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Often experimental and deployed in small scale scenarios, the concept of ‘crowdsourcing’ has become more than a buzzword today; with stable business models emerging globally that are increasingly more productive than ever before. For the uninitiated, ‘crowdsourcing’ refers to taking help from a crowd externally to solve a problem, as opposed to the traditional idea [...]

It is said that an email campaign is as good as the list it is sent out to, and that’s why, digital marketers are always looking for ways to constantly improve the quality of their lists. While adding on new subscribers is easy, the one specific area where most marketers struggle is how to segregate [...]

As digital marketers, we have observed that sometimes, even the most innovative email marketing campaigns can be unsuccessful if the communication fails to reach the intended audience. That is, if deliverability is a problem. Using an email marketing platform (like Octane) ensures only that the emails are relayed from the service provider’s (ESP) server to [...]

Search marketers know only too well that while creating a landing page is easy, making one that works successfully, is not. There is no secret recipe to create the ultimate landing page and as such, the best option is to keep testing the pages, making changes you think will work, and then testing again. But [...]

Google has recently announced a new feature related to Gmail spam filters. From now on, in addition to pushing the offending emails to the spam folder where they await extinction, the spam filter is also going to tell you why it thinks a particular message is spam. Spam – As explained by Google The Gmail [...]

Every online marketer dreams of that perfect campaign that goes viral – a flood of tweets, shares or posts with numbers hovering around a few million. And that’s what makes them flock to the latest craze on YouTube, Twitter, Pinterest and other social platforms, trying to figure out what the “secret recipe” is. If you [...]

Despite gaining much popularity over the last few years, LinkedIn remains a highly underrated platform for businesses. So far, individuals have used it to spread word about their skills, network and carve better careers, but there is a goldmine of opportunities for small and medium businesses too, if only they do it right. One of [...]

It’s been a long time since something generated as much interest as Pinterest has. However, not many people are able to experience its addictive nature on demand as it is still on an invite-only basis (but you can register for an invitation on their website). Pinterest is a great platform for business leads, individual or [...]

Even though this micro-blogging social network has been around for some time, hash tags are still shrouded in mystery. Let’s have a quick look at what these are and why you should care about them. Introducing hashtags So what are hashtags, really? Well, simply put, they are formed whenever a relevant word on Twitter is [...]

Nothing demoralizes an email marketer more than inactive subscribers. It’s like having a roomful of friends who refuse to pay attention to you. What fun it was, you think to yourself, when they first signed up for your campaign! The list was growing quickly, with only the sky as the limit, when a year later [...]