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Content Marketing
Q&A: Reinventing Business Forums
Over the past year, various question and answer interfaces have been popping up across the Internet, including Quora, Opinionaided, and LinkedIn Answers. The concept of Q&A isn’t a new one, but the application has shifted from general topics to business applications. The original players in this field, Answers.com, Ask.com, Quora, etc., were used for general questions such as “What are…
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Content Marketing
100 Years Later: The Kingdom of the Subscriber
This is an advertisement from May 1916 edition of Popular Mechanics from AT&T speaking to potential telephone subscribers. I often wonder how difficult it was to overcome the fear and trepidation such technology must have caused at the time. I also wonder how it compares to social media adoption and the Internet today. History almost always repeats itself. Telephones, like…
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Marketing Tools
Zoho Vault: The Ultimate Password Manager for Digital Agencies
Managing multiple clients is hard enough—juggling their credentials shouldn’t make it harder. For digital agencies, password chaos can derail productivity, introduce unnecessary security risks, and damage trust. From team turnover to onboarding new clients, having a central, secure system for password management is no longer optional—it’s mission-critical. Zoho Vault Zoho Vault is a comprehensive password manager built to support digital…
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Marketing Books
Humans Really Have to Behave Better on Social Media
At a recent conference, I discussed with other social media leaders an unhealthy climate growing on social media. It’s not so much about the general political divisiveness, which is obvious, but about the stampedes of rage that charge whenever a controversial issue arises. I utilized the term stampede because that’s what we see. We no longer pause to research the…
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Content Marketing
Four Communication Best Practices for Tech Startups
Incorporating a few internal and external communication best practices will provide a solid foundation for future growth. Recognize the value of Public Relations – Word of mouth and tweeting generate interest and are a critical part of evangelizing today’s tech buyers. But a traditional PR program has access to analysts and editors who have a ready and loyal audience of…
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Analytics & Testing
GoodData: SaaS On Demand Business Intelligence
As marketers, we’re deluged with data. Just yesterday I was developing an SEO progress report that brought me from rank tracking, Webmasters data, Google Analytics data and HubSpot to incorporate the key metrics and align the reporting to ensure it was accurate. Business Intelligence (BI) solutions have been around in the Enterprise space for quite a while and were typically…
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Analytics & Testing
Marketing Conductors… err.. Consultants
When I started DK New Media, one of the decisions to make was actually how to brand the company. As I think about marketing and its evolution, I often compare it to a conductor and a symphony. As a consultant, I need to be much like a conductor, helping blend the different mediums and leverage them to hit the right…
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E-commerce and Retail
Zyro: Easily Build Your Site Or Online Store With This Affordable Platform
The availability of affordable marketing platforms continues to impress, and content management systems (CMS) are no different. Over the years, I’ve worked with a number of proprietary, open-source, and paid CMS platforms—some incredible and some quite difficult. Until I learn a client’s goals, resources, and processes, I don’t make a recommendation on which platform to utilize. If you’re a small…
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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…
