Dear Content Marketers: Find Your Niche as Fast as You Can

Content Marketers Niche

If you work agency-side on the marketing industry, it’s likely that you’ve heard the name Jay Baer. Over the past few years, Jay has does a nice job in positioning himself as a content marketer who knows the ad agency world.  He’s dazzled audiences of thousands at marketing industry conferences and events, and made his ideas tangible by giving them …

23 New Marketing Books to Keep Your Nose Pointed (Plus 1 More)

new-marketing-books

Photo by fmgbain  A few weeks ago Aleksey Kernes tweeted me to ask about what new marketing books I recommend as good reading. A good question deserves a good answer. Here’s a list of some new marketing book titles that I believe have the potential to keep your nose pointed down towards the table for long periods of time. Fair …

How To Use Buffer to Manage Twitter for Business

Twitter for Business -- How To Use Buffer

A few times each year, I take a long hard look at the tools I use to manage my presence and do some Spring cleaning. Part of my role at The Karcher Group is presence building online and brand evangelism, and that means dedicating a decent amount of time each day to both creating my …

5 Social Media Measurement Tools for Building More Effective Marketing Channels

Social Media Measurement Tools -- Peter Drucker

It’s debatable as to whether or not Peter Drucker actually originated the statement: “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” But, no matter who’s responsible for the famous quote, one fact remains – it’s a true statement. If you read yesterday’s post on putting the cart before the horse in generating ROI from social media, you are …

The Cart and Horse of Social Media ROI

Social Media ROI -- Horse and Cart

For some reason, it seems that a good deal of brand marketers expect their promotions on underdeveloped social media channels to drive immediate ROI. Unfortunately, that mindset seems to me like putting the cart before the horse. Why Television is a Wagon Full of Hay Most C-Level executives would probably agree that dollars invested in buying ad …