Conference sessions rarely yield more than a handful of good quotes, which is why The Conference Board’s recent 21st Annual Senior Corporate Communicators Conference was so exceptional. The theme was…
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Email marketing still matters
Email marketing absolutely must still be a part of your content marketing tool kit. It may not be as sexy as “social selling,” or even SEO, but it fills in…
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Surefire Social introduces SurePulse “webmaster tools”
Surefire Social is about to offer an all-in-one social media, search, reputation, review, analytics tool in the form of SurePulse, now in beta. I get to play with a lot of…
Read More6 studies show why Facebook organic reach is declining so quickly
50,000,000+ businesses have a Facebook page 1.48 is the average number of times these brands post each day 2% is their Facebook organic reach and it’s declining (source: DMR) 50,000,000…
Read MoreIs marketing content’s quality intrinsic, or proved in the wild?
This is not a theoretical question. I have seen heated arguments on this subject with my clients over the years over what is a deceptively simple question: can you measure…
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Help Google help you optimize your content for search
It’s really hard to get Google’s attention. Content marketing is indeed a silver bullet — why do you think I’m writing this — but there are ways of wooing search…
Read MoreHow growing corruption threatens brands
Corruption throughout the world has grown to epidemic levels. Every day there seems to be another incidence of bribery, cronyism, counterfeiting, slush funds, or a political scandal somewhere. Behind each…
Read MorePromotional products: making them effective branding tools for your business
Promotional products have really stood the test of time in the marketing world. You know them: they are those branded gifts that have your company’s name and or logo on…
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3 Insights from Search Insider Summit
I had the good fortune to deliver a keynote address at the Search Insider Summit (SIS) in Key Largo, Florida on May 6th. I love this conference because it is composed…
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Restfulness is close to Godliness
Before we start, I want to let you in on a little secret: every successful person you truly admire takes naps. On May 15, Laura Vanderkam wrote a story for…
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