The Marketer’s Ultimate Guide to RSS

Essentially RSS is the technology or format in which EVERY news site and EVERY blog publishes their content. You’ve see the cool orange icon that looks like a wifi symbol on it’s side all over the internet and now you know what it is for.

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Marketing: What Job Is Your Product Being Hired To Do

When working on product development, and then when marketing a product, ask yourself, “What job will my customer hire my product to do?” In addition to looking at this from the marketing and business angle I also want to address how this applies to relationships and personal development.

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ROI Is An Equation Not A Theory

As marketing channels become diverse and difficult to track, the business world is screaming for transparency, reporting, and return on investment. All to often us digital marketing folk have to go into meetings with…

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Utility Marketing Best in Show

While none of these utility marketing initiatives directly put revenue in the company they all make the brand (and by extension the product or service) more valuable and more relevant. If you are one of those people who hates the term “Building a Relationship” when referring to the advertiser / consumer transaction then you haven’t fully understood Utility Marketing.

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Content Strategy Magic Question

I call it the magic question because it puts everything else into perspective. When I talk to advertisers and business owners who are trying to build an online audience around their brand, product, or events the conversation almost always come back to content. Content is at the core of the three Cs of internet marketing and without it no amount of great paid ads, SEO, or awesome products has any legs.

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