What will the 7th Era of Marketing bring?

I think, the people that are into this methodology can become the new marketers and new content leaders in the organization because quite frankly, this looks much more like a product development methodology than it does a campaign development methodology. If we’re building something of value – a blog, a digital magazine, a community, a Read More …

A Roadmap for Your Value Proposition

The general thinking around developing a value proposition is that we all gather in this room and create a wall of post-it-notes through a brainstorming exercise, and then we (sometimes) iterate through testing our value proposition with customers. I know that may be an oversimplification but in most of my experiences, it is not that Read More …

Transitioning to Experiences

Robert Rose is the author of Experiences: The 7th Era of Marketing and Managing Content Marketing: The Real-World Guide for Creating Passionate Subscribers to Your Brand . Robert is the Strategist in Residence and brand advisor for the Content Marketing Institute, a featured writer, and guest blogger for iMedia Connection, CMSWire and Fierce Content Management. Listen/Download Read More …

Difference between Personal & Personalized

Excerpt from my conversation and tomorrow’s podcast with Robert Rose, author of Experiences: The 7th Era of Marketing. Robert is the Strategist in Residence and brand advisor for the Content Marketing Institute, a featured writer, and guest blogger for iMedia Connection, CMSWire and Fierce Content Management. How do you optimize it, though? Does it rely Read More …

Increase Sales; Understand Motivation

When a customer does not buy we often wonder why. We do not understand why they don’t want to improve or save money.  Most of it, of course, is centered around lack of motivation or having that burning imperative. One of my favorite books on change is  Change Anything: The New Science of Personal Success.  Read More …

A Storyboard Beginning

Storyboards – Vision Boards – Idea Boards – Task Boards – Kanban Boards We have had all sorts of boards since the caveman were painting pictures on cave walls. I have a hard time crediting Leonardo da Vinci, who put his ideas up on a wall and left them there to age like a fine Read More …