“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.
My new book (out today) contains more than 500 questions. Here are some to get you started: Who is this project for? Who is my smallest viable audience? What change do I seek to make with this project? What is my strategy to make this change happen? Can I articulate it clearly? What resources and…
As a video marketer, you know there’s no cookie-cutter approach to crafting engaging videos, but you should always ensure you‘re using the best video format for your content, regardless of the kind of video you’re creating. There is no one-size-fits-all video format— not every computer, video platform, or website browser supports every video format. Fortunately,…
Welcome to Breaking the Blueprint — a blog series that dives into the unique business challenges and opportunities of underrepresented business owners and entrepreneurs. Learn how they’ve grown or scaled their businesses, explored entrepreneurial ventures within their companies, or created side hustles, and how their stories can inspire and inform your own success. Jade Walters…
The prevalence of artificial intelligence (AI) has many concerned about job security. AI writing, AI images, AI videos — while the final products are far from perfect, they raise the question of what jobs AI could eventually replace, even if we don’t want them to. But, heck, if AI can create a marketing plan for…