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The List

Digital marketing & website development lists of ideas, links and resources

1

CRM

Customer relationship management (CRM) is software that helps you manage your customers and prospects. Many CRMs come with tools that help you to populate user lists, save data, launch email campaigns and track communications with the customer.

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08/04/22

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Loomly

Social media management platform with built in calendars and workflows.

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08/03/22

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Conversion path

The conversion path is the series of events that led a user from awareness of your brand to converting or committing an action on your website or social media accounts.

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08/05/22

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Engagement rate

Engagement rate is the percentage of users who saw your campaign vs the users who actually clicked or engaged with it (e.g. click, share, comment).

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08/05/22

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Google Search Console

Google Search Console is a free tool that website owners can use to submit their websites and website sitemaps for faster page indexing, and review search engine metrics.

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08/08/22

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SEO

Search engine optimization is the practice of improving your website to be better indexed by search engines and ranked higher for your chosen keywords in search engine result pages.

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08/04/22

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Optimization score

An optimization score is a Google Ads metric that is updated regularly based on how well Google determines that your ad is set up.

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08/08/22

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Digital marketing

Digital marketing refers to marketing techniques that are purely online as opposed to traditional marketing methods such as print, billboards and direct mail.

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08/07/22

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Subject line

The subject line of an email is the line that is shown prior to opening the email. It's important that it is eye-catching but relevant.

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08/06/22

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Remarketing

Remarketing is a paid ad strategy for targeting people who have recently or at some point visited your website or engaged with your brand on social media.

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08/05/22

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Tell a real story

Don't just tell your customers what you can do for them, show them what you've already done for another customer or client.

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trend

08/09/22

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iBegin

iBegin is a global business listings website.

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backlinks

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08/31/22

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CPC

Cost per click (CPC) is the ratio of ad cost to number of clicks received. If you spend $100 on a campaign and you get 20 clicks, your CPC would be $5.

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08/04/22

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Redirect

You can create a redirect on your website to send users who try to visit a specific page or path on your site to another internal or even external page.

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08/06/22

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LinkedIn

Yes, LinkedIn is making a comeback as their monthly users continue to grow and more and more businesses are reporting positive lead generation figures.

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trend

08/09/22

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Whitelist

Whitelists help your email to always appear in your recipients' email inboxes. It requires that the email address be manually added to the list by the recipient however. It's a good idea to make sure your clients and email recipients add you to their whitelist.

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08/05/22

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eLocal

Create a listing for your business on eLocal's online directory.

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08/31/22

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A/B testing

A/B (or split) testing is a process of making changes to a campaign, page or other marketing material and measuring to see if that change improves results. Typically, you'd want to change just one element at a time so that you could identify which change caused the impact.

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08/05/22

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AI in digital marketing

Use artificial intelligence to predict what your prospect might do next and ensure your campaign or promotion is there when they need it.

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trend

08/09/22

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Lead nurturing

Lead nurturing is the process of building relationship and trust with a lead, such as sharing valuable information about your product or service, until they're ready to purchase.

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definition

08/05/22

21

Countdown timer

Add a countdown timer to an offer whether it's good for a limited time or not. Urgency often helps with closing the sale.

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idea

08/04/22

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Closed-loop marketing

Closed-loop marketing occurs when the sales team reports back to the marketing team the end result of the leads they received. The marketing team can they modify their activities based on the ability of previous efforts to product customers

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08/05/22

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NFTs and crypto

You might not think that these relate to your business, but they might. There are many companies producing technology that does cross over various industries and can be leveraged by regular businesses.

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trend

08/09/22

24

Multiple campaigns

While a page having 1 goal or call-to-action is typically preferred, maybe there are times when you should consider the primary goal and then a secondary goal as well in case the first one doesn't convert.

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08/04/22

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Font weight

Make the text bold, or some of it bold and see if that makes an improvement.

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08/04/22

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Button icon

Would adding an icon to the button help to get more clicks?

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08/04/22

27

Yelp

List your business on Yelp, share business information and get reviewed by your customers.

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directory

backlinks

source

08/31/22

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Merchant Circle

Get listed as a merchant on Merchant Circle where users search for local businesses.

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directory

backlinks

source

08/31/22

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Call Up Contact

Call Up Contact is a platform that lists business information online.

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directory

backlinks

source

08/31/22

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Exit rate

A webpage's exit rate is the rate at which visitors who are on the website leave that specific page to go elsewhere.

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definition

08/08/22

31

Competitive analysis

Competitive analysis refers to the process of researching and analyzing your companies competitors - strengths, weaknesses, demographics, strategies and more.

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definition

08/07/22

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Viral

If a piece of content "goes viral", that simply means that it's been shared or distributed by many individuals outside of your circle of followers.

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08/05/22

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Inbound marketing

Inbound marketing is a marketing practice that is focused on creating valuable content that your audience will find during their online research.

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08/04/22

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No image

Would your ad work better without an image? Try it with and without and see what produces more results.

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08/04/22

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Ad extensions

Ad extensions can be added to paid Google Ads to add extra content and increase the size of your ad.

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08/06/22

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Sales funnel

A sales funnel refers to an established path where you can guide users from awareness of your brand, product or service to purchasing.

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08/07/22

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Font size

Change the size of the text - all of the text or just the heading, body or link/button.

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08/04/22

38

Automation

Marketing automation refers to software and tools that help you automate repetitive tasks. One example would be if a user submitted their email address for access to a lead magnet on your site and you have an email platform set up to automatically send them a followup marketing email.

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08/05/22

39

Facebook Live

Facebook offers a "Facebook Live" video feature that users can leverage to live stream directly to other users on the platform.

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08/08/22

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Blacklist

Blacklists are lists that major email clients use and refer to in spam detection. If your email or domain gets added to a blacklist, it will be difficult or impossible to send emails to your prospects or even existing clients.

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08/05/22

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Wireframe

A wireframe is used in the website development process as a draft of the proposed design for the site or specific pages.

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08/08/22

42

SEM

Search engine marketing is the practice of paying for results to appear in search engine result pages. As opposed to SEO that helps with results appearing organically, with SEM you are selecting demographics and lists of keywords that you want your search ad to display for, then paying for its placement on the page.

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08/04/22

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Double opt-in

A double opt-in is when a user signs up for an email newsletter, and then they receive a followup email to confirm their subscription to the list. Double opt-ins help to confirm the validity of emails and improve the health of an email list.

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08/05/22

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Robots.txt

The robots.txt file is a text file that websites should contain to communicate how web crawlers are to use your site - free to crawl, only allowed to crawl certain page, or not allowed to crawl at all.

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08/08/22

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SAAS

Software-as-a-service (SAAS) refers to software that you can subscribe to on your computer or online that will help you to perform valuable functions such as productivity, sales, CRM, websites and more.

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08/05/22

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Churn rate

Church rate refers to the amount of customers a company loses during a certain period of time. Gaining new customers is great unless you're losing as many existing customers.

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08/05/22

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Background image

Instead of a color, try a different background image and see if that makes a difference.

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08/04/22

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Smarketing

Smarketing is the collaboration and alignment of the sales and marketing teams toward a common goal such as growing revenue.

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08/05/22

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Landing page

A landing page is a webpage where users first "land" on your website from external location (e.g. search engine, social media). This could technically be any page of a website, but it often refers to a webpage where you try to introduce and sell a particular product or service.

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08/05/22

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Loading speed

Loading speed or website performance refers to how quickly how webpage loads in a user's browser.

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08/05/22

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