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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
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 leverage it to influence others.…
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Customer Data Platforms
Side With Your Customers
On a recent call to a major telecom company, which I won’t mention (their logo looks like a blue death star), I was infatuated with my customer service representative (CSR). Shocking, I know. Throughout the call, she actually listened to what I wanted, and she said things like, “This is the deal that most of my customers like,” “Let me…
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Content Marketing
Managing CTAs or Ads with WordPress
We run a combination of ad purchases on our site – including call to action banners promoting our services, affiliate ads of companies we trust, and sponsored ads with companies who we’ve chosen to partner with. The different combinations of packages are quite complex, so we integrated ad spots into our theme to manage display ads. Combined with Jetpack’s visibility…
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Analytics & Testing
How Are You Doing Compared to 400 Other Marketers?
We’ve been having some incredible meetings with an enterprise company recently. They have all the challenges you can think of – a small team, enterprise structure, franchises, ecommerce… the works. Over time, they’ve evolved with their small team to a hodge-podge of technology that’s becoming more and more difficult to manage. Our job is to map out their strategy and…
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Sales and Marketing Training
Outsourcing: Build and Scale the Tools You Need Without an Engineering Team
Modern marketing and sales teams are expected to do more than generate leads and close deals. They’re also being asked to create seamless digital experiences, including mobile applications, custom landing pages, progressive web applications (PWA), pricing calculators, lead routing workflows, sales dashboards, client portals, CRM integrations, and more. The problem? Most of these initiatives require technical skills that lie outside…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
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. Social media is a primary means of…
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
Marketing for Leads with Powerpoint?
It’s after 10PM already and I’ve still got to put together a presentation for a customer tomorrow. In the last few years, I’ve done countless presentations – with many hours put into each. A great presentation can produce many leads at conferences and tradeshows… but the rest of the time that information is usually just collecting dust. Until now! Every…
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Great Ideas Don’t Matter
Working with successful entrepreneurs the last few years has been an eye-opener for me. I’ve always been an idea guy, but watched as others executed on those ideas and became much more successful than I am. Compendium is one of those amazing ideas – and now it’s a company that’s doubling in size year over year. It’s not doubling because…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Who Owns Your Corporate Twitter Followers?
Pretty interesting account on the New York Times of how Phonedog is suing a previous employee to gain access to the Twitter followers on the account he set up as part of their social media outreach. By current employment standards in the country, I suppose PhoneDog is fully within their rights… the work you do on company time is typically…
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Content Marketing
The Gold Standard of Content Marketing
Newsreach has released both an infographic and accompanying whitepaper, The True Value of Content Marketing. Individual pieces of high quality content are capable of attracting and engaging web users, but on their own will not have the impact you want. Content Marketing requires an ongoing effort to produce fresh, relevant high-quality pieces. Many businesses face challenges in producing the volume…
