How-to guides, worksheets, and strategies and tactics to help you map out your marketing. Plus the odd philosophical musing on the digital world.

TV advertising works. You may not like it, and as a digital marketer, you may bristle at the idea that it’s effective. But it’s hard to imagine marketers spending some $76B a year on something that’s completely ineffective. (Which doesn’t mean they’re not slow in adapting to digital’s strengths …) The folks at Twitter probably…MORE >

My latest piece on the Biznology blog is up. This time around I’ve focused on the anti-matter of content marketing: marketing that takes a stand against something rather than for something. Seems an odd idea at first glance: isn’t it always better to be positive? And yet, a quick scan of the headlines shows you that people…MORE >

About three quarters of consumers in the US do more multitasking while watching TV ads than while watching digital ads. That’s either fantastic news for online advertising or a poorly worded survey question. (If you’re still multitasking but not doing so “on another device” is that really any different?) Either way, the survey, Deloitte’s Digital…MORE >

Nobody likes advertising, except when it rises to an art form. (Think budget-busting Super Bowl ads.) And even then, well, one person’s treasure is another’s trash. In part this is because advertising is either forgettable, as in much of the local print advertising most of us see, or it’s intrusive, like the broadcast TV model….MORE >

My monthly piece for Biznology is now live on that site. If you’re interested in getting more of your audience to engage with the content in your content marketing programs, you’ll want to have a look at my recommendations for converting casual site visitors and social-media followers into actual customers. There’s more to it than “just”…MORE >

Audi is beginning a pilot program that will allow consumers in Germany to select their car trunks as the delivery address for goods ordered from Amazon. This caught my eye for a couple of reasons, not least of which is $500 electronic “keys” on most new cars now finally making (some) sense. More important from…MORE >

My monthly article for Biznology is now live on that site and covers ways to increase your content marketing reach. The key is understanding the roles that each element and channel in your content marketing efforts should play so that you get the most of your Website Email marketing Social media SEO Other marketing efforts,…MORE >

There’s a storm brewing, and it goes by the name “Mobilegeddon.” Slated to make landfall on April 21st (ok, I’ll stop with the weather stuff), this update from Google has a lot of people breathlessly spilling a lot of ink about its implications for search and digital marketing. And for good reason. The two key…MORE >

My monthly column for Biznology, covering process metrics and outcomes metrics in content marketing, is now live. It’s a discussion of the different kinds of metrics available to content marketers, why they’re both important and how they should be used. One key idea for content marketers is that too much reliance on process metrics can…MORE >