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Email Marketing & Automation
Adding an Email Preheader Increased My Inbox Placement Rate by 15%
Email delivery is stupid. I’m not kidding. It’s been around for over 20 years, but we still have 50+ email clients displaying the same code differently. And we have tens of thousands of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) who all have their own rules around managing SPAM. We have email service providers (ESPs) that have stringent rules that businesses have to…
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Content Marketing
Mediamodifier: Mockups and Design Templates In One Affordable Platform!
My partners and I are always surprised at the number of tools that we subscribe to every month to use for our clients. It seems it’s always one one-off feature we need for almost every client, so we subscribe with the hopes we can repurpose the tool for another client someday! It’s not often you find a platform that has…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Why Meta Descriptions Are Critical for SEO and How to Automate Them with AI in WordPress
Meta Descriptions may not have the power they once did with Search Engines, but seeing a dynamic description in the Search Engine rather than your overall blog's description will attract more readers to your site! Read about how to do it manually or with a WordPress plugin I found.
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Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
Unlocking Success with Text Message Marketing (SMS) Opt-In Strategies in 2025
SMS marketing has emerged as a powerful tool for businesses to connect directly, efficiently, and personally with customers. It’s clear that SMS is no longer just an optional add-on—it’s a core strategy. Last year, 80% of businesses used SMS marketing, and 70% increased their SMS budgets. Source: SimpleTexting However, success in this channel begins with a crucial first step: getting…
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Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
Why Your Mobile App’s Future Depends on Getting the Launch Right the First Time
When you launch a mobile app, the early user feedback, ratings, and engagement data are heavily weighted by app stores like Apple’s App Store and Google Play in determining your app’s visibility and ranking. If these signals are negative early on, it becomes exponentially harder to recover, even if you later fix problems or improve the app. Here’s why a…
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Content Marketing
How to Speed Up Your WordPress Site
To a great extent, we’ve written about the impact of speed on your users’ behavior. And, of course, if there’s an impact on user behavior, there’s an impact on search engine optimization. Most people don’t realize the number of factors involved in typing in a web page and having that page load for you. Conversely, if you spend hours every…
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Analytics & Testing
ActionIQ: A Next Generation Customer Data Platform To Align People, Technology, And Processes
If you’re an enterprise company where you have distributed data in multiple systems, a Customer Data Platform (CDP) is almost a necessity. Systems are often designed towards an internal corporate process or automation… not the ability to view activity or data across the customer journey. Before Customer Data Platforms hit the market, the resources necessary to integrate other platforms inhibited…
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Content Marketing
Why You Shouldn’t Host Videos on Your Own Website Server (And What to Do Instead)
Our client asked whether they should host their videos internally on their website rather than using a third-party video hosting platform. Their rationale made sense at a glance—they believed they could maintain higher control over video quality, reduce dependencies, and boost search engine optimization. But while it’s easy to appreciate the intent, the reality is far more complex. Hosting your…
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
The Best Customer Acquisition Strategies Online
Whether you like it or not, every business has a revolving door of customers coming and going. We can all do things that increase retention and alleviate the additional costs and efforts associated with finding new customers, but old customers will still leave for reasons outside of our control. ELIV8 has designed another exceptional infographic with 7 outstanding acquisition strategies…
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Artificial Intelligence
Creative Destruction: Why AI Will Unleash Marketing Creativity and Opportunities
Thirty years ago, as I was adding PC connectivity to a manufacturing plant’s equipment to monitor equipment performance for predictive maintenance, I never imagined the world we now live in. I never imagined the job positions that I’d have. I never imagined the companies I’d be a part of creating. For those of you who don’t remember a time when…
