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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,…
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7 Steps to Content Marketing Success
It shouldn’t be a question anymore about the value and performance of a solid content marketing strategy. Your business needs a consistent heartbeat of content streaming from it that gets the attention of prospects, builds your authority and trust online, and ultimately drives conversions through your inbound and outbound marketing channels. No surprises from this infographic from Smart Insights –…
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What are the Wings of Your Marketing Strategy?
Yesterday, I started reading Nick Carter’s book Twelve Seconds: The Lift Your Business Needs. I love the analogy of a business as flight in the book and Nick describes it thoroughly. One of the first discussions is lift. NASA defines lift as the following: Lift is the force that directly opposes the weight of an airplane and holds the airplane…
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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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Marketing Real Estate Online has Evolved
The Real Estate industry has undergone some huge changes thanks to a housing bubble (predicted here), technology changes, and further domination of search online. The bubble as well as the rise and incredibly deep fall of the mortgage market has forced real estate agents to be more cautious with their marketing investments. Technology has changed as well, though. Mobile integration…
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It’s Time to Change Email Marketing Strategies when…
Your emails look like this: 1.webp” alt=”” title=”Change This – Topica” class=”alignnone size-full tie-image2231″ /> Perhaps a subject line more compelling and personalized instead of “ChangeThis: Issue 46” Perhaps some line breaks so that I don’t have to wrap as I read (I didn’t read it, it was impossible). Perhaps Multi-part MIME emails to send text to those who want…
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Should You Optimize Content for Wide Screens?
I’d love a user experience expert to chime in on this post. I’ve been watching as more and more technology sites are maximizing the viewport (the viewable region of your device) and I’m not really that impressed. I don’t believe that, if you have more resolution that you need to use that resolution. Here’s a breakdown of the top resolutions…
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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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AddThis Adds Personal Targeting to Improve Engagement, Conversions and Revenue
Most of the marketing technology world is focused on getting visits. Link baiting is off the charts and it’s resulting in terrible results for marketers. Getting someone to your site is actually pretty easy, but keeping them there and actually encouraging them to do business with you is quite complex. Even on a publication like ours, increasing our viewership is…
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Mobile Textarea: How Many Characters Left
We’re up to Version 3.0 of the WordPress Mobile Plugin utilizing Connective Mobile’s API and Text Club feature. Connective Mobile has a 150 Character limit for your Mobile Marketing message that you want to broadcast to your subscribers. Rather than having someone wonder how many characters they have left, I modified Geeky Grrl’s little in-line JavaScript method to display the…
