How Can Your Website “Make Love”: 5 Internet Marketing Tips
The Beatles Were Right When the Beatles said, “And, in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make” they were both right and prescient. The Beatles were speaking about web marketing long before there was a web. Creating websites that people LOVE is rarely discussed. I’ve heard, “Create great content”…
5 Ways to Please Your CMO Using This One Easy Trick
That title got your attention didn’t it? Such as the state of the Internet these days. Content marketing, having exploded in the way that it has over the past few months, has contributed to a robotic methodology of writing blog posts much like this one. Blog posts champion the importance of giving a numerical amount…
Escape From Google – Diversify Your Internet Marketing
Note: This post is a preview to my Digital Marketing For Business presentation this Wednesday May 8th at 10:00 in the Raleigh Convention Center. Escape From Google I’m not Snake Pilssken the character Kurt Russell played in John Carpenter’s famous end of the world movie Escape From New York. Carpenter’s 1981 movie had the world…
Ouch! 3 Ways To Avoid the Coming Community Shock
Content Shock Becomes Community Shock Content Shock: Why Content Marketing Is Not A Sustainable Strategy is a highly influential post by Mark Schaefer. Mark outlines what every content marketer knows. We can’t ALL create an infinite amount of content and win. Attention is one of the few things that we can’t easily create more of.…
Sharing Your Process With Customers Is Your Product
Process Is Product In 2009 I wrote: An eye of our collective Digital Marketing Storm settled briefly today. It is the day before Thanksgiving. Our web site is speeding up even as staff and friends hit the road. During a mid afternoon lull a thought settled in too. Process is product I thought. What does…
The State of Social Media: – What B2B Marketers Need to Know
It’s been a very active spring this year in the social media industry as well as for businesses. The winter that gripped the nation for the while it did has finally come to a close, and here we are: Mid-April. With the exception of a few rainstorms and snow flurries around the country, things are…
5 New Money Rules: Making Money In A Thank You Economy
Everyone has the same problem – New Money’s CATCH-22: You need a scaled network to charge for content. You can’t scale a network without money. New Money’s CATCH-22 When Gary Vaynerchuk created his wine videos they went viral creating a lifting tide that became The Thank You Economy. Share, Vaynerchuk’s book The Thank You Economy…
8 Visual Marketing Lessons from Vogue
We Are All Visual Marketers Now The meat of this Wikipedia visual marketing definition is “relationship between an object, the context it is placed in and its relevant image”: As digital marketers and storytellers we use images to seduce, cajole and support. Fashion and design provide great examples of visual marketing… but these days we…
The Marketer’s Cocktail: Blending Psychology with Big Data
Is Big Data Really the Be All and End All? This was a banner week for great Data related content, but arguably the best article of the week was nothing to do with Data at all! Entitled “The Science of Emotion in Marketing: How Our Brains Decide What to Share and Whom to Trust”, and…
Mint Social Currency: 3 Insider Tips
Why Contagious? You could read Jonah Berger’s Contagious: Why Things Catch On as an update to Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make A Big Difference, but I wouldn’t (lol). Berger’s assertion that Gladwell is mostly wrong seems moot. The Tipping Point is philosophy. Berger’s book is ditch digging psychology based on his…
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