I love Audible, the audiobook app owned by Amazon. I have a monthly subscription because listening to audiobooks with my sons has transformed car rides, plane rides and folding laundry. I usually have extra credits available because it takes us forever to listen to an 8-hour book in 15-minute chunks. But this summer’s trips have […]

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I do a lot of SEO consulting for clients. Clients want to know: how to optimize their websites for Google, how to drive more organic traffic to their sites, and what keywords they should focus on for optimization. At Matrix Group, we spend a lot of time on the mechanics of our client sites so […]

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Guest post by Leah Monica, Director of Marketing We all constantly hear about email marketing best practices to help increase our open and click rates – subject lines, concise copy, clear calls-to-actions – but what good are those best practices if our emails aren’t even reaching your contacts’ inboxes? Why do your emails sometimes get […]

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Guest post by Tanya Kennedy Luminati, MatrixMaxx Product Manager We’re almost two months past the GDPR deadline, and we’re all still alive! (Well, mostly.) Just because the deadline has come and passed doesn’t mean the fun is over, though. As I’m sure you’ve heard, California has a new GDPR-inspired privacy law coming down the pike, and many […]

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I was talking to my friend Ben Muscolino at Benel Solutions. Ben’s company does netFORUM implementations and other AMS integrations. Matrix Group has several clients in common and we love working with Benel Solutions. Anyway, we were talking association management software (AMS) companies, how the space is pretty crowded, and how difficult it is for […]

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Let’s face it. As marketers, we’re always wondering how to reach more people, get more opens and clicks, drive traffic, and get more conversions. Mobile apps have been terrific at generating visits and conversions because of their ability to send push notifications to users. We’ve all gotten used to the notifications on our phone, as well […]

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I’ve blogged in the past about Marie Kondo’s best-selling book, The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up. Last year, my husband and I set about tidying our house, with great success. While I wouldn’t exactly call my house neat and sparse, I am definitely more in control of the clutter. So what’s all this got […]

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Guest post by Tanya Kennedy Luminati, MatrixMaxx Product Manager What are the next steps once you know what GDPR is? Officially start your security/compliance/privacy efforts This is your first step: Read about GDPR on the Matrix Group blog, and start to learn more. Track any efforts  Team meetings, staff meetings, webinars, research, actions. It is […]

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Guest post by Tanya Kennedy Luminati, MatrixMaxx Product Manager There is a new acronym taking the world by storm right now: GDPR If you’re in Europe, you’ve probably heard of this. If you’re here in the United States, you may not have heard it … yet. But the concepts of Privacy and Security that it […]

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Last year, my husband and I read Marie Kondo’s “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing.“ To say this book was life changing isn’t an exaggeration. Besieged by clutter, we went about decluttering our books, clothes, papers, kitchen accessories, and on and on. We gave away over 1,000 books, I […]

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