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After years of impressive growth, the U.S. solar industry continues to shrink under President Trump. The Solar Foundation on Tuesday released the National Solar Jobs Census, its annual report on the industry. For the second straight year, the findings were discouraging. According...

Why AI should be part of your strategy. Machine learning is reinventing marketing — and a growing number of marketers know it. According to recent research from the IBM Institute for Business Value, 91 percent of marketers at companies that outperform their competitors believe...

They say humans are creatures of habit which explains why most people are a bit resistant to change. And Snapchat’s recent redesign proved to be a bit too much for its users to endure. A reported 1.2 million Snapchat users have now joined hands in a petition for the app to revert...

There’s no denying that Facebook ads can be a potent marketing tool when done correctly. The social media giant offers numerous options for reaching a wide range of consumers and marketers are taking notice. As a matter of fact, 92% of marketers are now using the platform...

Influencer marketing is drawing more and more suspicion from brands and advertisers alike. There is a growing concern in some business sectors that consumer trust in influencers is waning or has reached its peak. Empirical data, however, shows that influencers still have a lot of...

Content marketing is reshaping ecommerce for companies large and small. That’s because marketing is about trust first and foremost and marketers are realizing that quality content builds trust quicker than traditional advertising. Tim Turner Forman of a new startup called...

Contributor Laura Collins examines changes being made by social media platforms to improve both the user and advertiser experience. I’d imagine Facebook now looks back fondly on 2016, when their greatest PR disaster involved reporting incorrect video metrics. This year, by...

Facebook Messenger is only about three years old and it’s already one of the most popular messaging platforms in the world. With the right marketing strategy, the app can easily convert leads and drive sales. Since its unveiling at the 2015 F8 conference, more than one...

Millennials and those in Generation Z are the most avid users of social media. Almost everyone in these demographics has one or more social media accounts. So the news that an increasing number of people from these two groups are quitting social media is surprising to many...

Yelp just released its financials for Q4 and full year 2015 with revenue of 153.7 million (up 40% year-over-year) for the quarter. Cumulative reviews grew 34% to approximately 95 million. Local advertising accounts grew 32% to approximately 111,000. CEO Jeremy Stoppelman said,...