There 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 More
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 More
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…
Read MoreAt Balihoo, we recently encountered a problem. We needed to extract all the text and formatting from past blog posts we had written, but our service provider didn’t have a tool to do that. Since there were over 600 posts, this isn’t the kind of project you want to do by hand. With a bit…
Read MoreVBA or Visual Basic for Applications is a fantastic tool for automating a number of tasks across the Microsoft suite. Some of the greatest uses come from integrating Excel with Internet Explorer allowing a user to be able to scrape data off various websites and dump the data into Excel. This post will show how…
Read MoreWhile I usually try to post less articles, but I couldn’t help it this week, there is just too much I want to share. This afternoon grab a cold one and spend a few minutes reading through these great posts! Why “Simple” Websites Are Scientifically Better I’m always a sucker for case studies and examples,…
Read MoreI recently received an email from a video marketing platform called Vidyard. Ultimately we are soon going to be customers of theirs because they offer a product that we need we would never have known that had they not marketed their product in a way that caught my eye. Success #1- Making it through spam…
Read More