Month: April 2019

  • You Ask, I Answer: Personal Branding in 2019

    Bruno asks, “What is your main advice to someone getting started on building a reputation and working on personal branding in 2019?” Search is back on top of the pile when it comes to people finding us and driving traffic. Watch the video and take these 5 steps to build your personal brand and reputation…

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  • Friday Foodblogging: How to Make Better Hotel Coffee In Your Room

    Today’s topic is usually a culinary joke: hotel coffee. Almost every business traveler has had the same complaints about hotel coffee in the room. Bitter. Weak. Tasteless. Awful. Yet we struggle with it out of need, sometimes even desperation. Is there a better way to make hotel room coffee? Watch the video to learn more:…

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  • ContentTech Summit 2019 Day 2 Recap

    In this episode, I recap some of the memorable moments from Day 2 of ContentTech Summit, from what to ask sales people to criteria for vendor selection to what Henry Rollins thinks. Watch the video for a deeper dive. Can’t see anything? Watch it on YouTube here. Listen to the audio here: Download the MP3…

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  • ContentTech Summit 2019 Day 1 Recap

    In today’s show, we look back on day 1 of the ContentTech Summit 2019 Day 1. From stats like the average value of an email address is $35 to 29% of companies spend more on technology than staff, the first day of ContentTech Summit (formerly the Intelligent Content Conference) had a lot to offer. Watch…

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  • You Ask, I Answer: How To Measure Personal Brand?

    Bruno asks, “What is the channel that most impacts your personal branding?” That’s an interesting question and is contingent on a couple of things: – How we measure our personal brands – How we align that data with our channel data The statistical technique you’d use to find the answer is something called driver analysis,…

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  • When Marketing Data is Counterintuitive?

    Ryan asked at Social Media Marketing World for cases where data goes against intuition: In the time since this post was written (2015), so much has changed. Data is more counterintuitive than ever. Why? We have so much more of it, and that complexity is what creates counterintuitive situations. Intuition is, in many ways, our…

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Can Companies Automate Culture?

    Alex asks, “Can you automate culture? Corporate culture and automation are two of the most prolific terms in the business lexicon, but what is their relationship?” HJ Leavitt’s 1964 framework for people, process, and platform shows how these different areas interact. Culture is very much a people thing, while automation is a process and platform…

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Tracking Google Ads Performance to Amazon?

    Clarissa asks, “Question: I publish a book and set up a series of ads using Google Ad Words and the link goes to the Amazon Page. How do I set up tight tracking for the success of the ads, where success = book sales?” This is a challenging situation because Amazon gives you very limited…

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  • You Ask, I Answer: How to Monetize Followers?

    Neha asks, “You have a large number of followers on LinkedIn. How do you monetize them? I am looking for ideas to monetize my followers.” Two rules to keep in mind: Gary Vaynerchuk: When you give, give. When you sell, sell. Don’t mix the two. Chris Brogan: Any opportunity to be helpful is an opportunity…

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  • Public Service Announcement: Mark All As Read Day is April 2

    It’s the day after April Fool’s Day, but thanks to news readers, inboxes, and social networks, we’re not consuming information in chronological order. Be sure to mark as read every news and information gathering system you use to prevent you from mistakenly sharing April Fool’s pranks as real news. Can’t see anything? Watch it on…

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