Puffery -- The 'Magic' Dragging Down Your Content Effectiveness
Puffery may be behind your magic slogan, but tricking your audience is a recipe for failure. And while being a fan of yourself may be great, too…
Why Does a Website Cost So Much?
“You paid how much? My neighbour’s kid could have built you a website for just a couple of hundred bucks.” That’s the thing about building digital…
Beyond Disabilities: The Business Opportunities of Web Accessibility
If you could do something that would, almost immediately, expose your content, products, and/or services to more people, make it easier for people to…
A Halloween Primer on How to Avoid Resurrecting the Ghosts of Social Media Nightmares Past
It's Halloween. A night when all manner of creatures crawl in search of blood to terrorize your neighbourhood. It's a night when ghouls and ghosts…
Understanding Fandom the First Step in Cultivating Fans
To reach your goals, you need to have fans. But to get fans, you need to understand the nature and causes of fandom. The NHL season kicked off…
Everything Old is Marketed as New Again
Music, fashion, fad diets – and marketing strategies -- they all come around over and over again. With students returning to school this week, it's…
Faking Twitter? Like Eating a Bad Burrito Nothing Good Ever Comes from It
Are you thinking of acting like Chipotle’s social team? Then you run the risk of unwrapping a whole lot of trouble for your business. After all…
Intranet Benefits? How About a 25 Per Cent Productivity Boost and Engaged Employees?
It would seem intuitive that the more people talk, the more information gets shared, and the more involved your employees would feel, right? A well…
Sharing Knowledge Helps Us Find the Answers
A few of us over the years on this blog have pulled out the old “a rising tide lifts all boats” adage. There’s a reason why axioms like this exist --…