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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Lefty: Why Top Brands Trust This Influencer Platform for Scale and Impact
In a saturated creator economy, influencer marketing has evolved from vanity metrics to a measurable, strategic growth channel. Brands aren’t just looking for creators with large audiences—they need authentic partners, streamlined execution, and real-time ROI. Managing these relationships and campaigns across teams, markets, and regions can feel overwhelming without the right infrastructure. Lefty That’s where Lefty comes in. Designed for…
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Sales and Marketing Training
Why Marketing Momentum Matters (Especially If You’re Sales-Driven)
As a Fractional CMO, I get to work with a wide range of companies—some with massive brand strategies unfolding over years, and others who are just a few weeks into a campaign and already asking, Why isn’t the phone ringing? That contrast isn’t surprising. What’s always surprising, though, is how many companies still expect instant results from marketing, as if…
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Advertising Technology
Marketing Data: The Key to Stand Out in 2021 and Beyond
In the present day and age, there is no excuse for not knowing who to market your products and services to, and what your customers want. With the advent of marketing databases and other data-driven technology, gone are the days of untargeted, unselected, and generic marketing. A Short Historical Perspective Before 1995, marketing was mostly done through mail and advertising.…
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Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
Effective Ways to Publish an Android App on Google Play Store
Distributing an Android app through the Google Play Store is the most common and effective method to reach a global user base. With more than a billion active Android users worldwide, publishing on Google Play offers extensive visibility, discoverability, and accessibility for both independent developers and companies. The process of submitting an app is relatively straightforward, but success requires attention…
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Marketing Books
The 7 Traits of the Social Employee: Building Culture, Productivity, and Brand Eminence from Within
As the digital economy reshapes how companies communicate and compete, the role of the employee has evolved. No longer just a participant in the workflow, today’s employee has the potential to be the face—and voice—of the brand. In The Social Employee: How Great Companies Make Social Media Work by Cheryl Burgess and Mark Burgess, the authors outline a transformative framework…
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Email Marketing & Automation
TinyLetter: A Free, No Frills Email Newsletter Service
Log into any major email service provider (ESP) nowadays, and if you’re not technically savvy, you’ll probably pass out at the menus, features, functionality, jargon, and reporting. Sometimes, the magic of technology is when someone smart rethinks the process and boils down the application to only the necessities. TinyLetter is a refreshingly simple platform for newsletters, drawing in a diverse…
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E-commerce and Retail
Is Millennial Shopping Behavior Really That Different?
Sometimes, I groan when I hear the term millennial in a marketing conversation. At our office, I’m surrounded by millennials, so the work ethic and entitlement stereotypes make me cringe. Everyone I know that age is busting their butt and optimistic about their future. I love millennials – but I don’t think they’re sprayed with magic dust that makes them…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Duplicate Content Penalty: The Myth, The Reality, and My Advice
For over a decade, Google has been fighting the myth of the duplicate content penalty. Since I still continue to field questions on it, I thought it would be worth discussing here. First, let’s discuss the verbiage: What Is Duplicate Content? Duplicate content generally refers to substantive blocks of content within or across domains that either completely matches other content…
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Customer Data Platforms
Experian: How Marketers Gain Precision, Scale, and Agility with a Data Partnership
Marketing performance depends on knowing your audience—and reaching them at the right time, through the right channel—marketers need more than just data. They need advantage. For brands and businesses that partner with Experian, that advantage comes in the form of unmatched consumer insight, omnichannel activation capabilities, and privacy-forward innovation. This isn’t just about why you should partner with Experian—it’s about…
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Content Marketing
Storytelling versus Corporate Speak
Many years back I was certified in a hiring process called Targeted Selection. One of the keys to the interview process with a new candidate was asking open-ended questions that required the candidate to tell a story. The reason was that it was a lot easier to get people to reveal their honest answers when you asked them to describe…
