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Social Media and Happiness
Last year, I wrote a post Can Social Media Cure Depression?. It seems it can! Today I was happy when good friend and Indianapolis Mobile Marketing guru Adam Small sent me the following link: Happiness is contagious in social networks. An excerpt: New research shows that in a social network, happiness spreads among people up to three degrees removed from…
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Content Marketing
The Fastest and Easiest Means of Speeding Up Your Site
Through our hosting provider, I was introduced to CloudFlare. I was absolutely astonished at the service… especially the starting price (free). When I worked for a major SaaS provider, we configured geocaching services and it cost us tens of thousands of dollars a month. CloudFlare isn’t built for a SaaS provider, but it’s perfect for your website or blog. CloudFlare…
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Content Marketing
LinkedIn Launches Sponsored Updates
LinkedIn has been testing sponsored updates with companies like HubSpot, Adobe, Lenovo, Xerox and American Express… now they’re opening it to everyone. This will be an effective way for B2B companies to identify and target prospects with their content marketing efforts within LinkedIn. Benefits of LinkedIn Sponsored Updates Raise awareness and shape perception – a marketing solution for rapidly increasing…
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Content Marketing
Are You a Destination? An Exit? Or Just a Sign?
The perception of what online marketing should be differs from company to company. We have clients who are very content with simply having a nice brochure site so that they can check off their marketing list that they have a pretty site. It’s an unfortunate viewpoint, but some still struggle with understanding the interactive nature of the web and they…
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Content Marketing
How Content Marketing Impacts Search Rankings
As search engine algorithms become better at identifying and ranking the appropriate content, the opportunity for companies that engage in content marketing become greater and greater. This infographic from QuickSprout shares some incredible statistics that can not be ignored: Companies with blogs typically receive 97% more leads than companies without blogs. 61% of consumers feel better about a company that…
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
Digital Transformation: Set Expectations But Deliver Experiences
Within the digital transformation realm, the use cases out in the marketplace for platforms and services are so outlandish that I often find most of my time tempering impressionable clients. If you’ve never worked at an enterprise software company or service provider, you should understand how the process works. While working on hundreds or even thousands of clients, an account…
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Analytics & Testing
The Less I Watch, the Better Things Get!
Sometimes I wonder if long-term goals actually distract us from the job at hand. If you’re always yearning for more, are you ever happy with where you’re at? At times it takes something catastrophic at home or at work for us to figure out all we have to be thankful for. This last week, my blog is back on the…
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Content Marketing
Where do I put my Corporate Blog?
Friday, after a regional conference, there was some great networking and I fielded a lot of questions. I’m going to push for a longer presentation next time, and hope to make it more interactive – it seems like there was a great curiosity from the local businesses on how social networking and blogging could assist their businesses more. One of…
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Marketing Books
Am I an A**hole?
Am I an a**hole? Readers of my blog typically stick up for me and speak to the respect, passion, and compassion I try to provide through my blog. It’s definitely a persona that I project and one that I try to work to perfect each day. Blog posts have the advantage of pre-planning (although in the past, I have been…
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Reputation is Authority’s Dark Shadow
The news is full of some incredible stories of humanity recently: Alex Rodriguez admits to steroids (strangely omitted from MLB.com’s AROD news page) Michael Phelps photographed smoking pot. He’s subsequently lost a huge endorsement deal with Kellogg’s. Even Barack Obama has had a couple tough weeks, trying to find cabinet members and pushing through a stimulus package that has sinking…
