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Can You Use More than One H1 Tag on a Web Page?
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The Case for Needs Analysis
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Advertising is a broad term. When I tell people that I work for an ad agency, many times I get the response: “So, you’re like Don Draper from Mad Men?”.
The Blueprint For Successful Email Initiatives
When I am meeting with someone about email marketing and they refer to their campaigns as “eblasts,” I cringe. An eblast is messaging shot across cyberspace, hopefully ending up in