I used to like the term “data-driven marketing.” I really did. But I kept running into people telling me that they were doing data-driven marketing when it just didn’t seem…
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How CEOs can restore their company brand trust
You just can’t win, say many CEOs. Take a stand on almost any socio-economic issue today and you will delight many, but offend others. While our society has become so…
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How do you know how long to A/B test your website changes?
Everyone wants to be data-driven these days, so A/B testing is all the rage. Too often, however, I run into clients that run dozens of tests a month and come…
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3 hacks of agile scrum for content design
I was gratified in a nostalgic way to read articles by my friends and former colleagues Sol Sender and Charles Chesnut, writing about the challenges of adopting agile. I was…
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Digital is stranger than you can think—here’s how to think stranger
Werner Heisenberg, the legendary physicist, once said, “…the Universe isn’t stranger than you think; it’s stranger than you can think.” In some ways, you could say the same thing about…
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Top 3 digital marketing challenges (and how to overcome them)
Digital marketing is an important area of focus – often the primary area of focus – for small businesses. However, while the landscape quickly evolves, the challenges do too. Wondering…
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Command the planet: Lead the exponential digital Earth
Lesson for leaders The challenges in the innovation process are to align it with corporate strategy, implement it, and evaluate how to improve it: on the competition side, pressure…
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Intentional inventing: own the intellectual property that leads the future
Lesson for leaders Innovations rule today’s world, so everyone wants to innovate. Innovations are filed for patenting and claimed as property before they are launched. If someone else had…
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Naming brands – the unsubtle (Trump) and the subtle (drug companies)
Most people think “branding” is simply about creating a catchy, memorable name for a product, service, organization, and even people. However, branding is much more complex. Good branding starts with…
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Six roadmaps multiply your exponential growth
Lesson for leaders How should you plan on having your business destroyed by Facebook‘s, Amazon‘s, and Google‘s roadmaps? If you don’t pay Facebook, Amazon, or Google, they make you disappear…
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