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Email Marketing & Automation
ConvertKit: How Creators Grow, Engage, and Monetize Their Online Audience
Building a following is virtually limitless online, but it brings many challenges. Getting someone to follow you isn’t difficult… but keeping them engaged, offering them opportunities to do business with you, and scaling your ability to monetize your strongest connections is the difficulty. If you have a thousand followers, how do you connect personally with them and capitalize on those…
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Marketing Infographics
14 Different Terms Used Across Marketing Automation Platforms
I’m not sure why marketers always feel compelled to make up their own terminology for virtually everything… but we do. Even though marketing automation platforms have fairly consistent features, each of the most popular marketing automation providers call each feature something different. If you’re evaluating platforms, this could get pretty confusing as you look to the features of one over…
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Analytics & Testing
12 Steps to Building Demand for Your New Agency
Last week was an amazing week at Social Media Marketing World where I spoke on the topic of Influencer Marketing. While the audience was mostly corporations looking for advice on how to implement at successful strategy, I returned home and had a good question from one of the attendees curious about how I built enough influence and demand to start…
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Marketing Infographics
Here’s How You Generate More Leads with Social Media
I was just meeting with a business owner and describing the amazing way that social media has not only driven business to my company, but to our clients as well. There seems to be an ongoing pessimism as it stands with social media and it’s impact on lead generation and I believe it needs to be corrected. Most of the…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Maker’s Mark Has Social Under A Barrel – More Branch Water, Please!
I recently read the post by Jackie Huba and Ben McConnell (two of the smartest folks in this business), regarding the hoopla over at Maker’s Mark. Maker’s Mark is one brand under the umbrella of the Beam family of products. Even our friend over, Dodge Lile, chimed in with some astute observations. It seems that Maker’s Mark had decided to dilute…
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Marketing Tools
Stop Building Crappy Software – Integrated Software Still Wins
Here is something internal CIO’s and your internal tech teams don’t want you to know: the 18-month software implementation that just cost you $500K – $1MM could be done a hell of a lot cheaper…and should be. They are building job security because most C-level leaders and marketers don’t understand how technology can and should work. As marketers, we all…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Audience vs Community: Do You Know the Difference?
We had a fantastic conversation with Allison Aldridge-Saur of Chickasaw Nation, and I would encourage you to listen to it. Allison has been working on a fascinating project as part of the Digital Vision grant, writing a series on Native American Lessons for Community Building. Audience Vs. Community Allison discussed Audiences versus Communities, and it struck me as one of…
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Content Marketing
Blogs Versus Forums: Which One Is Right For Your Marketing Efforts
A frequent concern that is brought up when discussing corporate blogging as a business strategy is the fear of customers airing their complaints. When this question was posed in a class I did last week; I missed a critical point I usually discuss. At this core is the difference between a forum and a blog. What Distinguishes a Blog from…