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Are Your Public Relations Efforts Working?

How effective are your public relations efforts? The answer to this question has become even more complex in this era of online viral marketing and word of mouth. It’s not enough to just count mentions, etc., as we did in … Continue reading

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How Shipping Options Can Affect Online Purchase Conversion

We know that not revealing shipping information until a customer is ready to pay for an item can have a dramatic impact on shopping cart abandonment. But another shipping topic that has not received as much attention relates to how … Continue reading

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Have You Mastered Twitter Yet?

With the growing popularity of Twitter as a business communications platform, companies have various decisions to make — including these: Does every tweet mentioning the firm’s name require a response? How should firms respond to positive tweets? To negative tweets? … Continue reading

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