The Value of Content

These days, content is everywhere. The internet is practically overflowing with content. There are think pieces and think pieces analyzing think pieces. There are recap and prediction videos for your favorite TV shows (Who hasn’t seen the latest Game of Thrones fan theory?) There’s even content discussing the value of content itself, the category under which this blog post would fall.

4 Tools to Ramp Up Content Productivity

4 Tools to Ramp Up Content Productivity

If you are a digital marketer, then odds are that you touch content production in one way or another. That also means that you're well…

6 Steps to Boost Your Content Conversion

You can blog and publish content regularly. However, if your site content isn’t converting your website/blog readers into actual contacts – then what’s the point or value behind it? Every marketer inevitably hits a content wall and bandwidth restrictions to keep churning out blog posts, social posts, infographics, videos, podcasts…you name it. The key is to keep the content and conversion wheels in motion, even while you’re not at the actual wheel creating it.

Introducing Send Joe’s KC

Introducing Send Joe’s KC

Joe’s Kansas City Bar-B-Que, a long time fixture in National Barbeque Capital Kansas City, has come a long way from it’s humble roots in a neighborhood corner gas station. Joe’s has turned into a famous spot for BBQ aficionados, celebrities and fans alike. With their growth, Joe’s Kansas City recognized that their brand was underserving one large area of their growing fandom: the internet. In early 2016, Joe’s Kansas City Bar-B-Que tapped Kansas City-based digital agency, emfluence, to bring Send Joes KC BBQ to life online.

7 Reasons to Attend the Marketing Platform Conference

7 Reasons to Attend the Marketing Platform Conference

It’s that special time of year when email and digital marketing enthusiasts gather in Kansas City for smart strategy and new features in the emfluence…

Facebook Live vs. Periscope: Live Streaming Video Goes Mainstream

Facebook Live vs. Periscope: Live Streaming Video Goes Mainstream

We’re currently in the midst of a social arms race around live video streaming integrations and roll-outs across Facebook, Twitter, and other major social players. Live video streaming, amongst other next-generation Web innovations like virtual reality headsets, the Internet of Things (IoT), and other wearable technology, all make up what many digital experts and Web data scientists like John Markoff and Tim O’Reilly experts have already dubbed “Web 3.0.” Web 3.0 can be summarized as the “connective intelligence and learning of all Web users and devices – or all of your things talking to the other things about all of the things.”

emfluence Wins 9 Awards & Best in Show!

emfluence Wins 9 Awards & Best in Show!

The 2016 KCDMA AMBIT's Award show was a great night for the emfluence team and our wonderful clients! This year, the gala was held at…

Instagram Announces 60-Second Videos

Instagram Announces 60-Second Videos

Today Instagram announced that it will be lifting its previous 15-second cap on video capabilities in favor of the new 60-second format. For a long time brands have been confined into figuring out ways to share their message on the creative social media giant in a 15-second format. With 4x that amount now available, brands have more time to get inventive but why the big change all of a sudden?

Hard Lessons in Open Engagement Campaigns

Hard Lessons in Open Engagement Campaigns

Boaty McBoatface sounds like something a kindergartner would say, or it may remind us of Theodore Tugboat, but it probably shouldn’t be the name of the $300 million dollar research vessel. As the latest instance of the internet getting the best of an advertising campaign, Boaty McBoatface takes the stage as one of many well-planned engagement campaigns that had an unplanned outcome.

Google’s Zero Moment of Truth

Google’s Zero Moment of Truth

How the Zero Moment of Truth Paradigm is Shifting to Micro-Moments

Facebook’s Audience Optimization Tool

Facebook’s Audience Optimization Tool

What You Need to Know About Facebook’s New Audience Optimization Tool

Barriers to Successful Blogging

Barriers to Successful Blogging

As a marketer, you've been hit over the head with the value and importance of a well-rounded content strategy for a few years.  It's the…

Top 10 Blogs of 2015

Top 10 Blogs of 2015

It’s been a year full of knowledge on our emfluence blog page where we covered everything from Email send best practices to Minions! If you missed some of our top posts from this year now is your chance to get caught up. Below you will find a quick recap of our top 10 ranked blog posts of the year and links to the original articles, enjoy!

Just Landed: 5 “Other” Ways to Use Landing Pages

Just Landed: 5 “Other” Ways to Use Landing Pages

When we talk about landing pages in digital marketing, it’s usually from an SEO perspective – which page did people land on first when they…

Instagram Ads

Instagram Ads

If you’re like me, and check Instagram a few (hundred) times a day, you have probably noticed that your feed has included a lot more…

Secure the web! Early experience with the Let’s Encrypt Open Beta

Secure the web! Early experience with the Let’s Encrypt Open Beta

I’m writing this blog post because I just can’t hold in my excitement. Let’s Encrypt has just entered public beta! Read on for technical details.

The 10 Commandments of Redirects

Emfluence relaunched an awesome Magento theme update for our client Instore Design Display last week, and this got me thinking about the do’s and don’t of redirects. I started to list a few how-to’s when I realized that this would be much more fun with a theme. Since redirecting and canonicalizing can ruin an otherwise successful site relaunch, what better theme than the 10 Commandments?

6 Tips to Becoming a Content Strategist

6 Tips to Becoming a Content Strategist

No matter what your situation is, no matter how large or small your company is, viewing the big picture is key to creating an all encompassing content strategy.

DIY SEO

DIY SEO

Search Engine Optimization…yes, it might sound daunting and intimidating, but did you know there are a few quick and easy ways you can improve your…

emfluence at KC Pet Project!

emfluence at KC Pet Project!

Yesterday, a few members of the emfluence crew took a trip out to KC Pet Project to volunteer at their no-kill shelter. The basement of KC Pet Project houses all of the donations (food, toys, medical supplies, cleaning supplies), and is overseen by a very sweet woman named Mary. Mary works diligently to keep all the donation areas clean and navigable, and the emfluence crew was happy to help her with some of the projects that required more heavy lifting.

Managing the ever-dizzying costs of Amazon Web Services

If you’re a web development agency like us, hosting a growing number of clients in the cloud, you may sometimes feel like this guy with…

The Fight for SEO: How Google Changed Everything.

The Fight for SEO: How Google Changed Everything.

Not too long ago (a decade or so), being in SEO meant figuring out the best “link farms” to submit your site to as well…

Conversion Optimization for New Websites: What’s really going through your customer’s head?

Conversion Optimization for New Websites: What’s really going through your customer’s head?

Customer acquisition is only a small piece of your audience’s marketing journey. Oftentimes, marketing efforts are successful in bringing customers onto a website, but your…

The Future of Branch Banking: Start Collecting Info Now

The Future of Branch Banking: Start Collecting Info Now

Over the last year, I’ve attended a few banking conferences and a hot topic that’s often brought up is the future of the bank branch….

Marketing Resources for Startup Companies

Marketing Resources for Startup Companies

With Techweek concluding recently, here is a run-down on some cool tools you can use for your business with helpful advice from Techweek speakers. So,…

SumoRank Provides New Facebook Page Insights

SumoRank Provides New Facebook Page Insights

Buzzsumo, a content research platform, recently released a new feature in their arsenal of content measurement called SumoRank. This new addition aims to fill a…

Creating a Style Guide for Authors

A key part of any brand is consistency. We regularly work with brands to help ensure their voice, image, and communication mediums are reliable. The…


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