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Content Marketing
5 Awesome Tools for Content Marketing Minimalists
I consider myself a minimalist in content marketing. I don’t like complicated calendars, schedulers and planning tools—to me, they make the process more complicated than it needs to be. Not to mention, they make content marketers rigid. If you’re using a 6-month content calendar planning tool—that your company is paying for—you feel obligated to stick to every detail of that…
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Marketing Infographics
A Rather Timely Post on Influencer Marketing Strategies for Hotels
Yikes… if you’ve not seen the recent situation between rising social media influencer Elle Darby and Paul Stenson, owner of Dublin’s White Moose Café and Charleville Lodge. When Elle Darby decided to go on vacation, she reached out to several hotels she might be interested in staying at to see if they might provide a stay in trade for some…
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Marketing Infographics
Return on Social Media Investment
Social media had incredible promise as a medium to foster a relationship between the customer or client and the business providing the products or service. Many companies jumped instantly on board but the ROI has been elusive as it didn’t often end in immediate or direct revenue. Before you can set your social program up for success, it is important…
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Content Marketing
What’s Changed About Corporate Blogging Over The Years?
If you’ve been following me over the last decade, you know that I wrote Corporate Blogging for Dummies back in 2010. While the landscape of digital media has had immense changes over the last 7 years, I’m honestly not sure there’s been too many changes when it comes to the book and companies developing a corporate blogging strategy. Businesses and…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Is There Any Better Time to Launch a New Social Network?
I’m spending a lot less time on social media. Between the flawed algorithms and disrespectful disagreement, the less time I spend on social media, the happier I am. Some people with whom I shared my dissatisfaction told me it was my fault. They said my open discussion of politics over the last few years opened the door. I truly believed…
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Content Marketing
Maximize Your Inbound Marketing with this Lead Generation Checklist
We’ve shared a comprehensive checklist on inbound marketing in the past which is focused on all of the different mediums, channels, and strategies you should deploy for a full-featured inbound marketing strategy. But not all inbound marketing strategies are there to capture and convert leads on a site. This infographic from Digital Marketing Philippines is a comprehensive look at the…
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Marketing Infographics
The Inbound Marketing Checklist: 21 Strategies for Growth
As you can imagine, we get a lot of requests to publish infographics on Martech Zone. It’s why we share infographics every week. We also ignore requests when we find infographics that simply show that the company hasn’t made a great investment to build out an infographic of value. When I clicked through on this infographic from Brian Downard, Co-Founder…
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Content Marketing
Not Every Piece of Content Needs to Tell a Story
Stories are everywhere, and I’m sick of it. Every social media app is trying to throw them in my face, every website is trying to lure me to their clickbait story, and now every brand wants to connect with me online emotionally. Please make it stop. Reasons Why I’m Growing Weary of Stories: Most people are terrible at telling stories.…
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Content Marketing
Cloudimage.io: Cached, Cropped, Resized, or Watermarked Images as a Service
Recently, I’ve been working quite a bit on this site to get the speed up. I’ve removed a ton of the moving parts to simplify how it’s monetized and integrated, but the site speed is still too slow. I’m confident it’s impacting my readership and my organic search reach. After enlisting the assistance of my friend, Adam Small, who operates…
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Sales and Marketing Training
What To Do When You’re Getting Fired (Or Laid Off)
Nothing is quite as embarrassing as the walk of shame carrying your box of personal goods out the door escorted by security, is there? I’ve been on both sides of the firing table in my career, and it’s not the ideal position that either the employee or the employer hopes to be in. Over the years, though, I’ve changed my…
