People Don’t Buy Products, They Buy Better Versions of Themselves

The year was 1957, and Pepsi — like many of the youth at that time — was dealing with an identity crisis. Despite efforts from marketers, Pepsi was being outsold by its biggest competitor and perpetual market leader — Coke — by a factor just shy of six to one…

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Digital Marketing Made Simple: A Step-by-Step Guide

The 2 main pillars of digital marketing are online marketing and offline marketing. That said, since I’ll talk about online marketing in a separate guide, I’ll only mention the different areas of online marketing here, for the sake of completeness.  

The 7 big categories of online marketing are:

  1. Search engine optimization (SEO)
  2. Search engine marketing (SEM)
  3. Content marketing
  4. Social Media Marketing (SMM)
  5. Pay-per-click advertising (PPC)
  6. Affiliate marketing
  7. Email marketing

Unbounce created a great infographic that sums up all kinds of online marketing in one neat chart.

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How to Tell People What You Do in 3 Easy Steps

In the film industry, that’s called a one-liner, and it’s a way to quickly, clearly explain the driving force behind the movie. If people can’t understand what it’s about, they won’t go see it.  Your business needs a one-liner, too.

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How Twitter Made The Tech World’s Most Unlikely Comeback

Twitter’s unlikely resurgence can be attributed to four major factors: Its acceptance it would never be Facebook, leading to a decision to focus on news as Facebook pulled back.

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Phone Skills For Flawless Sales and Support Conversations

Sales and support reps that possess the necessary soft skills still need tools to realize their full potential. Understanding what’s possible (plus learning the techniques) will lead to more won deals and 5-star reviews.  Here are the phone skills to master for sales and support.

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The Greatest Sales Deck I’ve Ever Seen

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Don’t kick off a sales presentation by talking about your product, your headquarters locations, your investors, your clients, or anything about yourself.  Instead, name the undeniable shift in the world that creates both (a) big stakes and (b) huge urgency for your prospect.

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A Tour of The Top 10 Algorithms for Machine Learning Newbies

In machine learning, there’s something called the “No Free Lunch” theorem. In a nutshell, it states that no one algorithm works best for every problem, and it’s especially relevant for supervised learning (i.e. predictive modeling).

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20 Secrets That’ll Boost Your Facebook Organic Reach

Social media has matched, and in some cases, surpassed search engines as a means to reach a large and relevant audience.

Parse.ly found that 46% of their referral traffic comes from social media. Facebook alone accounts for 41.2% of that traffic.

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Who Is Going To Make Money In AI?

As I started thinking about who was going to make money in AI I ended up with seven questions. Who will make money across the (1) chip makers, (2) platform and infrastructure providers, (3) enabling models and algorithm providers, (4) enterprise solution providers, (5) industry vertical solution providers, (6) corporate users of AI and (7) nations?

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