Imagine a weighted balance scale: on one side is brand visibility; the other, lead generation. Your job as a content marketer is to use gated and ungated content to successfully balance both goals. With gated content, users arrive at your website and see a CTA or pop-up that offers them access to content in exchange…
I’m fortunate to work on exciting marketing campaigns for fantastic Nickelodeon and Paramount+ titles. But I never forget that customer experience and marketing go hand-in-hand — everything I plan and execute is to fulfill customer wants and needs. After all, Fluent Support stated that 89% of companies will compete primarily on customer experience by 2025….
Teachers and organizations benefit from both, but they’re not the same. Engagement is the delight we have when we lean into the process. Engagement happens when social media is optimized for maximum focus, and it also can be seen in a student who’s in sync with a teacher who cares. Enrollment is a commitment to…
We analyzed 300,000 keywords and found that the presence of an AI Overview in the search results correlated with a 34.5% lower average clickthrough rate (CTR) for the top-ranking page, compared to similar informational keywords without an AI Overview. Thanks… Read more ›
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Facebook was born in 2004, and since then, countless other platforms have entered the social media arena. Still, it’s prevailed as a powerful marketing outlet — though exactly how to use Facebook for business has changed drastically. The phrase “Facebook is dead” can incite an instant debate amongst marketers. Facebook is a lot of things…
I’ve spent decades analyzing shifts in marketing, but the rise of AI agents is the most disruptive one yet. These systems are quickly taking over the user journey — but unlike humans, they evaluate structured data, analyze backend specifications, and make decisions in milliseconds. Major players are already taking note and adapting. For example, Adobe…
It’s hard to build a house without a hammer. The hammer has been around for a long time, and thanks to its intuitive design, a user can get 70% of the benefit after less than ten minutes of instruction. People who depend on hammers for their livelihood are probably at over 95% efficiency. In the…
How do you do that? How do you actually rank for a keyword? Follow this guide to find out how. Just because a keyword exists doesn’t mean it’s the right one to target. Sometimes a keyword is merely a subtopic… Read more ›
Visual content, be it video, infographics, photos, or some secret fourth thing, is a must-have in any marketing campaign. But, if you struggle to edit visuals or coordinate elements like colors and fonts, creating visual content for your brand can seem daunting. If that‘s the case, I’ve been in your shoes before. To help you…