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Understanding Competitive Advantage: An Overview of Porter’s Five Forces
Few frameworks have influenced business strategy as profoundly as Michael E. Porter’s Five Forces. This book continues to shape how leaders evaluate competition, assess risk, and make strategic decisions that ensure their organizations can thrive in any market condition. Porter argues that profitability in any industry isn’t determined solely by how well a company performs...
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Businesses are Risking Authority by Buying It
Recently, I was in a discussion in a social media leadership group on Facebook and I was astonished when one of the members defended buying followers . A couple of years ago I wrote a post that Numbers Matter . In that post, I didn't object to buying followers, likes, clicks, etc... in...
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Why Not?
How does your company profit? Are each of the goals of your company aligned with building that profit? Are each of your management teams' goals aligned to support the goals of your company? Are each of your employees' goals aligned with your management's goals? Are your employees' performance measured against...
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The Key to Your Brand Regaining Control is Personalization
Every prospect and customer are motivated differently, arrive at your business through different mediums, with different levels of intent, are seeking different information, are at different stages of the customer journey , and expect to immediately find what they need. There's nothing more frustrating than getting held up when you're trying to take the...
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Why CRO Starts Before the Landing Page: Optimizing the Customer Journey to Conversion
Most conversion work gets concentrated on the landing page because it is measurable, testable, and close to the moment of decision. But the landing page is the endpoint of a journey that began earlier, often minutes, days, or weeks before the click. By the time a visitor arrives, they already carry intent, expectations, objections, and...
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Video: YouTube Video Revolution 2.0
I don't know about you, but I'm starting to see a lot more advertisements on YouTube. As video becomes more affordable and impactful, it seems that every marketing strategy needs to incorporate it. Video is very unique in that it reaches virtually everyone. Not everyone reads, but everyone watches. And with YouTube installed...
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Stop Bailing, Let’s Invest in the Opportunity of Social Media
Americans hate to lose a war, period. In one view, the dying automotive industry is a war we think we're losing. I don't believe we're losing anything; I believe we're progressing. Jobs moving overseas always sound ominous, but people ignore that we're creating new jobs in this nation that have never been heard before...
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Should You Optimize Content for Wide Screens?
I'd love a user experience expert to chime in on this post. I've been watching as more and more technology sites are maximizing the viewport (the viewable region of your device) and I'm not really that impressed. I don't believe that, if you have more resolution that you need to use that resolution. Here's a breakdown...
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One Year – 700% Mobile Growth
Today is the start of the Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona. In preparation, the folks at inneractive have developed the following infographic with some startling statistics on the growth of mobile advertising in the last 12 months. No marketer should be doubting the growth of mobile marketing ... and should...
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Social Sharing Button Playground
What good is your content without enabling the ability for that content to be shared? I'm always surprised when I read an amazing page and there's either no sharing buttons or it works improperly. If I click a share button and the title and description don't come up, I'm typically too busy to make an...