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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
LinkedIn Requests: The Social Media Rules Police Strike Again!
For as long as people have known me, I’ve been railing against the rules police in social media. They truly drive me insane. For ten years, one of the arguments that continues to surface is whether or not you should connect with people you don’t know online. It surfaced again yesterday when I shared Dan Schawbel’s post, Why I Accept…
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Content Marketing
Smart Ways to Combine Content Marketing with SEO
The folks at Blogmost.com developed this infographic and named it Little Known Ways to Build High Quality Backlinks in 2014. I’m not sure I like that title… I don’t think companies should focus on building links anymore. Our local search experts at Site Strategics like to say that new strategies require earning links rather than actively building them. More importantly,…
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Advertising Technology
4 Considerations to Amplify Paid Facebook Campaigns
“97% of social advertisers chose [Facebook] as their most used and most useful social media platform.”Sprout Social Undoubtedly, Facebook is a powerful tool for digital marketers. Despite data points that may suggest the platform is oversaturated with competition, there is plenty of opportunity for brands of varying industries and sizes to tap into the world of paid Facebook advertising. The…
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Analytics & Testing
Plausible: A Lightweight, Cookieless Alternative to Google Analytics
This week I was able to spend some time with some marketing seniors from a local University and they asked what foundational skills they could work on to be more desirable to employers. I absolutely discussed Google Analytics… mostly because it’s quite a complex tool that I see a growing number of companies make terrible decisions with. Ignoring filters, events,…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
Video: Social Media Revolution – The Parody
We’ve posted the series of social media revolution videos based off of Erik Qualman’s Socialnomics. They’re insightful and full of staggering statistics on how social media is changing the way we live, work and communicate with one another. This parody is too funny not to share, though. People say that when you touch on the truth… that’s when things get…
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Content Marketing
Embrace Your Inner Ray Liotta
As we were waiting on our layover from LA to San Francisco, Ray Liotta walked up to the flight. He chatted with some of the staff and sat down with a colleague. It was one of those moments that you don’t know what to do… do you be that guy and go ask for a photo? Or do you leave…
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Public Relations
This is not an Influencer Marketing Strategy, Stop It!
There’s so much noise on social media that it’s sometimes tough to keep up. I love the fact that I have a large following online and I try to engage and respond to everyone who makes a request. When it’s a company that I have previously communicated with, I especially make time and respond accordingly. That said, there’s a nefarious…
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Artificial Intelligence
The Revolution of AI Image Generation: Understanding the Technology Reshaping Visual Creation
The landscape of visual creation has undergone a seismic shift in recent years, as artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a powerful new tool in the artist’s arsenal. What started as experimental research projects has blossomed into sophisticated platforms capable of generating stunning, high-quality images from simple text descriptions (GenAI). This technological revolution has democratized visual creation, allowing anyone with…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Autotarget: A Behavioral Marketing Engine for Email
Database marketing is all about indexing behaviors, demographics and doing predictive analytics on your prospects in order to market to them more intelligently. I actually wrote a product plan a few years ago to statistically score email subscribers based on their behavior. This would allow the marketer to segment their subscriber population based on who was the most active. By…
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Advertising Technology
The Power of Big-Ticket Events: Optimizing Ad Spend for Maximum Impact
As the Paris Olympics make history with more than $1.2 billion in ad sales and billions of viewers tuning in for the sports action, high-level competition, and cultural celebrations, marketers should be paying close attention. Big ticket events—think the World Cup, World Series, and Super Bowl-sized spectacles—provide unique, huge advertising platforms for brands to get attention and reach a massive…
