Communication

Content strategy is a very neat way to organize a tool that has been a part of marketing all along. It helps define the habits and preferences of people businesses are looking to target and more. (More on content strategy.) But the for the conversion-obsessed like me, I was interested in how this fits into the greater [...]

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  It amazes me how many marketing companies base their very being on execution tools (web development, social media, email) and still call themselves “integrated”. Or, for that matter, how many clients end up down this rabbit hole. Before your head explodes or you set the comment section on fire, please continue. Some companies sell [...]

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Even if you went to Borders, it wasn’t for the books. Borders didn’t sell books. They sold information and a buying experience; the books were just the medium. But no one told Borders. And Amazon told everyone. And now it’s too late. But there are plenty of Borders-like businesses out there. They’re easy to spot, [...]

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Facebook Timeline publishes millions of indexed autobiographies–free–for data profitability & marketers. Facebook now dynamically (and with user help) organizes what content (data!) is priority. Though the F8 conference wasn’t specifically speaking to marketers (it spoke to users and developers), there were more than enough clues to let you know exactly how Facebook will open up each data piece [...]

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Checklists are nice. They’re tidy lists with nice to cross things off of. Then they’re finished! Websites are a little messy. The boxes checked sometimes fade as the Internet continues to propel forward at increasing speeds. Or a giant cup of coffee spills on top of them, as Google changes its algorithm. A website is [...]

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A client blog I managed was written to draw traffic and increase prospect inquiries. The blog launched about a year ago and exceeded expectations. At launch, the client had set the blog up in a WordPress content management system with a free blog theme. It was a standard blogging theme with minimal customization. As the blog content [...]

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