Eric Enge, Principal at Perficient and lead co-author of The Art of SEO (the best-selling “bible” of the SEO industry), was recognized for the second year in a row as a top digital marketing influencer by Browser Media! On the list of 100 influencers, Eric is #5. Eric has been part of the SEO industry […]
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Making Magic from Muggle Reports
Creating reports to showcase the ROI of your marketing automation platform is imperative, yet many people struggle to report accurately. ‘Out-of-the-box’ reporting in Marketo can be really useful if configured properly, but many people are unsure how to take the standard Marketo reports and customize them to get meaningful data. In our recent virtual discussion, […]
Conversational Marketing: Old School Meets New School
Why Is Everyone Talking about Conversational Marketing? Conversational Marketing, a term originally coined by the company Drift, has taken on many forms and definitions over the past few years. If you ask five professional marketers the definition and what ‘makes up’ conversational marketing, you may get five different understandings. Is it a variation of personalization? […]
Why You Should Know About the New Google Page Experience Signal – Here’s Why #242
On May 28th, 2020, Google announced that they were adding a new ranking algorithm called the Google Page Experience, which incorporates some new page experience metrics in their ranking factor. In this episode of the award-winning Here’s Why digital marketing video series, Eric Enge walks us through this algorithm update and shares advice to get you prepared […]
When to Shake: Handshake Use Cases (Part 2)
this post is a continuation of our discussion about search connector use cases. Click here to read the first half of this topic. Customer Service Search has changed the way customer service is offered and provided. Smarter algorithms and better machine learning models can help deflect cases, but sometimes a call is necessary. Search can […]
Digitally Catering to New Customers Post-COVID
In a recent blog I wrote called “Your Ecommerce Customers Are About to Change,” I discussed the unique opportunity businesses have been presented with due to COVID-19. Specifically, looking at how their customers, among many other things, will change forever in this new normal that we are starting to see each day. I wanted to […]
When to Shake: Handshake Use Cases (Part 1)
We continue to emphasize that connectors need to be as variable as search use cases, that the biggest benefit to handshake is its flexibility. But what are those use cases? And how does Handshake achieve those goals more quickly and completely? In this series of posts, we’ll describe the most common search use cases we’ve […]
Why Voice Search May Not Be As Big As You Think It Is – Here’s Why #241
Google I/O has claimed that in the U.S. on mobile apps and Android, one in five queries, or 20% of our queries, are voice queries. Amazon has sold over 100 million devices with Alexa built-in. Is voice search really dominating the search industry? In this episode of the award-winning Here’s Why digital marketing video series, Eric Enge […]
One Template to Rule Them All
Email is at the heart of Marketo. Marketing automation loses much of its appeal if there’s no means to communicate those marketing messages. In Marketo, behind every good email marketing communication is a strong email template. You may think that you need to spend days developing email templates in HTML for each email communication, but […]
Why You Should be Using the Principal Permissions View in AEM
Before AEM 6.5, we really only had one UI to manage user permissions. That’s not to say we couldn’t go to the JCR directly and set ACLs, but the user admin screen was just simpler. For instance, take this example from the classic user admin console. Typically, this meant that we would check the root […]
Zombieland – A Guide to Waking the Dead
When it comes to establishing a successful marketing automation strategy, you have to know how to gain the most from the records you already have. Your lead data has the power to drive campaign initiatives, budgeting and resource allocation, personalization efforts, message relevancy and can directly impact retention and growth. The Challenge In the most […]
The Critical Role of Audience Intelligence with Eric Enge and Rand Fishkin – Webinar Transcript
As a marketer, you’re used to things moving quickly. But, with the entire world undergoing unprecedented change, it can be overwhelming for you, your business, and your customers. So, how do you identify what your customers need and how you can help? Now more than ever, audience intelligence is the key. Audience intelligence is about […]