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Recent articles by Marcus Taylor

What Is Predictive Analytics & Can It Give You an Advantage?

Data empowers us with knowledge of what did or didn’t work in the past. In hindsight, we all have 20/20 vision. But what if you had 20/20 vision, not in…

Email Marketing

7 Best Transactional Email Services: Sendgrid vs. Mandrill & More

A good transactional email service saves developer time, improves deliverability and reduces support issues. Here’s our top picks.

Engineering Marketing

How to Improve Your Page Load Speed by 70.39% in 45 Minutes

In 2006, Amazon reported that for every 100 milliseconds they speed up their website, they see a 1% increase in revenue. Then Google announced, in an effort to improve the…

Content Marketing

Headline Writing: 19 Ways to Write Irresistible Headlines

Over the years, the function of the headline has evolved. In the days of print, it served the purpose of catching the eye. Then along came Google. With the shift…

Engineering

Wix vs Shopify vs WordPress: How to Build a Website

Having built and marketed hundreds of websites for over ten years now, I’m often asked what is the best, cheapest, or fastest platform to build a website. As many of…

Featured Guides & Articles Marketing

The Ultimate Startup Marketing Strategy

28 lessons for rapid startup growth from our own portfolio – and the growth teams at HubSpot, Dropbox, AirBnB & more.

Marketing Strategy

17 Marketing Strategies For Your Film Or TV Show

Steal these strategies from the playbooks of marketers behind Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, The Great Gatsby & more.

Content Marketing

How To Market Your Whitepaper – 21 Tips To Get More Readers

When it comes to B2B content marketing, case studies and white papers are usually one of the most effective ways of attracting interest from potential customers online. But how do…

Marketing

11 Mobile App Marketing Tips to Increase Your Downloads

There are over 800,000 apps available in the app store. The bar for standing out is exceptionally high, which is why it’s fundamental for mobile app developers and entrepreneurs to…