Why AI Will Not Create Great Content Any Time Soon
I am bullish on AI creating content at scale. I am bearish on AI creating GREAT content at scale – or at all. Why? It comes down to limits of training data, fundamentally. All machine learning models, from the most basic to the most sophisticated, need something...Measuring Email Marketing Performance in a Post iOS15 World
Apple rolls out iOS 15 on September 20, 2021 with desktop updates coming later in the year. iOS 15 will introduce Mail Privacy Protection, and I detailed much of the basic operational changes in this blog post here. However, one of the key questions that keeps coming...Understand the Meaning of Metrics
Amanda asks, “As a data scientist, you’re adept at collecting raw data, interpreting their meaning, and determining the resulting actions to take. What tips can you offer to help content creators and other analytics novices understand the meaning behind...Does “Link in Bio” Reduce Instagram Engagement?
One of the lessons the pandemic has reinforced is to be an active, questioning reader of data presented as fact in articles and news. Not in the crazy, conspiracy-theorist “do your own research” in which you hunt down articles that only support your point...Avoid The Content Marketing Graveyard
I was cleaning up some backups the other day from one of my older computers and came across a series of short films distributed by the AtomFilms To Go podcast – way back in 2006. They were brilliant, pithy short films, a few minutes at most, produced for the...What Personal Data Science Teaches Marketers
A few years ago, there was a big movement called Quantified Self, in which we would apply principles of analytics and data science to our lives with fitness trackers and other apps that would help quantify how we were living. For a variety of reasons – mainly...Zero Party Data And Customer Data Consent
I keep stumbling across this term in discussions around privacy and consumer data: zero-party data. Folks like MarTech Alliance define it as: “First-party data is data collected directly from your audience, as opposed to being acquired and sent to you by a...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....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...AI for Marketers Book
In this all-new, completely-rewritten 2nd Edition of AI for Marketers, learn:
- What AI is and isn't
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- Key questions to ask of any vendor claims about AI
- How to prepare your company and your career for AI
