Sales and Marketing
Are You Ready to Podcast?
According to Wikipedia a podcast is a collection of digital media files distributed over the internet using syndication feeds for playback on portable media players and personal computers. Here’s my definition. A podcast is an…
Creating Platform-Specific Content: JustFly’s Guide to Finding Your Audience
Content marketing isn’t about just writing great content and hitting ENTER. With the wave of different platforms that are out there, content needs to be tailor-made to the medium you are using to broadcast it….
Why Your Business Needs a Social Media Calendar
Social media posts can be rushed last-minute jobs. “Writer’s block” can be a problem. You might be worried about a lack of engagement, or just need a dose of guidance about what to post and…
You Need Customer Feedback to Grow Your Business
The saying that “the customer is always right” has taken a different shape in the modern age. Today the customer is not only the king, but he or she is also the measure of all…
Selling Across the Sea: 4 Essential Steps for Effective Foreign Marketing
Before you enter into a foreign market, you need to do some careful research. Lots of businesses charge headlong into markets they don’t understand fully only be to be crushed by competitors that have more…
Social Media Marketing is Disappointing Marketers
Last month, I blogged about the CMO Survey that demonstrated how few companies are able to prove the impact of their social media activities quantitatively. And, that social media contributes little to company performance. So, now what? The Leapfrog…
5 B2B Brands Who Rocked Storytelling
B2C storytelling has a long and stable history. Think Don Draper from Mad Men, whose whole thing was basically telling good stories (and acting less intoxicated than he should have been). But B2B? It’s harder to…
Google Analytics Can Reveal Your Best Opportunities
Does your small business “sort of” use Google Analytics? Maybe you’re set up with an account, but unclear on how to unravel data from the vast amount of complexity? If so, you’re not alone. Google…
Embrace Emojis in Your Online Marketing
I’m a millennial, but for a long time I was staunchly anti-emoji. I found them occasionally funny and mildly annoying. I would get them in text messages from friends and roll my eyes. However, one…
State Supreme Court Decides in Favor of Nasty Reviews
The Oregon Supreme Court recently reaffirmed the legal protection of nasty reviews as free speech. Which reminds me of the ongoing opportunity and problem of reviews. Amazon.com reviews, Yelp reviews, Google, TripAdvisor, and all of them…
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