Articles by Jan Gordon

Jan Gordon
February 19, 2015

8 Ways of Putting Social Listening To Work For You

By Michael Brito All the hours you spend focusing on brand positioning don’t matter if everyone else feels different about it. And all the media in the world can’t change brand perception if your product doesn’t deliver value or your customer service sucks. Brands are built by having good products. They are built when they…


Jan Gordon
February 15, 2015

Why Smart Companies Put People Before Profits

By Greg Satell In the go-go eighties, “Chainsaw” Al Dunlap’s enthusiasm for aggressive cost cutting and massive layoffs made him a corporate superhero.  His subsequent indictment and conviction on fraud charges led business people to question his character, but not necessarily his methods. Poor Al would never survive as a CEO today.  Social media would…


Jan Gordon
February 12, 2015

Competitive Analysis: The Key To Success In The Digital Age

By Lee Traupel There’s an old Gypsy saying heard around the campfire: “speed can be a friend or your enemy.” This is so applicable to small to mid sized companies today. Rapid change and global markets are defining how business grow and compete. Competitive Analysis is Critical in the High Speed Digital Age It’s truly…


Jan Gordon
February 8, 2015

How to Find Keywords Your Competitors Don’t Know About

By Barry Feldman Winning at SEO calls for outmaneuvering the field. Let’s examine how to find keywords your competitors aren’t using—with tactics they don’t even know about.  “Keywords don’t matter much anymore.” You find it written everywhere lately. I asked a friend who eats analytics for breakfast and snacks on SEO all day long, “Whatcha’ think…


Jan Gordon
February 4, 2015

The Danger Of Adopting A Single Story View Of Buyers

By Tony Zambito Many of us have heard of the term tunnel vision. It is usually described or defined as follows: The tendency to focus exclusively on a single or limited goal or point of view. We have seen extreme points of views in every walk of life. From politics to religion and everything in…


Jan Gordon
January 29, 2015

How to Remain Human with Technology

By Michael Brenner   Programmatic Ad Buying. Native Advertising. Content Marketing. Human Storytelling. These are some of the top buzzwords used by brand marketers in the past 12 – 18 months. I am not a huge fan of robots buying banner ad inventory that is never seen by anyone. But this technology is real. And…


Jan Gordon
January 28, 2015

Here’s How to Identify and Grow Your Social Media Audience

By Robert Caruso One of the biggest mistakes made in social media marketing is building the wrong communities. What we mean by that is that many brands and marketers build followings of their peers, competitors or incorrect prospects, rather than their target audience. Subsequently, the time spent on social networks engaging, creating and posting content…


Jan Gordon
January 21, 2015

Here’s How To Win The Battle For Customer Attention

By Michael Brenner Today’s consumer is bombarded with thousands of marketing messages every single day. In order to stand apart from the noise, many brands are shifting their marketing budgets out of paid advertising (that we all ignore at staggering rates) and into content programs. These branded content marketing hubs are creating owned media properties…



Jan Gordon
December 29, 2014

Curatti Best Articles of 2014 – Part 3

As we approach the end of our first full year online, we wanted to pay homage to each of our authors by resharing one of their original articles from 2014, along with a brief curation of each.  These are presented alphabetically, by first name, and split over 3 days. (In each instance, you can click on…


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