In many organizations, marketing suffers from a crisis of credibility. Many executives believe it exists solely to support sales, or that it is an arts and crafts function that throws parties and puts logos on swag. It’s no secret that the C-suite does not care about the open rate of your last email campaign, or […]
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Don’t make your customers wait for your site to load As desirable of a quality patience is, it is the last thing you should expect from clients visiting your website. Just making them wait one second extra can drastically reduce customer satisfaction and cause conversions to nosedive. If that’s not enough, since 2010, Google has
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Making sure you’re hitting the right notes with your customers is the most important thing you can do. Grabbing the attention, and hopefully loyalty, of new customers is vital to growing your business. They’ll spread the word for you, and your customer base will grow seemingly on its own. However, there are a lot of
Most articles about driving customer advocacy focus on how to run successful advocacy initiatives or influencer marketing programs. This is not one of those articles. Those are important topics, for sure, and I’m saving my thoughts on them for a future post. What I want to do right now is make the point that customer
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Struggling with how (and why) to optimize your site for speed, whether to focus on voice search, or how to measure cross-channel search campaigns? Attend SMX® East, October 24-25 in New York City to train with SEO and SEM experts at the top of their game and get the answers you need. With tactic-rich sessions
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Have you noticed that Google is constantly making algorithm changes? And when they do, they rarely tell you the change they’ve made. They tend to keep it a bit vague, like this… So, do you want to know how got around this algorithm update? Well, before I tell you how, there are a few things
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Wouldn’t it be helpful to know the questions your executives or clients will ask before they pose them to you? You would have the time to think about the answer and tailor your response for the circumstances. Then, when asked, you could respond immediately and thoughtfully, impressing the interrogator. Well, the presenters at Content Marketing
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Conversion optimization has always been a hot topic in internet marketing. To be honest, all of us already know the best call to action phrases or marketing techniques out there! Yet, here you are, reading through this post in hopes of improving your conversion rates. What are you missing? There may be a lot of
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If I asked you what marketers love, what do you think they would say? Some would say they like to strategize new marketing campaigns. Others would say they like carrying out outreach campaigns. Buy most would say one thing: Facebook ads. 93% of marketers use Facebook advertising regularly. With 6 million businesses using Facebook ads, marketers love
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Editor’s note: You may have missed this article when CMI published it in 2016. It’s been updated because we know our readers always love to discover or be reminded of a great social media tool. Let’s be honest, social media is a jungle. Forget about the flood of apps, integrations, and add-ons, just figuring which
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