I’ll admit: It wasn’t until I received a company email signed off with “ad maiora” that I paid attention to email footers.

Like most job seekers, I’ve had to answer the dreaded salary expectation question over email.

Healthcare businesses use AI and automation to provide a better experience for their customers, patients, and care providers.

In 2023, I decided to run a half marathon. As any long-distance runner would do, I found a training plan and set out to crush some practice miles.

Last year, I received an email from my “bank” alerting me to suspicious activity on my account. The layout and logo matched other official communications I had received from the bank, and I was naturally alarmed.

I don’t easily fall for ads or grab products because of marketing tricks. Okay, okay…unless it’s a suitable luxury brand marketing strategy like a catchy video.
In that case, I transform from someone who ignores ads to someone who needs that head-turning perfume as soon as possible.

Creating business listings on directory websites is an easy way to improve your local SEO.

AI project management tools simplify decision-making, keep projects rolling, and streamline communications. Pick the right project management tool, and you could save hundreds — even thousands — per year.

While most people are trying to stick to their New Year's resolutions, marketers like myself are strategizing how to set their organizations up for success in 2024.

The finance industry lends itself well to AI. The industry manages much data, customer service, and daily trend analysis.

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Here’s a confession: If someone asked me how I was able to land two of the most exciting full-time marketing roles in my career, my first instinct would have been to say that I was just “lucky.”

Born in the digital age, “Inbound Marketing” is nearing its 20th birthday. HubSpot Co-founder Brian Halligan coined the term in 2005 because the internet has forever changed buyers’ journeys.

An avalanche of both booked and patient walk-ins is the dream of dental practitioners. But let’s be honest — getting these patients requires hard work because the dental industry is fiercely competitive.

If you’re on the lookout to enhance your business blog with an email newsletter, using a WordPress email plugin is indispensable. These plugins not only simplify content distribution but also offer insights into your target audience’s preferences, enabling you to optimize your content strategy effectively.

Excel is a powerful spreadsheet program from Microsoft that makes it easy to work with numbers and other values.

I believe that reading sample business plans is essential when writing your own.

2024 is here, and I want to look back on some of the previous year‘s short-form videos with the creatives behind The Hustle’s YouTube team. Why, you may ask? Short-form videos will remain key to many marketing campaigns this year.

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LinkedIn is an incredibly powerful platform for growing both recognition and revenue as a B2B business, especially considering that audiences exposed to brand messages on LinkedIn are 6X more likely to convert.

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If you’re like millions of other users, you use Excel spreadsheets to plan your budgets, track sales or expenses, and organize all sorts of data. You may even use Excel to work with private or confidential information.

Your company’s competitive advantage lives or dies by its value proposition. If you can’t clearly distinguish your product or service from your competitors — and then deliver on your brand promise — why should customers choose you?

If you’re a marketer, you cannot ignore meme culture.

Excel can do more than just simple math. That's thanks to its bevy of built-in functions and min-formulas that simplify the creation of more complex formulas.

I’m fortunate to live in a city that has a thriving restaurant scene (it’s most known for its barbecue and Tex-Mex, if that gives you any hint). And while I don’t consider myself a food connoisseur by any means, I was a food journalist in a past life, so I continue to stay on top of the latest stories and trends surrounding the restaurant industry.

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Few apps cycle through trends as quickly as TikTok. I spend endless hours scrolling through the app, and it feels like every other day, a new trending sound, topic, song, or challenge is going viral.

As a marketer and content creator who makes content ranging from podcasts to blogs to videos, I‘m often fielding questions about what content creation is and why it’s so integral to marketing.

Content creation is what happens behind the scenes. It‘s how Google can offer the perfect answer to your problem with a link to a blog or website. It’s the videos you watch on YouTube after a tough day.
It‘s why you may find yourself scrolling through TikTok for hours a day. Don’t worry, I'm not judging you. I do it too.

“Google is getting worse” is almost a meme at this point. Go into any forum or subreddit that mentions search results, and you’ll find someone complaining that SEO has ruined Google Search.

I don’t know about you, but my email inbox is flooded with a barrage of automated emails. It does little else besides give me another task for my morning commute — namely, marking them all as unread without reading or unsubscribing altogether.

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Ah, quarter one. It's a time when many of us reflect on the last year, make new bets, and refresh our playbooks. If the fourth quarter is about finishing strong, then the first quarter is about starting smart.

As Jerry Maguire once said — “Show me the money.”

When I started my content creation journey, one of my friends said over brunch, "Erica is officially in her influencer era." I love it when my friends inflate my ego, so I let the comment slide and raised a glass to celebrate my first YouTube video.