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Content Marketing
Judge Name Ideas From Audience’s Perspective
When judging naming ideas, keep in mind the real world experience, not the pseudo-experience of creative presentations. Here’s the thing, when you say or show a name idea to someone with the intention of getting her buy-in or feedback, she doesn’t have the same experience that the consumer in the field will have. When you present the name ideas, your…
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I’m Right Behind You…
How would you modify your content if the person browsing your website were in a different country? A different state? A different city? Across the street? In your store? Would you speak to them differently? You should! Geotargeting has been around for quite a while now in the direct marketing industry. I worked with a database marketing company to work…
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Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
Why Aren’t You Leveraging Mobile?
No, I don’t mean people driving billboards around town. I mean reaching consumers and clients via mobile phone. This is typically referred to as Mobile Marketing but I have seen a number of people calling it Mobile Advertising lately. There are a number of different forms of Mobile Marketing; SMS/Text Message marketing, mobile optimized web pages and mobile applications are…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
PhoneGap: Cross-Platform Mobile Application Development
If you’ve had any experience developing in multiple languages, aside from objective C, you’ll probably get the same reaction that this guy did: I bought the book and read it, watched the movies, installed the IDE and I still can’t bluff my way into an app that simply states, “Hello World!”. Thank goodness that there are some incredibly intelligent developers…
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Content Marketing
Looking for a Second Opinion? A Hundred?
There was quite a firestorm when I promoted utilizing crowdSPRING. Those in the design community who I respect so much though it was a bit hypocritical to appreciate crowdSPRING and other spec systems like 99designs, while advocating hiring design agencies as well. I don’t believe it’s one or the other, I do appreciate both! I challenged a couple of the…
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Great Ideas Don’t Matter
Working with successful entrepreneurs the last few years has been an eye-opener for me. I’ve always been an idea guy, but watched as others executed on those ideas and became much more successful than I am. Compendium is one of those amazing ideas – and now it’s a company that’s doubling in size year over year. It’s not doubling because…
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Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze?
If you haven’t heard about Horizon Realty just do a quick search on Google and you’ll find a few interesting articles, like this post on Mashable. For a quick background, a former tenant of theirs, Amanda Bonnen, sent out a tweet about living in mold in one of their units. Horizon filed a lawsuit for $50,000 against Ms Bonnen. Now…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Putting a Value on Social Media with Tourism
Pat Coyle and I met with the great team at the Indiana Office of Tourism today. The team has been recognized as the top tourism office in the country for adopting social media strategies – and it’s working. Pat and I will be speaking in September to over 55 visitor bureaus from all over the state and met with the…
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Understand. Be on Brand. Build trust.
While Internet-based marketing tactics might be way cooler than some boring old print ad, that coolness factor doesn’t relieve you from doing basic branding work. All touchpoints are prime opportunities to increase your brand love with your target audiences. Understand how the person on the other side of the conversation is using that digital technology. At what level is she…
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Similar Content Different Delivery
Most people instinctively change their communication style when speaking to a child, a close friend, or someone who does not speak English as a native language. Why? Because each group has a different frame of reference, experiences, and relationship with the speaker which will effect their ability to interpret the message. The same is true in your written communication or…
