Digital marketing insights.

Sales, Marketing, and Business insights from Randy Milanovic, a Buzz Sumo Top 100 Digital Marketing Influencer.
website design is form, function, then aesthetics

HubSpot Website Builds: What Breaks, What Scales, What Works, And Why with HubSpot CMS Hub
If you’re like me, stranded somewhere between trying to do content and making your website actually sell, you’ve probably bumped into a few big claims about HubSpot CMS.
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marketers planning an EEAT strategy

A Practical Guide to E-E-A-T Scoring for Marketers
E-E-A-T scoring gives marketers a practical way to check whether a website clearly shows experience, expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness.
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confident leader talking to colleague

Monroe’s Motivated Sequence: The Secret to Persuasive Communication
Imagine having a proven formula to inspire action, captivate audiences, and deliver compelling messages. That’s exactly what Alan Monroe, a communication professor at Purdue University, created in the 1930s: Monroe’s Motivated Sequence (MMS).
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customer service team

The 5 Parts of a Successful Service Desk Setup
Studies show that resolving issues quickly is the top priority for both customers and support teams. To achieve this, a successful service desk operating as a five-part system is important: Intake, Triage, Troubleshooting, Solving, and Improving. Let's have a look at each.
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website quality matters

Calculate the Cost of Poor Website Quality (in Actual Dollars)
Poor website quality is easy to ignore when the website still works. Pages load. Forms submit. The site looks acceptable. Campaigns still launch. People can still edit content.
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Pulling Together: Growing 25x and Surviving the Experience

Pulling Together: Growing 25x and Surviving the Experience
Today's article is a bit of a confession. How we grew too fast, and the pains that came with that. Our services and products were solid, team was talented, and customers appreciated us. So much, we grew 25x between 2011 and 2013. Yet, something was wrong, and we knew it.
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You know you've entered the Danger Zone when...

You know you've entered the Danger Zone when...
Whenever a customer's main contact changes there's a risk of miscommunication, overlooking important information, or having things fall through the cracks. When that happens, you've entered the danger zone.
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