When you put lots of energy, time, and passion — but no plan — into your social media marketing and PR campaigns, you’re a forager. And you surely won’t starve…
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37 reasons that video content is king
Bill Gates, in 1996, predicted “content is king,” Bill said content would revolutionize the internet because it “allows material to be duplicated at a low cost, no matter the size of the…
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Don’t under-optimize your website in SEO
The primary Google Penguin update and all of the subsequent Penguin updates have targeted sites that were guilty of “over-optimization.” These sites were taking SEO to the extreme and participating…
Read MoreContent marketing and your buying cycle
Content marketing can only be effective if the content you’re producing is relevant and informative enough to attract your target audience and hold their attention. Relevance will most certainly depend on…
Read MoreAre you a good online spokesperson for your company?
One of the more astonishing things about the social media revolution is that companies have had to dramatically loosen the reins on employees speaking publicly about their workplace over just…
Read MoreIn digital marketing, you must get over your fear of being annoying
According to Jonathan Alter‘s new book, The Center Holds, it was Barack Obama’s young geek volunteers who crushed Mitt Romney‘s “Mad Men” campaign out of the 1960s in the 2012 election. And…
Read More6 things digital marketers can learn from internet stars
There is an Internet star or celebrity for just about any topic of interest, and digital media marketing has been the secret to their success. In the early days of…
Read MoreDoes asking for too much data alienate customers?
In case you haven’t noticed, it appears that the Internet is not the only place where privacy is a great idea but an apparently unobtainable reality. In the latest installment…
Read MoreEnterprise social networking: Survival of the fittest or of the nicest?
In many discussions about driving adoption for social business platforms, the acronym WIIFM (“What’s in it for me”) became a well known jargon to say: unless users take personal advantage…
Read MoreHow to measure digital marketing with observer effects
Last month, I argued that your marketing investments should not be influenced by measurement limitations. The higher you get in the marketing funnel, the harder it is to demonstrate the…
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