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- Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Social Media Is the New PR
I recently had lunch with some of my fellow public relations professionals, and as always the conversation turned toward tactics and techniques used in our industry. As the only one in the group utilizing social media as the sole form of communications for clients, my portion of the conversation would seemingly be the shortest of the group. This turned out…
- Content Marketing
Remember Me?
I'm terrible with names. I wish I could install your cookie in my brain so every time I see you in public it recalls. I suppose that's one way that computers are more "intelligent" than humans. But, due to this glaring weakness of mine, I'm very impresses when others can so easily remember me after just one chance encounter. It's…
- Content Marketing
The Only Truly Global Email Service Provider
NOTE: Emailvision is now part of SmartFocus. While it’s true that our hometown heroes, ExactTarget, are now expanded into the United Kingdom and Australia, they’re still fairly limited to English-speaking countries. Earlier this year, we had the incredible opportunity to meet the talented leadership team of Emailvision. Centered in Clichy, France (just outside of Paris), Emailvision may truly be the…
- Social Media & Influencer Marketing
West vs Midwest Round II
PREAMBLE Last week, I was on a panel at The Combine – 2010 called Go West: Former Midwesterners that have moved to the Silicon Valley share their stories. I was one of four people discussing our personal stories and it set off a firestorm on Twitter and went Cat 4 when Douglas Karr posted his reactions when he recapped the Combine 2010 here.…
Social Media Survey Part 2 – A Closer Look at Facebook
In June we conducted a brief survey to understand how owners of small businesses ( 1 – 25 employees) used social media. While there have been a number of surveys looking at how Fortune 500 firms are entering the world of social media there was little content about smaller firms. We wanted to know if smaller firms were leading or…
- Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
Stop Hiding from Your Visitors
It still amazes me how many companies hide from their customers. I was doing some research last week on iPhone app developers because I have a client who is in need of an iPhone app. I asked some people on Twitter. Douglas Karr gave me some referrals and I also knew of one referral from a previous conversation with another…
- Analytics & Testing
Social Media + Analytics = Inaccurate
If I were to ask you which source provided more traffic to your site, Twitter or Facebook… how would you determine that? The majority of web analytics users would log in and look at their referring sources and come up with the value. That’s a problem. Some companies simply add “twitter.com” as a referring source and think that it does…
- Content Marketing
Drip, Drip, Drip… Buy
No one is waiting for your next tweet, status update or blog post to make their next purchase. There’s always the chance that you might motivate someone to purchase, but it’s impossible to predict when prospects are ready to make their next purchase. That’s why it’s so important to be there when your prospects are ready to decide. Where will…
- Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Agencies: Quit Wasting Your Clients’ Footer Powered By Links
Agencies and designers are typically diligent at adding their powered by to the footer of the sites and applications they build. Still, I’m surprised at how many don’t utilize that opportunity to gain some search engine ranking. When I explain search engine optimization and ranking to folks, I typically explain it this way: On-page Keyword Optimization – using keywords effectively…
- E-commerce and Retail
How Do Colors Impact Purchase Behavior?
The science of colors is fascinating, in my opinion. Great designers – whether they’re automotive, home decorators, graphic designers, or even user interface developers understand the complexity of colors and the importance of them. From the color palette selected to ensure that it provides harmony – to the actual colors utilized – has a significant impact on user behavior. Color…
