This email landed in my inbox the other day: From: *@gmail is unacceptable There is no reason to have any kind of business email come from a gmail account. Even a single-person business can get URL and server space for as little as $100 a year. If you have a gmail/hotmail/yahoo/aol address no one will…
Read MoreThere has been a wide variety of interesting articles that I’ve had the chance to read lately. From some interesting results on what “direct traffic” may actually be to actionable insights that will help you find your next marketing operations executive, the articles below are must reads for any marketer. How the Right Marketing Tech…
Read MoreThe posts that caught my attention (and the attention of my twitter followers) were all over the place this week. If you’ve got a few minutes during the day to spare, be sure to check out some of these great posts from around the marketing community.
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What is site searching and why do I need it? If you ever find yourself looking at a list of URLs and are contemplating doing anything that involves copying and pasting each one into a browser and looking at the corresponding website, you are probably looking at something that could be automated. To that end,…
Read MoreAt 261 LinkedIn connections, I’m hardly a power-user; but I still find it to be one of the most interesting social networks, especially from a professional/business perspective. Over the past 6 months, I’ve tried publishing updates to Linked in around once or twice a day. The second most viewed/shared content A few months back I…
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The problem: Needing to download hundreds of images instantly At Balihoo we are changing providers for our blogging platform, and one of the challenges that came up was how to extract all the images (Over 600) we had uploaded to our existing software without having a built-in tool for pulling them off the server. While…
Read MoreBrief discussion of Three Data Challenges That Could Be Limiting You From Getting the Most Out of Your Marketing Automation Platform that over on the Balihoo blog.
Read MoreHead on over to the Balihoo blog to read my latest post on Marketing Technology Tactics here. Let me know any thoughts below in the comments!
Read MoreCorrelation and causation is touchy subject for mathematicians and marketers alike. Despite what every person passionate about anything would like you to think, just because two sets of data are correlated it does not mean one caused the other. There may be a link, or they may be just co-incidental. As a marketer, you do…
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This post is includes the second half of the scripting required for the web-scraping project described in last weeks post. With a completed list of the blog post and their corresponding URLS, the next step is to code a scraper that will visit each page, search out the blog content and any relevant tags then…
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