Devin Partida December 2, 2021 Even before the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, many people used their free time to engage in their passions. Whether knitting scarves and selling them on Etsy or doing home repair work for neighbors, side gigs are becoming more common for people with standard, 9-to-5 day jobs. Side hustles are great options … Continue reading When Do You Need to Start Treating Your Side Gig Like a Real Business?
Arik Hanson November 24, 2021 2021 was the year executives got more active on LinkedIn. And, for many us who have been urging execs to do this for years, it was about time. However, as more execs started using LinkedIn as a tool to reach employees, customers and prospects, one theme started to emerge: These … Continue reading Executives Need to Get a Lot More Real in 2022 on LinkedIn
Natalie Ross November 24, 2021 Many brands these days are looking to use digital marketing to establish better long-term relationships with smaller groups of existing customers. They do this as a way of building trust and their expanding audience. This requires an approach often referred to as “community marketing.” Sponsored Communities One major way to … Continue reading Reaching Real Communities with Digital Marketing
Dave Wakeman November 24, 2021 allycatfoxtrot / Pixabay I try to set a good example for my clients by doing a lot of market research. This takes many forms that most of us can do with little trouble like ethnography, one-to-one conversations, small focus groups, and surveys. Over the last few years, I’ve noticed a … Continue reading 3 Signs You Don’t Have a Real Strategy
That question might mean many different things, but it’s a critical question businesses must ask when evaluating marketing tech. Tony Byrne on October 29, 2021 Before becoming famous for Trump lip-synching, the comedian and ex-Googler Sarah Cooper published a great book about how to sound impressive during meetings, and among the top-ten pieces of advice she doles out is to ask, … Continue reading “But Will It Scale?”
Thinking of solutions as sitting on a spectrum between platforms and products will help clarify your business and operations models. Tony Byrne on October 20, 2021 For as long as I can remember, the dichotomy of “suites vs. best of breed” has dominated marketing tech architectural decision-making considerations. You can understand why. As stacks expand … Continue reading The Real Story on MarTech: Is platforms vs. products replacing suites vs. best of breed?
Kristen McCormick October 9, 2021 Calls to action are the keys to conversion (that feels like a proverb or something), but they don’t exist in a vacuum. For any [quality] piece of content you see online, you’ll never just see a CTA button on an island with no context. Either the button or link itself … Continue reading The 36 Best Call to Action Phrases Ever (Real Examples +Tips!)
Some common mistakes made when evaluating and choosing solutions and how to avoid them. Tony Byrne on September 28, 2021 Buying marketing technology can be stressful. The impact of your choice will reverberate across your enterprise, and switching costs can become prohibitive. Yet, it can seem hard to know in advance whether you’re picking the right … Continue reading Real Story on MarTech: Avoid these five vendor selection pitfalls
Your personalization strategies will require several adjacent capabilities beyond simple targeting logic. Apoorv Durga on September 10, 2021 at 10:26 am In part one of this three-part series, I explained different options regarding where to seat functional personalization capabilities in your overal marketing technology stack. In this follow-up, I’ll explore different platform components required for building a … Continue reading A holistic personalization technology strategy
Start with an organizing framework to categorize and understand the issues, dynamics, challenges, and opportunities in such a way that you can take action. Sarah Brown on August 26, 2021 Marketers and advertisers are facing choppy waters at the confluence of two powerful currents: a vigorous new era of consumer data privacy, rolling into “data-driven … Continue reading The Real Story on MarTech: Navigating the new world of consumer privacy
