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Content Marketing
Digital Me Up: A students blog after two and a half years
It has been two and half years since I, as the Program Director of the Advanced Master’s in Digital Business Strategy, implemented an innovative pedagogy- the Digital Me Up students blog- to teach content marketing to the students of the program. The idea was to ensure that the students learn…
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Web, Internet and the Economy
Overview of GDPR implementation and the advent of ePrivacy in Europe
GDPR may seem a bit heavy at the seams, but ePrivacy might complicate things even further. “You are certainly a little tired of hearing about GDPR,” announced Armand Heslot of the French data privacy watchdog (CNIL), during the opening of his keynote on GDPR at the Paris Data Marketing fair on November 20,…
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digital marketing
Social Media tools: the best tools are your eyes and your brains
In the series of missing social media tools, there’s one more addition: Twitter Counter. I mention here my friend and co-author Hervé Kabla, who on his blog Kablages wrote an article on the recent disappearance of Twitter Counter. Certainly, some of you are wondering what Twitter Counter was. The ‘dead social media tools society’ Twitter Counter…
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digital marketing
Why Your Business Should Move to the Hybrid Cloud
An increasing number of businesses are turning to hybrid cloud computing to solve their data management issues.Cloud computing is an umbrella term for multiple cloud services including cloud storage, backup and hosting while hybrid cloud technology manages processing as well as the relocation of processing across both public and private…
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Marketing & Innovation
Should we replace replace traditional advertising with ethical advertising?
Ethical advertising: does it appeal to you? I recently stumbled upon a press release from an English Adtech company IOTEC [which calls itself an ethical media buying platform] and I could not believe what I saw. It is rare that I set my sights on CP but this one was…
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Content Marketing
B2B Content Marketing in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Will the rise of Artificial Intelligence mean the end of B2B content strategies? B2B Web marketing, and primarily B2B content marketing, is intended to address customers’ “pain-points”. It is by discovering these “pain-points” and offering services and products that solve their customers’ issues that businesses will be able to fulfil…
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social media & social networks
Facebook Page Engagement Is Plummeting And This Is Good News
Facebook page Engagement is, according to the Buffer blog, plummeting. Yet, this is not necessarily bad news. Here is their story: Facebook Marketing Strategy: What We Learned From 43 Million Facebook Posts [Buffer Blog] What a year for Business Pages on Facebook!It sure feels like every time we as marketers…
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Marketing & Innovation
5 Levels of Community Marketing and Why Marketers Still Don’t Get It
Last year, I interviewed Bernard Cova , the author of a founding book on tribal marketing in the 1990s. Here he is again on the radar of marketers who are not afraid of new ideas and should prepare themselves to face the 5 levels of community marketing. I translated and adapted this…
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Marketing & Innovation
Social Selling: learning from worst practices
One can learn from social selling worst practices and God knows there are a few. Is Social Selling utter nonsense? Let’s save time for our readers, the answer is a resounding no’. What is nonsense, however, is the claim, voiced by some ’experts’, that one may just have to sit…
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CRM and CX
Is France World Champion for Sales?
Is France World Champion for Sales? France, world champion of sales? Give me a break… Here is a fun content marketing exercise I thought I’d like to offer my readers as a gift, just before closing this blog for the Summer season. CRM company Pipedrive’s content marketing manager shared this…
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digital marketing
Digital Transformation and Influencer Marketing
Digital Transformation is buzzword de rigueur. It’s also a very important part of today’s strategy for business as explained by Didier Bonnet who revisited his book Leading Digital with us in a recent interview. Today it’s my turn to share an interview I gave for Traackr, the leading influence management platform…
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Marketing & Innovation
A La Carte Internet Means No Internet
A La Carte Internet, does that mean anything to you? Is the free and open Internet a thing of the past? When I asked Benedetta to write a story up about Net neutrality, I was mostly thinking about a potential two-speed Internet. What she discovered when researching the subject was that very…
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