How Tagging Strategies Transform Marketing Campaigns

As a marketer, I understand how today’s marketing campaigns face fierce competition. With so much content and ads competing for eyeballs, creating campaigns that stand out is no easy task.  That’s where strategies like tagging come in.  It helps you categorize and optimize your marketing efforts. It also helps your campaigns cut through the noise and reach the right…

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16 years later, the present — not future — of martech is here, but unevenly distributed

The CMO Survey, a bi-yearly study of trends and perspectives from CMOs run by Duke University, Deloitte, and the AMA, has been one of the keystone research projects in the marketing industry for over a decade. It’s very well run, and I eagerly look forward to reading it every time it’s published. I was particularly excited to read the…

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8 Email Testing Best Practices to Help You Work Smarter

Email clients (like Gmail, Apple Mail, or Outlook), operating systems, and devices change frequently. Because there are potentially more than 300,000 different ways an email could render, email QA testing is really the only way to verify how your email will look when it arrives in your subscriber’s inbox. But sorting reviewing how every single email displays in multiple…

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Help! My Email Is Broken: Common Errors + Fixes

You put all that work into creating the perfect email… or so you thought.  Then, when you hit send, all h-e-double-hockey-sticks broke loose. Suddenly, you have a damaged email reputation, a lot of subscribers who tossed you to the spam folder, and you’re left scratching your head. Where did you go wrong? Thankfully, there are ways to identify what’s…

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