Digital marketing insights.

Sales, Marketing, and Business insights from Randy Milanovic, a Buzz Sumo Top 100 Digital Marketing Influencer.
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Speak Human to Human in Social Media
Sometimes, you come across a marketing concept so simple and effective you wonder why everyone didn’t think of it ages and ages ago. I know I’m certainly not the only person who’s gotten that impression from Bryan Kramer, who spoke at Social Shake-Up in Atlanta.
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Is This What the Collaborative Economy Looks Like?
The Collaborative Economy – a keynote at Social Shake-Up with Jeremiah Owyang – left an unexpected impression on me that’s had me thinking for weeks.
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Are Your Big Words Causing Small Headaches?
How often do you think about the reading level of the men and women who read your web pages, blog posts, and downloadable offers?
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Is Your Business Website Collecting Dust?
When you use your own website every day, it can be hard to notice anything wrong with it. It looks just the way you wanted it to and nothing seems out of place, so why would you need to make any changes?
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Fitting Premium Content Offers into Your Sales Funnel
The idea behind sales funnels has been with us for quite a while, and there isn't any big mystery about the way they're supposed to work: You create offers (like downloadable content) to get prospects interested, and then present successive offers and communications to engage them further.
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5 Things You Should Know About Guest Blogging Today
Guest blogging – on the right blogs – can be a powerful way to reach a new audience, gain new readers, and network within your market or industry.
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5 Things to Love About the $3 Kindle Book Strategy
In the few years since Amazon first rolled out its Kindle publishing program, the book industry has been spinning on its head. Suddenly, it became convenient and affordable for writers to share their works, whether they were industry specialists (like me), first-time novelists, or even established writers and publishers. Think of these as your ultimate premium content offer.
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47k Views + 244 Comments = what exactly?
A realm of endless possibilities, content marketing is a fascinating and rewarding field. The unpredictability of the feedback generated from a piece of content is a testament to its dynamic nature. Recently, I've had two experiences that led me to a profound realization about the true impact of content in the digital marketing world.
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Are You Attracting Prospects or Just Looking for Attention?
Recently, I've taken a few of my social connections out to the virtual woodshed for posting (or from my perspective, over-posting) what I consider near meaningless or empty, low value content. Grumpy cats, goats, lions, famous quotes and other people's pictures, to name just a few: do they have any real significance beyond some very brief entertainment value?
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Clickbait vs Curiosity
So You Wore Out Your Audience With Headline Trends… You Won't BELIEVE What Happens Next!
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Are Longer Landing Pages the Key to More Conversions?
Amongst experienced online marketers there is an ongoing debate about whether short or long form landing pages are more effective.
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Doing the Right Thing in the Digital Age
An interesting thing happens when technology allows for entirely new industries to be born. Innovation and creativity often work together in new and exciting ways, while at the same time accepted practices and philosophies are replicated or transferred from older business models.
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Should You Really Disavow Low Quality Links?
For a lot of companies with checkered SEO pasts, the idea of disavowing links seems like the Internet equivalent of a pardon from the governor. That's probably why so many web masters are rushing to disavow poor-quality links, and why the practice has quickly become standard in our industry.
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7 Ways to Destroy Your Business Website
It can be tough for marketers to balance the need for doing with the necessity of thinking and planning, which is why so many companies have great strategies that they never really get around to executing.
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6 Tips for Migrating Your Business Website to a New Design
In the last few months, we've shared some of our thoughts around the process of moving websites from one domain to another, and even when to start over altogether.
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