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Content Marketing, Digital Marketing, Inspire
Featured Snippets: Improve Your Chances of Winning Google’s Popularity Contest
Have you ever wondered how your content ends up as the featured snippet of Google’s search engine results page (SERP)? Well, it’s probably not how you think. Think of featured snippets as the winner of a popularity contest among all the content across the internet. Oddly, it’s somehow as simple as it is difficult to […]
Digital Marketing, Inspire, Marketing Automation
Feel the Power of AI-Powered Automation
Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), algorithms and datasets: I know, it all sounds like it belongs in a sci-fi TV show, but it’s all very real. When these things come together, it creates something called AI-powered automation, which has the potential to help us all … live long and prosper. AI-powered automation can be […]
Content Marketing, Digital Marketing, Inspire, Visual Marketing
The Future is Here: Guide to Interactive Video
If you were around anytime in the 80s, you probably remember those Choose Your Own Adventure books where every few pages, you were prompted to make a decision that would impact the plot and ending of the story. While some of you younger folks in the audience may not know the thrill of deciding a […]
Content Marketing, Digital Marketing, Inspire,
Is ChatGPT the Beginning of the End for Writers?
Hey Siri, write a blog about the benefits of creating video content for social media for me. While Siri and other artificial intelligence tools may not be able to complete this request, it’s no issue for the groundbreaking chatbot, ChatGPT. Unless you’ve been living in a utopian experiment for the past year, then you’ve undoubtedly […]
Content Marketing, Digital Marketing, Inspire, Strategic Marketing
Digital Personalization: The Key to Future Sales
Not so long ago, personalization in sales was as simple as a conversation and striking a deal with a firm handshake. But with the digital world somehow becoming more real than reality, the ways businesses personalize the sales experience has become more technical and a little more complicated. While this new way of personalization can […]
Digital Marketing, Inspire, Marketing Automation, Research & Analysis
Google Analytics 4: the What, Why & How
In today’s ever-changing digital environment, it is more important than ever for your organization to be up to date on the latest in digital analytics while also understanding how changes in user privacy settings can affect these results. Traditionally, this is where Google Analytics has shined as one of the premier platforms in terms of […]
Digital Marketing, Inspire, Web
Out With The Old & In With The New: Why Your Website Seriously Needs a Redesign
We live in a world of constant change. Marketing strategies, beauty fads and fashion trends – what may have seemed like a good idea in the past may no longer be today. Anyone remember pop-up ads, spray-on hair, or bell-bottom jeans? Website design is no different. There are so many ways a bad website can […]
Content Marketing, Digital Marketing, Inspire, Web
How To Put Your Best SEO Foot Forward
If they search it, they will come. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) may have fallen out of the marketing buzzword spotlight since its heyday, but putting your best foot forward to climb the search results ladder is still valuable marketing. Here are some common tips and misconceptions we’ve seen when it comes to boosting your SEO: […]
Content Marketing, Digital Marketing, Inspire, Marketing Automation, Strategic Marketing
The Ballad of “Always On” Marketing Campaigns
When it comes to executing a marketing campaign, there’s not always a good time to pause, or to shoo away customer acquisition at any stage. Unlike traditional, linear marketing campaigns which tend to focus on awareness, the intent of an “always on” (also known as “evergreen”) campaign is continually optimized to build engagement and retention. […]
Digital Marketing, Inspire, Web
Chatbots: They Aren’t Evil!
Bots. The very word may conjure up fearful images of microscopic gremlins running amok inside our devices, executing their nefarious schemes in a brazen attempt to imitate – or dominate – the digital world we live in. And that’s only the beginning. Bots learn. They adapt. If not kept in check, they could end up […]
Inspire Podcast: Episode 26 | Ashley Poe Thompson – Changing the Face of Manufacturing
This episode of the DH+ INSPIRE podcast marks another addition in our Women Transforming Manufacturing series. In this installment, we had the pleasure of spending time with Ashley Poe Thompson, Operations Manager of Polymer Drive at BASF in Chattanooga, TN. BASF is a global corporation dedicated to creating chemistry that supports a sustainable future. In […]
Content Marketing, Digital Marketing, Inspire, Media
How Marketing and Advertising Work Together (But Differently) for Your Brand
In everyday conversation, the words “marketing” and “advertising” are used interchangeably – but also sometimes incorrectly. Marketing and advertising combine to achieve the same goals: brand awareness, communication, product or service offerings, customer relations, and of course, sales. Ideally, businesses need marketing AND advertising to work in conjunction, but there are some key distinctions between […]