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Three Things You Need to Stop Doing When Sending E-mails

spamWe are all inundated with e-mail; we’re sending it, receiving it and saving it. In fact, as of November 2012, 144 billion e-mails were being sent every day. But in an age of social media, it seems like e-mails are a marketing campaign of yesteryear. Not so fast, though. Just because 65 percent of all e-mails are spam doesn’t mean that your company’s targeted e-mail campaign has to get dragged to that daunting folder in customers’ inboxes.

Today, the delete button is heavier than the sword. Here are three things you could be doing wrong with your e-mail marketing campaign.

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Avoiding the Riptide of Brand Strategy

The sun is shining, the weather is warming and before you know it, we’ll be in flip flops and bathing suits. But it’s not all fun in the sun for some businesses when it comes to brand strategy. Some seem to be instead swamped in a sea of questions, from ‘How do we maintain brand integrity?’ to ‘How do we sharpen our corporate identity?’ For businesses looking to avoid this, Twitter is an excellent way to boost brand.

According to a recent infographic by Mediabistro, in 2012, Twitter was declared the world’s fastest-growing social platform, adding 40 percent more active users between Q2 and Q4 of last year. Twitter is teeming with ways to inspire, create and expand your business to strengthen brand loyalty.

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The Lonely Hammer

I am no handyman. Trust me, I have tried. Once, I attempted to install a new light fixture in our spare bathroom. I proudly put the thing together; after hours of figuring out the red and black wires go here and the ground wire goes there. I was pumped up and ready to boast about my handyman powers. I flicked the switch and the only thing that kept turning on and off was the living room cable box.

It was immediately reaffirmed; I am definitely no handyman or an electrician. The problem is, I have no patience. I can’t sit there for hours and not fix something. So when my brother-in-law came over to fix the stand up shower that we had stopped using over a month ago due to the hot handle breaking off, I was very excited. What I didn’t expect is him bringing not one, not two but three different tool boxes full of neat tools I have never seen before.

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April Showers Bring Fresh Social Media Strategies

Every minute, 100,000 new tweets are published and six million Facebook pages are viewed, and these numbers only represent what happens on the Internet every 60 seconds. Can you imagine what this will look like in the future? Allow us to put this into perspective for you.

Today’s number of networked devices is equivalent to our global population, and by 2015, this number of networked devices will be twice that of the global population.

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5 Common Content Marketing Mistakes You May Not Know you’re Making – Part One

Every business knows the importance of promoting the company brand through marketing, but as easy as that may sound, it is not. There is a very fine line between positive efforts that are misinformed. It is very easy to do more harm than good. Here are some common offenses you may not even know you’re committing.

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How to STINK at Content Marketing

Content marketing is King. We all know the importance of it. There are countless studies, data and reports that remind us that websites feed off of the time and energy we inject into our content.

Content is the protein that websites need to make them strong, vibrant and profitable. Content Boost can help you improve audience engagement, traffic to your website and augment social media presence.

But for all you B2B, B2C, not for profit, entrepreneurs or solo-preneurs out there, who want to see how other companies effectively sabotage their content marketing strategies, please take a look at this awesome slideshow:

How to STINK at content marketing

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Is Content Still King?

The saying has remained the same, the more content on your website the better. While this is still true the way we interpret this comment is changing. Gone are the days of pushing as much content to your website to ensure a higher ranking than your competitor. The focus is shifting to quality and not quantity. So what does this mean?

Content for SEO

Google likes authority websites when it is indexing accurate, up to date and credible content for the end user. Google has changed its algorithms in a way that it is smarter in the search results it delivers. It used to be true that the more content we dropped into our websites on a daily basis we would outrank our competitors based on the amount of content that is new.

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#HeyCompanyStopSpammingMe

Imagine you’re sitting in a café with your friend in a catch-up session after not seeing each other for a while. You want them to be interested in what you have to say – your new job, relationship and more – but you can’t help but feel like you’re talking at them, rather than with them.

Yawning and eye-wandering ensues, and the discussion takes a turn for the worst.

Have you ever had the same reaction when a business tries to promote its brand to you? It’s yelling, “LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT THIS! LOOK WHAT’S NEW!” but quite frankly, you’re not interested, because it doesn’t apply to you. This is how you can quickly go from marketing to “noise.”

Worried your customers are doing a bit of eye-rolling themselves? Then start keeping your brand messages personalized, fresh and intimate. After all, when a customer feels like you’re talking with them, trust and brand loyalty inevitably develops.

Let’s take a look at some out-of-the box examples of how companies directly engaged their customers, and as a result, created an unbeatable brand strategy:

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Are Your Customers Just Not That Into You?

Let’s be honest for a second; it’s really hard to stomach the fact that your hard-earned customers may stray from you one day. While the reason can sometimes be completely unclear, the truth is screaming out to you in a whinny voice: your once loyal customers are now cheating on you with a company who is younger, more attractive and has a better physique (ahem, we mean a superior brand strategy). This other option looks better and piques their interest more. I know it’s hard pill to swallow, but some tough love might be just what you need to shape up and win them back.

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