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Sales and Marketing Training
The Perception of Effort Matters in Business
Because it “looks like you’re trying,” Seth writes. A dear friend of mine is out of town meeting with an organization about a nice position with them. I argued, begged, and pleaded with him to wear a suit. It’s a position where a suit is appropriate and fully within the salary offered. I tried everything… no budge. “I don’t do…
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ExactTarget Takes Customer Service up a Big (Social) Notch
This morning, I received an email from the folks at ExactTarget that stated that their customer portal had been upgraded to include case management. This isn’t just any little customer portal, though! ExactTarget 3sixty is a fully functioning customer-centric social network that’s integrated with case management, product recommendations, a training library and forums for customers to help one another. I…
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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…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Email Marketing Advanced Practices Handbook
MarketingSherpa, together with ClickMail Marketing, has put together one heck of a handbook on Email Marketing Advanced Practices! Today’s email marketers face significant challenges in communicating with their audience. Between distinguishing your brand from the competition, delivering qualified leads and increasing on-line revenue, it can be difficult to determine where your valuable time and resources should be spent, let alone…
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.NET Blogging Platform
I couldn’t help but laugh when I tried to check out the .NET Blogging Engine that’s just been released: I work in a .NET shop, so I’m sure the developers will give me a hard time about this tomorrow. I think I’ll be sticking to WordPress and PHP/MySQL for quite some time!
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Video: Innovation is Achieved by Solving Problems
On Friday, I was provided an amazing opportunity to participate in Compendium’s Innovation Summit. Under the leadership of President Frank Dale, with an idea from Blake Matheny, and with the support of founder Chris Baggott and Sales VP Scott Blezcinski, the company took a “time out” from working and, instead devoted a day to innovation. Chris started out the initiative…
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Customer Data Platforms
Big Data Insights from Microsoft
According to Microsoft’s Global Enterprise Big Data Trends: 2013 study of more than 280 IT decision-makers, the following trends emerged: Although the IT department (52 percent) is currently driving most of the demand for big data, customer care (41 percent), sales (26 percent), finance (23 percent) and marketing (23 percent) departments are increasingly driving demand. Seventeen percent of customers surveyed…
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Content Marketing
Do You Really Want to Work for a Startup?
There’s not much worse of a feeling in your gut than when you’re escorted out of a job. I was unceremoniously given the boot about 6 years ago when I worked for a regional newspaper. It was a pivotal point in my life and career. I had to decide whether I was going to battle back to higher success –…
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Analytics & Testing
57% of People Are Not Recommending You Because…
57% of people are not recommending your company because you have a poorly optimized mobile website. That hurts… and we know Martech Zone is one of them! While we have a fantastic mobile application, we know the Jetpack standard mobile theme is a pain to view our site on. As we continue to work with our clients and review their…
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A Day of Service
I heard on the news today that Dr. Martin Luther King’s wife wished for the day to be a day of service. There is some irony in the message as I write this post from Starbuck’s. Here’s my day today: My daughter came home last night with a fever that we’ve been nursing for the last 24 hours. It’s been…
