Month: April 2016

  • Friday Foodblogging: Hot Salad

    Salad isn’t always the most exciting thing to eat. It’s healthy, to be sure, but not always as savory or rich as we’d like – at least not without losing all the health benefits. A hot salad is one way to deliver a bit more punch to the dish without overloading on high calorie dressings.

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  • Marketing Automation Migration, Part 4: Lists and Forms

    In Episode 4 of the Marketing Automation Migration, we will tackle list importing into the Mautic marketing automation software, setting up the first web form, and why I do my integration very much against best practices: If you’re not a technical person, or don’t understand technical people well, today’s video may not be helpful. If

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  • Marketing Automation Migration, Part 3: Email Setup

    In part 3 in our series, we tackle the beginning portions of marketing automation. This is where the video series goes deep down the rabbit hole, with highly technical terminology and examples. If you’re not a technical person, or don’t understand technical people well, the next two videos may not be as helpful. If you’re

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  • Marketing Automation Migration, Part 2: Inventory

    In the second post in this series, I walk through the process of inventorying an existing email marketing system in preparation for a move to a marketing automation system. We’ll discuss what to do with the different components, how to find a Google Tag Manager code, and what to do with dead, bounced, or unsubscribed

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  • Marketing Automation Migration, Part 1: Why I’m Moving

    Over the next two weeks, I’ll be migrating to a new marketing automation system. As I go through the process, I invite you to come along with me. I’ll be screencasting the work as it happens, a little bit each day. In this first episode, we’ll explore what systems I’ve chosen and why: Don’t see

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  • Account-Based Marketing for Job Seekers, Part 5 of 5

    Job seekers seem to be taking a spray and pray approach, stuck in the bad old days of marketing. What should they do differently? Adopt account-based marketing (ABM). In this part of our series, we’ll look at the framework for finding the right job with ABM. ABM is built on the basics of marketing, like

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  • The panel moderator is the conductor of the orchestra

    At Social Media Marketing World I had the pleasure and privilege of moderating the “How to Build an Analytics Dashboard” session, featuring my friends and colleagues Justin Levy from Citrix, Susan Beebe from Tyson Foods, Louis Gray from Google, and Maria Saltz from Adobe. The job of a panel moderator can be difficult. Moderators need

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  • #SMMW16 Analytics and MarTech Roundup

    Social Media Marketing World 2016 offered plenty of networking, discovery, and fun, as promised. As part of the networking, I had the opportunity to lead the #Analytics Slack channel for the conference in the lead up to the conference and at the conference. The Analytics channel boasted 125+ members; one of the most popular discussion

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  • 89% of social media marketers are bad at analytics

    During the Social Media Marketing World 2016 keynote yesterday, Michael Stelzner revealed the fairly startling statistic: 89% of marketers believe that exposure is the top benefit of social media. This tells me 89% of social media marketers are bad at analytics. Consider the statement we make when we say exposure is a top benefit. Exposure

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  • Account-Based Marketing for Job Seekers, Part 4 of 5

    Job seekers seem to be taking a spray and pray approach, stuck in the bad old days of marketing. What should they do differently? Adopt account-based marketing (ABM). In this part of our series, we’ll look at the framework for finding the right job with ABM. ABM is built on the basics of marketing, like

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