Modern sales and marketing have brought us the concept of attribution – the process of answering “what activities are the best at bringing us sales?” We ask because we have a problem: a limited amount of funds to spend acquiring customers. By tracking the path from prospect to customer can we get enough data to […]
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For our one-year anniversary, we contemplated many ways to celebrate. Cake. Self-indulgent blog posts filled with navel gazing. Office party. All the things companies normally do to celebrate a milestone. The catch is, of course, that these things matter to no one except the people who work at the company. So instead, we made useful […]
One of the perennial questions asked by social media marketers is, how much do hashtags matter? Should we use them? How many? After all, we’ve all see Instagram posts that are #unreadable #because #of #how #many #hashtags #are #crammed #into #the #post. Is this effective? The first question we have to ask is, what’s the […]
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We’re asked: What do you see as the top data challenges facing marketers in the next couple of years? Let’s start with “prediction” because marketers love predictions. In late 2018 and early 2019, marketers are all about the new trends for the year. However, because the rate of technological change is continually accelerating that a […]
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In this audio recording from the MinneAnalytics MinneFRAMA finance conference, listen as Trust Insights co-founder delivers a technical talk on the applications of AI for marketing. Watch the talk here. Listen to the audio here: Download the MP3 audio here. Machine-Generated Transcript What follows is an AI-generated transcript. The transcript may contain errors and is […]
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YouTube is a search engine The thing a lot of marketers get wrong about YouTube is thinking that it’s only a video sharing platform, or even that it’s a social media platform. It’s not. YouTube is a search engine. Many people search YouTube for “how do I?” and if you are in a business where […]
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Let me throw a number at you: 91,571,368. As of last count on December 20, 2018, that was the number of news articles from credible sources (as judged by Google News) published in 2018. 91,571,368. That is an enormous amount of content. To put it in context, that’s more than: a quarter million news stories […]
How do you do a proper social media audit? There are a lot of steps to a properly done, well constructed social media audit. However, the function of a social media audit is simple. The purpose is to find out what’s working with your social media programs so you can continually improve. The components of […]
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As part of the “Win with AI” summit I attended recently, we want to talk about creating an AI strategy. How do you how do you put together a strategy for introducing artificial intelligence? Full disclosure, I have an IBM champion and my company Trust Insights is a registered IBM Business Partner. Any purchases you make […]
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Should marketers focus on developing left brain or right brain skills? Should they focus on analytics or creativity? Neither are focus areas. Typically, you can’t be one or the other exclusively. Most people are a combination of both. These are the attributes and characteristics of the person rather than the skills they have developed. Some […]
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