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The Case For and Against Gated Content and Registration Pages

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11 Jun 2019
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Frank Strong, MA, MBA
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Marketing is sometimes like politics. Two people can read the same report and draw different conclusions. Typically, those conclusions support whatever you believed before reading it. It’s a bit like that with gated content. Marketers tend to be for it...
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Breaking Down Current Trends in Influencer Marketing 6 Takeaways from a Global Survey by Talkwalker

Breaking Down Current Trends in Influencer Marketing: 6 Takeaways from a Global Survey by Talkwalker

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05 Mar 2019
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Frank Strong, MA, MBA
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Influencer marketing has been around a while, but it’s largely shuffled along as an experiment. For a savvy company with smart relationship driven marketers, there’s an opportunity to cut through a very big problem today: noise and clutter. I define...
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Six Content Distribution Tips that Everyone Else Isn’t Already Doing

Six Content Distribution Tips that Everyone Else Isn’t Already Doing

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20 Nov 2018
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Frank Strong, MA, MBA
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Creating good content is just half the content marketing equation. The other half is content distribution. Distribution tends to fall to the wayside for several reasons. First, for many marketers, so much effort is poured into the creation that distribution...
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The Calls to Just “Use Video” in Marketing Overlook These 3 Essential Considerations

The Calls to Use Video in Marketing Often Overlook These 3 Essential Considerations

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07 Aug 2018
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Frank Strong, MA, MBA
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Every couple of years, there’s a renewed collective call to action for marketing to use more video. The catalyst is usually some smart marketer notices video is getting better play on a particular channel. Typically, these calls to action include...
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Thinking Different in 2018 Registration Forms and the Personal Email Addresses

Thinking Different about Registration Forms and Personal Email Addresses

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02 Jan 2018
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Frank Strong, MA, MBA
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As a voracious reader, I tend to download and consume a lot of content such as reports, whitepapers and eBooks. Often, I’m looking for good research, but also for creative ideas for developing and distributing this type of content that...
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infographics types of content

3 Tips for Effective Infographics: Data, Design and Distribution [UML]

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18 Nov 2017
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Frank Strong, MA, MBA
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Infographics remain high on the marketing list of tactics.  It’s versatile content piece that can complement and add powerful visuals as part of an integrated campaign. This week I looked at Google search data for the word “infographic” (and variations)...
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3 Studies that Challenge Marketing Assumptions

3 Studies that Challenge Marketing Assumptions [UML]

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11 Nov 2017
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Frank Strong, MA, MBA
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Assumptions are akin to a heuristic – an imperfect method of decision making that’s “good enough” and saves time. When assumptions are right, everything goes smoothly.  But when they are wrong, the rest can go horribly wrong. Assumptions are essential...
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Brand Engagement on Social Media Has Never Mattered Less

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26 Sep 2017
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Frank Strong, MA, MBA
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Facebook has reportedly been rewarding video on its platform recently.  This means social media posts that include video are granted better reach on the platform.  In turn, social media experts have rushed to proclaim brands should be using video to...
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It’s not “Social Media Marketing” Anymore – it’s Just “Advertising”

It’s not “Social Media Marketing” Anymore – it’s Just “Advertising”

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12 Sep 2017
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Frank Strong, MA, MBA
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Senior marketers report spending 9.8% of the marketing budget on social media — here and now. They expect that figure to rise to 13% over the next 12 months – and to 18.5% over the next five years. The benchmark...
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Context in Marketing Campaigns Mediums and Measurements [UML]

Context in Marketing Campaigns, Mediums and Measurements [UML]

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06 May 2017
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Ask a veteran marketer how marketing has changed in the last decade and many comments will center on output.  Certainly, the mechanism by which we send messages has evolved dramatically, but so too has the way audiences receive messages. Today,...
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