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Who’s Holding Your Oil Can?
All day - every day - folks email me, text me, twitter me, visit me, call me and instant message me with questions regarding domains, capabilities, CSS, competition, keyword strategies, client issues, sales positioning, marketing strategies, blogging, social media, etc. I get invitations to speak, to write, to help, to meet... you name it. My...
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The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems
We spend our days navigating CRM dashboards, composing emails, tracking metrics, or building campaigns. The Humane Interface will feel less like a treatise on user interface design and more like a mirror to your daily frustrations. Jef Raskin—best known as the father of the Macintosh project at Apple—delivers a sharp, sometimes bristling critique...
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Sitelock: Protect Your WordPress Website and Visitors
WordPress security is one of those things that's often left until it's too late. About once a quarter I'm asked to help clean up a site that's been attacked. The attacks happen because WordPress is left without updating and a known security hole is taken advantage of. Or, more often, it's a poorly developed theme...
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Are Your Video Ads Being Seen?
A little more than half of all advertisements on video pages are seen across the web, a difficult situation for marketers hoping to take advantage of the growing video viewership across devices. It's not all bad news... even a video ad that was partially listened to still had an impact. Google analyzed their DoubleClick, Google...
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Social Media Experts in your Backyard!
Social media is a booming business right now, even with the rut our economy is in. I believe there are three reasons for that: Social media is an engaging medium that is difficult to fake or do half-ass. Social media is an inexpensive medium, requiring time but not a lot of expensive resources...
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What’s Your Bailiwick?
Understanding and effectively describing one's authority is paramount in sales and marketing. How a brand, person, product, or service conveys authority can significantly impact its success and reputation. bailiwick noun, pronounced [bey-luh-wik] A person's specific area of interest, skill, or authority. ...
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Conversion In A Box
Conversion In A Box is a combination of landing page, form and data administration, automated email response, and analytics in a single solution. Conversion In A Box helps you turn any webpage into a conversion strategy. Upload compelling content to our secure servers and we'll generate form code that you can easily...
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Viral Marketing Isn’t About the Viral Formula: It’s About the Human One
For years, marketers have sought to unlock the secrets of virality. They study patterns, examine algorithmic triggers, and reverse-engineer breakout campaigns in hopes of finding the elusive formula that guarantees millions of views. But according to creative veteran David Murdico, this approach is fundamentally flawed—not because it lacks rigor, but because it overlooks the...
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Viewing Your Content Calendar
Blogging and social media is a marathon of generating valuable content on a daily basis for your audience. The goal is to generate enough authority and content that we have readers, fans or followers eventually convert into customers. That takes a while, sometimes, so it's important to keep your eye on the goal ahead. One...
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What We Can Learn from Kanye, Taylor and Beyonce
Today I spoke to a group of CIOs at a Technet event. As I was preparing for the speech and tailoring my presentation for the group, I really wanted to hit the message home that the days of control are behind us. Our job now as technologists and marketers is to enable the technology and...