We’ve talked quite a bit about marketing automation recently, because it empowers small- and medium-sized businesses to greatly expand their capabilities. In the last few years, use of marketing automation platforms has exploded. However, …
In a recent post on how to generate backlinks, we pointed out some tools for finding and fixing broken links. There are actually a lot of useful tools online that B2B marketers can use to make their work easier, many of which are free. …
For years, firms doing business online have offered visitors to their websites options to chat, whether it’s a live chat with an operator or through a chatbot window. Short for ‘chat robot’, a chatbot is a text-based program that uses an …
Plenty of firms doing business online, whether B2B or B2C find themselves in the same position. There are plenty of marketing metrics, but one way or another, after steady growth, inbound traffic slows down to the point that it’s …
If you’re someone doing a lot of writing or blogging about tech online, chances are you’ve gotten a few—or a few dozen—messages asking for back links. Every day, we get dozens of emails saying something like "Hey cool website, I just read …
Any firm knows that customer retention is key to long-term success. The good news is that once someone converts from a prospect to a customer, much of the hard work is done—it’s easier to retain a customer than to convert one. However, if …
In order to stay competitive against larger, better-funded, and more established rivals, small- and medium-sized businesses have to use every advantage that they can. Fortunately, marketing automation services are the life-blood of modern …
In an earlier post, we discussed the Do’s and Dont’s of developing B2B Buyer Personas. Any business should know the importance of having well-developed buyer personas: these are the who, what, where, when, why, and how of your marketing …
On a daily basis we use personal assistants to help out with tasks; we shop in cashierless shops and will soon be travelling around in driverless vehicles. Even the experience of checking out Facebook’s newsfeed or selecting a movie on …
For businesses looking to take their digital marketing to the next level, our marketing automation challenge is a series of reviews putting all the major platforms head-to-head and comparing them on metrics such as price, integration and …