When a company invites me to evaluate the state of their digital maturity, the first question they always ask is, “What’s the ideal state?” The fact is, a complete digital…
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4 fears that prevent you from starting your own business
Starting your own business sounds great until you think too long and hard and feel bogged down by all of the things that could go wrong. While 70 percent of…
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Tell your tech business video story with a diagram
A good way to come up with a story for a tech business video is to find the diagram that tells the story and extract what you need. By “the diagram”…
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Effective email marketing design
We’re on a real roll with email-related posts–see our tips here and here from the past two monthly columns–and since good things happen in threes, we thought we’d cap the…
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Tips for making your blog the best ever
Maintaining a blog is something that so many companies do, but are they doing it as well as they could be? Sometimes paying attention to the details can make your…
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The 3 biggest and costliest e-commerce order fulfillment mistakes
Whether it’s called online shopping, e-business or e-commerce, the fact is that buying and selling over the web isn’t new. In fact, there’s a generation of young shoppers right now…
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10 of LinkedIn’s welcome new features
In the past few months, LinkedIn has added quite a few new features that add more functionality and better usability both on desktop and the mobile application. Some of the…
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7 ways to annoy webinar video watchers
I’ve sat in on many webinars and on-demand demos. They are valuable as background information for the B2B marketing videos we create, because a webinar is an opportunity to hear real…
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Facebook ads vs Google adwords: 7 key criteria to decide
Consider these facts: Digital ad revenue in the U.S. grew by more than 20% last year to a record $72.5 billion. (IAB) Google and Facebook accounted for almost 100% of…
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How to use customer data to develop marketing insights
Collecting customer data and analyzing it to gain customer experience insights is something only big businesses do, right? In fact, small businesses can and should collect valuable customer information, just…
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