2024 Creator Economy Predictions

Content makes the world go ’round (at least for marketers), but it can’t create itself. This week we’re exploring the top creator economy predictions for 2024 that marketers need to know. Chances are, your brand has worked with creators in the past and likely will again. Currently valued at $250B, the creator economy is expected…

Email Marketing for Hotels — How to Get It Right

The hospitality industry faces a number of obstacles and opportunities in regard to marketing, with one of the greatest puzzles being email marketing. Email marketing for hotels is a unique challenge: there can be varying customer acquisition periods, low retention rates, and the difficulty of convincing someone to purchase a once-in-a-lifetime experience more than once….

50+ of the Best Affiliate Programs That Pay the Highest Commission

Did you know thousands of publishers benefit every day from a recurring cash inflow by partnering up with other companies via affiliate programs? I sure didn’t until I started writing this article. Affiliate marketing is one of the best ways to monetize your blog, especially when you don’t sell products or services. Joining an affiliate…

5 Ways to Use Facebook Search as a Marketer (Even Though Facebook Graph Search is Gone)

Confession: Back when Facebook first rolled out Graph Search in 2013, I was a little disappointed. The conversion path for someone to actually go from Facebook Graph Search to my business page to my website was so long it was improbable many would complete it. Turns out I wasn’t the only one who was disappointed….

Valuable contributions

We actually don’t really know. Netflix just released their first-ever detailed analysis of how many hours of engagement the top 15,000+ most watched shows on the network received over a six month period. Here’s the file. Who won? That question is actually the lesson here. The fact is, most organizations are pretty clueless about where…

Influencer-Founded Food and Beverage Brands: Are They Good Business?

I’m writing this while sipping coffee made by Emma Chamberlain’s French press. The 22-year-old YouTuber is not only Gen Z’s favorite influencer, but also a big-time entrepreneur. Her coffee brand, launched in 2020, took off among young coffee lovers (and even tempted me, a not-so-young coffee lover). It got me thinking: Has food and beverage become…