Marketers, Stop Panicking About Apple Mail Privacy Protection
A glut of ink, mostly digital, has been spilled about Apple’s upcoming Mail Privacy Protection and the doom it will supposedly spell for email marketers. If you’re doing email marketing correctly, with best practices for tracking, you will largely be...How to Connect with Audiences Through Content Marketing
Leigh asks, “What is your best advice for building connections with audiences through content marketing?” Make content that’s valuable to them. That’s it. Look, nothing makes a connection to someone else like saying, hey, I made you this thing...Are Your Public Relations Efforts Customer-Centric?
I was reading through my LinkedIn feed the other day and a post caught my eye, from a public relations professional who was ranting at the state of their industry. Their critique of PR was on point: the old way of spray and pray announcements, completely off-target...Do What’s Scarce For Marketing Success
Lee asks, “How can marketers break through the digital content fatigue audiences are feeling now?” Fatigue comes from overexposure, from too much of something. We reach fatigue in every area of life, from eating the same kind of food to doing the same kind...Marketing Strategy: Fix What’s Broken Or Double Down on What’s Working?
One of the most straightforward and yet difficult questions to answer in marketing strategy is whether we should be fixing what’s broken or doubling down on what’s working for us. The answer to that question has to be governed by several things: Do we have...How To Determine Whether Something is a Trend
How do you know whether something is a trend or not? First, we need to define a trend. A trend is: a general direction in which something is developing or changing Second, we should mathematically define and be able to detect a trend. Trend analysis (and any kind of...Is SEO Out of Reach For Small Businesses?
Leah asks, “Is SEO out of reach for small businesses?” This is an interesting question, because the answer keeps changing. A year ago I would have firmly said no, SEO is completely within reach of every business, large or small. Six months ago I would have...Why Is Diversity Important in Marketing?
For people who don’t think about it often, when they do consider why diversity and inclusion are important, they often struggle for a practical answer. As a society, culture, and system of laws, we have mandated diversity’s legal and social importance, but...How to Develop an Analytical Mindset in Marketing
Denise asks, “How do you help employees think analytically to determine what the data means?” Thinking analytically employs several different mental skills and attributes. All are learnable, but some people have more natural aptitudes than others. Before...AI for Marketers Book
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