For content websites and blogs, acquiring web traffic is not enough--increasing page views and eventually subscribing are other critical goals. Some blogs struggle with high bounce rates or a lack of total page views per visit. By optimizing the design of the content and adding tools to encourage...
Social media is important to B2B marketing. Some CMO's believe a false myth that social media is only appropriate to B2C companies. Participation in social media marketing by B2B marketers has jumped to more than 90% in 2012, according to Marketo, a marketing automation company. B2B marketers are...
Websites can play a role in an organization's PR campaign, likewise a brand website can be optimized for PR efforts. This short-list will help enterprises with a few best-practices for enhancing their websites to strengthen media relations. Make information easy for journalists: Journalists must to...
With the Internet of Things rapidly becoming integrated into how we live our life, it stands to reason that it will have a significant impact on digital marketing. As it is, there are already twice as many "things" connected on the Internet than people, and is predicted to inflate to 50 billion...
There’s been much discussion on the strategies between traditional marketing and digital marketing – mostly regarding how effective one is over the other. The former practice consisted mostly of dividing concentrations on online and offline strategies, but experts now consider that melding the two...
As the digital world continues to “go mobile”, today’s brands need to evolved their digital presences and take an analytical look at how to properly present themselves online. Considerations include where in the mobile world their constituents are and how to create the best returns. Key in that...
Social recruiting (hiring) lives in the cross section of HR recruitment and social media. The concept goes by many names, including social hiring, social recruitment and social media recruitment. This approach perhaps resonates with no industries better than the marketing and web tech industries,...
Gamification is a relatively new concept that uses game-thinking and game mechanics in a non-game context to not only boost productivity for the user, but also as a successful digital marketing platform. Gartner, a technology research firm, estimated that by the end of this year, 70 percent of the...
Need to find a tech or web development job? Twitter hashtags are a great place to start. For one, it can be a great discovery mechanism for finding jobs in tech, web development, design, marketing and the digital space. Another reason is that social sharing helps to extend the visibility of jobs to...
Custom post types allow developers to extend the Wordpress platform to allow for different types of content to plugins and themes. Simply stated, a custom post type is a special type of content defined by a web developer for a website. Web developers can define both the properties of that content...
by Jonathan Franchell, CEO of Ironpaper - For more tips and hacks: Need to remove a new line after h1 tags? Both web designers and SEO practitioners need to employ headline tags: H1, H2, H3 in several ways to improve web page structure and tag...
The Crowded Arena of the IT Marketplace Updated December 2024 The Information Technology (IT) landscape is experiencing rapid growth and intensifying competition. IT spending is projected to reach nearly 5.1 trillion U.S. dollars in 2024, a...
Updated December, 2024 The field of digital marketing is evolving rapidly in response to new technology and changing buyer expectations. To help career-minded marketers, we’ve rounded up the top 10 skills needed to succeed in the field. These are...
By Nicky Capella, Content Strategist The role of marketing within an organization has undergone a significant transformation over the past several years. As businesses increasingly focus on customer experience as a competitive differentiator,...
2022 was a wild year for the job market. From on-the-spot offers to mass resignations, we saw a seismic shift in how employees articulated what matters to them in the workplace. Companies that offered limited flexibility lost out on talent, while...
The digital privacy landscape has been shifting more towards the individual's right to privacy for years, and digital marketers need to ensure they can work effectively without access to third-party data. Sam Ward, Associate Director; Tim Maurizio,...
Content marketers in 2023 will consider changing buyer behaviors, privacy concerns, and the need to measure content’s impact. We know that content marketing is no longer optional, but this method of reaching buyers will become increasingly important...
For clean energy companies, increasing demand for renewable solutions should feel like a win—but the reality is more complex. The surge in market entrants has made it more challenging to stand out, leaving even innovative providers fighting to avoid...
B2B buyers are inundated with repetitive marketing messages and surface-level content. Generative AI has contributed to this oversaturation by enabling brands to produce content faster. However, are brands considering how this oversaturation impacts...
Hiring great talent is vital to business success, but it’s not an easy feat. Many companies turn to recruiters to help fill open roles. It’s expensive, and it doesn’t foster a strong connection between the company and the candidate. But what if...
Navigating the evolving landscape of technology can be like traversing a veritable minefield. This is especially true in the age of artificial intelligence (AI). For business leaders, understanding and implementing IT transformation in the age of AI...
The Internet of Things is reshaping and defining markets, so much so that it has been dubbed “the next Industrial Revolution.”
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