Kubernetes dominates the market of open source container orchestration engines. Why? It’s not just because of technical features. It’s also because Kubernetes has skillfully cultivated the right image within the container ecosystem. In case you’re not familiar with Kubernetes, here’s a very brief overview: Kubernetes…
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Calculating share of voice (SOV), and building and maintaining keyword strategies are often two disparate activities. While this may be okay operationally, strategically, they are linked at the hip, and changes in one will impact the other. The challenge we have seen for our customers…
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Competitors are not necessarily the same thing as competition. Competitors are vendors that have a product with feature parity with your product. Competition is anything that could be chosen in lieu of your product. Companies spend a lot of time scrutinizing their competitors, which is…
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Even the largest companies have a limit to their content marketing budgets. Part of the role of the marketing professional is to know when to create content in-house, or outsource content. By starting with your business goals and metrics, this decision can be easy to…
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Meltwater is a media intelligence company that provides media monitoring and social media monitoring to help companies grow and build their brands. https://www.meltwater.com/ In order to optimize a company’s reach and presence in the media world, real-time analytic tools are needed to accurately measure how…
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The three days before your upcoming board meeting, your entire marketing team is pandering to PowerPoint. Your objective is to give numbers and graphs that are clear enough to demonstrate activity for the last quarter, but that won’t incriminate. On the day of the meeting,…
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The details matter in content marketing. One of the peskier details that is difficult to get right is topic selection that can move the needle on your share of voice (SOV). When marketing to a technically savvy audience, this can become a particularly gnarly problem…
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Effective content marketing has inefficient communication built-in to get customers to reach out. For example, effective content marketing relies on repetition, incomplete information to tantalize customers, and promises, hooks, and emotional tugs rather than just providing information or answers. Practitioner influencer marketing has integrity, but…
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One of the biggest myths I’ve had to confront as a professional is the holy grail of so-called “efficient” communication. What I’ve learned on a personal level is that efficient communication is not necessarily effective, and I’ve seen this play out to the detriment of…
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