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Artificial Intelligence
Agentic AI: How Agents, Workflows, and Orchestration Are Evolving Marketing Automation
The marketing automation industry is undergoing a profound transformation, driven by agentic AI—autonomous systems that can analyze data, make decisions, and execute tasks without human intervention. The global Agentic AI in Enterprise IT market is poised for explosive growth, expected to surge from USD 4.1 billion in 2024 to USD 182.9 billion by 2034, driven by a staggering 46.2% compound…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
Commercial Fail: Intel’s Star Employee… an Actor
When I first saw the new Intel advertisement, I was floored… for 20 years the only thing I knew about Intel was the logo, the sound, and the Blue Man Group. Click thru if you don’t see the Intel Star Commercial: Finally! A major technology company not hiding behind a marketing logo, slogan or gimmicky campaign. But alas, it’s not…
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Event Marketing
Dropping the Super Bowl for Digital Media
More and more businesses are embracing technology when it comes to their marketing strategies. When Pepsi pulled out of the Super Bowl, traditional journalists called it a gamble. Not advertising in the Super Bowl is a gamble? Really? A Super Bowl advertisement costs $3 million dollars per 30 seconds. Pepsi planned two 30 secoond ads and a 60 second ad……
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
We Should Stop Saying Influential When We Mean Popular
I saw it again today… another Influencer List. I couldn’t get through the entire list, though, because I was too busy raking my nails down my face and pulling my hair out. It wasn’t an influencer list at all, it was just another popularity list. To be certain that we all understand the difference, let’s go ahead and define the…
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Analytics & Testing
How to Use Google Analytics to Improve Your Marketing Efforts
Sometimes I think they should change the name of analytics to questionalytics because analytics doesn’t ever seem to provide the analysis you’re looking for… it often generates more questions. If you don’t understand the data behind the filters, segments, and charts – you may be making some terrible assumptions based on how you pull specific reports. Case in point, the…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Are You Really in the 1% of LinkedIn?
Numbers. Sometimes they drive me nuts. Today is a great example. LinkedIn emailed congratulating their members in the top percent of profiles viewed. Here’s the key… profiles viewed. Here’s what the email looks like… compliments of friend Daren Tomey: Daren is a hard-charger in my 1% club of sales executives nationwide. I’m not going to take that away from him.…
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Analytics & Testing
Stop Saying Attention Spans are Decreasing, They’re NOT!
We love snackable content just as much as the next person, but I believe there’s a huge misconception in our industry. The notion that attention spans are decreasing needs some context put around it. First, I absolutely disagree that people are spending less energy educating themselves around their next purchasing decision. Consumers and businesses that spent a lot of time…
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Content Marketing
While You Were Having Dinner and Watching TV, We Were Building Businesses
This weekend, 57 entrepreneur have been working on starting seven new business. From software tools and social media to a portable laptop desk, the ideas are starting to come together. And if you are curious enough about how all this is going to turn out, and what the judges ( including Douglas Karr) think about the business ideas, join us…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Follow Up Fred: Start Marketing Automation for Your Online Course to Win More B2B Sales
One of the most profitable ways to make money through an online course or eCourse. To get subscribers to your newsletter and to convert those leads to sales, you can offer free, live online webinars or free downloads of ebooks, white pages, or other incentives to get potential B2B customers ready to buy. Start Your Online Course Now that you’ve…
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Content Marketing
Video: Blogs in Plain English
Another great video from Common Craft found via Ade’s blog: Some constructive criticism, though… this video really missed the boat on the technology behind blogging – things like pings, trackbacks and search engine optimization. Blogging is the High Octane Fuel for the Search Engine What the video does not speak to is the power of blogging in accelerating topics to…
