As a content professional with almost a decade in the game, I have been a part of several content marketing teams and projects. While each project came with its own objectives and obstacles, one thing remained constant: a consistent underestimation of what a content marketing team achieves for the organization at large. The natural assumption…
Over at Masters in Marketing, Caroline, Laura, and I have interviewed some very bright minds from some very bold brands. We’re talking Liquid Death, New Balance, Oatly. But we got to wondering: What happens when noted marketing masters get to ask each other the questions? What do the innovators want to know from each other?…
Welcome to Creator Columns, where we bring expert HubSpot Creator voices to the Blogs that inspire and help you grow better. In his book The Coming Wave, Mustafa Suleyman predicts that AI will be able to successfully build a business in a few years. You would just need to write a prompt like, “Go make…
Will generative AI steal the heart of marketing? Will execs have a change of heart about creative? This marketing year in a review gives a special nod to the human Dr. Seuss and his fictional Grinch.
If it happened to us, our memory of it is a story, our record of it with us at the center. Even if it’s on video, even if other people were there, our narrative and the context and the play by play belong to us. The useful question might be: “Is my story helpful?” And…
I ran this test for two reasons: As a human being, I want to use the best search engine around. I spend my life on the internet. I want to find information in the fastest, most effortless way possible.… Read more ›
I went to a psychic when I was 22. She told me I was “about to take a long journey across the Atlantic.” While the prophecy sounded oddly sinister (would I be alive during this traverse?), it turned out to be true: Shortly after, I decided to teach English in Thailand. While none of these…
Welcome to Creator Columns, where we bring expert HubSpot Creator voices to the Blogs that inspire and help you grow better. Stories have a unique ability to capture our attention, change our perspective, and inspire action. We intuitively know this, but there’s actually research that backs this up. The better the story, the more influence…
You have great content. It’s published on the platforms where your audience is. But your content isn’t revving your company’s marketing engines. So, let’s get to troubleshooting and fixing.
A bureaucracy recently asked me to submit a few documents. They were very specific and the person on the phone said that the subject line of the email I sent should be blank. This is really unsettling. Almost like taking the labels off bottles at the supermarket. My email software didn’t even want to let…