I reached out to Kristen Matthews yesterday to catch up with her and to ask her about what she’s seeing in the marketplace. What do clients want and expect? What do…
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Keeping your email subscribers engaged
Building a large email list isn’t enough – for successful email marketing, you have to keep the subscribers you win engaged. Here are a few things to keep in mind…
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3 marketing lessons learned from home improvement bloggers
Those who are offering home improvement services face a stiff competition. With this, it is critical to think of a way to stand out from all others and be on…
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Half of your audience hates you
The contentious political times we live in offer scant places to hide for the average company. For every Patagonia that wears its collective ideology on its sleeve, there are thousands…
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Email marketers are from Mars, email consumers are not
Let’s make it an even half-dozen articles in a row devoted to various aspects of email marketing, shall we? You can see the previous five here, along with my other…
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How do marketers manage their tech stack?
It wasn’t too many years ago that this would have been a silly question — if you drew a Venn diagram of marketing and technology, it would look like two…
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Are you using data to connect with customers?
I live in the New York City area, and among baseball fans of a certain age, there is a touchstone event that they remember: New York Yankees baseball player Thurman…
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What your social media marketing consultant will never tell you
Too many companies try to outsource their social media in hopes that a social media expert, like me, will care about their brand just as much as they do. I hate…
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3 reasons to avoid Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMPs)
I often get asked about IBM‘s position on Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMPs). AMPs are mobile-first web pages that you submit to Google, so that it caches them for quicker load…
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How to optimize your LinkedIn profile
One of the questions I get asked the most on Quora relates to optimizing your LinkedIn profile. If you’re building a personal brand or want to become known as a…
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