“We’ll get to those ideas post launch” I’ve been seeing a pattern of misuse of the phrase “Improving UX” as a PowerPoint buzzword to justify unecessary, budget-draining reboots of decent websites. It is my hypothesis that this happens because teams or leadership need to ‘scratch an internal itch” for a new website. New websites give…
The true cost of remaining anonymous, then, might be irrelevance – Eric Schmidt – Former Google CEO The search industry is all abuzz about the concepts around authorship markup (see postscript) and its effect on search results and content marketing. Authorship markup, introduced in 2011 and has been getting regular improvements since. Mostly applied to blog and news…
Content marketing is the new SEO. It is centered on irresistible content and amplified by social media. It includes blog posts, articles, white papers, videos, podcasts, and infographics. 87% of marketers use social media to distribute the content. Search engines use hundreds of signals to decide who ranks for a given query. The most important…
If you’re at all concerned about your personal or business brand, you should consider the issues that the new Facebook Custom Usernames/URLs have brought to the surface. I have run through these from an ORM (Online Reputation Management) perspective and asked a few important questions.
It’s easy to get comfortable with one’s branding and marketing plans. Slide decks presented at the sales meeting look great. Branding exercises give the executives a warm-fuzzy. Advertising and PR schedules are polished to a shine. But all it takes is one small leak, possibly in the form of two bored employees with a flip…
Lighting Store in the Dark About True Cost of Arcane Policies I recently went to get my hair cut at one of the most Mayberry-like barber shops you’ve ever seen. It’s the Facebook of the 1950s, stuck in time, the chairs are original. The smiles are authentic. Conversations filled the air. It was a pretty…