Month: August 2021

  • Why I Stopped Curating Content on LinkedIn

    I’ve stopped curating content on LinkedIn. Why? After all, isn’t it a best practice to share thought leadership content and provide stuff that’s interesting to keep your audience engaged? It is. But not when you’re not around to engage with it. In the most recent episode of So What? The Marketing Analytics and Insights Live…

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  • Almost Timely News, 29 August 2021: Proactive and Reactive Content, Supply Chains, LinkedIn Algorithm

    Almost Timely News: Proactive and Reactive Content, Supply Chains, LinkedIn Algorithm Learn how to develop social media strategy to beat competitors based on publicly available data » What’s On My Mind: Reactive and Proactive Content Creation What kind of content creator are you? I view content creation through one of two lenses, reactive and proactive.…

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  • So What? Understanding the LinkedIn Algorithm for Engagement

    Summary In today's episode, I break down four insider findings from LinkedIn's engineering papers that reveal how the platform ranks members and rewards content. Here's what this means for you. You'll unlock practical levers like invitation hygiene, intent-aware posting, upstream engagement, and dwell-time tactics that move the algorithm in your favor. You'll also learn these…

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  • Why Your Content Marketing Isn’t Working

    On any given day, a dozen or more articles pass by in my LinkedIn feed and blog reader, sharing the latest tips and tricks for content marketing success. The more lurid ones promise instant results or deep secrets of some kind that ostensibly will make your content marketing wildly successful. And yet almost none of…

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  • Marketing Strategy: Exclusive Doesn’t Mean Good

    Let’s talk marketing strategy for a second. I received an “exclusive” invitation the other day for a deal with some mastermind group I’d never heard of: Heya Reader! EXCLUSIVECLUB is the fastest way to level-up your marketing strategy. It gives you exclusive access to weekly office hours with SOMECOMPANY experts (including with me!), coaches, marketing…

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  • Marketing AI: A Fireside Chat with Cathy McPhillips of the Marketing AI Institute

    I recently had the pleasure of sitting down to chat with Cathy McPhillips of the Marketing AI Institute about the Marketing AI Conference (MAICON) on September 13-14, 2021. Cathy and I covered a wide range of topics, such as: Why marketers take AI claims at face value Why there aren’t many marketers who can deep…

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  • Almost Timely News, 22 August 2021: Tesla Bot, B2B Email Marketing PR Embargoes

    Almost Timely News: Tesla Bot, B2B Email Marketing PR Embargoes Learn how to develop social media strategy to beat competitors based on publicly available data » What’s On My Mind: Tesla Bot I read with great interest about the announcement made at Tesla’s AI event this week about Tesla Bot, a humanoid robot that appears…

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  • Marketing, AI, and You: A Fireside Chat with Christopher Penn and Cathy McPhillips

    Summary In today's episode, I sit down with Kathy McPhillips from the Marketing AI Institute for an honest fireside chat about how marketers are actually using AI and machine learning today, from content creation to ethics. Here's what this means for you. You'll hear a candid take on why most marketing AI investments fall flat…

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  • Unsolicited “Embargoed” Press Releases Are Absurd

    I received this “embargoed” press release the other day. The names have been changed to avoid slander and libel. Greetings Christopher: Just bringing this exciting news to the top of your inbox!! The release is embargoed until 8am EDT tomorrow, Tuesday, August 17! Interviews with our CEO are available upon request! Please see an EMBARGOED…

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  • B2B Email Marketers: Stop Blocking Personal Emails

    Here’s a question for the email marketers, especially the B2B ones. What email address do you ask for on your opt-in forms? I recently read a piece of marketing advice, cautioning marketers to disallow personal emails and anything that wasn’t a corporate domain name in their forms and I almost gave myself a concussion from…

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