Stop Solipsistic Marketing II – 10 Tips
What’s Your Curagami Score? Our Startup Factory funded startup Curagami is developing a new cool metric – a Curagami Score. Knowing a website’s Curagami Score helps digital marketing teams know if their marketing is talking to themselves about themselves or winning hearts, minds and loyalty online. We thought it would be fun to share 5…
Hero Marketing – The Only Marketing Left
Stumbling On Hero Marketing on Martin’s Ride My career is over I remember thinking. Hearing “cancer” and my name in the same sentence made me a little crazy. As context roled in like a tide new perspectives emerged. Career as a concept fell apart. Heck, CONTROL as a concept is trashed. Many of life’s cherished…
Here’s A Whole New Approach To Content Marketing
The following article is republished with permission from Michael Brito: A Smarter Way To Think About Content Marketing The challenge with “content marketing” as a term or approach is that it’s by nature a very tactical way to engage with customers and prospects. It can easily be done in a silo. There is nothing stopping…
What Is A MacGuffin & Why Web Design Needs To Include Them
Film MacGuffins I’ve been fascinated with the idea of MacGuffins and how the idea translates to websites. Here is an explanations of a film MacGuffin, an idea created by Alfred Hitchcock: One of the most oft-used and well known plot devices in Hollywood movies is the “MacGuffin,” the object that drives the story forward and…
The Burning Question: How Can Our Audience Find Us?
The adage that perception is 9/10th of reality is becoming ever more true in the online world. With Facebook giving their reasons for the decline in organic reach and saying that the fraction of the potential news feed that they show us, is what is relevant to us, the question must be asked as to…
Why Your Marketing Starts With a Great Success Story (Part 2 of 2)
In our previous post, we discussed how great marketing starts with a good success and outlined a few ways of how a company could tell such a story. Luckily with the invention of many different technologies as well as the Internet, success stories can be told in many different ways. Going beyond the power granted…
Social Media and Fat Bob – First Ride
Re-published by kind permission of Brian Vickery Did I mention the time that I had to send my oldest daughter to college with my Jeep Liberty, and my wife said “why don’t you get a sports car?” Well, my youngest daughter is coming back from college, and she will want her car back – so my…
5 #stealthis Content Marketing Ideas From Amazon
Streaming Downton Abbey via Roku and Amazon Prime this weekend struck a nerve. As the web continues to destroy middlemen and gatekeepers concepts like “CBS” and “Time Warner Cable” are in play. Watching Amazon move from webpage arbitrage to web services platform to streaming video seller got me thinking about tips every content marketer should steal…
Why Your Marketing Starts With a Great Success Story (Part 1 of 2)
Remember how excited you found yourself when you were a child and it was story time? That same notion of story time applies marketing your company as well. In the past, success stories when published in a magazine or in a newspaper reached a limited audience. Fortunately today, the existence of social media allows for…
Marty (@ScentTrail) Shares 5 Internet Marketing Lessons From The Big C
One lesson every Internet marketer learns is to learn from everything. Here are 5 Internet marketing lessons I’ve learned from surviving cancer: Internet Marketing Lesson #1: Be Patient In A Hurry This lesson is contradictory sounding but accurate to the experience of Internet marketing. Patience in a hurry describes one of the core skills every…
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