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Creating Value with RevOps
You’ve probably heard the trending term Revenue Operations, also known as RevOps, in your marketing circles. You may be wondering what all the fuss is about, how your organization gets there, and what it means for marketing. As you know, the purpose of any marketing investment is to produce revenue. It’s to make target audiences…
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3 Questions Every Product Launch Should Answer
It’s not often that you can introduce an entirely new product category to the marketplace. Unless what you’ve developed is truly a breakthrough, you’ll be entering a market with established competitors and existing expectations. The challenge is to stand out and claim a niche that describes your value and appeals to your target audience. New…
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Maximizing the Marketing Funnel
A strategic marketing plan is like a funnel. You cast a wide net, then keep narrowing things down to identify those more likely to engage with your product or service. Marketing is designed to increase awareness of what you offer and lead your audiences to a conversion—whether that is a purchase, meeting, or other connection.…
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Managing an Effective PPC Marketing Campaign
Managing pay-per-click (PPC) marketing campaigns can be time-consuming and challenging, but following our easy guide can help enhance your campaigns. PPC, also known as SEM, or search engine marketing, drives in-market traffic looking for your products or services. Ensuring your campaigns are set up properly can help optimize ad spending and return on investment. This…
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How Your Marketing Could Benefit From Avatar Video Using Generative AI
CEOs, managers, and financial advisory services have long used video (live stream or prerecorded) to connect with employees, share important information, or relay updates. Now generative image AI tools can help us create an avatar, train software to mimic our voice, upload a script, and splice them all together for the final product. Avatars can…
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Leverage the Power of Machine Learning and AI for Companies
Using AI in business is gaining serious traction. Unless you’ve been living in the remote woods of Canada for the last year (and the Yukon is b-e-a-utiful, by the way), you’ve seen artificial intelligence exploding everywhere. This blog includes a primer on how AI works, how you’ve been using AI for years (even if you…
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Using AI Image Generation for Marketing
Over the last few months, there’s been quite a bit of chatter throughout the agency world on the ins and outs of using AI image generation to create art and images for marketing projects. Many questions have surfaced. Let’s dig into these questions Your competitors are likely using AI-powered tools like Adobe Generative Fill, Shutterstock…
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Email Marketing: Best Practices & Pitfalls
Email marketing is a powerful tool and a critical part of your channel mix. Understanding its role within your overall plan and identifying key strategies to optimize your efforts will help set you up for success. Planning Your Email Marketing Campaign If you haven’t started email marketing yet, you can crawl, but running an email…
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The Importance of a Website Traffic Analysis
Your website is the most visible view of your brand and products or services. Prospects and clients are visiting to learn more about you and engage. Understanding your website demographics and analytics is a critical step in using data to make decisions. Another big benefit of using data-driven decision-making is content optimization, which allows you…
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What is ChatGPT? An AI Content Creation Tool from A Marketing Agency Perspective
There’s been quite a bit of chatter around ChatGPT over the last several weeks. Like any company, we have a range of fascinations with it. We have those who jumped on right away and started testing it for their kids’ projects or just for fun. We have those who are waiting to see what happens…
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