I write for a living. While I love allowing creative work space to breathe, grow, and develop, deadlines don‘t allow me the luxury of writer’s block. At some point in the project timeline, I‘ve got to get moving beyond that blank page. It doesn’t happen often, but when I’m really struggling to do this, I’ll…
In 2019, Forrester predicted U.S. B2B e-commerce to hit $1.8 trillion by 2023. It almost hit that number in 2021. And by 2025, Gartner says, 80% of B2B sales interactions will be digital. Where do content and marketing fit into this revolution?
In 1983, an old article from the Harvard Business Review changed my life. In 1960, Ted Levitt, a professor at HBS, wrote the most popular article in the Review’s history. Called Marketing Myopia, it described a different way of thinking about change and marketing. I was a (very) young MBA student at Stanford and somehow…
I’m listening more than reading these days, and I find that a good audiobook can make a real impact on the way I absorb and learn from a book. It’s a once in a century sort of shift in this medium. My new book is now available in audio. It’s not on Audible, at least…
“An obsession with quality” is what I wish 12-year-old me had… but alas, I ended up with boatloads of Forever 21 T-shirts. As it turns out, quality really does matter. Our master today — Emily Kramer, a marketer, investor, and advisor for B2B growth-stage startups (and MKT1 newsletter creator) — told me her “obsession with…
Google owns just a bit more than 90% of the global search engine market, which means it is a significant driver of how people look for, and find, information on the internet. In this post, I’ll review key Google search statistics that will help you understand how search works, search trends, and how Google search…
As a solopreneur, marketing my own business gets pushed to the back burner more times than I care to admit. There are just too many other tasks that require immediate attention. It’s why I’m a big fan of AI marketing bots. Automating certain marketing tasks means I have more time for other tasks, like creating…
Marketers are often asked to do more with less. I’ve been there too. I’ve battled the constant pressure to juggle multiple campaigns, track their performance, and present insight-packed reports. This process is overwhelming, time-consuming, and riddled with challenges. After years of struggling to prepare reports for my marketing campaigns, I discovered how AI reporting can…
To identify these trending products, we analyzed the growth in search volume of 28.7 billion keywords in Google searches within the United States over the past three months. Our final list reflects the products with the biggest increase in search… Read more ›
Will AI lead content and marketing into a complacency crisis? Maybe — if you outsource your most important work to it. But there is an antidote. Robert Rose explains how to break out of the mundane with some deeply human work.