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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
Why Voice Calls Are Critical To Your Customer’s Journey
I have to admit that I’m terrible about calls and I absolutely know that I’m leaving money on the table with my business. My phone often rings throughout the day and the people don’t bother to leave a message, they just move on. My guess is that they simply don’t wish to work with an unresponsive company and that answering…
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Content Marketing
B2B Content Marketing Trends
The pandemic substantially disrupted consumer marketing trends as businesses adjusted to government actions taken to attempt to prevent the rapid spread of COVID-19. As conferences were shut down, B2B buyers moved online for content and virtual resources to assist them through the stages of the B2B buyer’s journey. The team at Digital Marketing Philippines has put together this infographic, B2B…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Protecting Your Brand and Reputation in Email Marketing with Verified Mark Certificates (VMCs)
Email marketers understand that a successful campaign is about much more than delivery and messaging. It’s about engaging prospects and forging a relationship that they can nurture over time. Fundamentally, that relationship-building starts with the reputation and trust in the brand: The vast majority (87%) of global consumers say that they consider the reputation of a company when purchasing a…
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Advertising Technology
How Does Advertising Work? What Makes People Buy?
While researching the topic of advertising, I happened upon an infographic on How Advertising Makes Us Buy. The infographic below opens with the notion that companies are rich and have piles of money and they use it to manipulate their poor audience. I think that’s a rather disturbing, unfortunate, and unlikely notion. The first notion that only rich companies advertise…
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Customer Data Platforms
RaaS: Capturing Customer Insights in the Digital Age
Getting relevant customer feedback—and getting it quickly—is more essential than ever to business success. Sure, do-it-yourself recruiting is hard, research interviewees are never as promised, and the timelines for getting customer insights feel too long to make a difference for the business. But, there is a better way to get the much-needed customer insights that validate your product and business direction. A…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Enterprises using Social Media To Predict Demand: PepsiCo
Consumer demand today changes faster than ever before. As a result, new product launches are failing at extremely high rates. After all, accurately assessing the market and predicting demand requires terabytes of data, which ranges from point-of-sale numbers, e-commerce transactions, out-of-stock histories, pricing averages, promotional planning, special events, weather patterns, and a many other factors. To add to that, most…
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Advertising Technology
What is a Slogan? The Taglines of Famous Brands and Their Evolution
A slogan, also known as a tagline or strapline, is a concise phrase used to express a brand’s core message or value proposition. Originating from the Scottish Gaelic sluagh-ghairm meaning battle cry, slogans have evolved into powerful marketing tools that can significantly impact brand recognition and recall. The Evolution of Slogans Slogans have come a long way from their military…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
A Tiny Bit of Research Can Dramatically Impact Social Shares and Drive Sales
While many small businesses are abandoning Facebook, I’m always intrigued when I see something unexpected happen there for a client. Believe me, unless they’re paying to promote posts… I don’t set expectations too high. One of my clients is a family-run roofing company that serves central Indiana. They’ve been here for decades and have an incredible reputation. Recently, a hail…
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Content Marketing
5 Awesome Tools for Content Marketing Minimalists
I consider myself a minimalist in content marketing. I don’t like complicated calendars, schedulers and planning tools—to me, they make the process more complicated than it needs to be. Not to mention, they make content marketers rigid. If you’re using a 6-month content calendar planning tool—that your company is paying for—you feel obligated to stick to every detail of that…
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Content Marketing
The Focus of Your Content May Be Hurting Your Marketing Strategy
As part of an overall search strategy, we used to have companies focus on recent, frequent, and relevant content driven by keywords that could increase organic ranking and conversions. Writing numerous short articles is one of those bits of advice that we’ve abandoned in recent years. There are a few reasons why: Deep content – search engines rank by the…