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Marketing Books
There’s No Better Compliment Than This For An Author of a Dummies Guide!
We’ve had many folks send us photos of Corporate Blogging for Dummies, but I’m not sure we’ll get a better one than this! Valerie Strohl is a consultant and national public speaker who works with companies to improve their relationships with those with disabilities. We met when I led a regional workshop for the National Speaker’s Association. Valerie has gone…
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Email Marketing & Automation
10 Holiday Deliverability Tips
From now until the end of the year, inboxes everywhere are fighting spam. Unfortunately, the chances of your email finding its way into a spam folder are pretty good. Especially if you haven’t been sending frequently and utilizing email marketing best practices. Digital marketers can face a long and winding road in getting emails to customers this time of year.…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
SERPs Launches Search Engine Volatility Index
Sometimes genius hits with the simplest of tools. Sometimes our customers have a sudden and steep change in their search engine rankings. The first thing we do is immediately check other client rankings to see whether or not the change appeared to be universal or a local issue. SERPs is already a brilliant, inexpensive tracking tool for search rankings and…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Google Adwords, Adsense and Google Maps?
Perhaps I’m coming to the party late and you’ve already known this, but I didn’t realize Google Adwords was working with Google Maps. I have a site that I’ve been experimenting with. In the background, I have a database that resolves your IP address (your network address) to a latitude and longitude. I then use that latitude and longitude to…
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Content Marketing
It’s July 4th: Support Blogging Freedom in the United States
Don’t take freedom for granted. Even in the world’s greatest country, freedom of speech is being challenged every single day in our courts. We’ve lost so many of our sons and daughters in the fight for freedom – do your part as well!
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E-commerce and Retail
Window Wars… Location, Location, Location
Location plays a crucial role in the success of retail businesses. Factors like foot traffic, visibility, accessibility, and demographics can greatly influence a store’s performance. Here are some key points and statistics on the impact of location and the role of windows and showcasing in retail: Foot traffic: Stores in high-traffic areas, such as busy streets, shopping centers, or tourist…
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Content Marketing
12 Paths to Creative Content Generation
We had an amazing webinar yesterday with PR Newswire and SurveyMonkey, over 1,600 people registered!!! The webinar was a joint webinar with John O’Connell, a PR and Communications consultant from HNTB. I’ve modified my presentation into a format friendly for distribution here: The 12 Paths to Creative Content Generation: Understand the intent of your visitors. Stop selling and provide value…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
The Most Common Misconception Marketing And PR Grads Have About Social Media
Over the last decade, I’ve hired interns and marketing graduates for my business. As a full-service marketing consultancy, we work on multichannel marketing for our clients, so I can place graduates where they best fit rather than just throwing them into some mundane marketing work. As an interview gets rolling, I ask, “So, what would you like to do?” I repeatedly…
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Content Marketing
Why Your Business Should Make Use of Video in Marketing
We’ve ramped up our video efforts here on Martech and it’s been great… engaging deeper on YouTube and social media with 1 to 2-minute Marketing Clips. Unfortunately, there are still many myths out there with regard to the costs and effort required to produce your own videos for marketing efforts. Best of all, you need not work through all of…
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Sales and Marketing Training
Four Critical Changes That Will Transform Your Agency’s Health
s your agency struggling to maintain growth, profitability, and a happy, creative workforce? I have been in that position a few times. As a corporate marketer, I was quite naive when I started my agency. We were going to over-deliver with clients, I was going to pay my employees well, and the business was going to grow at a moderate…