Email Marketing 101
Email marketing can be an integral part of your content marketing plan, or it can be a total bust. While it has the power to generate leads and build relationships, that power will go untapped unless people actually open and act on your emails in the first place. Statistics for email open and click-through rates can be pretty daunting. Marketing Profs reports a B2B open rate of under 20 percent and a click-through rate of about 5 percent. B2C emails…
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How to Maximize Ad Views within Your Magazine App
In-app ads have been hailed as the fastest-growing sector of mobile advertising, but that future could be bleak unless magazine publishers use effective strategies that entice rather than repel readers. Banner ads, pop-ups and interruptive ads, or ads that try to trick users for a click, are surely doomed to fail. Another weak strategy is treating mobile advertising as simple extensions of traditional online campaigns. Since mobile publishing apps provide specific advertising advantages as well as potential pitfalls, it’s important…
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Free Adobe Photoshop Extensions for Page Designers
Would you like to quickly and inexpensively enhance your Adobe® Photoshop® toolkit? If so, these free extensions may be for you! I’m always on the lookout for tools that make my life easier as a designer, and I think you may find these useful too as you’re creating page layouts for print or mobile apps. If you don’t already have the most recent Adobe Extension Manager, you will need either Extension Manager CC or Extension Manager CS6 to take advantage…
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A Beginner’s Guide to the LinkedIn Publishing Platform
The premise behind LinkedIn’s Publishing Platform is simple: every LinkedIn professional has valuable insights to share – how to sell anything, how to lower churn rates, how to jumpstart a business – and the publishing platform is a natural place to share these insights. And now, thanks to the publishing platform, you can both curate and distribute your professional knowledge. With more than 277 million members, LinkedIn is the ultimate professional networking site – and now you have even greater…
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Why Your Business Should Use Google Analytics
You may know Google Analytics as a quick way to see how many hits your website is getting on any given day, but that’s only the tip of the proverbial iceberg when it comes to what this platform can do. Packed with powerful tools and amazing insights, Google Analytics can help your business better engage your audience, boost sales and continuously improve your content marketing efforts so you can keep on doing more of the same. Better Engage Your Audience…
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10 Common Punctuation Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Utilizing correct punctuation won’t help you make friends or boost your business, but using punctuation incorrectly will make your book, magazine or catalog copy stand out like a sore thumb. Even if people can’t pinpoint your mistake, something will look off about your message, making people less likely to trust what you’re trying to say. It’s always best to check your writing for common punctuation mistakes so you don’t inadvertently alienate those who will be reading your material. Here are…
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