Month: July 2015

  • How do marketing strategies fail?

    Marketing strategies are like going grocery shopping at the local megamart. Presumably, you have a list and a goal of things to obtain. Along the way, there are distractions that can eat into resources, like a Buy One, Get One sale in Aisle 12, or a price jump on your favorite snack food. There’s the

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  • Become a necessary luxury

    Your goal, as a marketer, is to achieve necessary luxury status. What do I mean? Broadly speaking, we can be commodities or luxuries in the sense of both price and rareness. A commodity is commonplace. A commodity is inexpensive. A luxury is not commonplace. A luxury is rare, and almost never cheap. Broadly speaking, we

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  • How to Improve Content Marketing with IQR: New York Times Case Study

    How do you know whether your content game is getting better or worse? It’s easy to rely on stock analytics tools, and for the beginning content marketer, tools such as Google Analytics are more than enough. For the veteran marketer who is creating content, how can we know with greater precision whether our content is

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  • How to Improve Content Marketing with IQR: Part 4

    How do you know whether your content game is getting better or worse? It’s easy to rely on stock analytics tools, and for the beginning content marketer, tools such as Google Analytics are more than enough. For the veteran marketer who is creating content, how can we know with greater precision whether our content is

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  • How to Improve Content Marketing with IQR: Part 3

    How do you know whether your content game is getting better or worse? It’s easy to rely on stock analytics tools, and for the beginning content marketer, tools such as Google Analytics are more than enough. For the veteran marketer who is creating content, how can we know with greater precision whether our content is

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  • How to Improve Content Marketing with IQR: Part 2

    How do you know whether your content game is getting better or worse? It’s easy to rely on stock analytics tools, and for the beginning content marketer, tools such as Google Analytics are more than enough. For the veteran marketer who is creating content, how can we know with greater precision whether our content is

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