Category: Advertising
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You Ask, I Answer: Growth Tips for Stealth Startups
Peter asks, “Do you know any good case studies, examples how to promote a company when it’s still in a stealth mode and is preparing to launch (for promoting it as soon as it’s out of the stealth mode)?” The key to a successful launch is all about audience. Learn what I did to help…
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Marketing Strategy: SWOT Analysis
For those who haven’t bought Marketing White Belt or haven’t gotten a business degree, the SWOT analysis is one of the oldest methods of assessing your company’s capabilities and abilities to respond to different business situations. I won’t rehash the basics of SWOT here, but I do want to highlight something I persistently see wrong…
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You Ask, I Answer: Marketing Technology for Monetizing Your Blog
Maria asks, “I want to start a blog with the aim of monetizing it – what platform should I use?” When you want to monetize an owned media property, you fundamentally have four different models to choose from: Display advertising, where you’re paid on traffic and clicks Affiliate programs, where you’re paid on traffic, clicks,…
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You Ask, I Answer: Hiring an Agency vs. Hiring an Employee?
Max asks, “Should I hire a digital marketing agency? How do I know whether an agency or a hire is best?” This is a complicated question, but a frequent one. We hire agencies or full-time employees for different reasons. The primary reasons to hire agencies are: Theoretically faster scaling (pre-trained talent already in place) Severability…
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3 Markets You Need to Know
We use the term marketing often, but we rarely talk about markets, the groups of people we market to. What does our market look like? Who’s in our market? If we don’t know who our market is, we’ll spend hours and dollars in vain, failing to generate results. On the other hand, if we know exactly…
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Most Social Media Influencers Have No Influence
When we speak of influence, particularly in marketing, what are we talking about? Do we even know what influence is? If we don’t, then we’re chasing something we may not understand; in turn, we may be paying for results that make no sense or are ineffective. What is influence? Let’s say we have a prospective…
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What does marketing strategy look like?
Most business and marketing people, when asked, couldn’t tell you what a strategy looks like. They couldn’t tell you what a strategy even was. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing or somehow their fault; it’s just a fact that businesses do a poor job of teaching strategy. The answer to this question of what strategy…
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What is Valuable? How Do We Define Value?
One of the perennial questions I consider is, “what is valuable?” Contemplate some of the things we consider valuable: Certain kinds of metals like platinum and gold Business insights Consumer attention Brands Money itself What do these all have in common? Their value is generally tied to scarcity and necessity. For example, think about the…
