You can teach an old dog new tricks. You can upgrade older software. You can change your understanding of gender. I did. I am a fact-based person. My world and my living is made of facts, of data, of analysis, of as much objective truth as possible. Argue with the interpretation or meaning of a…
The last marketing trend for 2017 I covered to some degree in this post about account-based marketing (ABM). ABM is likely to become the dominant form of marketing for complex sales as marketing automation software becomes more impactful and less expensive than ever. Companies whose sales process is even marginally complex will either jump on…
Old SEO is dead. What is old SEO? SEO driven by simple tactical tricks such as keyword stuffing, exact match domains, and a relentless focus on exact keywords. For example, in the old SEO world, marketers seeking to promote a coffee shop in Boston would have bought up domains like BostonCoffeeShop.com, Boston-Coffee-Shop.com, etc. They would…
In 2017, marketers will be using artificial intelligence and machine learning as the norm, not the exception. While not every marketer will be making direct connections to AIs such as Google Deep Mind or IBM Watson, more and more of our toolsets will have connections into at least one machine learning or artificial intelligence system.…
The major consequence of peak social is the digital attention gap. What is the digital attention gap? It’s the space between everyone we as marketers want to reach online and our ability to do so. Once upon a time, social media and digital marketing promised us nearly unconstrained reach. With the web, search, email marketing,…
Siri. Cortana. Alexa. Google Assistant. Chances are you or someone you know has interacted with at least one of these screenless assistants in the last year. During the 2016 Black Friday sales, the Echo Dot (an Alexa screenless device) was the most popular gadget of the season. Screenless devices such as smartphone assistants, smart speakers,…
2017 is in full swing, and the year has been off to a fast start. In this series, we will take a look at 7 trends I am paying attention to this year, 7 trends which may disrupt our ability to be effective marketers. If we get ahead of the trends, we will be well…
