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There are few things more hotly debated by digital marketers today than the usefulness and impact of Search Engine Optimization (SEO). On the one hand are those who swear by their ‘fool proof’ techniques of SEO, while on the other hand are those who think that the whole thing is just a waste of time. [...]

Every digital marketer knows the explosive viral potential of mobile marketing. If you play your cards right, it’s possible to engage millions of people almost overnight. But given how new the mobile space is, not many understand how the turf can be exploited creatively. Here are four surefire tips to give your mobile marketing campaigns [...]

Perhaps the original creators of patent laws had the welfare of innovators in mind, but modern businesses are using patents for altogether different purposes. On any given day there are at least a handful of news items covering new patent lawsuits or reporting the progress of existing ones. Google and Oracle recently locked horns over [...]

The introduction of the feature-rich fifth version of HTML generated a lot of buzz when unveiled to the world. All discussions eventually lead to one important question, “Will HTML5 rise up one day to completely replace Adobe’s dominant Flash technology?” It was too early to predict that then, but now that HTML5 has been around [...]

We all know the power of videos, a format that is perfectly suited for potential viral campaigns. But as any digital marketer will tell you, getting true viral reach is notoriously difficult to achieve. This is because creating an amazing video is not enough; you need to make sure it shows up at the right [...]

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 [...]

Every email list inherently has a good number of inactive email subscribers – people who once signed up enthusiastically, but since then seem to have lost interest. If this number becomes too high, then it starts having a negative impact on your inbox deliverability and open rates and also depreciates the list quality. As such, [...]

Whatever the differences in their approach to the world wide web, all online marketers agree on one thing:- their web forms are just not getting the job done anymore. And truth be told, the average user is as scared of web forms as he is of pop-ups. But the reason is not that web forms [...]

The fact that email marketing works is demonstrated beyond any doubt by its strong and growing adoption. However, digital marketers also feel—quite correctly—that a campaign launched purely through email can take time to get off the ground. This is why the new trend of ‘social + email’ is catching up fast as companies realize the [...]

Blogging has become a very important activity for businesses these days. Besides being a central point for announcements, a blog is also a powerful tool for long-term marketing and branding. But most small businesses find themselves lacking the required strategy to run a successful blog, resulting in blogs that are ill-maintained, if at all. If [...]