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Content Marketing
The Premature Death of Outbound Marketing
The SBA estimates that 600,000 new employer businesses are incorporated every year. Not many of them benefit from a brand name like IBM or Coca Cola. In order to survive they have to hunt for new business. Even major corporations like EMC, Cisco and Hewlett Packard have huge teams dedicated to prospecting for new business in both their installed base…
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Content Marketing
#Atomicchat: User-Generated Content
If you follow me on Twitter, we had a fantastic chat session with the folks at Atomic Reach speaking about User Generated Content (UGC). Here are the highlights and key takeaways from #AtomicChat Twitter chat, hosted every Monday night at 9pm EST/ 8pm CST/ 6pm PST. Follow @Atomic_Reach for all your content marketing updates! Short for user-generated content, UGC is…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
Graava: An Intelligent Video Camera that Automatically Edits
In 2012 Bruno Gregory was hit by a car while riding his bike. The driver left the seen but Bruno was able to identify and get the driver convicted because he had a camera that recorded the event. The next year, he came up with the idea of utilizing sensors and machine learning to develop a camera that automatically only…
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Customer Data Platforms
Why Data Protection Is a Critical Component of Every Modern Martech Stack
As marketing tech gets more powerful, so too do the dilemmas that go with it. Marketers have at their fingertips today incredibly useful tools with which they can capture, analyze, and act upon more consumer information than ever. From CRMs and automation software to AI-fueled personalization engines and advanced analytics platforms, the modern martech stack is a marvel of ingenuity.…
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Content Marketing
Why the Movie Industry is Failing
Me and my kids went and saw King Kong yesterday. The special effects and computer-generated graphics were fantastic. I think the true test of a movie (that depends on special effects) is whether you find yourself empathizing with the computer-generated character. Kong, indeed, had his own character. I thought the end was a little hokey and didn’t match the sadness…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
How did I get interested in Social Media?
When Shel asked for folks who might be interested in providing some response with an SAP Survey on Social Media, I jumped at the opportunity and immediately wrote him. With Shel’s permission, he’s allowed me to post my responses on my blog. This is Part I! Tell me when and how you first got interested in social media. Why? Working…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Video: How to Publish Your Blog on Twitter
I completed this video last night to provide our clients with instruction on how to publish their blog on Twitter via Twitterfeed and an RSS feed. It’s applicable to any application with an RSS feed, so thought I’d share it here as well!
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Marketing Infographics
Social Proof Your Website
Enabling your site for social media is one strategy, but actually building a social strategy around the community that gathers there is quite another. The two shouldn’t be mixed up… one is about tools, the other is about people. Keep in mind that there are many, many sites that don’t have all the new fangled tools, but have incredible social…
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So I Says…
Bill’s friend, Mike, drew a great picture of me while I was working. Mike has a very bizarre but creative sense of humor that I love. He’s a talented guy… so we gave him a website for his birthday! Thanks, Mike!
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Content Marketing
True Story: Drop Database? Click… Doh!
The following is a true story, dated today at approximately 11:00 AM while on my way out to lunch. This is NOT a paid post, but I have added a HUGE link to the company in appreciation of them saving my butt! Development 101 says that when you mess with your code or your data, you always first do a…
