October 28, 2021

I recently discovered some incredibly interesting social media advertising research produced by Travis Chambers and his firm. They analyzed $80,000,000 in social ad spend covering 30,000 different creative assets to try and figure out what kind of ad types are most effective on social media. And frankly, what they discovered will probably surprise you and

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September 28, 2021

So why don’t we?  I’m sure there are many opinions on the subject… feel free to share yours in the comments on this post or our LinkedIn, Facebook, or Twitter pages.  But for me… I think the answer is simple. Fear.  Fear Kills Great Ideas Like it or not, there are people in the world

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September 28, 2021

The Mono-Culture is Dead, Long Live the Weirdos So what’s the deal? Why has Facebook’s advertising the last two years doubled-down on hyper-focused groups with such niche audiences as “LGBTQ Crochet/Knitting/Crafters?” This concept is largely the reason for TikTok’s overnight explosive success. TikTok’s “For You Page” (FYP) homepage feature takes the hashtag concept of cataloguing

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October 8, 2020

We’ve all been in that conversation where it’s hard to focus on the person who is speaking to us, because we’re overhearing a much more interesting conversation happening elsewhere. And if  you think about how brands are competing for our attention online, that describes it in a nutshell. So much chatter… with everyone trying to

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April 30, 2020

The 10 most important #Entrepreneurship lessons I’ve learned the last 10 years of owning my own company. And a few may surprise you. #JustSaying

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March 26, 2020

Destinations around the globe are struggling with a single question:

What the hell do I do now? Do I advertise or go dark and save dollars.

Here is our answer.

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February 13, 2020

Should solopreneurs, freelancers and consultants focus on becoming famous or the most noted authority in their category in order to drive future business growth?

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January 9, 2020

How a DMO can Sell Greatly by programming or influencing a first time visitor’s destination experience to maximize the value for both the visitor and the destination marketing organization.

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March 21, 2019

What do you do when you’re in the car, or on the treadmill? Maybe you make phone calls or listen to the radio. These days, a lot of people are finding new audio entertainment in the form of podcasts. In fact, podcasting has exploded. The latest stats report over 600,000 podcasts are available and over

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March 14, 2019

Measuring the true sales impact of social media efforts his hard and sometimes downright impossible. In the early days of social media that was ok. Social media was the bright shiny object that everyone wanted and few understood. Social media gurus would quip, “what’s the ROI of your mother?” and folks actually took that as

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March 5, 2019

As I embark on yet another Fat Tuesday, I can’t help but flashback a decade (yes, it’s been 10 years since I first invited you to experience Mardi Gras via my Tweetstream) and marvel at the power of Social Media to build brand perception. Back then, my little experiment was novel (no one had ever

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February 27, 2019

Over the last 10 years, content marketing has emerged as a powerful driver for effective social selling and inbound sales lead generation programs. And while largely heralded as a way to drive inbound leads there is another, even more powerful reason that ad and PR agencies should develop a consistent content marketing program. Let’s talk about

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February 20, 2019

In November 2016, CNN plunked down a reported 20 millions dollars to purchase Beme, the video-sharing app started by YouTube star Casey Neistat. CNN hoped to fashion it into an independently operated daily online news program that would appeal to today’s digital centric consumer. By January 2018, Neistat was out and the effort became a glaring

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February 7, 2019

Whenever you read about Social Selling, everyone spends a lot of time talking about creating content. It makes sense, because content is at the core of a successful social selling program. But you shouldn’t be paying your salespeople to create content. Instead, teach them how to properly curate content (maybe even give them the proper

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January 16, 2019

Companies today live and die by the KPI (Key Performance Indicator) metric of their choosing. They become slaves to the data based sales & marketing approach. And there is nothing wrong with that until there is, especially with consumer engagement KPI’s. Because what at first, seems to be a positive, could actually hide a huge

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December 27, 2018

Everyone loves digital advertising for its tracking capability vs traditional advertising. It’s easier to prove digital marketing ROI vs traditional advertising because digital makes the invisible buyer visible. But is this focus on clicks causing you to miss conversions? Let’s talk about that today. You Can’t Sell To Invisible Buyers In our zeal to prove

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May 23, 2018

The Facebook Like, is often dismissed as little more than a Facebook Marketing vanity metric by many in the social media marketing world. I get it, it’s so easy to Like something. It doesn’t take a lot of effort, so how valuable is a Facebook Like really in terms of brand building, lead generation and

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March 21, 2018

How do you track social selling and content marketing success in a world where 65% of all content sharing is invisible to your data analytics software? What does sales prospecting success look like? What social selling KPIs do you track and report? Here is a simple solution. Dark Social Is Growing The chart from GetSocial

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February 28, 2018

Most influencer campaigns today are really thinly veiled awareness ad campaigns. Companies are simply renting access to an influencer’s audience on the misguided belief that this access will generate sales by association. But this is a short-sighted and increasingly unsuccessful viewpoint because fame doesn’t equal influence. So, how do you leverage conversations to create a

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December 20, 2017

We all want the Google Juice. We’ve been told it’s the silver bullet to inbound marketing success. But we’re wrong. The only way to truly Google Proof your website, and your online marketing efforts, is Propinquity. Today we’ll talk about why propinquity marketing is a better long-term strategy vs the classic Google/Inbound strategy for most

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December 14, 2017

According to a 2017 Baymard Institute, an e-commerce consultancy, based in Copenhagen, report “more than 69% of online shopping carts that contain at least one item are later abandoned”. The report analyzed 37 different studies to arrive at the 69% average. Baymard has been analyzing US and EU combined online cart abandonment for seven years.

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August 2, 2017

Last week Skift posted an article, Business of Loyalty: What the Travel Industry Could Learn From Amazon Prime, suggesting travel brands could learn a lot from Amazon’s famous Prime Service. Nothing could be further from the truth… here’s why. Amazon Prime Isn’t a Loyalty Program According to Webster’s Dictionary, loyalty is an act of “faith”

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August 24, 2016

According to just released data from Pew…. YES…  Millennials are far more likely than their elder brethren to be searching for God via the Internet. In fact, they’re almost 5 TIMES more likely to seek the Almighty on the web then Baby Boomers and this might be the most important marketing stat you’ll read all

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August 16, 2016

You can’t sell if you can’t persuade. We all know that. But what you probably haven’t figured out yet is that digital content is the most persuasive tool in your sales & marketing toolbox and you’re not using it correctly. In my 2014 Content Marketing World talk — Using Content as Your New Sales Force — I talked about

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July 27, 2016

How often do you make a purchase that you don’t fully understand? I know I do all the time. If my house needs a new roof, I have to hire roofers who will provide the materials and complete the installation. But I know nothing about roofing! How do I make an informed decision about who

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July 21, 2016

Travel planning is entirely different today than say even 10 years ago. Today’s travelers are invisible prospects to you and your marketing team, often until after they’ve made their vacation destination selection. Combine that with a consumer whose needs are more complex, stresses more numerous and media choices that have literally exploded over the last

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June 30, 2016

What Is A Social Sales Force? Simply put, a social sales force is comprised of motivated, unpaid ambassadors and influencers — what we at Converse Digital call Social Agents. Social Agents introduce you to prospective visitors online through Facebook posts, Instagram pics and Twitter taunts telling everyone how much fun they’re having. And they don’t

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April 19, 2016

If you’re looking for an opportunity to change up your digital marketing or to give your readers a different way of experiencing your content, podcasting can be an easy, inexpensive option. Podcasting is the regularly scheduled production and distribution of audio content. While podcasting is a commonly overlooked marketing medium, podcasts offer a number of

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