Digital marketing insights.

Sales, Marketing, and Business insights from Randy Milanovic, a Buzz Sumo Top 100 Digital Marketing Influencer.
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Don't Shortcut Your Knowledge Investment: Think Solutions Before Tools
Fill in the blank: “If I were just able to use a ______________ tool, my problems would be solved in an instant.”
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Marketing Persona Lessons from a Simple Bag of Tea
Sometimes, the most important lessons you can learn about online marketing – and indeed, dealing with people – aren’t the ones you get from blogs, surveys, or brainstorming sessions. In fact, I was recently reminded how important things like perspective and insight are from a simple cup of tea.
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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 Website Visitor a Skimmer or a Diver?
Summer's here and people are taking to the water, whether it's rafting down a slow creek or getting out the waterskis. If you're avoiding the sun by staying in the office, there's a take-away we marketers can learn from the people splashing around at the lake: there are the skimmers, and there are divers.
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Turn Prospects into Influencers and Advocates
Quality marketing content turns readers into prospects and prospects into leads. Sometimes, those leads aren't the people making a direct buying decision.
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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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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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Is There an Online Marketing Secret Sauce?
Since our launch in 2011, we've been able to overtake an impressive list of established digital agencies and SEOs on Google's rankings, and helped the vast majority of our clients to dramatically increase the numbers of leads they're generating through their own sites as well.
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Attract Your Prospects With Better Lures
Inbound lead generation campaigns look a lot like fishing trips: build a great website (find a stream), attract traffic (cast your lure), get visitors to sign up for offers (set your hook), and then cultivate the relationship (reel time). It's a format that has worked for thousands of companies, including our own online marketing clients.
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Another Smart Use For Marketing Personas
We have shared a lot of advice lately about marketing personas, and specifically how we use them to get to know more about our best customers, and how the insights we gain from them affect online marketing messages.
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Why Marketing Personas Need to Change Over Time
If you are familiar with our blog, or our approach to online marketing, then you already know why we attach so much importance to marketing personas.
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How Personal are Your Marketing Personas?
In some of our previous posts (not to mention our highly recommended e-books, now available on Amazon), we've gone into a bit of detail describing our process for creating marketing personas – profiles of our best potential customers that allow us to communicate with them in a way that speaks to them.
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