Marketing that actually works for an artist, ft. Sienna Martz

Art, like business, is nearly impossible to develop a formula for. Unlike business, marketing art often seems like an oxymoron. Like great entrepreneurs, artists focus on vision and manifesting constructive, beautiful things, but frequently struggle to market and sell themselves and their productions. There’s probably nothing more difficult than marketing art effectively. This article profiles […]

How to make content your business’s lifeblood

Strategy tied to clearly defined business goals should govern every business action.  That may come as a no-duh statement, but many of the companies HageyMedia has worked with did not have these clear or aligned when we started the engagement. It sounds easy, yet honing that focus requires difficult choices and a crystal clarity. Businesses […]

What is Performance Content?

In the world of digital marketing, content refers to any text, video, images and audio that delivers information, intellectual property or data that engages the audience with a brand. Specifically, this looks like articles, blog posts, photos, infographics, podcasts, videos and ebooks.  As a subset of digital marketing, which often focuses on content promotion, performance […]

A New Era for Lead Generation

A well-established approach in sales, lead generation refers to the process of identifying and attracting potential customers (“leads”) who have shown interest in a product or service that a business offers. The goal is to capture immediate opportunities and create fast transactions.  Businesses do this through collecting customer information – names, email addresses, or other […]

Zillow Group, content marketing and syndication

Amy Bohutinsky is the 10th the most powerful person in real estate. Zillow Group’s former chief marketing officer and now its chief operating officer, her vision and execution helped catapult the Seattle-based giant to tremendous growth and an anticipated $1 billion in revenue in 2017.

ICNY Wrap

Another Connect down. Brad and the Inman team keep executing, and expanding, the conference into a must-attend event in residential real estate. By all accounts, Hacker Connect — the technologist-focused event, which debuted on Monday — was a success, but left many exhausted who faced a week straight of the endless connecting that Connect stimulates.

Machine learning + the great CRM integration

Customer relationship management platforms are amazingly powerful and increasingly central to everything real estate agents do. That’s why there’s a glut of them in the market — Contactually, Follow Up Boss, Top Producer, Chime, Firepoint, Wise Agent, BoomTown, Commissions Inc. (CINC), Kunversion.

Dispatches from Content Marketing World

More than 3,000 people have converged upon the resurgent rustbelt, gritty city of Cleveland, to dream content marketing dreams at Content Marketing World, the largest convention of its kind in the nation. Those dreams include finding, by some miracle, the magic bullet data that unassailably convinces execs of the long-tail, expensive, time-intensive, difficult-to-prove ROI of creating, distributing and measuring content.

Managing editor of Swanepoel T3 Group’s Trends Report and Power 200

I’m excited to announce that I’m joining the premier residential real estate consulting and strategy firm Swanepoel T3 Group, led by industry luminary Stefan Swanepoel, as managing editor for two of its core annual publications: the Swanepoel Trends Report and the Swanepoel Power 200.