Only 14% of Businesses Say Their CMS Offers a Complete View of Engagement Across Channels

According to a study from Econsultancy and Adobe, 94 percent of businesses say it’s “quite” or “very” important to link content management with the ability to measure its on-site performance. Digital asset management and personalization are also key areas that businesses say need to be integrated with their content management system (CMS). However, only 14…

5 Link-Building Tactics That Aren’t Built on Content Marketing

Content marketing is all the rage these days, but it’s not the only or best way to build links. “In fact, placing too much emphasis on content can actually distract from what we should be doing most: approaching the unique needs of each client and niche,” writes Pratik Dholakiya, director of SEO and vice president…

Seven Effective Content Marketing Strategies for Social Media

By Paul Taylor, founder and CEO of Webmarketing123 Content marketing and social media go together like peas in a pod, lovebirds sitting in a tree, "Brangelina." You get the picture: the two work well alone, but together? Yowza!

FBX Ads in the News Feed Get 197% Better ROI Than Ads in the Sidebar

According to a study from Nanigans, Facebook Exchange (FBX) retargeting ads that show up in the news feed yield a 197.3 percent boost in ROI compared with ads that appear in the right sidebar of the site. This isn’t too surprising, given how much more users probably look at the news feed as opposed to…

Klout Competes With Quora With ‘Experts,’ Aims to Become More Like LinkedIn

Klout, the divisive measurer of social influence, unveiled Klout Experts last week. The new product is essentially a Q&A feature that will offer a way for users to improve their Klout scores while asserting themselves as topic experts. CEO Joe Fernandez says Experts exists to help users find answers to questions whose answers live outside…

Innovation and Today’s B2B CMO

By Debbie Qaqish, principal partner and chief strategy officer for The Pedowitz Group This is the sixth article in a series of articles taking the CMO back to school to learn how to drive repeatable, predictable and scalable revenue performance from marketing. Innovation is broadly defined as new ideas or new ways to compete and…