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There’s no doubt that simple design is hard, since it requires much more thought and inspiration. It’s about understanding exactly what your users need. Colors play a major role, and today I’d like to show you a couple of illustrations that may motivate you to try out some new color combinations and techniques. Take a…
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Salesforce is adding more lightning to its clouds. Today, the company announced the launch of Marketing Cloud Lightning, which follows the relaunch in February of its Sales and Service clouds on the Lightning platform. At the same time, Salesforce is announcing a variety of other enhancements in advertising, email and customer journeys, as well as…
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With a newly integrated and and constantly evolving digital landscape, marketing and communication channels are working together more closely than ever before. Granted, you’ll see variations in how well this is actually executed based on your business structure and the channels themselves, but the fact is: Channels can’t exist in silos. An easy collaboration exists…
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After the story broke of possible rigging in Facebook’s Trending Topics, with news being purposely swept under the rug in favor of promoting content of another agenda, Facebook has gotten itself into more hot water. Today, Gizmodo has followed up on the story, acknowledging that the US Senate Commerce Committee, a government entity responsible for…
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If you very honestly, in your heart of hearts, don’t want a digital marketing initiative to succeed, should you take on the project? The issue is a constant one, of course, and hardly limited to digital, but nothing brings it into sharp relief quite like an election year. Perhaps that’s why discussions about the ethical…
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Driving traffic through earned/owned and paid social media advertising is the beginning of the journey. The rubber meets the road when visitors interact with landing pages and become customers. And social media marketers need to prove their mettle, not just speculate about their accomplishments. SocialPro has sessions designed to help you demonstrate the results you’re…
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Way back in the last century, one of the most common put-downs of computers was the accusation that they only did what they were programmed to do. Not any more. These days, it is increasingly common for marketing and many other kinds of systems to employ some variety of “machine learning,” which moves away from…
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Ads on Facebook are about to get even more reflective of what you did on a brand’s site or app. Two and a half years after Facebook started letting brands retarget people who visited their sites and mobile apps, the company is going to let them retarget people based on specific things they did on…
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tanuha2001 / Shutterstock.com Have you noticed more ads popping up in your Facebook feed effectively saying, “Hey, I noticed you were looking at this pair of shoes on Brand X’s site? Here they are again, plus some socks to match?” Well, get ready to see them on Instagram, too. Facebook is bringing the retargeted ad…
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If one pays casual attention to marketing and media trade publications, it’s easy to draw the conclusion that the heyday of digital advertising is over. Each week there are new stories about the challenges facing the industry: viewability, ad fraud, ad blocking and more. With these challenges, there’s the assumption that brands may no longer…
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