23 Different Automated Emails

Earlier this month, Marketing Sherpa produced survey results that detailed the types of automated emails used by marketers most often. The data inspired me to create the following list of automated email examples that you can potentially … [Read more...]

SEO Project Building Blocks

Search engine optimization is a process that never stops. This just isn't "set it and forget it" gig. We can always be building new content, finding new keywords and promoting our content to garner more links. Always. But you have to … [Read more...]

Measuring Offline Marketing

Ascertaining the value of our marketing vehicles and campaigns is difficult enough as it is. Introducing offline marketing channels (broadcast, print, outdoor, etc.) can be especially befuddling. Here are three levels to mastering offline … [Read more...]

The Giving Trees of Content Marketing

How to spot and support content marketing that bears fruit and why to abandon content that lags behind. I'm lucky enough to live in a home surrounded by citrus trees. They require a fair amount of work, but collectively, they provide … [Read more...]

3 Advanced Tools for Smart Email Marketers

This is not another ExactTarget vs. Silverpop vs. MailChimp vs. ConstantContact post. I promise. If you are actively engaging with customers or prospects via email, chances are you have found your delivery mechanism. And I hope you love … [Read more...]

52 Questions for Web Analytics Professionals

Numbers and pretty charts and graphs. If this is all our analytics embody, we are simply providing a heap of meaningless pulp. Website analytics reports should not be judged on their aesthetics nor their ability to regurgitate figures. … [Read more...]

Tips for Remarketing with Google Adwords

Remarketing (or retargeting as it is called in many circles) involves showing an advertising message to an audience that you would like to invite back to your website. We can create remarketing campaigns with qualified vendors such as … [Read more...]

Understanding Responsive Email Design

What have been email marketers talking about this past month? Thanks to this fantastic report on mobile email behaviors, there has been a plethora of dialogue about responsive email design. According to the findings first presented late … [Read more...]

Cooking Up Google Webmaster Tools Tips

I recently had the opportunity to work with Nicole Hunn, author, baker, photographer and creator of excellent recipes at Gluten Free on a Shoestring. Nicole operates a gluten free baking and recipe blog and sells two fantastic gluten free … [Read more...]

Owned Media Presentation

This afternoon I am presenting to a class of college juniors and seniors at Arizona State Univerity's W.P. School of Business. My friend and former colleague, Bret Giles, leads a digital marketing class and has asked me to speak about Owned … [Read more...]