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Month: February 2013
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Set pricing based on value
Yesterday, I had a number of different conversations all about the same topic: how do you decide what to set your pricing at? The question isn’t an easy one by any means, and there are a lot of people in the marketing world whose pricing is actually too low. Let me give you an example.…
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What real-time marketers should learn from Frost Mages
Over the weekend, I finally got around to leveling my frost mage again in World of Warcraft. She’s by far my oldest character, the one I’ve played (and in frost spec) since I first started playing World of Warcraft in 2007. One of the challenges over the years of playing frost is that playing the…
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Go where the competition isn’t
I noted with interest the other day on LinkedIn how many people are now using digital marketing in their job titles, like digital marketing executive, digital marketing coordinator, digital marketing manager, etc. Compared to older terms like Internet marketing, social media marketing, and social marketing, digital marketing’s star is ascending: With the ascendance of digital…
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The enduring rule of SEO
I was tinkering with my LinkedIn profile the other day and realized that I’ve been doing SEO in some fashion now for close to 20 years. My first website went up in 1994 and back then, SEO was all keyword stuffing, all the time (veterans, remember white text on a white background in 1996?), and…
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Which conferences should you be attending?
With the coming of mega-events like SxSW and other large events, one of the natural questions to ask is, which events should you be going to in order to further your business and your knowledge? The answer is surprisingly simple: whichever events have the people you want to see. Let’s look at a couple of…
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Even canned kindness helps
If you’ve ever wondered whether automation of some content, of some customer experiences (not all, obviously) is a bad thing or impacts your brand negatively, one answer can be found in pick up groups, or pugs, in World of Warcraft. These are randomly assembled groups of 5 or 25 people who are given the task…
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Credibility means an end to anonymity
In the age of the instant online review, the instant online recommendation, the instant product discussion, something funny has happened. The phenomenon of astroturfing has exploded. Not the fake grass itself, but the practice of buying reviews and buying mass approval. Why? Tools like Fiverr and Amazon Mechanical Turk make approaching and building a paid…
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Marketing with no used cooldowns
One of the longtime jokes in World of Warcraft is that the only thing worse than ending a fight with all your cooldowns blown is ending a fight with no cooldowns used. For those who don’t play, the term cooldown refers to any ability of a Warcraft character that has long durations between uses. Typically,…
