“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…
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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…
Should You Raise Your Rates and Only Take Paid Speaking Gigs? Not So Fast…
Over on Mastodon, SparkToro CEO Rand Fishkin and Seer Interactive CEO Wil Reynolds were chatting about the blind advice of “Raise your rates!” and…
Why Marketers, Creators, and Brands Should Start Using Mastodon ASAP
I joined Twitter in June, 2007. It turned out to be a very smart move; over the next decade, that network had a massive…
How Rand Makes Those Split-Screen Videos You See on LinkedIn and Twitter
Several times a week, I post videos that look like this on (usually) LinkedIn and Twitter: They tend to get a lot of engagement…