Wearing Soft Pants is a song dedicated to the goodness that came from the pandemic in the form of more remote work and less commuting.

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Rebecca Lieb is an analyst at Altimeter Group where she covers content marketing, content strategy, and digital advertising and media — areas that encompass brands, publishers, agencies, and technology vendors. Lieb is known for her contribution to in-depth research on today's most difficult digital marketing issues; including mobile usability and content governance. She shared her insight into the importance of allowing for change in marketing strategy. "To market effective

Eric Enge is the founder of Stone Temple Consulting and co-author of "The Art of SEO". With 30 years of marketing experience, Enge is best known for his ongoing effort to solve business problems with a combination of research and critical thinking. My book "When Everybody Clicks" cites the importance of trust between brand and vendor as a path to sustainable digital marketing. Enge shares the importance of aligning expectations and the benchmarks of long-term digital market

Lisa Buyer is the owner and founder of The Buyer Group and author of "Social PR Secrets". Her business focus is helping clients build an audience and measure results of that engagement. Not surprisingly, her experience as a practitioner of Yoga impacts her viewpoints on how to be a balanced marketer and build sustainable digital marketing relationships. -What is the number one cause of failure in digital marketing relationships between agencies and brands? Inconsistent comm

When Everybody Clicks, like "Herry Maguire" for MarTech.

I’m a woman working in digital marketing — an industry traditionally known for its exotic beer drinking and Ping-Pong playing maleness. Just a few years ago, women only represented 30 percent of the online marketing workforce according to a Moz study . While we think that number has ticked up in recent years, the lack of femininity among digital teams across the country is still noticeable. Why? In its infancy, digital marketing meant search engine optimization (SEO) — the f

Michael King is a digital marketing leader and marketing technologist. He leads an agency, iPullRank , which specializes in Content Strategy, Audience Research, Social Media, SEO and Marketing Automation. His edge as a marketer comes from his ability to take a difficult marketing topic, dive deep in to the research and emerge with a solution that's part marketing and part technology. My book " When Everybody Clicks " cites the importance of relationship building as a path t

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Mark Pagel, evolutionary biologist and TED speaker shares, "As we spread out around the world we developed thousands of different...

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This lesson came less from the interview questions and more from the great stories and positive results those stories generated. Google's...

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