How did a movie like The Shawshank Redemption gross more than US$100 million even though it stank at the box office?
What can you do to develop an evergreen product or service — one that continually generates income years after its launch?
Thanks to The Perennial Seller by Ryan Holiday (he also wrote Growth Hacker Marketing), we now have a framework to build and market everlasting products and services.
Seth Godin is a marketing philosopher and thinker.
He doesn’t provide a step-by-step guide or a detailed road map for action in any of his books. Still they sell like hot cakes (like this, this, and this).
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You’ve followed every strategy in the digital marketing rule book yet sales is not forthcoming.
Designed a high-converting website? Check!
Hit the “buy button” in your consumer’s brain. That’s the goal of every consumer marketer – dead or alive.
However, it isn’t easy to know what goes on inside the brains of your target audiences. Until now…
Gary Vaynerchuk once famously said that “If Content is King, then Context is God.”
Indeed in the world of content and social media marketing, context matters a whole lot. The best content in the world would fail miserably if it is crafted and disseminated without any consideration of the context surrounding it.
Courtesy of Ace of Sales
How do account managers in agencies end up infuriating their clients? What can agencies do to avoid becoming gossip client fodder?
As a long-time marcoms director in my previous incarnation, I get approached quite frequently by advertising and marketing agencies offering all kinds of wares. They include anything from design and advertising agencies, web developers, digital marketers, PR consultancies, workshop and conference organisers to video production houses, gifts suppliers and printers.
Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford reprise their roles in The Force Awakens (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
18 December 2015 is going to be a day to remember. For Star Wars fans around the world, it will be the day when Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens is released in cinemas around the world.
Already touted as the movie event of the year, Star Wars: The Force Awakens is part of an epic space opera film originally created by George Lucas. Directed by J. J. Abrams, the 7th installment in the episodic Star Wars film series will star John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, and the original cast members Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, and Kenny Baker.
QR Codes. They are the greatest thing since sliced bread. After all, they allow you to “gamify” your business in clever and inventive ways right?
Wrong! Well, at least according to “UnMarketer” Scott Stratten.
The ubiquity of social technologies and mobile devices have given rise to an interesting paradox.
We can now pinpoint with deadly accuracy who, where, when, and how consumers behave. Thanks to the assortment of sensing, tracking and predictive technologies, consumers’ every action can be accurately and meticulously mapped.
How do you use content marketing and storytelling to launch a new product or business?
The strategy, according to Internet marketer Jeff Walker’s latest book Launch, lies in creating the right sequences, telling the right stories through content marketing, and incorporating the right mental triggers.