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The Real Reason to Hire a Social Media Guru
Over the last decade, I’ve worked tirelessly to build an online following, authority, and eventually a thriving business. Now, I’m faced with people who wish to hire my services so I can help them do the same. At times it’s a great company with incredible talent and I’m able to deliver. Sometimes that’s not the case and I provide a…
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Email is Dead? Don’t Tell that to Jenni & Janneane
Every once in a while you hear the mumblings… email is dead. Typically it’s mumblings from folks that are inbox-challenged and never properly monetized their email efforts. Email is far from dead… and the proof is businesses like Indy Spectator. Indy Spectator is solely an email-based company. They employ talented writers to tell niche stories about the goings-on in Indianapolis.…
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How Many Faces are in Your Latest Email?
I get over 100 relevant emails a day… I know that’s a bit disturbing. It’s especially disturbing when the email really isn’t that relevant. Such is the case with these LinkedIn emails that tell me about the folks in my network that have changed job titles. I can’t help but scan through the faces and click-through to check out what’s…
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Right On Interactive: A Disrupter in Marketing Automation
When it comes to marketing automation, the industry is truly split. There are low-end solutions that require you to match their processes in order to be successful. These aren’t inexpensive… many cost thousands of dollars per month and basically require you to retool how your company works to match their methodology. I believe this spells disaster for many companies… who…
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Blogger a Haven for Black Hat SEO
Good friend and mentor, Ron Brumbarger dropped me a note this morning with a disturbing link to a blog on Blogger that popped up on some Google Alerts for some keywords he was following. I won’t repeat the keywords here, as I don’t want my visitors backlinking or visiting the blog, but the findings were quite disturbing. Here’s a section…
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Three Keys to Leveraging Your Content
Many marketers leverage one piece of technology that they enjoy or are comfortable with and ignore the others. I’m a huge proponent of automation and the marketer leveraging their messaging in any way, shape, or form – so much as it never does harm to their marketing efforts. With regard to a company leveraging content through its site, articles, whitepapers,…
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Content Marketing: The Game
Content Marketing is not rocket science, but it does require some research, skill and strategy to maximize the benefits. At its base, we ensure our clients are writing relevant, recent and frequent content about topics of interest. We ensure that we have the basics of a path to engagement – content leads to a call to action which leads to…
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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 be executing on mobile strategies – including social, mobile optimized…
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Video: Innovation is Achieved by Solving Problems
On Friday, I was provided an amazing opportunity to participate in Compendium’s Innovation Summit. Under the leadership of President Frank Dale, with an idea from Blake Matheny, and with the support of founder Chris Baggott and Sales VP Scott Blezcinski, the company took a “time out” from working and, instead devoted a day to innovation. Chris started out the initiative…
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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…
