Technology and Marketing Advice from New Media Marketing Experts
Alright… this is going to sting a little, especially to my friends in sales: Sales teams are struggling to engage with customers and meet their targets leading to a loss in sales productivity. The customer is increasingly difficult to reach, leading to sales productivity metrics dropping of a cliff. When sales reps finally speak with their target, they are viewed by the customer as woefully …
Oh, those smarties at Google with all their tools! Last week, a client was having some issues with their Google Analytics tracking, trying to segment visitors that were logged in versus those who were not. Central to the troubleshooting was ensuring the right events and data were being passed in to Google. I showed him how I would troubleshoot using the Network tab in Google …
BlackBox describes itself as a consolidated, continually updated database of nearly every email address that is actively being bought and sold on the open market. It is used exclusively by Email Service Providers (ESPs), in order to predetermine if a sender’s list is permission-based, spammy, or outright toxic. Many of the problems that email service providers run into is fly-by-night spammers that purchase a large …
We have an enterprise client that has several departments within marketing… public relations, traditional media, search engine optimization, mobile marketing, content development and more. Over the last year, we know that the traffic and conversions for SEO and content has doubled because analytics is properly integrated throughout the site. There’s a huge problem, though. Their marketing department utilizes the same phone number throughout all campaigns …
One of the easiest means of ensuring that your email deliverability remains in good standing – meaning your email makes it to the inbox, not the junk folder, is by having a safe and obvious methodology for collecting email addresses. Anything outside of an opt-in form that obviously communicates the offering and sets expectations on the subscriptions (expressed vs implied permission) can impact the likelihood …
