Personalization, Automated Personalization, A/B Testing, And Cruise Control

Sometimes, losing a little control can be good, such as when you use cruise control to help your car get better mileage and help you avoid fatigue.
Similarly, automated personalization helps marketers increase conversions and revenue with little effort on their part, freeing time and energy for dev…

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Vanity Url, ACMEPlumbing.com Vanity URL, Completely Unique URL, And Vanity URLs

Understanding URL structures is one of the few technical SEO flavors that every search professional must fully understand to be successful. Rand did an excellent Whiteboard Friday on the topic of Sub-domains vs. Sub-folders and 301s vs. rel=canonical tags (and it’s a must watch), but many busines…

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Co-founder Michael Pryor, Trello, Monthly Active Users, And Task-management Software

Trello, the collaborative task-management software, has topped 7 million users, with 120,000 new users joining the platform every week. Trello co-founder Michael Pryor confirmed to TechCrunch that the service has 1.7 million monthly active users, with Trello users in every country in the world (s…

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Blue Chip Athletic, Disorganized Customer Data, Officially-licensed NCAA Wrestling, And Screen Printing Machine

Gonz Medina and Jason Heslop started Blue Chip Athletic in 2001 with no marketing budget, website or customers. But they did have a screen printing machine, a business plan, and a passion for providing affordable, quality apparel to the Missouri high school wrestling teams they coached.
Ten years la…

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Content Marketing, Content Strategy, Content Marketing Efforts, And Lasting Relationships

Brands nowadays are tasked with producing copious amounts of content. But without a clear direction or plan in place, chances are your content marketing efforts will fall flat. You need to know: who is producing the content? How often and what types? Do you actually have?dare I say it?a content stra…

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