Social Media at the Speedway: 8 Tips to Cultivating and Engaging Offline Fanatics

When your customers are already fans of your business, how do you turn them into fans online, too? How do you turn your offline brand…

Social Media Do’s & Don’ts for Speakers [ SLIDES ]

Thanks to the National Speakers Association Kansas City chapter for hosting me as their February presenter. I get to do a lot of social media…

Fall Conference Roundup: From digiSTORY to BMAKC

Fall Conference Roundup: From digiSTORY to BMAKC

October was positively stuffed full of marketing knowledge and valuable insights, thanks in large part to two conferences brought to the Kansas City area. The…

4 Steps in Google AdWords to Know if Paid Search Will Work for Your Business

4 Steps in Google AdWords to Know if Paid Search Will Work for Your Business

Pay-Per-Click (PPC) advertising is a great way to target those searching for solutions and products like yours. In fact, at emfluence we often recommend PPC…

How Often Should You Send Email Marketing Campaigns?

How Often Should You Send Email Marketing Campaigns?

In my eight years in email marketing, there are a few questions I hear about once a week: 1. What works in email subject lines?…

SEO Secrets: 5 Actionable Steps for Link Building

SEO Secrets: 5 Actionable Steps for Link Building

Jason White from DragonSearch.net provided a great synopsis of earning authority via link acquisition at SMX East 2014. Below is a collection of the actionable insights I took away from his presentation. They make a great basic checklist for getting into link building!

SMX East Recap: The Art of SEO in Google’s (Still) Rapidly Changing World

SMX East Recap: The Art of SEO in Google’s (Still) Rapidly Changing World

Taking the stage on the first day of SMX East is Marshall Simmonds, famed CEO of Define MG and longtime SEO professional. I am excited to be reporting from New York all of the excitement and adventure surrounding this years Search Marketing Expo! Blog posts will be coming rapidly and I frantically try to share all of the valuable information shared for the next four days.

Lessons Learned from our First Twitter Lead Generation Card Campaign

Lessons Learned from our First Twitter Lead Generation Card Campaign

Back in July, Alyssa posted about one of Twitter’s newest marketing tools, Twitter Lead Gen Cards, that can help convert social media connections into email…

Crowdsourcing Social Content: Brands at Their Best

Crowdsourcing Social Content: Brands at Their Best

How do you define your brand? Trick question! It doesn’t matter what you’re thinking. More importantly, how does your audience think of your brand? I’m…

Using Technology to Grow Your Banking Customer Base

Using Technology to Grow Your Banking Customer Base

At the Bank Director Conference in April, I sat down to chat about growing customer relationships. Check out my 4-minute intro to how automated email…

Using Cool Automation to Give New Customers a Warm Welcome

Using Cool Automation to Give New Customers a Warm Welcome

Banks and Credit Unions call it “onboarding:” A series of communications that cultivates the relationship with a new customer and provides an opportunity to (eventually)…

Let’s Get Real: What’s Working in Real-Time Marketing

Let’s Get Real: What’s Working in Real-Time Marketing

Real-time marketing has always been at the root of social media. The interest consumers have in interacting with brands on social media largely stems from…

5 Things You Should Know About CASL

5 Things You Should Know About CASL

At the 2014 emfluence Marketing Platform User Conference, Kristin Kenney with Polsinelli gave us some straight talk about what marketers need to know about Canada’s…

back to basics: the anatomy of an effective email

back to basics: the anatomy of an effective email

What marketing channel boasts a $28 return on investment for every $1 you invest? (Hint: there’s only one.) What channel combines emerging digital tactics with…

Photos from the Conference are up

Photos from the Conference are up

Thank you to our speakers, our Platform team and, of course, our users (clients) for another great user conference! Photos of the day are up…

emfluence Marketing Platform User Conference – June 18th in Kansas City

emfluence Marketing Platform User Conference – June 18th in Kansas City

Join us for the emfluence Marketing Platform User Conference Read more at the EventBrite Page:      Agenda     |     Speaker Bios…

Gmail’s New Inbox Layout Emphasizes Images Over Subject Lines

Gmail’s New Inbox Layout Emphasizes Images Over Subject Lines

Last year, Gmail got email marketers all in a tizzy by introducing its new tabbed inbox. Now, Gmail is testing a new visual “grid” layout…

Turn Up the Local SEO Heat  for Your Restaurant Marketing Summer Strategy

Turn Up the Local SEO Heat for Your Restaurant Marketing Summer Strategy

Things have finally warmed up in the Northern Hemisphere as summer arrives. It’s time for vacations, great food, and a surge in flip-flop sales. Just…

Using Google Analytics demographics for social media

Using Google Analytics demographics for social media

Earlier this week, Tyler wrote a great post about Google Analytics’ new demographics data, and how it offers a treasure trove of information about visitors…

finding golden insights in Google Analytics demographics reports

finding golden insights in Google Analytics demographics reports

Last fall, Google announced that they would be phasing out keyword data in its Analytics toolbox, and replacing it with new features for search engine…

wise ways to use video in email marketing

wise ways to use video in email marketing

Last year, Sara wrote a blog post highlighting our client, Rush Wade 2, for their use of sharing an animated GIF via email. In another…

the anatomy of an effective email pre-header

the anatomy of an effective email pre-header

You've almost definitely seen the pre-header of an email before. It's the line or two of pure text above the graphic header banner in an…

emfluence SEO team wins BMA Fountain Award

emfluence SEO team wins BMA Fountain Award

Another round of congratulations to the emfluence Search Engine Optimization strategy team for winning a BMA Fountain award for their work on ProPharma Group’s SEO during website relaunch in 2013.

email marketing frequency: is it possible to send too little?

In a world where email marketers know the value of each email and, therefore, want to send as much email as possible, it seems unlikely….

emfluence wins 11 KCDMA Ambit awards

emfluence wins 11 KCDMA Ambit awards

On Wednesday night, emfluence client work scored 11 KCDMA AMBIT Awards for excellence in targeted, measurable marketing, including a Gold in each category of email, search and social media marketing!

creating a Likeable Facebook promotion

creating a Likeable Facebook promotion

For bank marketers, social media strategy is crucial to being accessible to customers. It’s also very different than, say marketing for Oreo or Boulevard Beer. Bank marketers need to find a way to make your Facebook campaign particularly likeable. Here’s how one of our clients did it.

5 fabulous brand partnerships (and why they worked)

5 fabulous brand partnerships (and why they worked)

When two brands come together to create a partnership or co-branded effort that works, it’s a beautiful thing. Brand partnerships and co-branding efforts can strengthen audience impressions and elevate the love of a brand to a whole new level.