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- Content Marketing
Your Value Proposition Is NOT What You DO
My daughter is a recent graduate who is making waves in the public relations and event management space. I’m incredibly proud of her, and perhaps the best part of my week is when she stops by to “talk shop” with me. Kait recently shared that she’d learned about a company that was struggling to get traction despite some amazing work…
- Analytics & Testing
7 Mistakes You’ll Make in Marketing Performance
According to Gartner, CMO budgets are decreasing as marketers struggle with fiscal maturity. With greater scrutiny over their investment than ever before, CMOs have to understand what is working, what is not, and where to spend their next dollar to continue to optimize their impact on the business. Enter Marketing Performance Management (MPM). What is Marketing Performance Management? MPM is…
- Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Marketers Are Saying Organic Social Media Is Dead. Don’t Believe Them.
You may have seen these articles of recent: Is Organic Social Reach Dead? The Death of Organic Social Media and Free Marketing on Facebook is Now Dead. Now What? Many of the marketers I know and respect are in agreement with this. In fact, Michael Stelzner who wrote The Death of Organic Social Media is a good friend and a leader in the industry that I admire. It’s just not the case though. I spend exactly $0 on promoting my…
- E-commerce and Retail
Don’t Underestimate The Impact of a Brick and Mortar Store
We recently shared some examples of how Enterprise IoT (Internet of Things) may have an enormous impact of retail store sales. My son was just sharing a news story with me on retail that pointed some fairly bleak statistics regarding the opening and closing of retail stores. While the gap of closures continues to increase, it’s important to recognize that…
- Marketing Infographics
7 Steps to Creating a Killer Marketing Video
We’re ramping up an animated video for one of our clients at the moment. They have a ton of visitors coming to their site, but we’re not seeing people stick around too long. A short explainer will be the perfect tool to deploy to get their value proposition and differentiation across to new visitors in an impressive way. Studies show…
- Email Marketing & Automation
Check Out This Ingenious Animated GIF Email from Netflix
In many of the email best practice guides that I read, experts often discourage email marketers from developing emails with a single image. I’ve never been a fan of rules like this; I always think trying unique strategies is worth the test. I received a fantastic email from Netflix. It had the subject line: Suspicious activity █████ Marvel on Netflix…
- E-commerce and Retail
Pixelz: On-Demand Photo Retouching Service for E-Commerce
If you’ve ever developed or managed an e-commerce site, one aspect that’s critical but time consuming is your ability to keep up to date product photos that compliment the site. Three Danish entrepreneurs who grew tired of running into the same frustrating problem with post-production built Pixelz, a service platform that will edit, retouch, and optimize product images for you, freeing…
- Marketing Infographics
Will Enterprise IoT Help Jumpstart the Retail Industry?
Lenders are backing off financing an already ailing retail industry. Bloomberg is even predicting the Retail Apocolypse may quickly be upon us. The retail industry is starving for innovation, and the Internet of Things just may provide the boost needed. In fact, 72% of retailers are currently engaged in Enterprise Internet of Things (EIoT) projects. Half of all retailers are…
- Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
Key Changes You Need To Make To Your Annual Sales Kick-Off Meeting
It’s getting to be that time of year again, when Sales and Sales Enablement leaders are planning their annual sales kick-off meetings. It’s no small task. In addition to the basic logistics of selecting a destination, blocking rooms and finding meeting space, there’s an unspoken pressure to top last year’s meeting. How can we make it bigger and better? What…
- Advertising Technology
3 Ways to Easily Collect Prospect Data with LinkedIn Integrated Lead Generation Forms
LinkedIn continues to be a primary resource for my business as I seek prospects and partners for my business. I’m not sure a day doesn’t go by that I’m not utilizing my professional account to connect and meet others. LinkedIn continues to recognize their key position in the social media space, ensuring the ability of businesses to connect for recruitment…
