Maria Pergolino

When To Scale and Automate Your Small Business Marketing (but Remain Personable)

When you think about small business marketing and automation by ActiveCampaign, a good insight can be had just by looking at your email inbox, says Maria Pergolino. The chief marketing officer says that there are emails that you're excited to read and ones that are just noise. The company is helping companies activate their entire...

Marketing tips for small business

Essential Marketing Tips for COVID-19

Businesses of all sizes have had to shift their marketing efforts because of COVID-19. Small businesses in particular have had an especially hard time due to limited resources. We were lucky enough to sit down with a small business marketing expert, and hear her advice first-hand. So if you've been wondering what marketing tips...

Marketing and communication during COVID-19

How to Shift Your Marketing and Communication During COVID-19

Ramon had a virtual sit-down with Gabrielle Raymond McGee, Chief Operating Officer of the Tory Burch Foundation. The theme was marketing and communication during COVID-19. Gabrielle and Ramon chatted about tips on small business branding, social media, and more on their #AskMeAnything series. The questions asked by listeners ranged from social media to eCommerce....

email marketing

It’s Time To Rethink Your Email Newsletter. Constant Contact and Mailchimp.

So many businesses have email newsletters. Most are lack luster organs of dribble being pushed out like stale tooth paste every so often. Email marketing is a powerful way to connect and engage with your customers and potential customers. Mailchimp and Constant Contact have vitalized their respective platforms and continue to evolve them for...

interview

Three Super Cool Marketing Services You Never Heard Of

There's so many amazing marketing services available to help you grow your business. I'm not referring to email services from Mailchimp, or CRM services from Thryv, Keap or vCita. I'm not even talking about website building tools from Wix or Squarespace. What I am referring to are three neat tools which help you get podcast...

customer experience marketing

Customer Experience Marketing. It’s Even More Important Today.

Many of us business owners are quite familiar with with sending emails to our customers, email marketing. We're also very familiar with the need to post to social media. However, what about the customer experience. It's time to go beyond marketing as usual, even in these challenging times. Recently I spoke with Adam Johnson...

Mailchimp Exec Shares Her 5 Best Secrets for Marketing Success

Mailchimp is one of the leading brands enabling businesses to get more customers and keep the ones they have. Mailchimp is best known as an email marketing company, but it now does so much more, including websites, marketing automation, CRM, advertising and more. Darcy Kurtz, VP of Product Marketing at Mailchimp shared with Ramon Ray...

email

Hiver and the Evolution of Email

Ramon Ray caught up with Niraj Ranjan Rout, the co-founder, and CEO of Hiver, a company dedicated to making email better for business. Niraj started out as an electrical engineer and worked as a programmer writing code for 6-7 years. “That’s when the startup bug basically bit me,” he laughed.  He started his first business...

GoDaddy

GoDaddy Websites + Marketing: Look Great Everywhere

GoDaddy InSight, A First-of-its-kind Smart Recommendation Tool, Guides Entrepreneurs toward Achieving Their Goals If you’ve ever tried to build a website and then find ways to get prospects to see it and take action, you know first-hand this is a time consuming and difficult undertaking. As a business owner, you have a lot of responsibilities,...