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Should IT be in charge of all technology used by the marketing department? Consider this metaphorical tale... Read more
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Scott Brinker builds the bridge between landing page optimization and content marketing by defining "conversion content marketing." This is good marketing. Read more
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In-depth sessions on Google RichSnippets, RDF, GoodRelations -- everything at the intersection of SEO and the semantic web you'd love to know -- at this year's Semantic Technology Conference. Read more
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Marketing must control its technological destiny. Slide show and essay advocating for a marketing CTO and a growing technology culture within the marketing department. Read more
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Conversion rate optimization promises huge potential for your website, but often the project seems so large that you don’t know where to start. Your site has 5 different conversion types, 8 different forms, IT never does anything on time, your graphic… Read more
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Here are 8 great tips on how to optimize your landing pages for SEO driven conversions.

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Conversion rate optimization is “everywhere” these days, from Twitter, to publications, to conferences and beyond.  But while it’s gaining steam in the industry, it’s still a relatively new initiative for many marketers. This post answers "what… Read more
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To take your PPC campaigns to the next level in 2010, you must go beyond measuring traditional conversions (lead, transaction) and start measuring (and achieving!) new goals – from social media engagement, to RSS subscribers, to inbounds Read more
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Seth Godin calls it real risk vs. apparent risk. Clay Christensen calls it the innovator's dilemma. I call it a real problem in marketing today -- and here's how to fix it. Read more
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A survey on search advertising sentiments makes it clear: marketers MUST address trust and usefulness. Read more
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Imagine: social media marketing successfully supersedes advertising, and in the process Google, YouTube, Facebook, etc. shut down. A real paradox, or an illusory one? Read more
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Don't ride the Hyperbole Train! Social media marketing is great for many things, but "other" marketing isn't about to die. The sweet spot is finding synergy between the two. Read more
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Is branding really at odds with the new era of social media, or should the true meaning of branding be recognized as a broader mission that transcends logos and color palettes. Read more
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Atomic marketing is about how simple components -- search engine ads, Twitter messages, emails, landing pages -- can, in quantity, collectively grow into major marketing programs. Read more
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Are your landing pages feeling tired? Is your conversion rate stagnant? Not quite sure what to try next? Here’s a quick exercise, the Landing Page Wonder Wheel—as in, “I wonder how to improve my landing pages?”—that can give you fresh… Read more
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As advertising agencies start to develop data practices -- leveraging some of the techniques of computational finance to the real-time digital marketing playing field -- there are new opportunities and dangers. Read more
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Here are the top 10 post-click marketing tips that came from the Post-Click Marketing Session at the Search Insider Summit. Read more
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The great irony of marketing automation is that it is often pitched as a way to simplify the exploding marketing universe, when in fact, it actually introduces a whole new layer of complexity itself. Chaos theory, anyone? Read more
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Here are 10 principles of post-click marketing. Read more
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Testing is good. But what should you test? Here are 4 kinds of landing page tests: the what, why, how, and who of post-click marketing experiments. Read more
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Are you still sending paid clicks to your home page or deep links? Are you creating landing pages ad hoc? Are you sending your visitors to one-size-fits-all, flat landing pages? There’s just 31 days left before 2009, and there’s no better time focus… Read more
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Your online marketing budget may be shrinking. That doesn’t mean your results should be shrinking along with them. Inject post-click principles into your landing pages and get more from less. Read more
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Not all clicks are the same. There are those clicks you can control, and those you can’t really control. Here’s a visual breakdown. Read more
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I read with interest that the IAB readies to combat online’s ‘creative shabbiness’. Awesome! I love it. I especially loved seeing Rothenberg, of the IAB, say, "Not enough attention is being paid to great creative and the long-term impact on a… Read more
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There are 3 dimensions of B2B landing pages that should be considered & recognized. Here they are. Read more
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