You’re busy and don’t have time to to read a complete 20 page case study on how to optimize your Facebook business page to get more Likes and increase engagement. I understand, so here are 5 quick tips.
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How many visitors to your site actually take action? How many of them give you their email address? Conversion rates generally run about 2-5% depending on the nature of the site and the quality of the traffic. Anything over 5% is generally pretty impressive.
What about the other 95%?
Thankfully, marketers now have a tool to reach out again to that other 95%. The tool is...
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Custom dashboards in Google Analytics are a great way to see important website performance metrics at a glance. In this post, I'll show you how to implement a custom dashboard to track the results of a particular set of website changes. As a result, you’ll have a better understanding of the power of custom dashboards in Google Analytics and how to set one up for yourself.
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Earlier this month, I participated in a panel discussion on CMO & CIO Engagement for SIM Charlotte. The evening event discussed the Evolving Roles of CIO+CMO and the Digital Marketing Trends Impacting IT. Joining me on the panel were Lisa McCarthy, president of Marcom, and Jack Rech, CIO of National Gypsum. Kelly Laughton, IBM Client Executive, moderated.
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A couple weeks ago, just before its tenth birthday, Facebook released it's 2013 Q4 earnings report. It was a happy moment for Facebook, but perhaps not for marketers.
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To maximize your business' lead generation, you must have landing pages that promote your offers and captures appropriate customer information. For many businesses, landing pages take a back seat to developing a valuable offer. However, while having a quality offer is important, the landing page is also a key part of the process. Companies that overlook it do so at their own risk.
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Leveraging social media is a great way to improve your Internet Marketing by extending your networking circle beyond the confines of your local area. How do you get to know and learn from the important industry thought leaders you idolize? No travel needed...just follow them on the social sites where they frequently share their ideas, industry lessons and best practices.
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Whenever I talk to a prospect who is planning a website redesign, I start with asking why. As Simon Sinek exhorts in his TED talk, knowing your why creates inspiration. What I've learned is that getting to the why isn't always easy.
It's often easier to fall into the assumption that a new website will solve a plethora of business problems from sales to marketing to customer service to branding...
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As an Inbound Marketing agency, we have the privilege of seeing first-hand how powerful it is to align sales and marketing.
Once you understand the power of collaboration that comes from aligning sales and marketing, the next step is creating alignment between the activities of these teams. The founders of HubSpot, a marketing automation company, like to talk about their formula for success in...
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Many in the SEO industry (and their clients) were taken by storm with Google's latest algorithm change, Penguin. This update targeted websites that were found to be engaging in so-called "black hat" SEO practices, specifically certain forms of link-building. Many sites have been penalized by the algorithm change, drastically reducing traffic from search engines, and in many cases, the revenue...
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