Nicole Blanckenberg November 13, 2020 eCommerce SMS marketing is exploding right now, and for a good reason. Offering brands a unique way to engage with customers and potential shoppers at every stage of the sales journey, SMS marketing can be a powerful eCommerce tool. Although, as we know, text messaging itself is definitely not a … Continue reading 90% Open Rate? It’s Time to Invest in an eCommerce SMS Marketing Strategy
Christine Alemany November 11, 2020 The 2020 Edelman Trust Barometer revealed a troubling reality for brands: Consumers do not think enterprises can be both ethical and competent. Rather than brands needing to work harder to prove consumers wrong, perhaps the real problem lies in how we define competency and success. With nearly 20 years of … Continue reading Businesses Pay Lip Service to Ethics, but Consumers Don’t Trust Them to Do the Right Thing. It’s Time to Reverse This Trend
Paula Chiocchi October 3, 2020 With increased privacy regulations and major browsers removing support of third-party cookies, many digital marketers are trying to figure out what’s next. The upset has also led to some confusion of the impact on third-party data. While third-party cookies are a type of third-party data, they are not one and … Continue reading The Rise of Third-Party Data: 4 Reasons Why It’s Driving Digital Marketing
Julia Tiedt September 10, 2020 Whenever a new tool or software is released that can make a marketer’s life easier, we often jump on it—especially if said tool can increase productivity and decrease time spent staring at spreadsheets. Tech is great when it works the way it needs to work, but that, unfortunately, isn’t always … Continue reading 4 Signs It’s Time to Run a Tech Stack Audit
Kato Nkhoma August 5, 2020 The business landscape is not what it used to be 10 years ago. A decade ago, most businesses generated revenue from foot traffic into their establishments. The ones that got on the world wide web earlier didn’t have much competition as not many businesses had seen the value of having … Continue reading What is SEO Copywriting (and Why it’s Important in Ranking Well on Search Engines)?
Richard Calvert August 5, 2020 “Workin’ 9 to 5, what a way to make a livin’. Barely getting by, it’s all takin’ and no givin’” Back in 1980 when Dolly Parton’s 9-to-5 hit the charts, employers could be hard task masters. Workers’ rights were pretty much non-existent and the concept of a work-life balance was … Continue reading The Great Return to Work: It’s Now a Case of Adapt or Die
Colleen McKenna July 20, 2020 I first wrote, Reinvent Yourself – 37 Ways for Marketing Professionals to Stay Marketable, 2013, updated it in 2016, and now, it only seems fitting to bring it back again. I hate it when people lose their jobs. Not a week goes by that I don’t hear of someone losing … Continue reading It’s Your Time to Learn; Re-invent, Re-skill and Remain Relevant
Jonathan Crossfield July 14, 2020 For a long time, the mantra of social media marketing was COPE – Create Once, Post Everywhere. Who could argue with that? Simple. Efficient. Fast. And there are plenty of professional social media tools that allow marketers to post to multiple accounts simultaneously and at scale. Currently, I write articles … Continue reading Crossposting Strategies: It’s Not Enough for Marketers to Just COPE on Social Media
Jeff J. Hunter July 13, 2020 For many entrepreneurs, hiring a virtual assistant is something that sits at the bottom of their “to do” list for months or even years. They know that delegating is a powerful tool. They’ve heard stories of others who’ve cleared time in their schedules, made more money, and grown their … Continue reading Hiring a Virtual Assistant for Entrepreneurs: Why It’s So Hard to Let Go
We need to fundamentally rethink our strategies as we transition from mass messaging to targeted storytelling. Greg Heist on June 30, 2020 There was a time—and not terribly long ago—that getting marketing messages to a mass audience was relatively easy: identify a target demographic and then figure out the mix of broadcast and print ads … Continue reading It’s clear the era of traditional mass messaging is over
