Is Your Email Marketing Platform Whitelisting Your Emails . . . or Making it Your Responsibility?

Email marketing can only be as good as its deliverability.  Whitelisting is a process of verifying with ISP’s, organizations, and individuals that your emails are valid communications to keep them out of SPAM folders and easily visible for your recipients. However, some email marketing platforms handle whitelisting deliverability where others place that responsibility on the digital marketers running the email

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Is Your Marketing Automation Too Complex?

Who doesn’t love the sound of “automation”?  Often the exhilaration for marketing automation is rooted in marketing professionals that are spread thin, subconsciously hearing an implication of getting something for nothing.  Unfortunately there is a cost to everything.  The obvious cost of automation is the investment of time, money, and/or energy to establish the automated processes.  However, there is also

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Are All Businesses Technology Companies?

It’s becoming increasingly common for people to say that their business is a digital or technology company regardless of the industry, product, or service they offer.  To be honest, this statement often rings hollow when reviewing their digital capabilities. There’s many companies, big and small, claiming to be “technology companies” that aren’t particularly adept with technology. Undeniably technology is becoming

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Troubleshooting WordPress for Unexpected Technical Problems

Nothing disrupts the productivity of a day like an unexpected technical problem.  It can derail your whole agenda and reset the day to troubleshooting.  When technical issues arise it’s important to limit your frustration and stay calm.  Mysterious technical problems are almost always the result of something changing so doing some systematic detective work can save a lot of time

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Allow Extra Time for Downstream Marketing Channels

Setting a realistic calendar for digital marketing promotion is always a concern.  Most digital marketers have a handle on the necessary time frames for the marketing channels they own directly. However, it’s fairly common that digital marketers need to interface with partners, affiliates, or advertisers for specific campaigns but accounting for these external marketing channels’ own timeframes is often overlooked.

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Should You Screen Negativity?

Preventing negativity is not necessarily the same thing as eliminating it.  We had a couple questions posed from our last article about screening out negativity.  While screening out negativity can be a viable option on your own channels, it needs to be handled objectively to ensure you aren’t disregarding valid concerns or criticism. There are typically three ways to screen

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Prevent Negativity from Dictating Responses

The internet is now the number one source for debating. But debating implies a productive dialogue where both parties are offering points and counterpoints to come to a mutual understanding of ideal conclusions or solutions. More often than not, internet debating is more akin to arguing and bickering to reinforce a pre-established bias. Even benign topics can quickly devolve into

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