Use This Content Marketing Checklist to Skyrocket Your Productivity

Four very simple things: 1. Have a mindset practice Your mind has to be clear and focused if you’re going to produce that much content. When your mind is full of negative thoughts, limiting beliefs, or worries, it will make it much harder to stay inspired and keep taking action. Mindset work will be different…

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Should you hire a mobile marketing agency or keep it in-house?

As my department at 3Q Digital grows, I get the chance to talk to a lot of people across a variety of verticals, responsibilities, levels and points of view (sellers, buyers and decision-makers). Invariably, the first questions across the table are the all-too-familiar “But do I really need an agency? Can’t I do it myself?…

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Pinterest launches Showcase to give brands a way to shape their stories

Pinterest has given brands an edge with a new update on its user interface. Announced today, the platform has launched a new feature it calls Showcase, allowing visitors who interact with business profiles on Pinterest to see manually selected visuals that best depict the brand. The Pinterest showcase will rotate to highlight up to five…

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How Google is tackling fake news, and why it should not do it alone

Fact-checking and preventing fake news from appearing in search results will remain a big priority for search engines in 2017. Following the US election and Brexit, increased focus is being placed on how social networks and search engines can avoid showing “fake news” to users. However, this is a battle that search engines cannot — and…

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The Power of Proactive Customer Service

Are you happy now? Or simply, happy overall? As a company, you don’t just want your customer happy in this moment in time. You want them happy all of the time. According to McKinsey & Company, evaluating a customer’s satisfaction throughout his or her entire journey with a company is 30% more predictive of overall…

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Facebook adds gaming inside Messenger, News Feed

There are a lot of things that people do outside of Facebook, but Facebook continues to incorporate more of those things into Facebook — like watching videos, shopping, reading articles and now playing video games. On Tuesday Facebook debuted a way for people to play arcade-style games by themselves or against friends within the social…

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Putting programmatic video back on the radar

With video expected to feature in 80 percent of consumer internet traffic by 2019, it’s no wonder traditional advertising budgets are being re-prioritized to reflect this. And as the digital video advertising market continues to expand — with double-digit growth expected annually until 2020 — programmatic video has immense potential. The benefit of programmatic video over traditional…

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Social Media Marketing 3.0: Best practices for ramping up social ROI

Social media is now an integral part of marketing — spending on social media is expected to double to 25% of marketing budgets by 2020. Yet, nearly half of digital marketers say they can’t prove the bottom-line impact of social media on their businesses. Join our panel of experts as they show you how to…

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3 next-level Yelp tricks for business owners

I’m always on the lookout for interesting tips, tricks and strategies that marketing managers and business owners can use to improve their Yelp pages. From dissecting Yelp’s own videos about their product, to building detailed review analysis, to straight up asking Yelp for clarification on their mixed messages, I’m on the hunt for every little edge…

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The Key to Ranking Your Local Business in Google

For local businesses, showing up on page one is a must – showing up in the Google 3-pack (or whatever it is called this week.) can be the difference between thriving and merely surviving. All Google products evolve as they find ways to make search better and, let’s face it, make more money from that…

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