We Analyzed a Year’s Worth of Content so You don’t have to

For most marketing teams, inbound is no longer a foreign term – three out four marketers around the world now prioritize an inbound approach. The key to making this strategy work for your brand? Focus on earning your consumer’s attention via engaging content rather than buying it. For marketers, this means you’ve got to become storytellers, offering high-value, low-branded content to enhance a consumer’s online experience while also staying in

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How Brands and Multicultural Influencers Join Forces

In 2015, Tomoson, a software to manage and match influencers with brands, surveyed 125 marketers and produced metrics on topics like how much revenue influencer marketing can generate. According to the survey, 59% of those marketers believe in influencer marketing so much that they were planning to increase their ad budgets for it within the next 12 months. “Brands are looking to top social media influencers as the new publishers

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Top tips: Using Life Events in Marketing Campaigns

What does the perfect marketing campaign look like? In general terms, I would probably define it as exactly the right content delivered to the right person, through the right channel, at the moment that they are most interested in making a purchase. Thanks to advances in data science we’re getting closer than ever before to having the right information available to ensure that campaigns only reach the right people with

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Kobe Bryant scores 60 points in final NBA game

Lakers legend ends 20-year career on winning note vs. Jazz Kobe Bryant went out with a Hollywood ending to his remarkable career. Bryant scored 60 points in his final game Wednesday night, wrapping up 20 years in the NBA with an unbelievable offensive showcase in the Los Angeles Lakers’ 101-96 victory over the visiting Utah Jazz. He scored 23 points in the fourth quarter, posting his first 50-point game since

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Hyperlocal Social Marketing And What It Means For Brands

First, companies wanted to gain global appeal. Then, they realized that their audience wanted a personal relationship with the brands that they used, which meant reaching those customers and prospects on a more localized level. Combined with the growing trend for reliance on mobile to research, find, engage and buy brands, hyperlocal social marketing has emerged as a growing strategy for large brands to reach and connect with their audiences.

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Top 7 Marketing Tools to Promote Your Non-Profit Event

Putting together a non-profit event takes a lot of work, and often, there isn’t a lot of money to work with. This means that you have to come up with ways to make these events successful, without having to spend much. One of the most expensive aspects of any event is marketing, but there are tools you can use to make it a lot easier, and a lot cheaper. Here

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Canadian 2016 Rio Olympic, Paralympic team uniforms revealed

Dsquared2-designed outfits for Summer Games stick with tradition. Canada’s Olympic and Paralympic athletes will be in classic form as they suit up for Rio, sporting traditional styles steeped in the country’s colours and showcasing iconic national symbols. The latest designs from official outfitter Hudson’s Bay Co. were unveiled live Tuesday night in a dedicated stream on Team Canada’s Facebook page. In a move that’s being billed as a first, viewers

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Tech workers looking to make a difference in the world should donate their skills

In 2011, the Chelsea soccer club had one of the best goalkeepers in the world, Petr Čech, but he’d been plagued by injuries. They needed to develop an eventual replacement for the 29-year old Czech, but wanted to keep him as starting goalie for a few more years, so they signed 19-year-old Thibaut Courtois from Belgium, and immediately loaned him out to Atlético Madrid. That may sound strange to American

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For Something Simple, Minimal Design Sure Is Complicated

THERE’S A RUMOR going around about minimal graphic design. “A lot of people say it’s really easy,” says Stuart Tolley, who runs a design studio in Brighton, England, called Transmission. “A lot of people say you just rely on Helvetica, or white space. And I completely disagree.” Perhaps you know, or are, one of these people who feels fatigued by how trendy it’s become for companies to use stripped down design

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Google Built An App That Critiques Other Apps

Snapchat. Facebook. Netflix. Spotify. Kik. Which app best accommodates disabilities? Google’s new Accessibility Scanner tells us. If you haven’t heard the term “inclusive design” yet, you will soon. It’s a simple idea: By designing to accommodate people with disabilities, we can make products that are better for everyone. Just look at the typewriter, originally invented to help a blind person write letters. The idea is old, but the movement is

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