🔥 FLAMING HOT TAKE ALERT: Marketing can drive business goals, but it can’t save a bad product. One financial company that understands this well is Wise, an international money transfer service I use. According to Nilan Peiris, Chief Product Officer at Wise, the company aimed to build a product that “blows user’s socks off.” That…
A six-hundred-year-long organ recital is going on, and today marks a change in notes. If you miss it, the next one is in two years. We’re used to the rapid increase in speed in just about everything around us. Absolutely positively overnight is mostly too slow for many industries now. It takes discipline, then, to…
In the US, today is a major holiday. The Superb Owl, with nachos, commercials and beer. People who don’t even watch football watch this game, and it’s one of the largest audiences each year on TV. For a certain kind of mass marketer, a Super Bowl ad has been the gold standard for 40 years,…
“Why did the chicken cross the road” tells us a bit about jokes. It’s a joke about jokes. The first half is a setup, reminding us that an absurd question creates tension, which is then relieved by the punchline. But the second half undoes this by refusing to release the tension. “To get to the…
To choose the right KPIs: There are an almost infinite number of KPIs, often varying in small details (like how they’re measured, or subtle differences in definition). Many KPIs also have overlapping audiences (SEOs and content marketers may track very… Read more ›
In this Whiteboard Friday, learn how to find technical SEO issues, how to define issues, as well as how to resolve them.
Learning how to create an ebook can be overwhelming. Not only do you have to write the content, but you also need to design and format it into a professional-looking document that people will want to download and read. You might already be familiar with fiction or nonfiction ebooks, but what exactly is an ebook…
Big brands ax the CMO role. LinkedIn talks about fast-growing jobs. Are they just wrapping the same old jobs in fancier, buzzword-heavy titles? Learn what it all means for marketing and what you should do to grow in the profession.
Along the way, folks have talked about “niching down” as a way to help a project find focus. But that’s backward. When we identify and embrace the smallest viable audience, we’re moving up. Up the quality hierarchy. Up in responsibility. Up in the likelihood that we’ll make an impact. To niche up, identify the smallest…
Here are some of the best use cases. If a page is outranking you, it could be because it covers important subtopics searchers want to see (while you don’t). Here’s how to find these subtopics: The Content gap report shows… Read more ›