As much as I love memes, I’ve been torn about fully embracing the whole memes for marketing thing. I don’t want to overdo it, you know? I always include one in my monthly newsletter, but I began wondering if I could use them on LinkedIn,...
Ever thought about setting up Google Alerts so you know when people talk about you or your company? Sure, this can be helpful for crisis management, but it’s especially awesome for marketing. What are Google Alerts? It’s a very basic (but powerful!) way to find out what...
The Internet is littered with articles about measuring social media success. What about all the other channels we (businesses of all shapes and sizes) use? If you want to know how your efforts are working, you need to measure content engagement everywhere - on your...
After years of seesawing relevance and start-and-stop attempts at actually making money, two new Twitter features that allow users to monetize their content are opening up. Because I recently wrote about Substack and content monetization in general, this led me to ask: What content will...
Something interesting is happening this year. I’m starting to hear from an increasing number of prospective clients who are perfect strangers. They weren’t referred to me, and we’ve never met in person or online. This is how I know my marketing is working. It’s taken a...
The state of content monetization in 2021 can be summed up in four words: Good luck with that. Making lots of money by monetizing content has always been a pipe dream. For it to work, you need to be a first mover with a great niche/idea...