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Content Governance: Building the team

In part one of this epic tale, we addressed the elephant in the content team room: governance. In this, part two, of the content governance tale, let’s look at building the team that will help ensure the right content, gets to the right channel, at the right time, to meet the needs of its audiences. As… read more >

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Governance for content success

In part one of this epic tale, we addressed the elephant in the content team room: governance. In this, part two, of the content governance tale, let’s look at building a team that will help ensure the right content, gets to the right channel, at the right time, to meet the needs of its audiences…. read more >

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Data: Removing the barriers to get the bigger picture

Doing something over and over again and expecting a different result is EITHER practice or insanity.  The difference is simply in how long you’re willing to wait until things start to change. Similarly, treating all customers the same and simply doing the same things over in the new channels, is equally as unproductive. To successfully meet… read more >

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Is AI (artificial intelligence) a Marketer’s Crystal Ball?

Marketers are spoiled for choice when it comes to the endless array of tools and platforms to choose from to help them better understand prospects and generate leads. First, there was CRM, a must-have for customer records. After its introduction, marketing automation platforms (MAPs) quickly became “the” tool all marketers needed (and arguably, still do)…. read more >

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The Business Transformation Elephant – It’s Not What You Think

This week I’ve spent a lot of time with business process leaders who are chartered with making Business Transformation a reality in their organizations. These individuals are largely C-level executives and vice presidents who work in a number of process improvement and operational excellence roles, as well as lines of business leaders. This dialog occurred… read more >

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PEX Exchange

June 20-21, 2016. Pinehurst, NC, USA. Analyst speaking: Connie Moore Event website: PEX Exchange read more >

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What’s with all the agency reviews?

A flurry of agency reviews has been stealing the headlines over the past few months. Volkswagen, Mondelez, and Coca Cola are among some of the companies who are undergoing reviews of their media agencies and agencies of record. Then there are others – like Best Buy – who are ditching the ‘agency of record’ concept all together…. read more >

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Content Marketing World 2014

September 8-11, 2014, Cleveland, OH, USA. Content Creation Management – Building A New Process For Our Business & Content Marketing Success Content Marketing 201: How to Create a Content Marketing Strategy Mini-Keynote – Experiences: The 7th Era of Marketing & The Rise Of Content Creation Management by Robert Rose read more >

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Service Provider Consolidation in 2014: It’s Happening, So Get Ready

Microsoft has an eye-popping $1.3 billion marketing budget, according to a recent AdAge article, and is now undergoing a strategic review of its agency relationships. The article noted that incumbents that will be vying for this business include Publicis (who in turn recently announced a merger with rival Omnicom), WPP, and Interpublic. One can only… read more >

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A Playbook for Sustainable B2B Social Marketing

We all know the high-profile successes of consumer brands like Audi, Nike, Old Spice, and Pepsi on social media – for awareness and engagement, and increasingly, for driving social commerce. (See the Facebook Studio winners here and Shorty Awards for best use of Twitter here.) The trend to leverage social media for engagement continues as a… read more >

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