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Content Marketing
Your Agency Sucks
Yesterday, I spoke in Detroit at the headquarters of an international corporation that has dozens of subsidiaries. My presentation was an hour long and focused on how to look at analytics differently… seeking the information that they weren’t even aware existed nor how it impacted their online business. The presentation had some rave reviews and two hours afterwards, I still…
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E-commerce and Retail
Amazon Tech Can Help Your Wellness Brand Grow
In a saturated, competitive marketplace like Amazon, it is imperative that wellness brands stand out in order to succeed. Whether they are a start-up, in their growth stage, or reaching maturity, all brands are looking for ways to grow their customer base on Amazon no matter what stage they are at in their business journey. It is a highly competitive…
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Artificial Intelligence
From Fractured to Functional: How Identity Resolution Powers Smarter AI
As the race to operationalize artificial intelligence (AI) accelerates, enterprise brands face a critical roadblock: messy, fragmented customer data. AI promises breakthrough personalization and insights—but only if it has one essential input: accurate, connected customer profiles. Unfortunately, most brands aren’t there yet. 78% of global organizations do not feel “very ready” to implement natural language tools like large language models…
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Sales and Marketing Training
Avoiding the Featuritis Trap: How to Prioritize Features and Reduce Creep for Happy Users
In their insightful blog post Features vs. Benefits from the Creating Passionate Users blog, software designer and author Kathy Sierra astutely breaks down the perils of “featuritis” – the tendency of products to accumulate more and more features to the detriment of user experience. Sierra’s post, which she graciously allowed me to draw from for this article, lays out some…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
You Are The Product of Facebook
Joel Helbling stopped by the office on Friday for a great lunch where we chatted on a number of topics. Joel quoted someone who said that, as a social media company, you have to decide what your product is… the people or the platform. Many people (myself included) look at the valuations of a platform like Facebook and think it’s…
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Content Marketing
Infographics: 10 Things You Didn’t Know about Online Contests
High response rates and building a great database of prospects are two key reasons to employ online contests via the web, mobile and Facebook. More than 70% of big companies will use contests in their strategies by 2014. One in 3 of those contest participants will agree to receive information from your brand via email. And brands that have got…
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Content Marketing
Understanding WordPress Custom Post Types (CPTs): Creating a Glossary with Custom Taxonomies and Theme Templates
WordPress is more than a blogging platform—it’s a flexible content management system that can be extended far beyond posts and pages. One of the most powerful features enabling this flexibility is Custom Post Types (CPTs). These allow developers and content managers to structure content for specific use cases like portfolios, events, product directories, podcasts, or glossaries—each with their own admin…
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Content Marketing
Corporate Blogging: The Rap Song
We love SeanieMic, a parody rapper that’s done a ton of fantastic cuts. His songs have made it viral all over the web, so we asked him to spit some rhymze about our book, Corporate Blogging for Dummies. Seanie nailed it! With nothing but an autographed copy of the book in his hand, we raised a beer and a few…
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Advertising Technology
Marpipe: Arming Marketers With The Intelligence They Need To Test And Find Winning Ad Creative
For years, marketers and advertisers have depended upon audience targeting data to know where and in front of whom to run their ad creative. But the recent shift away from invasive data-mining practices — the result of new and necessary privacy regulations put in place by GDPR, CCPA, and Apple’s iOS14 — have left marketing teams scrambling. As more and…
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Content Marketing
Recommendations for Business Cards?
My son and I are watching American Psycho. It’s a disturbing movie, but the business card scene is my favorite (Huey Lewis is a close second). I’ve had blog-based business cards for a while, but now that I’ve changed my domain name, I’d like to get something very unique. Any ideas? Nothing in bone, please.
