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- Content Marketing
After 13 Years, Podcasting Has Finally Come Of Age For Corporations
In 2004, BBC journalist Ben Hammersley combined the word pod (from the Apple iPod) with the word broadcast and coined the term podcast. At that time, podcasting wasn’t easy. Apple’s iTunes was required for you to subscribe to the podcast feed and download the audio file to a local computer. When you were ready to listen, you’d plug your iPod into your computer…
- Marketing Books
There’s No Better Compliment Than This For An Author of a Dummies Guide!
We’ve had many folks send us photos of Corporate Blogging for Dummies, but I’m not sure we’ll get a better one than this! Valerie Strohl is a consultant and national public speaker who works with companies to improve their relationships with those with disabilities. We met when I led a regional workshop for the National Speaker’s Association. Valerie has gone…
- Marketing Books
ProBlogger: Four Blogging Mistakes I Should Have Avoided
There’s no shortage of blogging books hitting the shelves lately, but few are as grounded and actionable as ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income by Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett. As someone who’s been blogging for a few years now—sporadically and more as a passion project than a structured endeavor—this book hit me at just the…
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What a Day!
As I walked out to my car this morning, I was instantly pelted with a nice ice storm. Imagine rain, just frozen. I had to break the shell of ice on my car (a Ford 500) and then clear off about 10 inches of snow that fell last night. The kids were home – school was canceled. I made it…
- Email Marketing & Automation
10 Holiday Deliverability Tips
From now until the end of the year, inboxes everywhere are fighting spam. Unfortunately, the chances of your email finding its way into a spam folder are pretty good. Especially if you haven’t been sending frequently and utilizing email marketing best practices. Digital marketers can face a long and winding road in getting emails to customers this time of year.…
- Social Media & Influencer Marketing
All Products Are Conversations
Hugh MacLeod, the cartoonist and writer, has a way of distilling big truths into deceptively simple visuals. One of his most enduring pieces features a small, purple sphere surrounded by a cloud of black dots, accompanied by the caption: All products are conversations. It’s a powerful visual metaphor that continues to resonate deeply within the marketing world. At first glance,…
- E-commerce and Retail
Window Wars… Location, Location, Location
Location plays a crucial role in the success of retail businesses. Factors like foot traffic, visibility, accessibility, and demographics can greatly influence a store’s performance. Here are some key points and statistics on the impact of location and the role of windows and showcasing in retail: Foot traffic: Stores in high-traffic areas, such as busy streets, shopping centers, or tourist…
- Content Marketing
12 Paths to Creative Content Generation
We had an amazing webinar yesterday with PR Newswire and SurveyMonkey, over 1,600 people registered!!! The webinar was a joint webinar with John O’Connell, a PR and Communications consultant from HNTB. I’ve modified my presentation into a format friendly for distribution here: The 12 Paths to Creative Content Generation: Understand the intent of your visitors. Stop selling and provide value…
- Content Marketing
Why Your Business Should Make Use of Video in Marketing
We’ve ramped up our video efforts here on Martech and it’s been great… engaging deeper on YouTube and social media with 1 to 2-minute Marketing Clips. Unfortunately, there are still many myths out there with regard to the costs and effort required to produce your own videos for marketing efforts. Best of all, you need not work through all of…
