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Profile: Deb McAlister-Holland

Deb McAlister-Holland is a Dallas-based marketing consultant who specializes in helping start-up technology companies grow.  Her personal blog addresses the odd places where technology and marketing intersect people's everyday lives.  She can be reached via email at this link and tweets as @debmcalister.

  

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5 Content Marketing Rules (And When to Break Them)

5 Content Marketing Rules (And When to Break Them)

Content Marketing

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Content marketing works.  That simple premise is why more and more marketers are making content marketing a core part of their lead generation strategies. One of the reasons that they... read more

Four Strategies That Drive Revenue While Holding the Line on Marketing Costs

Four Strategies That Drive Revenue While Holding the Line on Marketing Costs

Marketing

I am often asked to speak at conferences, meetings and webinars, and I nearly always enjoy it as an excuse to review ideas and strategies I know well.  Sometimes, though,... read more

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

5 Facebook Timeline Steps Every Brand Should Take Now

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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. It’s been about a month since Facebook implemented the new Timeline layout for business pages.  When Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s new page design was first announced,... read more

Pinning Email to Pinterest for Better Results

Pinning Email to Pinterest for Better Results

Pinterest is the fastest growing social media site, far outstripping other recent entries into the social media sweepstakes.  But Pinterest isn’t for everyone. People either love it or hate it. Forbes blogger David... read more

Predicting Consumer Behavior: What Marketers Need to Know

Predicting Consumer Behavior: What Marketers Need to Know

Consumer Marketing

As marketers, we all want to “build a better mousetrap” — that is, to market a product or service that’s perfectly positioned to entice and encourage customers to buy it. ... read more


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Using Case Studies to Make Your Key Selling Points

Using Case Studies to Make Your Key Selling Points

Content Marketing

Satisfied, happy customers extolling the virtues of a product or service after they’ve tried it and gotten the results they wanted.  It’s the one sales and marketing message that never... read more

Baby Steps Towards Protecting Your Brand’s Online Reputation

Baby Steps Towards Protecting Your Brand’s Online Reputation

It seems like one thing that comes into sharp focus every time there’s a political campaign is just how fast a crisis fueled by Twitter, blog posts, Facebook, YouTube and... read more

5 Minute Guide to Better Email Marketing Results

5 Minute Guide to Better Email Marketing Results

Marketing

If you’re like me, you’re so busy doing your job that you barely have time to get it all done.  So where do you find the time to improve your... read more

Do You See What I See?  On Google, Probably Not

Do You See What I See? On Google, Probably Not

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If you and I use Google to search for the same keyword, do you see what I see?  Probably not.  I’m in Dallas, Texas, so the first thing that Google... read more

7 Things the First Amendment Doesn’t Protect

7 Things the First Amendment Doesn’t Protect

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“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of... read more

Rethinking the Press Release: A Content Marketing & SEO View of a Proven Tool

Rethinking the Press Release: A Content Marketing & SEO View of a Proven Tool

Public Relations

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I wrote my first press release decades ago, on an IBM Selectric typewriter. Back then, press releases were viewed as disposable documents created for one purpose – and only one... read more

Building Your Marketing “Circle of Life”

Building Your Marketing “Circle of Life”

Marketing

Recently, I heard a very smart marketer say that his job wouldn’t be tenable without his “circle of life” – a web of vendors and services he relies on to... read more

Four Signs You Need Marketing Automation

Four Signs You Need Marketing Automation

Marketing

Marketing is a complex process that relies on many systems, people, and resources to function smoothly. If one part of the system breaks down, it creates a bottleneck that slows... read more

A Casket Salesman’s Lessons on Creating Brand Loyalty

A Casket Salesman’s Lessons on Creating Brand Loyalty

Loyalty Marketing

Brand marketers invest billions creating an emotional connection between their brand and prospective or current customers. In fast food, packaged goods, entertainment, fashion, automotive marketing and many other industries, brand... read more

DAM It All: Automating Content Marketing

DAM It All: Automating Content Marketing

Content Marketing

Content marketing – that is drawing prospective customers to your site with well-written, valuable audio, video, text or images – is all about delivering the right message to the right... read more