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SEO, Meta Descriptions, Content, and Generating Leads

NuSpark Consulting

They may be great technicians, but we need help when it comes to writing compelling content that drives leads. Meta description tags, though no longer as important as they once were believed to be in terms of achieving top search engine ranking results, still have incredible significance. as a factor for ranking.

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Choosing an Email Marketing Software « The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer

The matrix helped us focus on how vendors compared on each feature and also gave us the ability to rank vendors based on weighted scoring. Excel Template for vendor comparison: you can download and use my template as a starting point. You get the point. Good question! Good luck in your email marketing selection process!

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What Makes a Great Creative Brief? « The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer

And, if you’re interested in looking at some different formats for creative briefs, check out this blog post on creative brief template review. While they don’t settle the discussion, are good sources for inspiration nonetheless. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 United States License.

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Best Web and Landing Page Design Tips of 2009

Webbiquity

Rae Hoffman provides step-by-step instructions for creating a custom 404 error page in the WordPress Thesis template, and includes a link to 100 awesome and creative 404 error pages for inspiration. Yes, you’ll see all of this and more here in the best website and landing page design tips and techniques of the last year.

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14 Pro Tips for Running a Successful Business

Hubspot

We're losing more than we're gaining for the first time since those statistics have been tracked, and the crossover coincided with the recession of 2007-2009. Census Bureau, the overall number of business applications began to recover in late 2009 and has been trending up for the past ten years. Source: Capterra. According to the U.S.

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SalesFusion Combines Online and Offline Marketing with CRM

Customer Experience Matrix

The email features cover all the basic requirements: template-driven personalized messages, universal and campaign-level exclusion rules, and both static and dynamic list definitions. The system’s features for lead scoring and routing are more impressive. Users can define value ranges (hot, warm, cold, etc.)

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Hard Data to Justify Your Marketing Automation Investment

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: So you want some hard numbers to prove the value of marketing automation? This paper contains step-by-step instructions for building a business case and even a link to a slide deck you can use as a template. Here's a bunch. Statistics include: • 16.5% Aberdeen Group has published many studies related to marketing automation.