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How to Create a Keyword Strategy for SEO

A keyword strategy is a wonderful way to organize your search marketing activities. We advise that every company starts with a documented strategy before getting too far with content writing or anything else. Google’s market share in 2017 was 75% of all keyword inquiries, according to Smart...

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Knowledge Base

What is an SEO page? Definition and Best Practices

A successful search engine optimization (SEO) strategy involves different tactics across your digital marketing mix. Some SEO tactics include content marketing, blog publishing, and technical SEO (such as ensuring that your website is fast and high-performing.) In order to rank in Google search...

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5 Ways to Fail at Account-Based Marketing

Account-based marketing is a solid technique for marketers to attract the right prospects into their marketing and sales funnels. By targeting specific accounts or individuals, you can “trim” off resources from your marketing efforts that may be spent capturing irrelevant leads. You also help...

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The Missing Element in Your 2018 Business Growth Strategy: Sales and Marketing Alignment

By Anna Tindal How would you describe a marketing campaign’s success? Do you simply show your CEO an attractive new website page, or do you track leads and sales? Research suggests marketers are still choosing to allocate marketing dollars to create “pretty” instead of creating “results”. With only...

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7 Common SEO Mistakes That Website Designers Make

Launching a new website for a business can be a hectic period with competing stakeholder agendas. Within this launch period, it’s important to remember to focus on performance goals. SEO should be included as part of these goals. Based on our observations, we continue to see the same mistakes occur...

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Lead Generation

The Top 6 Most Common Account-Based Marketing Challenges and Obstacles

The road to success in account-based marketing (ABM) can be fraught with challenges and obstacles that each agency has to overcome. While some of these issues may be specific to the agency and its method of operating, some recurring problems have a tendency to take hold in any organization that...

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Smart Car Statistics - The Increasingly Digital Experience of the Connected Vehicle

In the decades since Model Ts started rolling off the conveyor belt and sparked a national obsession, cars have been many different things to the American people. They have served as dining rooms for busy families, status symbols for those with money to blow, and reliable transportation for working...

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Using Content in the Sales Process

Tips For Using Content in the Sales Process Successfully We feel that content is just as important in the sales process as it is in marketing. Content in the sales process is an excellent way to nurture prospects down the funnel to eventually become clients. Sales tactics have changed recently, as...

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The seven most effective account-based marketing activities

As your marketing efforts become more complex, they can also become more time-consuming. One of the reasons some organizations remain loyal to an ineffective sales approach is because making the leap to an inbound marketing, account-based marketing, and agile marketing methodologies takes...

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Enterprise IT spending statistics for 2018

The Many Unpredictable Factors That Influence Enterprise IT Spending in 2018 Predicting growth and the related costs in certain parts of an enterprise can be as simple as plugging numbers into a formula. If you’re adding more desks to your office environment to accommodate more employees as you...

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