By Kristi Tan, DMD Campaign Manager, and @JackieClews, DMD Co-Founder

In our last blog post, we discussed how to get started with inbound marketing by creating buyer personas, such as Renter Sally.

After you've fleshed out and prioritized your target personas, the next step is implementing campaigns with valuable, relevant offers to convert them into leads.

By Kristi Tan, DMD Campaign Manager, and @JackieClews, DMD Co-Founder

As a business owner or sales executive, you are constantly trying to keep your company front of mind with your contacts so they can like you, trust you, and become a customer or client.

That's what inbound marketing helps you do - online.

Do you send to multiple email segments or on different days, and want to get better stats on what is performing? If so, you need to start tagging your links with campaign parameters in Google Analytics.

Adding custom campaign parameters to your links will allow you to track the effectiveness of your marketing. The parameters allow you to pull in all sorts of data, not just a referral. This is especially important with email analytics. Traffic from emails is extremely hard to find in Google Analytics if you are not tagging the emails with a campaign.

Now that you know the first two reasons why I love Podio, easy customization and fluid communication features, let’s look at the final reason why this tool seems to be the best solution for our needs right now (and might be the best solution for your company or agency, as well):

By Kristi Tan and @JackieClews

Welcome back! In the first part in this series we discussed my prior experiences with Basecamp and TeamworkPM, two popular project management software systems for agencies. I then told you the first reason why I love Podio is the easy customization with the apps. Here’s the second reason why I prefer it over other project management systems I’ve used:

By Kristi Tan and @JackieClews

Project management includes a lot of parts, especially when content is thrown into the mix. A million shared docs, a never-ending email thread, questions left unanswered — these things are what raise our blood pressure and sometimes make us want to throw our computers out the window. This is why a comprehensive, reliable, easy-to-use project management software is absolutely crucial to build in the early stages of a growing agency, as well many other businesses. So I wanted to share some feedback on other systems I've tried and Podio, the software DMD began using recently, to share how they all compare.

By @JackieClews

The world of digital marketing is often a vague, mysterious world.

That's why at DMD we are very dedicated to blogging about digital marketing to increase your knowledge of what it is we do, and what we don't do, such as public relations (PR).

This week I was at a networking event, where I was excited to meet a local PR professional. While I was discussing this person with another marketer, he asked me to articulate what the difference is between the two.

By Grace M. Frank and @JackieClews

Why use social advertising?

One good reason is because you want to accelerate your efforts, whether those goals are to grow your followers (aka prospects) or engagement (aka brand awareness). 

Remember those science classes, where you took a control group and tested it against an experimental group that had been changed in some way to see whether the change was beneficial?

Well, that's A/B testing: A basic science experiment redesigned to work as a marketing tool.

When searching the web for anything related to design you're going to run into a huge selection. I am going to give you a list of the top 5 that I regularly browse. These sites range from user-submitted work, industry professional insight, design freebies, wallpapers, tutorials and much, much more.