Month: November 2013

  • 10 Packing Tips for Dreamforce

    It’s almost that time of year again, when the marketing and sales worlds converge on San Francisco and tens of thousands of people all try to get the same Uber car at once, leading to things like 10x surge pricing. With that in mind, let’s look at what you should be preparing if you’re going

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  • Leave no fear unanswered

    Over the weekend, I did one of my least favorite seasonal things: climbing up onto the roof of the house and cleaning out the gutters. The reason why this task is among my least favorite isn’t because it’s cleaning (which is admittedly boring most of the time), but because it requires me to face one

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  • Which metrics belong in your marketing strategy?

    One of the things I do in my work at SHIFT Communications is help companies develop measurement and metrics strategies, figuring out what matters and what doesn’t. The core criteria that makes a metric worth inclusion in any strategy is this: can I change it? For example, organic, non-paid search traffic is a metric where

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  • A head scratcher in my web analytics

    Here’s a head scratcher I’m throwing out to the crowd. I was curious, with the abolition of keyword rankings and keyword data in general, to see what other ways I could measure the effectiveness of SEO. One way I thought up that might be interesting was to match volume of inbound links with organic search

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  • How to stop the endless marketing tool chase

    In any given meeting, evaluation, or time period, one of the first questions you will encounter as a digital marketer is, what tools should we be using? Very often, this is the wrong question to ask. It’s not a question of the tools that you are using, but how you’re using them. In the martial

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  • Marketing Over Coffee: Halloween Edition

    In this week’s Marketing Over Coffee, learn about the top job title for 2014, kittens on demand, and so much more: Subscribe now to the Marketing Over Coffee podcast!

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