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Over the past few years, Google has made a lot of changes that can be challenging for modern marketers and SEO experts to keep up with. Recently, Google started indexing according to mobile search results, cracked down on intrusive pop-up ads, and removed right-side ads. What do all of theseContinue Reading

In today’s technology-driven world, executives and marketers can no longer afford to be satisfied with gut feelings and guessing. You need granular, relevant, enriching data to measure and surface the impact your programs and campaigns have on the business (and impress your boss). At the same time, anyone who’s everContinue Reading

No project is an unmitigated success or failure. Even when it seems like a project couldn’t have possibly gone better (or worse), there are always lessons to be learned. Thus, the project post-mortem. The project post-mortem shouldn’t be seen as an investigation. It’s an inquiry to uncover all the lessonsContinue Reading

Have any of your recent decisions flopped? I’ve had a few flop of my own, and just when I thought I might have to throw in the towel, I learned the truth about failure and am now more passionate than ever about helping people prosper, even in spite of setbacks. ItContinue Reading

When I first got into digital marketing as a career change a few years back (I had previously worked as a financial advisor and had a brief stint starting a study-abroad program for a Chinese government contracted company) I thought the term ‘growth driven design’ was a bit haughty. ItContinue Reading

When you’re new to marketing, especially on a small team, you might have to do a lot of things at a moment’s notice. And when it comes to things like blogging and social media, sure, you’ve got this. But soon enough, you’re being pulled onto design projects. One day you’re mockingContinue Reading

Growth Hacking is a popular marketing buzzword, but does anyone really know what it means? Neil Patel does a pretty good job explaining the concept and talking about its origin, saying that a growth marketer is someone who uses “analytics, inexpensive, creative and innovative ways to exponentially grow their company’sContinue Reading

If you work in a creative profession, you’ve probably been approached at one point or another by someone who wants you to work for free. They might offer some form of intangible benefit in return, like exposure or new contacts, but do these potential perks actually outweigh the negative aspectsContinue Reading

As the Chinese New Year rolls around again, the grown ups start filling up red envelopes with token amounts of cash as gifts to younger ones in the family. Much like any other holiday season (ahem, Christmas), the Lunar New Year is a season of gifting and showing appreciation. BesidesContinue Reading

Any fan of 90s pop culture will remember the show “Clarissa Explains It All,” a series about a precocious adolescent whose adventures most of us could only dream about. In one episode, Clarissa was required to write a poem for school, but lacked the skills or motivation to carry itContinue Reading

What was your most embarrassing office etiquette moment? For me, it was when I started to watch a hilarious video of a sheep screaming like a human and quickly realized my headphones weren’t plugged in. I frantically scrambled for the mute button on my keyboard while my distracted coworkers laughedContinue Reading

Facebook Ads are going to drive more leads for your business in 2017 than any other paid channel. You’ll need to have the right strategy and execute with agility and precision, but right now there is a massive Facebook opportunity for inbound marketers. An opportunity that if you take advantageContinue Reading

Finding stylish fonts for your design projects can be a major time sink — especially when you have to wade through seemingly endless pages of typefaces that don’t suit the vision you have in your head. Finding a free font can be even more of a hassle. So what’s aContinue Reading