Are you getting the most out of social media? We’ll safely assume that you and your business are using social media. You probably have Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Google Plus…
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Am I connecting with my customers enough? 10 tips for customer outreach
How’s your customer outreach? You might be looking at how to secure new customers and follow up on leads, but are you also keeping your existing customers happy? We hear…
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Micro-influencer marketing is the new long tail
I have been doing long-tail blogger outreach since 2006. Ten years later, I am still at it in earnest. Even more, I play so far down the long tail of…
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The simple truth about what’s driving digital next year
Someone recently asked me what I thought the future of marketing was going to look like: what’s driving digital next year and, most importantly, how marketers can prepare for the…
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Remember to market to your own influencer network
I really love influencer marketing. Too much. So much, in fact, that I often forget to do the sales and business development work required to keep Gerris Corp moving forward….
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Janet Thaeler & Maryanne Conlin on Influencer Marketing
Yesterday I had a lovely chat with two fellow influencer marketers, Maryanne Conlin and Janet Thaeler. Both conversations were quite different but both really reassured me that my practice at Gerr.is and…
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Kindness opens many doors online
There are a lot of assholes online, though very few of them are dyed-in-the-wool. They’re simply exceptionally guarded, armored against all the other assholes online. It’s a vicious cycle. We’ve all…
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Your team is the best content source for search
If there’s anyone in your world who can pass the duck test, it’s your employees. There’s nobody else anywhere who looks more like a duck, swims more like a duck, and…
Read MoreDigital futurism, UX, and streams: tomorrow will look like yesterday
Having been in the field of emerging technologies for many years now, often people ask me “what is next? What will technology look like many years from now?” My answer invariably is: “I…
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Launching your social campaign with guns blazing!
When I have a client that needs something launched in a big way I go at it with guns-blazing, concurrently pimping their social networks using ManageFlitter, buying followership if their…
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