
How to use the power of social media to better market your online store
When you own, run, or look after the marketing for an online store, there are plenty of strategies you can implement to generate...

Protecting your brand’s ads on Facebook — because there IS such a thing as bad publicity
Caring about how you’re perceived by others is not a new concept. Even cavemen probably had moments of insecurity, pondering whether...

37% of consumers say ads placed next to offensive content impact brand perception
In March, Google faced a firestorm from brands after an investigation by The Times of London revealed Google Display Network and YouTube...

How AI is disrupting major industries
Advances in artificial intelligence tend to provoke polarizing reactions for most people. One, a dystopian anxiety where humans huddle in...

Hey, CMOs: Who owns your brand?
I speak a lot about the ongoing battle for the heart and mind of the customer and the role that brand plays in this important fight. For...

The robots who will warm your heart — and drive your branding
I’m not a classically trained marketer, so I don’t really understand how branding works. Why do people sign up for a credit card because...

About.com changes name to Dotdash to complete year-long rebrand
In Morse code, About.com’s new name, Dotdash, translates to the letter “A.” A year after About.com started spinning off topic-specific...

SMB trust survey: Amazon No. 1, Google No. 3, Facebook No. 20
Small business (SMB) networking site Alignable has released its latest quarterly SMB Trust Index. The rankings come from net promoter...

The connected audience: Content and creative needs for each stage of the customer journey
To optimize marketing productivity and improve credibility, brands must further develop each aspect of their digital marketing. With...

2017 SEM growth hacks: Monster growth from brand protection
Today’s article presents one of the more powerful search growth attack strategies for 2017: PPC (pay per click) brand protection. This...

4 tips to maximize content marketing performance
Links have always commanded significant focus when it comes to increasing organic search performance. Over the years, SEOs have built...

The connected brand: A framework to guide content and creative development
When brands build a framework and connect all aspects of their marketing approach, they create efficiency and effectiveness. At my...

What is demand generation marketing?
The role of demand generation marketing is evolving along with technology, enabling B2B marketers to get better at filling the pipeline...

What happens when Google pushes into branding and messaging?
If you’re in the business of marketing, you know how important branding is to your clients. And this is true whether it’s a print...

What is customer marketing?
B2B marketers are focusing more and more on making sure their customers are successful after they’ve signed the contract and started...

What is brand marketing?
There is a lot of confusion around brand. It’s one of those words widely used but not widely understood. Is it just a logo, a color...

Denny’s ‘zoom in’ tweet is selling like hotcakes with more than 75K retweets, 100K
Playing off the now popular ‘zoom in’ meme, the tweet includes an image of the brand’s iconic pancake stack and directs followers to zoom...

Super Bowl LI advertisers: Here are the brands gearing up for game day
With less than three hours before Super Bowl LI’s kickoff, brands are lined up to take the field in hopes their campaigns will have a...

A bot for Kia Motors is the first to debut a new Super Bowl ad
Bots are growing up. This week, one of their kind becomes the first to premiere a Super Bowl ad. The 60 second ad — a whirlwind comic...
























