Not all tech is new tech. The ballpoint pen was a revelation, and a bit controversial. Now, it’s disposable and obvious. Different industries go through tech spurts. My desk is covered with items I use every day (a mouse, headphones, a solid-state drive, transparent tape, and even a Star Trek communicator) that were risky breakthroughs, […]
IKEA marketing strategy: 7 tactics and takeaways (Infographic).
Let’s explore the top IKEA marketing strategies from over the years, with key takeaways marketers in any business can borrow.
How One Content Leader Brought a 150-Year-Old Brand into the Modern Era
R. Ethan Braden revamped Purdue University’s old-fashioned comms team to enchant audiences with captivating content – and doubled the school’s commitment to marketing. Here’s a look at his content approach – and why he’s the 2023 B2C Content Marketer of the Year.
Marketing Communication Planning Frameworks: Maximizing Your Marketing Efforts
Marketing communications planning frameworks help marketers organize, develop and distribute key information to stakeholders and their target audience. Without them, people who should be informed remain unwillingly ignorant, which can […]
Is speed, not AI technology, the real enemy in marketing?
Marketers are due for an epiphany. Speed is the name of the tech game. But what won’t you delegate to technology in the name of successful marketing?
Everyone knows what it is to be conscious, and we imagine that other people are also aware. That we have a voice in our heads, apparent agency and free will, a little person inside who is commenting, making decisions and in charge. We’re not sure if dogs have this, and we’re pretty sure that sunflowers […]
You’ll need two 8-foot boards and six five-gallon buckets. Each board is a standard 2 x 4, about two inches by four inches in size. And the bucket is about two feet deep. The first lesson is simple: Put the board on the floor and have a colleague walk from one end to the other. […]
New approaches will never be embraced by everyone at first. If you need unanimous consent, you’re not going to move forward. And it’s not convenient. If it were, someone would have done it already. Finally, it’s not sure to work. If you need any or all three of these things for your project to move […]
To win a Nobel prize a hundred years ago, you might only need a legal pad and a few pencils. Today, it takes millions of dollars, scores of people and many years of effort. That’s because the most straightforward problems have been solved. One side effect of this inevitable shift is that many parts of […]
Beatriz Kaori Miyakoshi teaches you the marketing elements.
Meet Beatriz — Project Manager, occasional writer and all-around hero. See how she’s mastered all the marketing elements like a proper Avatar!
The 10 Best Email Newsletters for 2023 (Infographic).
Take a look at some of the best company newsletters in marketing and learn how to create, structure and distribute your very own.
Marketers say they know the missing ingredient for success – are they wrong?
New research finds marketing is not aligned operationally. No surprises there. But the study’s takeaways miss what you need to do to fix that. We have a thought.
And those are the two challenges of anyone seeking to make an impact. First, we get distracted by the inclination to make the group as big as we can imagine. After all, the change is essential, the idea is a good one. It’s for everyone. Except that’s a trap. Because a group that’s too large […]
There are now 1,000 of us in this online community that’s not a social network. Proudly a millionth the size of some other online experiences. It includes the original Creative’s Workshop, with hundreds of people working through it, side by side. And just added, access to the Marketing Seminar. But mostly it’s the peer support, […]
The Power of a Quarterly Marketing Plan – Templates, Tips, and More
How to build, and stick to, a quarterly marketing plan that helps you set goals, track KPIs and improve outcomes.
5 writing tricks that will help you to tell better data-based stories
If the thought of numbers sends you running into the night, try these tricks to become the writing wizard of numerals. No addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, or other calculation required.
In many creative industries, there’s a similar pattern. When the stakes are very low, most creators produce things that are fairly banal and ordinary. Part of that is the law of large numbers, but it’s mostly our personal cultural resistance to leaning too far into weird stuff. And so the vast majority of YouTube videos, […]
As businesses or social media influencers share content, it’s important to ensure that shared links aren’t jeopardizing their audience. Determining the safety of social media links isn’t just good practice; it’s an essential part of maintaining a brand’s trust and reputation. Every shared link on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram serves as a gateway, but it’s critical to ensure that this pathway is free from threats and vulnerabilities. According…