Here’s Why You Should Be Using a Link Shortener For Your Business

They do more than just reduce a URL’s character count. March 2, 2019 3 min read Disclosure: Our goal is to feature products and services that we think you’ll find interesting and useful. If you purchase them, Entrepreneur may get a small share of the revenue from the sale fromRead More

Weekend Favs March 2

My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you to check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for theRead More

The Real Value of Martech & Automation? The Humanization Potential, According to Liz Cope

Standing before a room of eager-to-learn marketers at B2B Marketing Exchange, Liz Cope, Director of Marketing Technology and Operations at Ingersoll Rand, was an open, honest, vulnerable … human. “This is so embarrassing,” she said, admitting that some fundamental marketing functions were missing the mark at her multi-billion-dollar company. Liz’sRead More

Google, Facebook and Amazon Are the Only Winners in Ecommerce

Rising advertising costs means falling profits for the ecommerce advertisers. March 1, 2019 6 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. I have been a long-time fan of the ecommerce industry. As offline retailers were struggling to compete with online retailers, many large chains went out of business,Read More

Nacho Fries With That? How Taco Bell and Others Make Branded Content We Devour

Branded content can engage your biggest fans, but you’ll have to rethink what storytelling means now. March 1, 2019 5 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Taco Bell recently relaunched its nacho fries with a cosmic bang. In its third faux movie trailer, the fast foodRead More

Digital Marketing News: Google AMP’s ROI Rise, Digital Ad Spend Now Dominant, & New B2B Marketing Studies

Google touts ROI of AMP display ads, adding they perform best on AMP web pagesGoogle released data showing that advertisers who use Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) display ads have higher return on investment (ROI) and click-through-rates (CTR) when used on dedicated AMP pages, including a 12 percent increase over 2018.Read More

The Future (& Present) of Marketing: Collaboration, Technology & Innovation

What do you get when you combine an enterprise CMO and a partner at one of the world’s largest professional services firms? I can’t speak for all scenarios but at B2BMX in Scottsdale this week, it led to an entertaining and insightful conversation, from two different perspectives. Jeanniey Mullen, CMORead More

3 Clever Ways to Identify the Customers Who’ll Generate Your Passive Income

You can’t make money if you can’t find people to sell to. These three tactics will help you zero in on the target markets for your passive income products and services. February 28, 2019 6 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The following excerpt is fromRead More

3 Benefits of Launching a Podcast for Your Business

February 28, 2019 3 min read Disclosure: Our goal is to feature products and services that we think you’ll find interesting and useful. If you purchase them, Entrepreneur may get a small share of the revenue from the sale from our commerce partners. Podcasting was once regarded as a self-indulgentRead More

Sales & Marketing Alignment: Shahid Javed Shares How to Go from Hate to Love in 60 Days

It’s a tale as old as time. The marketing team is hyper-focused on awareness campaigns, events, and driving more leads to fill the funnel. Meanwhile, the sales team is hyper-focused on meeting sales and revenue goals, and nurturing relationships to empty the funnel. These two teams occupy two very differentRead More