The following is a guest post by Nadav Shoval. Nadav Shoval is the CEO & Co-Founder of Spot.IM, an on-site community that brings the power back to the publisher. Prior to Spot.IM, Nadav has developed and founded 4 technology startups. Spot.IM is his fifth venture. Nadav is a technology erudite and a sports addict. Depending on your industry, a high bounce…
Is there a difference between marketing and sales? Of course, there is… Some of you might say the difference is obvious, and some might say there is not so much of a difference. But the truth is while the two go hand in hand it is dangerous not to see the difference – and the connections. Sometimes we get the…
Sometimes I am shocked by how many wrong perceptions and misunderstandings of Twitter are presented as professional advice from so-called social media experts. Maybe it is because I myself am a heavy Twitter user and our social media success started with finding out how Twitter can be used for marketing a young company that I am so often thinking „what…
Delegating social media tasks within your team is far more complicated than you would think. Why? You will see in a few minutes. But first, I need to start with a personal story. I studied mathematics and computer science. While studying I used to work for a professor doing a variety of tasks. I handled several programming jobs, managed some…
Sometimes very cool marketing can make a bad product shine. But that’s not how it goes usually. And it shouldn’t be this way. Think about it: Do you want your product to shine because your marketing convinces people to buy it? Or do you want people to buy your product because you have a great product that solves a problem…
Working on marketing with young companies and founders can be very rewarding – and very depressing. Rewarding because there is so much these entrepreneurs can achieve with just a little hard work and some brains. Depressing, because there are the few that do not seem to want success and find so many lame explanations why marketing is not what they…
The following is a guest post by Nick Churick. Nick is a copywriter as well as an experienced Content & Social Media marketer. After several years of working for different companies, he is finally on his own way to success. Let’s wish him luck! You can always drop him a message on Twitter @NickChurick. Did you know that each and…
How much time are you spending on your headline or subject line? Often once a text (blog post, email, etc.) is finished, we quickly write a few words that come to mind. And that’s it. Does it surprise you that PR people often spend at least as much time on the headline of a messaging document as on the document…
One of the most frequent questions as a blogger is: What am I going to write about today? What story can I tell? And sometimes when you have an idea for a post, you think: That is the same type of story I told the last couple of posts. There must be other types of stories I can use. What blog…
The Following is a guest post by Oren Ezra (Twitter: @Oren_Ezra). Oren Ezra is the VP of Marketing for Pepperi, the fastest-growing provider of sales apps for manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers. In today’s world, there are few things we can’t learn to do using the power of social media. We have the power to persuade, engage, inform, and especially communicate. While we’ve…