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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
Foleon: Unlock the Power of Interactive, Dynamic Whitepapers For Lead Generation
Capturing and nurturing leads has become increasingly challenging. Traditional whitepapers, once a cornerstone of B2B marketing, often fail to engage modern audiences. Marketers struggle to create compelling content that attracts potential customers and keeps them engaged long enough to convert. Despite these challenges, whitepapers remain a powerful tool for lead generation. They offer in-depth, authoritative content that addresses specific pain…
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Sales and Marketing Training
The Battle Between Intuition and Data: When Should Marketers Trust Their Gut?
Leaders often pride themselves on their ability to just know when something is right or wrong. Intuition—the gut feeling that whispers (or sometimes shouts) at us—can be a powerful guide, especially in high-stakes decisions. But as much as instinct can serve us well, it can also mislead us, often in predictable ways. So, when should we trust our gut, and…
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Advertising Technology
How Social Marketing Stacks Up with Traditional Advertising
I’m not opposed at all to advertising and paying for promotion, but many business owners and even some marketers don’t distinguish the difference. Often, social marketing is seen as just another channel. While it is an additional strategy to add to your marketing, social offers a far different opportunity. Social media has been disrupting the advertising landscape ever since it…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
How to Minimize Search Impact When Migrating to a New Domain
As with many companies that grow and pivot, we have a client who is rebranding and migrating to a different domain. My friends who do search engine optimization are cringing right now. Domains build authority over time and ripping out that authority can tank your organic traffic. While Google Search Console does offer a change of domain tool, what they…
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Content Marketing
Why Your B2B Marketing Needs an Early Warning System
The saying you snooze, you lose applies directly to marketing, but unfortunately not many marketers seem to realize this. Too often, they wait until the last minute to learn about valuable prospects or a customer that is on the cusp from leaving, and these delays can seriously impact an organization’s bottom line. Every B2B marketer needs an early warning system…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Three Reasons To Think About SEO In Terms of Topics, Not Keywords
In search engine optimization (SEO), it’s common knowledge that keywords are essential. However, topics can often be even more critical in driving traffic and achieving SEO goals. To understand this better, we must first define both keywords and topics. Keywords are the words that people use when searching for something online. They can be exact matches, broad matches, or phrases that match, and…
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Artificial Intelligence
ChatGPT: How To Utilize Generative AI To Develop Your Ideal Customer Profile
The Gartner Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) framework is a structured approach for defining a business’s most valuable customer segments. This methodology goes beyond basic demographics to paint a clear picture of the ideal customer based on their characteristics, needs, behaviors, and challenges. An ICP helps businesses tailor their marketing and sales efforts toward the highest-value prospects likely to convert, be…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
Video Marketing: Social Proof by the Numbers
Today I was meeting with a client and discussing the opportunity for them to overtake their competitors online utilizing video. The company has a strong brand that’s trusted online and there’s no doubt that video production will drive more direct traffic, more search traffic and – ultimately – help them better explain the value of subscribing to their service to…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Are You Really A Social Media Consultant?
Last night I had the incredible opportunity to go to both meet and listen to three-time Indianapolis 500 winner, Helio Castroneves. I was the guest of co-host and performance coach David Gorsage, who asked if I would provide social media updates throughout the event. As I organized hashtags, followed sponsors, and got to know the VIPs in the room, one…
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Content Marketing
Chasing The Tail: Harry Potter and The Long Tail
Saturday begins with my regular stop at the local bookstore. I happened to see the book If Harry Potter Ran General Electric. This isn’t a review of the book (which I would recommend); it’s an article about the utilization of Harry Potter to accelerate this book’s reach and sales. I’m reading The Long Tail, which speaks to the intriguing concept…
