https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEYz39Jdy-0 In this video we cover how you can use test driven development to see if your copy actually works before you go through all the trouble of building out a webpage. CXL blog post mentioned in the video https://cxl.com/blog/is-my-copywriting-any-good/ Hannah's blog post on Test Driven Development https://musingsofamarketeer.com/2019/11/25/test-driven-development-in-agile-marketing/
3 Tale-Tell Signs Your Marketing Needs a Makeover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK5nhT-IQfk After a year of working with partners around the world, I've noticed a few dead giveaways that a company needs to revisit their marketing.
3 Things to Consider for Your Marketing Career
Navigating your marketing career confidently is critical to any marketers success. Here are three things you need to consider to make the most informed decisions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D20Ku-DmifE
Why Marketing Fails
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guxtt3eMYcM In this video I answer the question, "why does marketing fail?" It simple really. We don't know the product, customer or market. So get out of the office and go to where the work is actually being done. You'll be surprised how fast your marketing efforts turn around.
Tale of Three Posts
Social media engagement is hard. First of all, how do you get people to engage? Secondly, how do you know if it worked? Today I want to review three recent LinkedIn posts on my personal account. What types of posts performed best? What does “performed best” even mean? The first post promoted a blog article... Continue Reading →
Sizing Agile Marketing Stories: Don’t Go It Alone
Story sizing. I just felt the collective grown from the mere mention. In Agile, we’re expected to understand the size of work before we do it. Then we give work, or “stories”, a size relative to other work we need to do. It seems pretty straight forward right? [insert moan] SIDEBAR: Is it just me... Continue Reading →
How to NOT engage using email: Lessons from the VA
I hate it when people say a joke, no one laughs, then say it a second time assuming no one heard it. We heard you. We just don’t care about what you said. That’s the behavior Veterans Affairs (VA) is taking with their email strategy. This is the definition of marketing by committee. I don’t... Continue Reading →
Why Video is the New Sales Slick
I've spent a lot of time researching video marketing in preparation for my next marketing plan. There is a wealth of information on the trends and stats surrounding video marketing. Ultimately I've decided, after all this research, that video is replacing the classic one-page sales slick as the go-to-source for B2B marketers to decimate information... Continue Reading →
Portfolio Feature: zColo Magazine – Spring 2017 Edition
I have been MIA for a while now. This is mostly due to my deep involvement in producing the 2nd zColo Magazine for work. This has been a labor of love - as well as surely taking years off my life. I invite you to peruse the magazine's online version. Feel free to leave me... Continue Reading →