Mobile is here to stay. Almost 80% of the worldwide population has a smartphone. Across the globe, people are using them to browse the web, check their emails and engage with apps. That makes mobile trendy — and it’s easy to get caught up in the fervor. Does every website have to be mobile first? Why Make Your Website Mobile-First? There Continue Reading...
Write for People, Not Search Engines
Greetings Rainmakers! It’s a busy time at Rainmaker Digital; we just released 3.3.0.3, an incremental update to the Andromeda platform. It addresses some customer issues with RainMail and forms, and it sets the stage for the upcoming version release of 3.3.1. Stay tuned for details — we’ll keep you posted on timing and what’s coming in the next Continue Reading...
Want More Opens? Strengthen Your Subject Line
“Don’t judge a book by its cover,” my mother used to tell me. I did anyway. Most people do. We’re drowned by so much information that we make snap judgments on what to engage in. Did it grab your attention right away? No? Too bad, keep moving. It’s harder to get attention now than ever before, mainly because so much is trying to take it. The Continue Reading...
Your Funnel Doesn’t End with a Sale
Funnels are everywhere, especially in sales. Prospects go in the top of the funnel, they come out the bottom as customers. It’s a simple principle, and we’ve written about it before. But your relationship with your customer doesn’t end at conversion. That first sales funnel is more like a first date. You need to put in work afterwards to Continue Reading...
Build a Better Product Page
If you bought a product online in the last year, you weren’t alone. 2.14 billion people bought something online in 2021. COVID accelerated the growth of eCommerce, but we’ve been headed towards a “click and mortar” world for a while, and even long-established brands are sitting up and taking notice. You can’t just sell in-person anymore. You Continue Reading...
Measure Your Marketing
Marketing is an investment, not an expense — or at least, it should be. A lot of people approach marketing like they’re throwing darts blindfolded: they know roughly where the board is, but they don’t know if they’re hitting the target and can’t evaluate afterward. That’s not effective. You need to know exactly where your money and resources Continue Reading...
State of the Platform: Use Styles to Stand Out
Welcome to this month’s State of the Platform. When I think about web design, it takes me back to being a technology-crazy 10-year-old. My uncle gave me an old copy of Dreamweaver, and I spent countless hours dabbling in it. At the end of all my effort, I had a somewhat functional website (though I never hosted it). It … wasn’t very good, even Continue Reading...
Facebook Just Hid Your Friends (Here’s Why)
Facebook started in 2004 as a place to connect with college friends. It’s not that anymore. Facebook quickly grew, absorbed Instagram and created new markets. Every few years a new challenge arose, and it weathered every storm. Until now. For the first time in a long while, Meta (the parent company of Facebook and Instagram) is showing Continue Reading...
Throw Away Your CTA
We’re almost two-thirds of the way through the year already, if you can believe it. 2022 has already seen some big changes in content marketing, with more likely to come. I’ve been in the marketing industry since the ‘90s, so I’ve seen a lot of the biggest changes firsthand, and I can tell you this year is shaping up to be a pivotal one. This Continue Reading...
BERT Lets Google Speak Your Language
“Open the pod bay doors, HAL.” “I’m sorry, Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.” This iconic movie exchange from 2001: A Space Odyssey was science fiction at the time. Today it’s not. It can be easy to forget, but every time you ask your phone for directions, a machine is understanding what you say. That’s a very new phenomenon. Google has Continue Reading...
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