St. Patrick’s Day Marketing Traditions: Guinness to ‘Green Ice Cream in a Can’
Unless you’re a brand that can easily incorporate bearded magical beings, shamrocks, or mint into your seasonal advertising, St....
Fit to Freelance: A Fitness Editor Reflects on Her First Year of Self-Employment
The health and fitness vertical is one of the most robust and multi-faceted categories in lifestyle content. There’s a never-ending...
Study: What Young Adults’ Insatiable Appetite for Social Media Means Now — and in the Future
New social media trends emerge for young adults Over the last few years, marketers and others have come to expect that Facebook will...
Content That Connects With Your Audience
Guest Speakers Nadya Khoja, Head of Marketing, Venngage Meagan DeMenna, Community Manager, ClearVoice Overview Content marketers...
For Your Consideration… A Retrospective of Oscar-Ancillary Content Marketing
It seems like only one product category would go all-out in campaigning around the Academy Awards: movies (inclusive of the talent who...
Building the Story: Nora DePalma Is the Voice of Construction Trades and Manufacturing
As billboards and bus stop signs have shown us countless times, the real estate sales business attracts a diverse group of professionals,...
Behind the Scenes: 6 Great Writing Lessons Learned at a ‘Family Guy’ Table-Read
Image courtesy of Fox Broadcasting Company It’s not every day you get to attend a table-read for one of your great TV loves of all-time....
Is Facebook’s Usage Drop a Blip on the Radar or a Sign of Things to Come?
Why users are leaving Facebook and what it means for you After years of seeing continual growth, Facebook now finds itself in unfamiliar...
#ProContent: Content that Generates Social Attention (Part 2)
Guest Speaker Lorena Garcia, Co-founder of the Bloguettes Overview In the ever-changing world of social media, a marketer is presented...
The 5 Hottest Martech Categories for 2018
For decades, marketing was seen as a cost center. In the past few years, however, marketers have been gaining insights into campaign ROI...
Five Advanced Tactics Du Jour to Promote Your Content
In their latest content marketing survey, CMI found that almost all marketers distributed their content via email and social media. The...
AMP Stories and Email: Google Flexes Its AMP Muscles During Breakout Week
Google AMP’s big week sets the stage for remainder of 2018 Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) project hasn’t exactly been quiet...
How Martech Is Rescuing the Marketing Profession (Without Trying to “Annoy People”)
Lately, some voices in the marketing world have been raised against marketing technology or martech. They claim that marketing is...
Why Presidents Day Became More of a Marketing Thing and Not a Civic One (Really?)
Officially, Presidents Day doesn’t exist. Okay, it does and it doesn’t. While attempts to pass a federal bill designating an official...
Gifting for Gratitude: Generous Gestures Never Go out of Style With Clients
Last holiday season, I watched with interest as three discussions unfolded in parallel: two in different groups of current and past...
Who Scores Better at Being an Editorial Assistant: Alexa or Siri?
Writers work from home a lot. As much as we love clutching $5 lattes while pounding out brilliant passages at Starbucks for our legions...
Redesign Fallout: Is It Smooth Sailing for Snapchat — Or Time to Abandon Ship?
Snapchat’s rollercoaster week leaves users, analysts confused about its future After a stellar 2016, in which it became the channel du...
A Fireside Chat With Alexa on the State of Her Voice-Search Technology (and Social Skills)
Voice-search technology via smartphones and smart speakers has begun to revolutionize the way people search for and engage with...
How to Burst the Social Media Bubble With Lookalike Audience Matching
Is your company stuck in a social media bubble? As you begin the new year, you may be feeling limited and frustrated because you’re only...



















