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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
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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Content Marketing
What Happened When I Stopped Podcasting? Hint: It Wasn’t Good!
If you’ve been a long-time reader or listener, you likely saw that I stopped podcasting a couple of years ago. A lot was going on in my personal and professional life when I made the decision. I had a new grandson, a new girlfriend (now fiancé), was remodeling my home, found a new hobby in landscaping, and I had merged…
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E-commerce and Retail
How Real-Time Market Pricing Can Boost Business Performance
As the modern world places increasing importance on speed and flexibility, the ability to infuse real-time, highly relevant pricing and sales guidance into their sales channels can give businesses the upper hand on competitors when meeting customer expectations. Of course, as the demands of performance increase, so do the complexities of business. Market conditions and business dynamics are changing increasingly…
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Email Marketing & Automation
How Does Email Work? Headers, Routing, and Technology
An email’s journey from the sender or their email service provider (ESP) to the recipient is a complex process involving multiple steps and checkpoints. This journey can end with the email being successfully delivered to the recipient’s inbox, diverting to the junk folder, or bouncing back to the sender temporarily (soft bounce) or permanently (hard bounce). Here’s a step-by-step breakdown…
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Advertising Technology
What is Real-Time Bidding (RTB)?
In both paid search, display and mobile advertising, there’s plenty of inventory to purchase impressions on. In order to acquire solid results, you should be testing the purchase of hundreds or even thousands of keyword combinations on paid search. If you’re doing display advertising or mobile advertising, the inventory may be spread amongst hundreds or thousands of sites or apps.…
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Sales and Marketing Training
Why Small Businesses and High-Growth Startups Should Delay Hiring Their First Marketing Employee and Partner With A Marketing as a Service (MaaS) Provider
As startups and small businesses scale and succeed, they face a pivotal decision: Should they hire an in-house marketing employee or partner with a traditional marketing agency? While having a dedicated staff member to spearhead awareness, lead generation, upsells, and retention might seem appealing, it often falls short of expectations. Partnering with an agency may provide some relief by building…
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Content Marketing
Validate Your Social Media Strategy Against this 8-Point Checklist
Most companies who come to us for social media marketing (SMM) look at social media as a publishing and acquisition channel, severely limiting their ability to grow their brand’s awareness, authority, and conversions online. There’s so much more to social media, including listening to your customers and competitors, expanding your network, and growing your people and brand’s authority online. If…
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Content Marketing
How to Write A Title That Makes Visitors Engage
Publications always have the benefit of wrapping their headlines and titles with powerful imagery or explanations. In the digital realm, those luxuries often do not exist. Everyone’s content looks very similar in a Tweet or Search Engine Result. We must grab busy readers’ attention better than our competitors so that they click-through and get the content they are seeking. On…
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E-commerce and Retail
Mother’s Day Shopping and E-Commerce Trends for 2024
Mother’s Day has become the third-largest retail holiday for consumers and businesses, driving sales across various industries. Recognizing this holiday’s patterns and spending behaviors can empower businesses to maximize their outreach and sales potential. Key Statistics for Marketers in 2024 Marketers should focus on the following key statistics for planning their strategies in 2024: Spending Trends: The average American spends…
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Content Marketing
Slayer: Utilize AI To Identify The Words You Need to Win
On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar. David Ogilvy, Ogilvy on Advertising Slayer is an artificial intelligence (AI) product that predicts how engaging a headline is to a given audience. For example, it understands that denim daisy dukes…
