How to Generate Top-Shelf Content with Budget Constraints

Social buying. Everyone and their mama is doing it — or maybe it‘s just me and my family. I’m consistently tagged in posts (thank you, cousin) about adorable gifts, must-have outfits, and the like. Now, I’m a content marketer who knows when I’m being sold to, but even I get lured by social posts with…

Metrics don’t tell your content asset’s whole story. To truly understand the power of each piece, you need a scorecard. Here’s a technique so you can assess qualitative and quantitative performance and identify what to do next. Post Views: 58

A lot shifted when the Apple Macintosh was introduced, and it wasn’t about the RAM, the chips or the processor speed. Our world changed forty years ago today. Marketing, technology, commerce, luxury brands, communities, communication and our expectations for how we might spend our future all shifted, and fairly quickly. Guy Kawasaki brought me one…

Sometimes, it’s a short-term play, like an ecommerce store creating buzz before launching a new product. Other times, like with B2B marketing, it’s a long-term play to engage out-of-market audiences. In either situation, demand generation can quickly become an expensive… Read more › Post Views: 58

I’ve submitted hundreds of electronic resumes throughout my career. These digital job applications hold so much weight in the job search process. It’s always nerve-wracking to make sure I’m doing everything right. I always ask myself: Does this meet the submission requirements? Did I use the right font? Will my resume surpass the employer’s applicant…

Walk into an office, and the person behind the desk begins an interaction. You respond (or react). They respond (or react) in turn. Answer the phone. Caller ID tells you who it is–are you smiling? How much enthusiasm or disdain or annoyance or delight comes through? The caller responds (or reacts). And so it goes….