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How To Use Animated GIFs Effectively In Your Email Marketing
An animated GIF consists of a series of individual images or frames displayed in a sequence to create the illusion of motion or animation. Each frame can have its own time delay, allowing for different durations for each frame of the animation. Here’s a great example: Animated GIFs are commonly used on websites and in digital communication to add simple…
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GravityKit: Display and Visualize Gravity Forms Data in WordPress (Tables, Maps, PDFs, Charts, or HTML)
Gravity Forms is a user-friendly, robust WordPress plugin that allows businesses to create custom forms to collect and process data on their websites. It’s highly versatile, catering to various needs such as contact forms, surveys, and user submissions. We designed an online assessment for a client utilizing Gravity Forms to collect the data. However, we were surprised when we couldn’t…
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What Is Marketing Data Analytics? Why Your Business Should Embrace It
Let’s face it – collecting and analyzing customer data from diverse channels can be a daunting task. When done ineffectively, it can negatively impact decision-making, leading to business failure. I’ve witnessed how poor data quality results in a frustrating cycle of missed opportunities and underachieved marketing goals. 21% of respondents experienced marketing budget wastage (1 in 5 dollars lost) because…
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The Amazing Marketing Opportunity Coming With IoT
I was asked to speak at a regional event on the Internet of Things. As co-host of the Dell Luminaries podcast, I’ve had a ton of exposure to Edge computing and the technological innovation already taking shape. However, if you search for marketing opportunities for IoT, there’s honestly not a lot of discussion online. I’m disappointed since IoT will transform…
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Panguin Tool: Overlay Google Search Algorithm Changes With Your Google Analytics Data
If you’re a highly technical SEO professional, you pay attention to major algorithm changes published by Google’s Search Engine to observe whether or not they’ve impacted your organic search traffic. One incredible way of observing this is to overlay your Google Analytics data with the dates those algorithm changes took place. The Panguin Tool enables you to do just that,…
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The Lean Canvas Model: A Tool for Strategic Business Clarity
Whether you’re a seasoned business owner, a leadership team navigating corporate waters, or an entrepreneur just starting, the journey from idea to successful execution is fraught with challenges. A common pitfall is the myopic focus on the product or service offering, with inadequate consideration of the market’s realities. That’s where the Lean Canvas Model steps in as a corrective lens…
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What Is Remnant Traffic and How Can Publishers Monetize It?
In digital publishing, not all traffic is created equal. While premium traffic—visitors from targeted campaigns or loyal repeat users—often drive the most revenue, a significant portion of a publisher’s audience falls into a less lucrative category: remnant traffic. Understanding remnant traffic and leveraging its potential can help publishers unlock additional revenue streams without compromising their primary audience strategies. What Is…
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Understanding The Challenges (And Frustrations) of HTML Email Design
If you open up a content management system to build web pages, it’s a pretty simple process. Modern web browsers support HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to strict web standards. And they’re just a handful of browsers that designers need to worry about. There are exceptions, of course… and some simple workarounds or functions specific to those browsers. Because of the…
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How to Build a URL Shortener (PHP, MySQL, .htaccess)
With so many long URLs cluttering the web, having your own URL shortener can help create clean, short links perfect for marketing campaigns, social media, or personal projects. From a marketing standpoint, URL shorteners are critical for a couple of reasons: Campaign Tracking: You should always append your Analytics UTM parameters to track where every visit is coming from. However,…
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Templafy: Streamline Business Content Creation, Distribution, and Governance with AI
Creating on-brand, compliant, and effective documents can feel like a juggling act. With thousands of documents, presentations, and emails created daily, the challenge lies in ensuring consistency, efficiency, and compliance across an entire workforce. That’s where Templafy steps in, transforming how organizations manage and create content. Templafy Templafy is an AI-powered content enablement platform that enables teams to create accurate,…
