Top 10 Ways to Increase the Open Rates of Your Marketing Emails

Email marketing is not a new concept. But it is also far from being an outdated concept. It still produces one of the highest engagement rates and returns on investment of any marketing strategy. Measuring the effectiveness of an email marketing campaign can be extremely difficult. However, one way to determine success is to track…

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Is Content the Key to Conversion?

Truth: This isn’t the article I set out to write. My original idea was to create a written masterpiece that discusses the variety of media types that go into a successful marketing campaign. However, as I searched for numbers and facts to back up my claims, one central idea became crystal clear – Everything centers…

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3 Reasons Why the Mighty Infographic is King

“Content is King” has been a prevailing statement about online marketing ever since the days when people referred to the Internet as the “information superhighway.” Those days are long gone (along with dial-up modems, flip phones, and Geocities web pages) but the “content is king” concept still rings true for marketers because the main reason…

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3 Steps to Developing Keywords for Better SEO Results

When it comes to optimizing your website to develop better search engine optimization (SEO) results, the key to success might come down to making a few small modifications to your website’s content. While these changes might seem like incremental improvements, when combined with other optimizations, they can have a noticeable impact on your website’s performance…

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8 Things A Long-Term Content Strategy Can Do For You

You’ve most likely heard of the phrase, “Good things come to those who wait.” And when it comes to content marketing, that phrase is especially accurate. Content marketing can produce short-term results, but its true value is achieved over weeks, months, and even years. It’ll take some patience, but planning ahead is key to maximizing…

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Clarity, Not Content, Is King

Whenever somebody says they want to ameliorate a situation, it usually means one thing. They really hope you don’t know what ameliorate means. Instead of trying to appear smart to your audience, be clear with them. Clarity is important in any form of communication, whether that’s marketing, public speaking or trying to win an argument with a…

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From Fresh Off the Press to Their Hands

What says getting in front of your audience more than getting physical? Physical mail that is. With the world on its head and many people working from home, there is no better time to utilize direct mail marketing!

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4 Reasons Why Marketing is Like Hockey

I’ve been struggling with thinking bigger while the world is so crazy, and I’m quite certain I’m not alone. 2020 has brought us a pandemic, an election year, societal unrest, and economic upheaval – and for crying out loud, we’re just midway through. Every day I fight a wait-and-see attitude, and find myself focusing on…

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The Next B2B Marketing Goldrush – The Great LinkedIn Land Grab

I’ll be blunt and get directly to the point of this 4-part series in the first paragraph of the first post. If you’re in B2B marketing and aren’t at least starting to think about how LinkedIn fits into your strategy – you’re going to lose. Maybe not today. Maybe not next year. But, in the…

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