Coupon Marketing Is About To Face An Armageddon

I see a marketing Armageddon on the horizon as it relates to the utilization of coupon codes. Coupon Aggregators are stealing your revenue twice over and we are letting them. Influencers and eCommerce business owners need to consider how we will fight and win this battle.

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The Marketer’s Ultimate Guide to RSS

Essentially RSS is the technology or format in which EVERY news site and EVERY blog publishes their content. You’ve see the cool orange icon that looks like a wifi symbol on it’s side all over the internet and now you know what it is for.

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ROI Is An Equation Not A Theory

As marketing channels become diverse and difficult to track, the business world is screaming for transparency, reporting, and return on investment. All to often us digital marketing folk have to go into meetings with…

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Utility Marketing Best in Show

While none of these utility marketing initiatives directly put revenue in the company they all make the brand (and by extension the product or service) more valuable and more relevant. If you are one of those people who hates the term “Building a Relationship” when referring to the advertiser / consumer transaction then you haven’t fully understood Utility Marketing.

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Launching Your Online Marketing Plan: Basics Summary

Are you trying to get started with a website, blog, or lead generation page? Are you trying to sort through all of the different software programs available for email marketing, blogging, managing social media, and webcasting? Here is my simple walk through: Start With Hosting If you are going to manage an online presence you…

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Are You Still Ignoring Google Places? Components & Overview

Late October of 2010 Google changed the search engine marketing (SEM) game again. The format in which local business results are displayed within search results changed dramatically. In the past I used to think of paid search, local search, and organic search (seo) as distinctly different strategies of search engine marketing. The changes from last…

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