This is the seventh post in a 12 month series on the use of Instagram for businesses. While we don’t want to over-focus on the number of followers you have, the reality is that more followers mean more eyes on your posts and more opportunities to drive traffic and sales from your Instagram account. I’m…
In recent days, Google has announced that they will drop their “real name” policy and allow users to use pseudo names on their platforms such as YouTube and Google+. “Over the years … we steadily opened up this policy … Today, we are taking the last step: there are no more restrictions on what name…
Watch Video Resume vs. Eulogy TV analyst and author David Brooks’ TED Talk on living Eulogy instead of Resume lives was so moving I wrote a post asking my friends on LinkedIn if they were living Eulogy lives. Today’s Curatti post asks a variation of David Brooks’ question, Is your CONTENT living a resume or…
This article is republished here by permission of Lee Traupel It’s a noisy world, your marketing resources and headcount are limited and in some case, you’re still defining who your customers are. How Marketing is being Redefined in Real Time 50% or more of your customer engagement will be on smartphones in next 12…
Welcome to Summer 2014. Amazingly we are now into the 7th month of the year and each quarter keeps on bringing in new social media changes. Let’s take a look at what’s new this last quarter and what matters: The Temporary Messaging War Heats Up In the last month Facebook has launched Slingshot, the competitor…
The Importance of Emotional Connection Creating an emotional connection to your brand is the way that you turn customers into raving fans that beat down doors to buy your latest offering. Appeals to emotion have been used in advertising for decades. In the digital realm, many marketers are attempting to use emotional appeals through content…
5 Movement Brands Movements gather scale and membership over time. Campaigns, offers and sales don’t scale. The “never ending sale” trains shoppers to wait and expect more discounts, deeper discounts and better discounts. Discounting is crying wolf. Cry wolf enough and there may be a wolf but no one cares. Care, passion, emotional engagement…
5 Ways To Build Trust With Content Marketing How to ensure content marketing gets through the online noise. If you stop to consider the fact that there are 347 blog posts created every minute, you will probably come to the conclusion that we have entered the age of information overload. Beyond blogs, there are videos,…
Social media is important for every company, yet in the rough and tumble changing landscape it’s also important to maintain a website. While small and medium-sized businesses may find it tempting to have just a Facebook or Twitter page for their business, such an assessment is at best, foolish. Therefore any company should consider a…
That cartoon cracks me up! We face this all the time — whether we are making a sale, going for a job, or networking. I also use this quip: “A personnel manager was interviewing a guy for a job. “How long did you work at your last company?” “65 years.” “65 years!!?? But you don’t look…
