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Amy Gesenhues says, “Amazon announced yesterday that it has reached $100 billion in annual sales. According to a report from The Seattle Times, CEO Jeff Bezos told the audience at Amazon’s annual shareholder meeting, “We are the fastest company to ever reach that milestone.” Amazon Web Services (AWS) — the e-commerce company’s cloud... [Read more]

Jeff Rajeck says, “Personalisation is becoming a key component of digital marketing strategy. In a recent survey of marketers from Australia and New Zealand, nearly seven in ten (69%) said that over the next few years personalising customer interactions was ‘very important’ for their organisations. But how do marketers elsewhere feel... [Read more]

Jami Oetting says, “Building a strong agency brand is how you get more referrals — the most important source of new business for any agency. But this takes time and focused effort, which can be challenging for many agencies as working on the business is usually sidelined when client issues and projects pop up. To make the most of your time... [Read more]

Corey Barnett says, “When it comes to local content marketing, too many businesses fall into the trap of self-promotion, writing solely or primarily about their products and services. Or worse, their blog is rarely updated, or it’s full of filler content that only serves to boost search rankings. Rarely does this approach translate into engaged... [Read more]

Aleyda Solis says, “I know you would never change a URL without identifying where to 301-redirect it and making sure that the links, XML sitemaps, and/or canonical tags are also updated. But if you’ve been doing SEO for a while, I bet you’ve also had a few clients — even big ones — coming to you after they’ve tried to do... [Read more]

Jeff Goins says, ““What’s happened to you is rare,” my friend Mark told me in a conversation that persuaded me to quit my job and write full-time. “Nobody saw it coming. I know you and I didn’t see it coming.” That was it. The day I decided to become a writer. After that conversation, I gave my notice, found a nice corner in our house... [Read more]

Jimmy Kim‘s latest software release is Push Connect Notify. This new software lets you “push” messages to your subscribers with whatever promotion or news you want to share. Push Connect Notify is simple powerful software that lets you to subscribers opt in for receiving these push messages, messages that go to their browser instead... [Read more]

Jay Baer says, “Facebook (and its sister network, Instagram) are beginning to dominate how social marketers spend their paid amplification budgets. As we know, paid amplification of social media is more important than ever in this era of disappearing organic reach. As I’ve written about many times, Facebook’s goal is to increase their revenue,... [Read more]

Nail Patel says, “Over the 10-plus years that I’ve been writing, the content marketing industry has experienced massive change. At first, there were just a few of us plunking out a couple of blog articles a week. Back then, it was pretty easy to get a lot of traffic, comments, “likes,” and subscribers. Then, more and more people started... [Read more]

Christopher Jan Benitez says, “Building a website requires you to use different tools and resources. Tools make the work easier and can systemically repeat many tasks to free up your time to take those actions that move the needle in your business. You can avoid many mistakes by employing tools as you build your website. This is especially true... [Read more]

Well-known graphic artist Jeremiah Villagomez just released a new set of his professional e-covers, a package he calls Ecover Genesis. You’ll get 40 premium graphic designs that Villagomez designed. They will make your ebooks, your PDFs, your reports, and your re-branded PLR products look like they are top quality. And the price can’t be... [Read more]

Andrew Raso says, “Eighty percent of sales are executed by just 8 percent of salespeople. This doesn’t mean that there are some killer sales reps out there who are simply better wired at bringing home the bacon, it means most sales teams are failing to execute because we officially live in a new hyper connected, fast paced and digital-first... [Read more]