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Content Marketing
Inbound Brew: Run Your Inbound Marketing Strategies Directly from WordPress
The number of solutions and complexity of integrated partners that extend WordPress is pretty amazing. Inbound Brew is a full-service digital marketing, web development, and software development firm, that helped small businesses utilize content marketing to drive engagement and leads. They’ve now published an inbound marketing plugin that provides all the tools necessary to do this – directly from WordPress! The plugin…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
The Blurry Lines of Marketing Return on Investment
Yesterday, I did a session at Social Media Marketing World called How to Shift From Growing Followers to Producing Results With Social Media. I’m often a contrarian to the advice that’s continually pushed in this industry… even leaning a bit on the controversial. The genuine premise is that businesses continue to look for fan and follower growth in social media…
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Analytics & Testing
Is Marketing Really Changing Radically?
This infographic pulls together some great results from a Accenture’s CMO Insights of 2014, but I’m afraid that it opens with a dramatic title that’s misrepresented. It states: 78% of Respondents Agree that marketing is expected to undergo radical changes over the next 5 years. Respectfully, I disagree. Marketing is evolving and digital is in the forefront of most strategies.…
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Content Marketing
The Rise of Purpose-Driven Social Marketing
You’ll often find me in some huge debates online on anything related to politics, religion and capitalism… all the red-hot buttons that most people avoid. It’s why I have personal and branded presences across social media. If you want marketing only, follow the brand. If you want me, follow me… but be careful… you get all of me. While I’m…
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Content Marketing
Jetpack: Enhance WordPress’ Internal Site Search Capabilities with Advanced Search
Consumer and business browsing behaviors continue to change as they self-serve and seek the information they need without contacting your company. While taxonomies, breadcrumbs, related content, and design are critical user interface elements that assist visitors, internal site search is often overlooked. WordPress Site Search While WordPress has had an internal search functionality since its inception, it’s largely dependent on…
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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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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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Marketing Tools
Add Shortcuts To Firefox To Use Site Search On Your Favorite Sites
If you manage a large website, you probably search it all the time. You may also have a selection of favorite sites where you always search internally for information. You may not realize that Mozilla Firefox has an expanded search engine option that allows you to add shortcodes to search different sites, not just your primary site! Firefox Search Shortcuts…
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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.…
