Last year was a watershed year for business and our society, where rising populism, Trump’s polarizing accusations, and various socio-economic trends have made the topic of “brand risk” a top…
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A/B testing your email marketing
As we’ve discussed over the past few months, there are a lot of factors that contribute to the success (or failure) of your email marketing efforts, from visual design to…
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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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Integrating and automating email marketing and your website
If third time’s the charm, why not a fourth piece related to email marketing?! (You can check out the last few here.) This time, though, we’re going to relate email…
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How the new tax bill exacerbates millennials’ frustration with “brand capitalism”
Capitalism is really the brand of our free market economic system which has been the driving force for American commercial success since its founding. But is it working as a…
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How do you sell when your buyers can’t buy? Mounting dysfunction in the B2B buying process
Everyone is aware that B2B buying is complex. It involves multiple parties over long decision-making cycles. In a large enterprise, this can take months, if not years, and involve dozens…
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4 more ways to make your email marketing more effective
In my last article, I talked about how personalization, mobile-friendliness, social connectivity, and asking for action can make your email marketing a more effective part of your marketing toolkit. Here are…
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Building a stronger brand and culture with “keystone habits”
Marketing is ultimately about changing the behavior of a customer (e.g. a purchase decision). Related to this, creating new behavior patterns of employees is also essential for transforming a company…
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2 applications of marketing AI
The major hole in our book Outside-In Marketing: Using Big Data to Guide Your Content Marketing is the lack of information on marketing artificial intelligence (AI). We talk about how…
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Six powerful B2B marketing tactics you may be missing
There are so many great new techniques in B2B marketing today, it’s hard to keep up. I hereby offer a roundup of ideas that you may have overlooked: IP address…
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