Titles are to blog posts what curb appeal is to a house. If you have a bad title, no one will read your content, no matter how good it is—just as no one is going to pay attention to your house (regardless of its interior…
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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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I recently witnessed the following dialogue (true story): Queen of Marketing (QoM): “Mirror, mirror on the wall, is my metric the most beautiful metric of them all?” Mirror: “Alas, my queen, there may be one prettier still. But, beware, the metric you seek could be…
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At Fixate, we use tools like Trello to help manage our influencer content marketing workflow. However, we’ve found that even the best-planned process can have friction points that can slow or even stop your workflow cold. Here are a few observations and solutions that can…
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PR is simply a way of keeping your brand top of mind within your industry and for your target customer. Though you may be putting all your effort into selecting a PR agency, you may actually have one sitting inside your own marketing team. With…
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As the world continues to feel the impact of the latest ransomware attack, cleverly coined WannaCry, this is an excellent time to reflect on a systemic approach to combating these types of attacks. Ransomware is not new. At its core, WannaCry exhibits both traditional and…
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If you are reading this blog, then you are living in the noisy world known as Marketing Software as a Service (SaaS). Your world is either a slog, fighting entrenched platforms like SalesForce, or you’re in the murky realm of educating a skeptical vertical market…
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What is Share of Voice, and how do you measure it? All your marketing creativity has to be harnessed for one thing—revenue. In saturated markets, that’s not easy. You have to build a relationship with the market with practices like influencer marketing. It takes a…
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“Attention is a resource—a person has only so much of it.” — Matthew Crawford Those of us who create content crave attention. That’s why we slog away at a keyboard, day in and day out, transforming words into ideas that we hope will get attention—any…
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