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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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Traffic is Relative, I Have Enough
1.webp” title=”Eyeballs” class=”alignright” width=”150″ height=”104″ />Growing traffic. Everyone seems obsessed with getting their content out there to as many places and searches they possibly can. For a business, it’s always cool to get national or regional recognition that gets some interest flowing in your company. Is it the right traffic, though? Working in the Newspaper industry gave me a fascinating…
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RSS versus Email: A Marketing View
It’s a discussion that’s getting old, but with the advent of Outlook 2007 support for RSS – the online industry continues to make comparisons between RSS and email for online Marketing Communications (with SMS right around the corner). From a content management standpoint, a lot of Industry folks think of all of these as ‘output’ types. That’s a really ignorant…
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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…
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GoSquared: Real-Time Analytics and Data
If you haven’t heard of GoSquared, it’s already running on over 30,000 websites! GoSquared markets itself as the simplest, easiest to use analytics ever. Not only do they aim to take visualization of analytics data to the next level, the data itself is all yours via their robust API. GoSquared aims to provide you with everything you need in an…
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Social Media Marketing is about the Social, Not the Media
Social media platforms are tools. Social media platforms are software. There are other tools and software out there. There will be better tools around the corner. Twitter doesn’t matter. Facebook doesn’t matter. LinkedIn doesn’t matter. Blogs don’t matter. They all just help us get a little closer to what we really want. 1.webp” class=”s3-img alignright” align=”right”” border=”0″ alt=”Amplifier”> What we…
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The Three Things That Truly Matter in Marketing: Understand, Be on Brand, Build Trust
Marketers love complexity. We chase analytics dashboards, debate attribution models, obsess over martech stacks, and build detailed campaign flows that promise to turn data into growth. The industry rewards precision and optimization—and it’s easy to get lost in that world. But when you strip all of it down, every click, impression, and conversion comes back to just three fundamentals: understand…
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What Search Engines Read…
Search engines index pages with complex algorithms that weigh a ton of different variables, both internal and external to your page. I do think it’s important to recognize what key elements that Search Engines pay attention to, though. Most of them are elements that you have full control over when planning or designing your site or simply writing your page.…
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The New Ultimate Secret How To Top 10 Guide
Titles are one of the most underestimated pieces of content on your blog or website. Every class that you ever took on writing told you that a great title summarizes the story. On the web, it’s not the same deal. I could have written this title as “Writing Post Titles”… no one would have clicked on it. One thing you’ll…
