How Being Customer-Led Can Double the Impact of Your Traffic
This is a guest post by Georgiana Laudi and Claire Suellentrop of SaaS educational and growth consultancy Forget the Funnel. They are the co-authors…
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New Research: Dark Social Falsely Attributes Significant Percentages of Web Traffic as “Direct”
When site owners and marketers log into their analytics tools to determine how visitors discover and reach their properties, they expect accurate information. Unfortunately,…
The Power of Word of Mouth: How to Find What Influences Your Customers
Customer acquisition costs (CAC) have increased significantly over the past decade. This is true for both B2B and B2C companies, with CAC across both…
“High Quality Content” is the Most Useless Phrase in Marketing; We Can Do Better
Did you watch the television program Ted Lasso? You probably did; it has the ubiquity of the 1980s’ The Golden Girls in an era…
AI-Generated Content is the New Floor
Anyone can make it. Most of it is at least OK. Some of it’s pretty good. A few folks are already sharpening their skills…
Maybe You Need a Fractional Marketing Director — Not a Fractional CMO
I recently blurted out during a webinar that company leaders should think beyond the role of fractional Chief Marketing Officer (fCMO) — and instead…
A Crash Course in Speaking at Conferences
Out of curiosity, I Googled, “public speaking tips” and the first piece of advice I saw was: “Breathe.” After my eyes rolled out of…
Too Few Marketers Grasp the Difference Between Strategy vs. Tactics; We Need to Fix That
Look, I get it. For (at least) the first decade of my career, I, too, foolishly conflated strategy and tactics. I’d say things like:…
The Creator Economy Is Far From Overblown
I came across Alex Kantrowitz’s The Creator Economy Was Way Overblown in my weekend reading. It’s well-written, but completely wrong. Here’s an excerpt of…
Why Marketers Should Follow Their Audiences, Not Predict the Future
It’s 2017, and you convince your executives to be early adopters of the #Web3 trend. Blockchain-based product investments, marketing with NFTs, perhaps your own…