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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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It Doesn’t Take Sherlock Holmes To Plan Your Marketing Strategy

If Sherlock Holmes has taught us anything, it’s that the most obvious answers are usually right in front of us. And still, when it comes to online marketing, we find ourselves bogged down. We’re buried in data, overwhelmed with huge processes like “demand generation,” and are struggling to implement our conversion funnels in Google Analytics.
Everyone says marketing is easy, but here you are trying to market in an endless amount of marketing channels, becoming data-driven, real-time, and overall proactive before the next new thing hits. It can make you want to throw your hands in the air and quit. Read more …

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The 12 Best Marketing Tips Delivered by Corgis

Way back in October 2013, the TrackMaven CX team decided to give our customers the .gif. . .err, gift, that would keep on giving. Specifically, we wanted to give something that help them with their work or, at minimum, brighten their days.
Our choice? An artesian well of marketing trivia. All wrapped around an adorable corgi-related .gif in the form of weekly installments visible when they logged into their accounts on Fridays. Read more …

The Manual Grind That Makes Something Go Viral

As TrackMaven expands with even more corgis, or employees as non-team TrackMaven people would call them, I’ve been getting more inquiries for others on the team to write blog posts. Which, I would like to point out that I am absolutely thrilled about. This however, lead to some funkiness. Do we use oxford commas? What Read more …

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5 SMARTer Marketing Goals for 2014

Happy New Year! At this time of year, many Americans set New Year’s Resolutions. 45% of Americans usually set New Year’s resolutions, yet only 8% of people actually achieve them. These statistics show that we like the idea of resolving to achieve something, often we don’t know how to set out to achieve that objective. If Read more …

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