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It Pays to Globalize: Why Marketers Must Embrace Localization
Driving demand, engagement and loyalty with customers around the world is more complex than ever. One thing is simple: speaking a customer’s language is the most fundamental and effective element of personalized communication. How can marketers overcome language barriers to excel at delivering all the right content, to all their audiences, in all the languages […] Read more »


3 Traps Hindering a Bias for “Right Action” in Marketing
Ancient philosophers have pontificated for centuries over what is considered “right action.”  Modern marketers struggle, too, with how to focus on what is both action-oriented, and the right thing to do from a business-impact standpoint. We can fall into several traps that can make our actions the wrong actions: Trap #1: We work on the […] Read more »


Eyes Wide Open, Wide Awake, Never Close Our Eyes: A Marketer’s Mantra?
Eyes Open. Wide Awake. Never Close Our Eyes. These are all names of popular songs on the hit charts today. But they also remind me of the roused and restless state marketers are in right now, and how they are dealing with the pressures of being a 21st century marketer. I was driving two teens […] Read more »


What You Focus on is What You Get. Really.
We marketers have slowly and unwittingly allowed ourselves to evade greatness. Because of all the market commotion, distractions and disruptions, many of us now tend to do a LOT of things in a mediocre way; we don’t do the super valuable things in the brilliant way we’re capable of, and in the manner our customers […] Read more »


Marketing is Dead?! Hah. Marketing Has Never Been More Alive!
You’d think marketers and those who study them were necrophiliacs, metaphorically speaking, of course. In the last couple of weeks, I’ve seen at least a handful of articles and posts using the title framework of “[BLANK] is dead.” Marketing is dead. The CMO is dead. Digital is dead. PR is dead. SEO is dead. Provocative […] Read more »