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HD Video can be part of your Marketing Strategy
One of my clients was Widen Enterprises. Widen is a 60 year old company that started in prepress technologies. Unlike some print companies, Widen has not stood by and watched as startups scavenged their industry. Instead, Widen has transformed into an Internet digital asset powerhouse. Now they’re transforming the digital asset management industry. You may have read some posts in…
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A Personal and Heart-felt Thanks to You
This is an incredible season for my work online. Today my blog was mentioned on both John Chow and Seth Godin’s blog. And I was recently the a topic of a very flattering blog entry on Pat Coyle’s blog! Last week, Mike at ConverStations was gracious enough to mention me as a “Z-lister”. His selfless promotion of me got my…
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Torchlite: Digital Marketing with a Collaborative Economy Solution
By now, you’ve probably come across this quote from Tom Goodwin, senior vice president of strategy and innovation at Havas Media: Uber, the world’s largest taxi company, owns no vehicles. Facebook, the world’s most popular media owner, creates no content. Alibaba, the most valuable retailer, has no inventory. And Airbnb, the world’s largest accommodation provider, owns no real estate. There…
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Google Cleans Up, Spammers Move to Facebook
Every media that has come and gone has died for one of two reasons, either a failure to innovate or an incapacity to control the signal-to-noise ratio. In Google’s case, the signal is really great search results on page one and the noise is the useless search results that infiltrate and contaminate those top positions. Google would not be the…
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The Three Things That Truly Matter in Marketing: Understand, Be on Brand, Build Trust
Marketers love complexity. We chase analytics dashboards, debate attribution models, obsess over martech stacks, and build detailed campaign flows that promise to turn data into growth. The industry rewards precision and optimization—and it’s easy to get lost in that world. But when you strip all of it down, every click, impression, and conversion comes back to just three fundamentals: understand…
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Free Ebook: Are You Playing the Numbers Game?
We’ve written about how impressed we were with EveryoneSocial to encourage your employees to promote your brand socially. After doing the post, the team there reached out and interviewed me regarding my experience with social media. They took the results of that interview and developed a beautiful ebook that you can download from their site. It’s not beautiful because my…
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How We Manually Migrate WordPress Installations
You’d like to think that moving your WordPress site from one host to another is really easy, but it can truly get frustrating. We were literally helping a client last night that decided to move from one host to another and it quickly turned into a troubleshooting session. They did what folks would normally do – they zipped up the…
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Use Mobile to Acquire Email Subscribers
Good friend and former colleague, Megan Glover, is now the Director of Marketing at Delivra. Delivra is an email service provider with a solid reputation for helping its customers here in the region. They’ve also been named one of the best companies to work at in Indiana. Recently, Delivra teamed up with great friend, Adam Small, CEO of Connective Mobile…
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Effective Small Business Content Marketing to Consumers
A whopping 70 percent of customers prefer to get information about a company from content rather than through advertising. 77 percent of small businesses are investing in content marketing methodologies to convert online visitors into customers. The bottom line is this: Clicks from Shared Content are five times more likely to result in a purchase! Outside of the expense of…
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ExactTarget Takes Customer Service up a Big (Social) Notch
This morning, I received an email from the folks at ExactTarget that stated that their customer portal had been upgraded to include case management. This isn’t just any little customer portal, though! ExactTarget 3sixty is a fully functioning customer-centric social network that’s integrated with case management, product recommendations, a training library and forums for customers to help one another. I…
