, popularized in Jacob Morgan’s book, The Collaborative Organization, provides a robust framework for understanding how organizational capabilities evolve and, more importantly,…
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The #1 Question Search Engine Users Ask About Your Business
How? In 2014, out of all of the searches on Google, how was the #1 term used by search engine users. Every product or service sold across the Internet answers a How. The question is whether or not you’re the destination for the information they’re seeking. If you’re a sports drink, the how might be how to deal with cramps,…
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Thank You for the Recognition Today, Indy!
In February I pulled some all-nighters and weekends while volunteering for the 2012 Superbowl Committee. Pat Coyle gave me a call when it was ramping up and I was energized to be on board and provide some guidance (and quite a bit of development) to piece together a social and search campaign that would get Indianapolis’ name all over the…
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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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Appirio Connects Salesforce and Facebook
I was just doing a webinar yesterday and someone asked me to prioritize social networks based on their ability to drive business. Although I don’t believe social networks to be a primary medium for marketing and advertising (based on the intent of the user), I do encourage our clients to utilize RSS and other tools to automate publishing of their…
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Mavericks at Work: Who’s Hiring?
Last month the Indianapolis Marketing Book Club chose Mavericks at Work as the book to read. I love books, and especially love business books. My house is full of them. I’m reading this one and just started Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time. Mavericks at Work is one of those incredibly inspirational books,…
