8 Retention Strategies to Keep Your Best SEO Talent From Fleeing

A basic grasp of design principles is useful for any marketer — maybe you’re part of a scrappy DIY team and need to do your own design, or maybe you just want a better understanding of what your in-house design team is up to. I’ve worked with many graphic design teams over the years, and…

If we’ve got tenure, a lifetime appointment or simply a really secure gig, what should we do with it? One option is to race to the bottom, to chase short-term self-focused outcomes and to see how much we can get away with. (Probably, quite a bit). The other is to take this rare chance to…

It’s sort of the opposite of “cued.” In addition to being delightful to spell, the idea of work that’s queued up is energizing. The chapter ahead of schedule, the process in place for the next quarter, the continued commitment to learning… It is locked, loaded and ready to go. It’s work that requires timing and…

Born in the digital age, “Inbound Marketing” is nearing its 20th birthday. HubSpot Co-founder Brian Halligan coined the term in 2005 because the internet has forever changed buyers’ journeys. As recently as 2008, influential marketers were using inbound marketing to describe drawing in customers instead of outbound mass marketing. In his article “Dawn of the…

Webinars, video campaigns, and social media posts are relatively new channels for marketers to reach their customers. Still, I don’t think that more contemporary methods should distract you from one of the oldest, most effective strategies  — email marketing. In fact, email ROI is an impressive $36 for every $1 spent.  If you’re still hesitant,…

Marketing as we know it happened because of machines. Machines made factories dramatically more efficient, which meant that producers could no longer easily sell everything they made. When you go from making four ceramic plates a day to 4,000, your capacity starts to look like a problem. That’s a new challenge. A farmer could figure…