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Posted on February 2014

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3 Reasons Marketers Should Learn To Code

These days, marketers rely increasingly on web technologies to power their day-to-day activities. Aside from its strength as powering much of digital marketing today, the internet provides a plethora of tools to simplify and automate the parts of a marketer’s job that would otherwise be difficult or tedious. While for the average marketer just using these tools might be enough, the real competitive edge lies in understanding the technologies that underpin them. This is where coding comes in because even small amounts of familiarity with the languages that make the internet work can produce huge gains in productivity. It also can give a savvy marketer the ability to truly take advantage of the information at their fingertips. Read more …

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Source for Your Marketing Questions: The Marketing Dictionary

During the dark period where marketing was this nebulous thing to me and I had Google on my side, I had to sift through a few articles or blog posts to find the meaning of a simple definition like CTR. It was a little more time consuming than I wanted it to be and I longed for a resource to have right in front of me. As we were putting together the new website, Allen brought up the genius idea of having some sort of resource for marketers to go to to search for all the terms about marketing. And then…the Marketing Dictionary was born. (If I only had this when I first started). Read more …

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PS. We Love You

Happy Valentine’s Day! Read more …

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Ad Insights: Landing Pages and Top Traffic Sources

As marketers, we are encompassed by an overwhelming sense of change and its easy to forget how insights connect with our marketing in order to tell us the factors we need to succeed with our marketing. Coupling with those to matters above are things that leave us puzzled. Recently, I’ve spoken to Shawn, our SVP of Competitive Intelligence, about questions marketers are having with TrackMaven, specifically with our ad data. He mentioned that the marketers that he speaks too have questions when they see a competitor’s ad, the landing page its linked to, and the site that ad is placed on. What does that all mean? What does it mean to your marketing? Read more …

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Real-Time Marketing vs. Newsjacking

Real-time marketing and newsjacking are often used as synonyms. And while all (successful) newsjacking is RTM, not all RTM is newsjacking. And that’s a good thing. Newsjacking is not a strategy With the utmost respect to David Meerman Scott, the clever folks in the war rooms at 360i, and the digital marketers who just want Read more …

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