How to Use Automation

How to Use Automation to Enhance (Not Hurt) Your Marketing Strategy

Digital marketing automation saves time but, if not done well, it can risk alienating your audience. How do you find that happy medium? Read on for the do’s and don’ts of how to use automation as part of your social media marketing strategy. Positive Forms of Digital Marketing Automation & Their Benefits First, let’s look at the good side of…
shorten your buyers' journey

Five Ways to Shorten Your Customers’ Buying Journeys

Would you like to boost your revenue without investing more in marketing? Working to shorten your customers’ buying journeys is the first step to take. What is a buying journey? A buying journey is all the actions a site visitor takes prior to finally making a purchase. A buying journey may take a couple of minutes or a few months.…
Digital Marketing Innovations

Digital Marketing Innovations You Should Know About

Since its inception more than 30 years ago, digital marketing has turned from a new trend into a vital go-to strategy component for pretty much every organization. Tech has continued to evolve, creating unprecedented opportunities to analyze consumer behavior, disseminate information, and build immersive brand experiences. During the past couple of decades, the world has come to embrace the digital…
Frequency for Email Marketing

Choosing the Right Frequency for Email Marketing Campaigns

One of the biggest challenges when it comes to deciding upon frequency for your email marketing campaigns is striking the right balance between too many emails and too few. Your leads are already inundated with messages, so to capture their interest, your campaigns must go out at the right time. This means often enough to be recognizable but not so…

Make the Most of Sharing to Every Social Network (Without Wasting Time)

Would you like to build more traffic to your blog? I thought you might! The thing is, most bloggers are after organic search traffic (and for a good reason) but they completely ignore other traffic-building methods. Yes, search traffic is easier to scale but it is never a good idea to put all eggs into one basket. You need more…
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Top MarTech Trends for Agencies

The year is flying by and if it feels impossible to stay up-to-date on the latest industry trends and info, don’t worry -- you are far from alone in feeling this way -- especially about MarTech trends. The fact is, things move so fast in the agency world that keeping up with “what’s new” and “what’s trending” can seem like…
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5 Email Marketing Trends to Try in 2021

Despite what you may have heard, email isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. In fact, the use of email messaging is on the rise and shows no sign of slowing down. As of 2021, there are more than 3.7 billion email users around the world, and that number is expected to grow to 4.4 billion by 2023. With statistics like that,…
Traits of top digital marketers

10 Key Traits of Top Digital Marketers

Who are the industry's top digital marketers and what makes them so successful? That’s the question that researchers at Fractl set out to answer when they employed IBM Watson’s Personality Insights capabilities to analyze the Twitter feeds belonging to some key marketing leaders. Their analysis has identified ten key traits that set these marketing leaders apart from the rest and…
Buyer Personas help identify who your target audience members are, and how to reach them.

How to Create Accurate Buyer Personas

If you work in marketing, you probably hear a lot about optimizing the customer experience, tracking buyer journeys and identifying decision-making factors and/or paths to purchase. But what about developing buyer personas? You might be trying to identify key points to offer marketing liaisons or better understand when a sales team needs to get involved in nurturing a lead to…
Laptop Displaying Top Email Marketing Strategies for 2020

2021 Marketing Trends You Can’t Ignore

Despite what you may have heard, email isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. In fact, the use of email messaging is on the rise and shows no sign of slowing down. As of 2021, there are more than 3.7 billion email users around the world, and that number is expected to grow to 4.4 billion by 2023. With statistics like that,…