How To Turn ‘Meh’ Ideas Into Marvelous Content

New McKinsey research says business growth is more likely to occur if CEOs and CMOs agree on marketing’s role. That makes sense, but that conclusion stops short of identifying what marketing really needs to do. Post Views: 98

Welcome to 2024. Back to work, here we go. So it’s Productivity Week on the blog. Productivity is the measure of the output (value) we get for the time or money we spend. Two hats for productivity: When I’m clearing my inbox, responding to comments in a doc, cooking lunch–these are chores. Chores are the…

Sprints and marathons are both foot races, but they have very little in common. The training is different, and so is the technique. Which one are you signing up for? What about the thing you sell? Are we trying to get there faster, or do we promise to go further? Post Views: 3

Free and paid tools for small businesses save time, streamline operations, and, importantly, save money. From my experience running a small business, I know it doesn’t always feel productive to invest time and money into a new tool, but the advantages far outweigh the disadvantages. I know how overwhelming it can be to choose the…

In 1840, at the dawn of the information age, the king of Sardinia asked Charles Babbage what nearly instant messaging like the telegraph could possibly be good for. Twenty years later, it was obvious. When I first saw Prodigy in 1986, I saw that the consumer internet would have many possibilities, but I didn’t have…

When you visit the App Store or Google Play and search “social media,” there are hundreds of apps to choose from. But, as the pool of social platforms grows, will any of them really change the game for marketers this year? In our Social Media Trends Survey, we asked 1,000+ social media marketers about the…