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Visual Impact – The Rights and Wrongs of Images In Marketing

One of my all-time favorite jokes is about babies… “How many babies does it take to screw in a lightbulb?” “None – they neither have the cognitive or motor skills to perform such a task!”   You could imagine a baby holding a lightbulb and trying to insert it into a lamp or socket. But…

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Seconds… Chance Interactions – [Best Of]

If you manage your own or other business websites, I imagine you are using Google Analytics or another data manager to explore the traffic to your website. The beauty of using Google Analytics is that you have a baseline to judge your traffic against other similar websites. I know this because I manage over 100…

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The PATH to Profits

I looked at the number of blogs I have on my website, and it's 411 posts. That's 7.9 years' worth of weekly posts. At one point, there was more. I started blogging in 2006. That's almost 18 years of content. I cleaned out everything earlier than 1/1/2017 since I felt it was less relevant to…

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Steve Jobs vs Artificial Intelligence

I have always been entertained and enamored by magic tricks. When people see one performed, they usually have one of two reactions: amazement or curiosity. The amazement is, “How did they do that?” and the curiosity is, “How did they do that?” Some people will look forward to the next one, while others are distracted…

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The “Known Knowns”, “Known Unknowns”, and “Unknown Unknowns” of Marketing

Growing up in New York, Yogi Bera was one of my favorite characters. He was a good player but even more of a philosopher (well, sort of). Some of his most famous “Deep Yogi Thoughts” include: “It ain't over 'til it's over.” “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” “It's like…

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BACON – Chapter 10: The Connection Conundrum!

What Matters? If you have been involved in online marketing in any way over the last 10+ years, you have been fed a steady diet of more. More followers equals more sales. More hits to your website equals more sales. More social media engagement leads to more sales. Almost nobody would argue that more sales…

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