Recently I was asked if we could add a LinkedIn tracking event to a form on a marketing website. Upon closer inspection of the form, turns out, it wasn’t something we had direct control over, and was embedded via OptinMonster. Having worked on similar lead generation software in the past,
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I started the year off on a free Mailchimp plan. I’ve been a free user for ages now and decided that I wanted to start taking my email marketing seriously. This included knowingly growing my lists beyond what the free tier’s limits. I didn’t have much of a problem with
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If you follow me on any social media channels, especially Twitter, you probably noticed an untick in my posting volume. No, I haven’t been hacked. Admittedly, I’m pretty bad about posting my blog posts on the various social networks I frequent. I’m always concerned about what people will say or
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I blog. I have some readers. I try to be engaging. I may not always succeed in being engaging but I do try. Thing is, it’s pretty freaking easy to engage with your readers. Assuming you have comments turned on at least. If you have comments turned on, perfect, all
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If you’re on my mailing list, you probably noticed that you have been receiving duplicates of my newsletter. My bad, many apologies for that. Unsure why, MailChimp, my ESP (email service provider) started double sending posts from my RSS feed this week. Fortunately, they only cost me 3 subscribers. This
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I got this email the other day from WeVue, a Tampa-based startup for which I am acquainted. The email was regarding the “war for talent” and was pushing some webinar they are doing later in the month. Knowing how these things work, I assume they are going to be showing
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Hey you! Yes, you. You with that blog over there. The one without any sharing widgets whatsoever. Do you really think your content is so fucking special that people are going to go out of their way to copy and paste the link to share it? You expect us to
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I performed a little experiment last year, I decided to spend a small bit of money on advertising one of my sites via AdWords. My budget was low as I didn’t want to spend more than 100$ and my daily allocation fluctuated between 1$ and 5$ as I made adjustments
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One of the hardest things for me now that I have been blogging consistently for a few months is coming up with new topics to blog about. After I got pretty caught up on my queue I decided that it was finally time to give HitTail a try. HitTail is
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Yep, it’s a sad truth, unless you’re a Kevin Rose or a Reid Hoffman (or insert some other person’s name that you think is really important and could successfully leverage a landing page) there’s a good chance you’re going to thow up an alleged “viral landing page” and will be
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