Month: June 2016

  • Marketing Technology is More Than Just Vendors and Tools

    I love the field, the practice of marketing technology. However, marketing technology has been regarded largely as a collection of tools and vendors. From Scott Brinker’s outstanding MarTech landscape to marketing technology stacks, marketers have come to see marketing technology as simply a box of tools, a myriad of packaged solutions. This is a dangerously…

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  • Clarifying the Twitter App Family

    Twitter made waves again recently with its launch of Dashboard, the latest app to join its already confusing app family. The intent of Dashboard and Engage appears to be to narrow down Twitter’s feature set for specific kinds of users. This is built on the premise that the platform overall is perceived as too difficult…

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  • Economic Snapshot: Post-Brexit Metrics

    I take a look at common economic indicators once a quarter or so publicly, usually at the end of each quarter. Now that the UK has voted to leave the EU – and the ensuing economic shock has hit – I thought it would be a good time to examine those indicators again. A couple…

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  • Google Analytics + Google Sheets = Twitter Impact Analysis

    A question I’ve seen various publications bat around recently is, “Is Twitter engagement/impact falling?” I’m honestly surprised that journalists are not given at least read-only access to their Google Analytics data to make these assessments themselves. If you do have access to Google Analytics, let’s look at how to determine Twitter’s impact. First, you’ll need…

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  • On Brexit, Part 1: Measure to Mitigate Uncertainty

    The UK referendum to exit the European Union creates a vast cloud of the worst thing for business: uncertainty. Article 50 of the EU constitution, the lawful secession of a member state, has never been exercised until now. How do business leaders and marketers consider this turn of events? The short answer: too soon to…

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  • Finding Your Next Job Using Digital Marketing, Part 9: Conclusion

    We’ve reached the end of this series; I hope you found it useful. To recap, we covered: The basics of digital marketing for job search Establishing your personal brand Gathering assets for profiles Publishing your social media and web profiles Building your professional network Principles of digital networking Easy prospecting wins Pitching yourself to hiring…

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  • Finding Your Next Job Using Digital Marketing, Part 8: Pitching

    Once upon a time, a very long time ago in Internet years, I wrote a webinar and publication on finding your next job with social media. I stumbled over it recently while cleaning up one of my archives. While lots of the individual pieces are badly out of date, the work as a whole is…

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  • Finding Your Next Job Using Digital Marketing, Part 7: Easy Prospecting Wins

    Once upon a time, a very long time ago in Internet years, I wrote a webinar and publication on finding your next job with social media. I stumbled over it recently while cleaning up one of my archives. While lots of the individual pieces are badly out of date, the work as a whole is…

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  • Finding Your Next Job Using Digital Marketing, Part 6: Networking Principles

    Once upon a time, a very long time ago in Internet years, I wrote a webinar and publication on finding your next job with social media. I stumbled over it recently while cleaning up one of my archives. While lots of the individual pieces are badly out of date, the work as a whole is…

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  • Friday Fun: How to build a personal theater with PVC

    I have a nearly irrational love of PVC piping. PVC is incredibly versatile stuff: strong, durable, flexible, resistant to breaking down. True, it does break down over time, but that timeframe is roughly 140 years, longer than our operational lifetimes. Over the years I’ve made instructions for how to build camera stabilizers, strawberry towers, and…

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