Spring has found its way to Indiana and with it comes another
edition of our monthly webinar - Compendium Feature Thursdays!
Every month, I host these webinars to make sure our clients
are up to date with Compendium's latest features and are getting
the most out of the platform.
This month, we took a bit of a different spin on things and shared
some best...
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Since our
last Feature Thursday in February, I'm sure you've been on the
edge of your seats waiting for the next installment! Well,
today was your lucky day - our second ever Compendium Feature
Thursday webinar took place!
Every month, I'll be hosting these webinars in order to make
sure you're up to date with Compendium's features and are getting
the most...
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The video that we have recorded today discusses AuthorRank,
explains why it's important, and walks you through how to set it
up. AuthorRank allows the writer to be associated with the content
they create across the internet. The benefit of adding AuthorRank
is that it will help build your Authors' credibility over the web
by compiling their content....
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According to a 2011 Q3 Epsilon report released last December,
emails focused on editorial (aka, blog) content received the
highest click-through-rate and second-highest open-rate of any
email message type:

This reinforces what smart marketers
already know and practice, repurposing quality content across
different marketing channels is a highly effective use...
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Calls-to-action (or CTAs) are images or buttons on a website
that entice the reader to take a specific action. What action you
want the reader to take depends on your company's product and
specific goals. Regardless of the type of action, the key to
effective CTAs is making them clear and relevant to your
readers.
For example, on an e-commerce site, a CTA may...
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We've come to love and recommend a few great widgets here at
Compendium. In the video below, I cover the benefits of using
ShareThis, Disqus, Gravatar, and Outbrain. In case you don't
have time to watch the video, here is a quick breakdown of some of
their benefits:
- Enables social sharing buttons to include counters that provide
"social proof" for...
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Take a look at this screenshot below. We all recognize
this right? It's a really nice, well formatted and key
component of a great organization's Content Marketing
Strategy. You can see the whole Off The Beaten Path email here.

I'm picking on my friends above because they are a prime example
of what happens all the time. Email marketing lives in...
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If you're in the digital media marketing or content marketing
space, you might want to take a few minutes and watch this webinar
replay. I join Jake Athey and Nicolas Jimenez of Widen to talk you through the building
blocks of a smart & effective online marketing strategy. We
focus on business blogging and the best practices of content
creation, curation,...
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Have you ever sat down in front of your computer, logged into
the Compendium application, and thought "Well, this looks
different!" If you have, you're not alone - and you're not
crazy!
Thanks to our extremely capable and fast-moving engineering team
here at Compendium, we've been rolling out new features like it's
our job (which actually, I guess it is!). ...
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So,
please forgive me if this comes off negative, but I’m really
getting kind of tired of all the
Groupon
bashing I hear.
Most of the complaints follow the theme set out in this recent
Forbes Article:
"...Jonathan Umbel suffered the
Groupon experience Chen was trying to avoid. Umbel is the owner of
the Tackle Box, a seafood restaurant in Georgetown that...
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