Month: July 2023

Marketing

A Marketing Team’s FAQ for Meta’s Threads App (Plus, Findings From Our Survey!)

Amanda NatividadBy Amanda Natividad
If you work in marketing, there’s a good chance your leadership has asked you about Threads. If you work in social media marketing, then leadership has almost certainly asked for your early reaction to Meta’s Twitter clone. Should we make an account? Should we cross-post from our top-performing social media channel? What’s our content strategy? Whew. Take a deep breath,…
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How Do You Create a Great Marketing Strategy? | 5-Minute Whiteboard

Rand FishkinBy Rand Fishkin
This week, I’m going back to basics. Not because you need a refresher course, but because so many of us are frustrated in the weeds of marketing precisely because we can’t see the strategy forest for the tactical trees. I’ve written before about how too few marketers grasp the difference between strategy and tactics. If you’re struggling to get a…
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5-Minute Whiteboard: How Obsession with Attribution Warps Marketing Investments

Rand FishkinBy Rand Fishkin
Why do 90% of marketing dollars flow to paid/performance channels that provide attribution? HINT: It’s not because ads are 10X more effective than organic investments. It’s because ads aren’t just measurable, they’re attributable. Your CFO, CMO, and CEO can get in a room and look at the CAC:LTV ratio of every performance channel and feel like they know where they…

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