When you invest in promotional products, you want to make the most of them. Why just use them as giveaways at a trade shows and events? When promotional products do…
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Branding can help local businesses avoid the “growth trap”
Local businesses have a very pragmatic attitude about branding: they ignore it. Many of them are more worried about meeting payroll, making rent, paying taxes, and other cash crises than…
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Digital marketing is less about knowledge than about bravery
I teach digital marketing to many different audiences each year, so you would think that I would place digital marketing knowledge at the top of the heap for leading to…
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What is a keyword ontology?
A keyword ontology is a knowledge graph describing relationships between the keywords your target audiences frequently use in search queries and the products and services you sell. It can include…
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Review bots, fake news, and the misinformation age
This will be considered ancient news now, but it’s often better to analyze headlines when the buzz is over. The Last Jedi opened before the holidays as one of the highest-rated…
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Where is B2B marketing headed? 7 predictions for 2018
End-of-the-year predictions are a dangerous business. I will take the risk and just hope that at the end of 2018, no one looks back to call me on it! B2B…
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Families of devices multiply publisher’s powers to control the world
Lesson for leaders Today’s devices limit their users to what the designers and their apps enable. Every vendor has a roadmap that maintains control over its users. Customers are…
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Influencers: the key to content marketing
I recently had the pleasure of participating in a B2B digital marketing forum hosted by The Conference Board and led by Mike Moran and Tim Peter. Mike invited me because…
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Video for differentiation, stick to one differentiator
According to Gartner analyst Hank Barnes, most technology marketers know they need to emphasize differentiators—so they make a list of them. But it’s hard to remember lists. Give prospects one…
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6 types of content your readers hate
When creating content for your blog, social media profiles, email subscribers, and other purposes, you don’t want to irritate your readers. Unfortunately, some types of content can send readers running…
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