
Taking Aim: A Target Market Checklist
With well over 100 million households in the U.S., it’s not practical (or possible) to target everyone. Smart business owners know the...

What I Wish My CMO Knew About Brand Identity
I’m the copywriter. You’re the CMO. If our office was the ocean, I would be the plankton and you would be the whale. But I’m in a good...

How Marketers Can Get In Sync With The Multi-Screen World
With consumers constantly switching between desktop and laptop computers, tablets, mobile phones, wearable devices, and connected TVs,...

Brewing Our Own Disenchantment In Agency-Land
There’s been passion brewing lately about the perpetual unhappiness of agency folk. A very popular Digiday post last month took a pass at...

How Business Leaders Can Overcome Burnout
While walking out of the Southwest terminal at Dallas Love Field Airport the other morning, I saw a magazine cover that caught my eye. It...

Nescafe Locks Thousands Of Red Mugs To Fences Then Provides Combination With Facebook App
Earlier this year, the agency locked thousands of red Nescafé mugs to bridges, benches and fences in and around two major Croatian...

These 3 New Technologies Should Keep Marketers Awake At Night
Last week, I was in was Las Vegas to deliver a keynote at Impact14, the Internet Marketing Association’s annual conference event. I’d...

The Hottest New Channel Working For Online Marketers – Offline!
There’s a big difference between what is “hot” in marketing and what actually “works.” For example, “everyone” knows that mobile...

Growing Marketing Technologists & The Future Of Modern Marketing
A roomful of marketing technologists were jokingly called unicorns at last month’s MarTech Conference. The marketing technology space is...

Attraction To Action: How Marketers Can Capitalize On The Middle Funnel
Attracting a consumer no longer means luring them into your brick-and-mortar store. “Attracting” is now a much more loaded term and has...

Three Ways To Be A Data-Driven Thought Leader
Four years ago, I saw something that changed my professional trajectory. My team built a marketing dashboard for a Fortune 50 company....

The 9 Step DIY Guide To Online Marketing For SMBs
Many business owners feel like online marketing is rocket science. They pay money they don’t always have to make the challenge of finding...

Internet Marketing Dominates Inc.’s List Of America’s 5000 Fastest-Growing Companies
Inc. Magazine published its annual list of the 5000 fastest-growing, privately held companies in the United States last week, and the...

5 Steps To Turn Your Organization Into A Digital Analytics Pacesetter
Who in the brave new world of data-driven marketing wouldn’t rather be considered a pacesetter than a traditionalist? To those of you who...

Interactive Marketers: Let’s Make Case Studies More Valuable
We’re all familiar with the lauded “case study.” As agencies, we pursue them to illustrate our own performance, which can help us win...

Questions To Ask About Your Biggest Marketing Technology Challenges
s_bukley / Shutterstock.com What happened in the marketing technology industry? If it was made for, well, marketers, why is it so...

3 Ways To Avoid Information Overload
I’ve heard and used the colloquialism “TMI” (short for “Too Much Information”) in social situations plenty of times — like when my sister...

5 Simple Rules Of Marketing, Whatever The Technology
The Internet has made it much easier for businesses to communicate with potential customers and clients, which in turn has made marketing...

Collaborating To Win Marketing: Faster, Cheaper, Better Creative
In just a few short years’ time, the collaborative economy has grown from novelty to formidable reality. In the collaborative economy,...
























