Print Resurgence, Digital Decline Leaves Room for Both
The prognosticators who proclaimed print was dead had it wrong. Dead wrong. Instead of unseating print, digital reading material has merely joined it. The two fulfill different yet similar roles in a society in which people want both the ease and stylistic possibilities of portable digital information and the familiarity and functionality of a physical book, catalog, newspaper or magazine. Not only do significant numbers of people prefer reading print publications, many of those who prefer digital editions, even younger…
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Leverage Twitter Ads to Drive Business and Engagement
With 500 million tweets sent each day by more than 300 million monthly active Twitter users — 80 percent of whom are using the platform on mobile devices — it’s a no-brainer to use Twitter for business. But not all businesses are using their accounts to their best advantage. While almost all of the top 100 global brands work to improve SEO with Twitter profiles, only half tweet at least once a day, which illustrates that the other half of…
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Align with Mobile Users Through Responsive Email
Email is a crucial part of marketing, and it’s a continually changing element. In the second quarter of 2015, 67 percent of emails were accessed on mobile devices, and 80 percent of users of these devices will dump your email if it’s too hard for them to read. Squeezed to fit a small screen — for example, a 4-inch smartphone or a 7-inch tablet — a message can be virtually unusable, with text too small to read, wide layouts crunched…
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Engage Millennials to Ensure Retention
If you are marketing to Millennials as customers, clients, members, readers and subscribers or whatever group you want to funnel them toward, what better place to start than by targeting them in your employee recruiting strategy? Who better to provide perspective on a generation of people than someone who is actually part of that generation? Millennials are the generation of adults born between the early 1980s and the turn of the century. They now occupy the entirety of the prized…
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How to use Tumblr effectively for business
Businesses that want to reach younger audience should look beyond Facebook and Twitter, even beyond Instagram, to the diverse world of Tumblr. More than just a blogging platform, Tumblr sets itself apart by being a full social network with hashtags, comments, reblogs, followers and its Ask or Submit feature, in which users can ask questions of and submit posts to other users. Where else are you going to find a social network with integrated blogs, or a blog platform with…
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Is Your Digital Presence Good for Business?
When you find a few minutes to consider your organization’s digital presence, do these thoughts race through your mind? “I don’t know how my website is performing.” “I’m not getting enough traffic to my website.” “I don’t know how my email newsletter is performing.” “How do I attract more subscribers to my eNewsletter?” Or, do you struggle with wrapping your head around…? “I don’t know how my social media is helping my business.” “I don’t know how my digital edition…
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