Before you take the next step of using social media for business purposes, realize that it’s a life sentence. Not unlike needing to take anti-rejection medications every day for life…
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Mobile is dead: Start thinking mobility now…
Since 2005, we read and hear that each approaching year is going to be the “year of mobile” or that “mobile advertising will become more than important than digital”. At…
Read MorePresident Obama announces agile marketing approach
OK, OK, he didn’t exactly do that. The president probably doesn’t even know what agile marketing is. But he certainly would agree with it based on the remarks I saw…
Read MorePersistence is fertile
If you want to be heard above the din of the Internet, you need to speak clearly and with persistence. It’s not uncommon for someone at a loud bar not…
Read MorePromoting content: Build great content marketing relationships
Everyone understands that “build it and they will come” no longer works with websites. It probably never did. That is one of the main reasons we do content marketing. Less…
Read MoreHow B2B marketers can turn Facebook into a lead generating machine
Researchers at Princeton University recently released a study suggesting that Facebook is about to disintegrate and collapse within the next couple years due to a mass user exodus. To misquote…
Read MoreShould guest blogging still be part of your SEO strategy?
Recently, Google’s head of webspam Matt Cutts said guest blogging is dead, citing its overuse by search marketing companies as part of their link-building activities. Now, it’s easy to assume…
Read MoreGoogle unmasks the anonymous with Google Authorship
Google has a goal in mind and it has more to do with visitor identification as it relates to targeted advertising than it has to do with improving the quality,…
Read MoreCustomer experience and digitalization
When “everything becomes digital,” private, public, and civil institutions become more dependent on information systems and more vulnerable to attack by sophisticated cyber-criminals, political “hacktivists,” nation-states, and even their own…
Read MoreHow much content is enough for effective content marketing?
How often should I blog? Do I really need to post to Twitter every hour? Does it matter whether my content is original or aggregated or repurposed? (And what’s the…
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