I’m leaving SHIFT Communications. Background: Figuring out Public Relations In late 2012, I joined SHIFT Communications with a burning question. I had mastered the basics of digital marketing, of the middle of the funnel. I was a proficient email marketer, web marketer, and social media marketer. But I had a challenge. I didn’t understand the…
In order to know what to fix, we need to understand the relationships between our metrics. We have so many to choose from. How do we make sense of any of them? If we don’t understand the relationships between our metrics, we spend time fixing things that aren’t broken or ignoring the things that are.…
At Social Media Marketing World 2018, I sat down with live stage host Sunny Lenarduzzi to talk about measuring the impact of video marketing, especially on YouTube. We have so many great ways to measure video today, but I strongly encouraged her and the audience to use the tools already at hand, such as: Google…
Recently I had the opportunity and privilege to address the corporate marketers community with MarketingProfs in an Ask-Me-Anything forum. We spent an hour together tackling every manner of marketing question; by the end of the hour, we still had 50% of the questions left to address. I promised the community I’d get to the rest,…
Recently I had the opportunity and privilege to address the corporate marketers community with MarketingProfs in an Ask-Me-Anything forum. We spent an hour together tackling every manner of marketing question; by the end of the hour, we still had 50% of the questions left to address. I promised the community I’d get to the rest,…
I had the opportunity and privilege to speak to a roomful of corporate marketers recently with MarketingProfs on the topic of marketing analytics in an AMA-style forum. I was expecting lots of questions on overall analytics strategy, the future, etc. and what came through instead was a series of questions on the correctness of implementations.…
