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content marketing The beginner’s guide to email marketing Marketers have a bad reputation. Even though there are some good guys out there, companies like River City Media give a vital profession a bad name. How did River City
events Innovation 2019 keynote summary: it's all about your customers On October 24th, Coherent solutions held its Innovation 2019 event. There was a good mix of highly technical and practical talks. I put together some of the highlights on the
events OKR we there yet? (objectives and key results workshop) Yesterday, I attended an OKR workshop put on by software development leader Kemal Balioglu. The workshop reaffirmed that OKRs are how we should define success with any business venture. I
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events Events | The Business Conversation with guest Brent Stickels First, a special thanks to those who made this event possible: the organizer Garrio Harrison, Brent Stickels, and Don Ball. I recently had the pleasure of listening to The Business
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content marketing Why quality content beats paid ads In 2016 paid search ad spending reached $72.5 billion, and that number only continues to grow. This means there’s more competition for valuable keywords making it more expensive
brand voice Interview with a corporate communications expert: Michael Robison Recently we chatted with Michael Robison CEO of The D5 Group. Michael has over 20 years of business experience, many of which he spent working on entrepreneurial ventures. In the
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content marketing Painful blog posts bring in leads (I am not a Sith) The one thing that Sith Lords and marketers have in common is a love of pain. In fact, every great inbound marketing campaign is built around pain. Why is that?