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E-commerce and Retail
5 Online Shoppers Ruling the Holiday
The folks at Maxymiser shared their latest infographic, 5 Online Shoppers Ruling the Holiday Interwebs. I really appreciate insight like this because too much of the data out there points to the average shopper… and then chops down the data by gender, age and income. The fact is that there are many different motivations for people to make a purchase.…
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Marketing Infographics
Advertiser’s Guide to Mobile
Last week I spent some time with my parents and was pretty shocked when they showed me they both traded in their mobile phones for iPhones. While they were both fairly frustrated with learning how to use them, they told me that it was actually less expensive for the iPhone 4 than a typical mobile phone. Of course, the inside…
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Marketing Tools
50,000,000 Business Cards!
If you’ve not had the opportunity to check out Moo’s famous minicards, they are truly a treat! Casey from MooshinIndy.com had a set printed up with her fantastic photos and they were incredible. They’re made from good stock and really catch your eye. In fact, they’ve sold over 50 million business cards from Moo and delivered them to over 150…
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Analytics & Testing
Predictive Marketing Analytics with ThinkVine
What would the Return on Investment be if you could change your marketing mix? This is a question that large customers with complex marketing strategies (that are balanced between a multitude of mediums) ask themselves every day. Should we drop radio for online? Should I shift marketing from television to search? What will the impact on my business be if…
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Engage! Business Rules and Social Media
For the past month, I’ve been reading Engage: The Complete Guide for Brands and Businesses to Build, Cultivate, and Measure Success in the New Web. This is not a light read – a complete guide may be an understatement! It’s a book you really need to sit down, concentrate on and digest one page at a time. Brian has outdone…
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Content Marketing
Marketers are So Full of Crap
<rant>I’m listening to The Influencer Project. It’s a really interesting project – 60 minutes of 60-second tips from the Who’s Who on the web talking about creating influence online. I could be a little bitter that I didn’t get invited to help, but as I’m listening to these folks… I came to the realization that many of them are just…
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Analytics & Testing
Conversions: Meet the Intent of your Visitor
It may seem like an obvious question, but it when your site is designed to respond to the intent of each kind of visitor you’re able to convert more. Visitors will come to your site for a number of reasons: Seeking Information – both clients and prospects may be looking for specific answers. Can they find them? If not, can…
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Content Marketing
Selling IN Content is not Selling WITH Content
In speaking with a company that produces great content, they discussed that some of the content ideas that they ran up the flagpole had been denied because the content didn’t directly influence the sale of their products nor services. Ugh. What an absolutely disastrous content strategy. If the goal of every piece of your content is to sell something, you…