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Content Marketing
You Won’t Be Blogging Forever
When I speak to folks about blogging, many ask me if blogging is here to stay. Nope. Asking someone if blogging will be here forever is like asking the guys who printed their newspapers with the Gutenberg press the same question. Like the free press, blogging will evolve with technology, bloggers with huge followings will be bought out, and blogs…
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Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
The Thunderbolt is Killing the iPhone
Walter Piecyk, BTIG Research analyst claims the HTC Thunderbolt is actually outselling the iPhone in 28% of Verizon stores. I know why. This month we’re kicking off some posts on mobile devices. Understanding the technology that is being adopted is important for marketers to understand. Mobile Internet growth is accelerating much faster than anyone had expected. One example: searches of…
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Content Marketing
Add Custom Backgrounds to WordPress 3
This month’s .net magazine arrived with a great section on WordPress 3 features. One of the features is the ability to change your background image on your theme. The code is really simple. In your theme functions.php file, add the following line: add_custom_background(); If your theme doesn’t have a theme functions.php file, just add one! It’s a default theme file…
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Understand. Be on Brand. Build trust.
While Internet-based marketing tactics might be way cooler than some boring old print ad, that coolness factor doesn’t relieve you from doing basic branding work. All touchpoints are prime opportunities to increase your brand love with your target audiences. Understand how the person on the other side of the conversation is using that digital technology. At what level is she…
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Marketing Infographics
The Facebook Power User
Today’s the day! Facebook will officially be a $100 billion property, skyrocketing the company to the top of the most valuable companies in the United States. Quite honestly, I wouldn’t buy a single share if I were in a position to. I may be naive, but I don’t think there are enough humans on the Earth to sustain growth enough…
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Dear Twitter, Please Stop the Following Madness
Each day I pay attention to my following on Twitter. Each and every member that follows me used to mean something. I built my following organically, by gaining favor with one follower at a time. Not anymore. Now it’s ridiculous… auto-follow tides are being executed minute by minute. I could go on Twitter today and find a couple hundred scammers…
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Sales and Marketing Training
It’s Not The Effort That Amazes People
As with much technology, developing artificial intelligence (AI) is far more advanced and intricate than end-users realize. It’s not just utilizing a ton of computing power to target historical data to make predictions. It’s testing and iterating through multiple models. The ability to identify outlying data and either ignore it or focus on it, and the ability to scale these…
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Marketing Infographics
Social Response and ROI by Industry
This is a fantastic infographic from Demandforce, Socially Devoted to YOU (I can hear the tune!). While many companies are struggling to measure the return on investment, the data in this infographic points to a problem much, much deeper. People are trying to connect with you through social media but you’re not there. It’s one thing to simply set up…
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WordPress: Manage Ads with Ad-minister
Each time I would test some ads on my site, I always had to reach into the theme designer and edit the core them code… something that gets me a little nervous. I’ve tested quite a few ad plugins for my WordPress blog, but none of them were robust enough. This week I finally found what I needed with a…
