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Half your marketing team should be top-of-the-funnel

Marketing Team

Mike Volpe is the CMO of Hubspot, which is a fairly successful marketing (inbound marketing) organization. He gave a talk at INBOUND, their annual conference — Malcolm Gladwell was there this year, guys! — and one of his slides apparently… Continue Reading

On do-everything vs. ‘best of breed’

Best of Breed

I went to this conference for work last week, and ’twas hosted by a CMS (content management system). I was walking around like a total mess at this thing, mostly because it was developer-focused and I’m a content/marketing guy (I can’t… Continue Reading

Technology shifted the world, in two photos and one lesson

I’m attending this conference for work right now, and yesterday Niall McKeown of Ionology gave a presentation. It was kind of general “strategy vs. digital strategy” stuff — although people often have no idea what strategy is — but he had a few interesting… Continue Reading

The Martini Report on affluent consumers will make you gauge your fucking eyes out

Hyper-Affluent WTF?

Here’s a rundown of The Martini Report on Slate; the article originally appeared on Inc, though. The headline might as well be: “Rich People … They’re Just Like Us!” 

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The worst f’n thing you can call yourself is a “marketing expert”

Marketing Experts Are The Worst

I had been thinking about this for a couple of days/weeks now, so I decided to write down some thoughts about it. Doesn’t it sometimes seem like everyone on Twitter and in the general content/blogging community is trying to upsell… Continue Reading

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Conventional SEO is kind of dumb, right?

“Your brand’s website and online presence needs to align around targeted customer intent(s), not traditional keywords-focused optimization,” notes Grant Simmons in a 2013 Search Engine Watch post. “Focus toward tactics that will play to Google’s more complex side: Mapping queries to actions,… Continue Reading

Better marketing: Leave out key information

Even though no one really seems to believe in transparency — hence the existence of silos — we still live in a time where transparency seems to be something more people are chasing. Depending on who you believe, this could… Continue Reading

What if branding worked backwards from the outcomes?

I feel like context is often lacking in business interaction. Sometimes I feel like people get busy with projects (remember, busy and productive are entirely different concepts), run around, do their projects, go to meetings, end their day, and re-start again. They don’t often… Continue Reading