I recently read an amazing book for business owners by John Warrillow. The book is titled Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You, and it covers seventeen tips in total. However, I only want to share eight of these tips with you because I felt that they were better suited for entertainment business professionals. Here they are:
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Janice (Ginny) Redish is an outstanding author and consultant that specializes in website user experiences and web writing. I highly recommend her book titled “Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content that Works.” In the book, one of the topics she covers is about focusing on conversations and key messages.
She recommended these six guidelines. They’ll help you get better response rates and interactions with your website and social media page visitors (more comments, etc). These tips will also make your most important messages crystal clear:
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Have you ever wondered what your peers are reading to get all their great ideas?
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Sometimes all you need is a bit of inspiration. Inspiration articulated in a manner that makes you pause for a second, think about what you just read or heard, and apply that advice to your life in that moment. Here are three such quotes that I hope will inspire you to be more proactive this week:
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I’m not much of a hard copy book reader, but I’ve had this amazing book called the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People sitting on my shelf for too long. So I decided to skim through it the other day. What I saw was knowledge worth a fortune.
Amongst the gems shared by Stephen Covey, was a 5 step checklist for creating an action plan.
Here it is:
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If you’ve ever spent time in Los Angeles, you’ll notice that most people drive in L.A. They take driving seriously. And can you blame them? They have the best street signs, roads and freeways I’ve ever seen. But as a marketer, maybe I’m a bit biased and I appreciate driving in L.A. more than most. Here’s why:
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In 2017, it’s no secret that Twitter is now considered “played out,” especially with the emergence of social media platforms like Snapchat, Instagram, and Periscope. It’s just not as “sexy” as it used to be, especially amongst millennials. That’s why it may be time for a new twitter.
Case in point: Mastodon. This open-source, decentralized Twitter clone grew so fast over the last week that their main server had to shut down its doors for new users. It was started by 24-year-old Eugen Rochko and allows users to create accounts, follow others, and post status updates called “toots.”
But before you sign up for Mastodon, here are some pros and cons you should know about it:
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Email subscribers need to be wowed as soon as they see your subject line. Then they have to be intrigued enough to click through to your website, event, portfolio, etc. So when I spotted this infographic about 2017’s biggest email design trends, I couldn’t help it, I had to take a peek.
After vetting through the list for you, here are three design tactics worth trying out:
# 1 — Keyframe animation
Keyframe animations are similar to GIFs but they’re very different at the same time. They’re not as choppy as GIFs. Instead, keyframe animations are smoother and the change in the series of frames that allow for the animation are less obvious. You should Google some live examples after you get done reading this blog post 🙂
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So apparently, Google Play turned five years old yesterday. Today, they’re active in 96.9% of countries worldwide (there are 196 countries in the world) and have more than one billion active users (that’s 14% of the global population)! They’re killing it.
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No one wants to support marketing activities that are losing their company money. But if you track the right marketing kpi’s and align your marketing initiatives to enable sales growth, your company will be able to make smart adjustments to strategies and budgets.
All entertainment companies should be tracking sales revenue from marketing and inbound marketing ROI in 2017. And if you’re not already doing this, shame on you. Here are 2 marketing formulas you should be using in 2017: