The Marketplace Has Never Been This Dynamic, Says Disney CEO

“If you measure it against the present, the present doesn’t stay the present for very long,” says Disney CEO Bob Iger when discussing their Disney+ launch. “In fact, in today’s world that’s changing so much, the marketplace has never been this dynamic, meaning speed of change is...
Posted On 13 Apr 2019
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How IBM is Using AI to Improve Hiring and to Retain and Retrain Employees

“We are the number one destination for Gen Z on Glassdoor,” says IBM CEO Ginni Rometty. “I get 8,000 resumes a day. I don’t make them go hunt for jobs. The AI talks to them and we ask very nicely and get permission, share this with me, share that with me, share this LinkedIn...
Posted On 06 Apr 2019
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All of Our Customers Will Move to the Cloud, Says Oracle CEO

“We have a big existing on-premise user base and I believe all of them will move (to the cloud),” said Oracle CEO Mark Hurd. “In fact, I was with a large group of our users just last night and they’re all going to move on their time frame. We don’t put a time frame on it, but...
Posted On 29 Mar 2019
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Backlinks vs social shares: How to make your content rank for different SEO metrics

A new study by Kaizen has revealed that content that performs well for backlinks does not necessarily perform well for social shares and vice versa. Analyzing over 2300 pieces of finance content, Kaizen has found the best performing pieces of content for URL rating, the number of...
Posted On 27 Mar 2019
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It’s “Game On” for Buffalo Wild Wings New Brand Architecture, Says CMO

“When I think of brand architecture it really gets to the essence of the brand,” says Buffalo Wild Wings CMO Seth Freeman. “The essence of the brand is around this idea of camaraderie and ritual and something that we like to call “game on.” It’s our ability to make sure that when...
Posted On 19 Mar 2019
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Zero Trust Focuses On the Data That’s Key to Your Business

“The fundamental way you look at Zero Trust is it’s an architectural approach to how do you secure your network focused on what’s most important,” says Scott Stevens, SVP, Global  Systems Engineering at Palo Alto Networks. “You focus on the data that’s key to your business. You...
Posted On 14 Mar 2019
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Conversational Marketing Closes the Gap Between B2C and B2B, Says Drift Marketing VP

Conversational marketing is a whole new way of thinking about marketing and sales,says Dave Gerhardt, VP of Marketing at Drift. “We go to our jobs in B2B and none of the tools that we use match how we actually buy as real people,” he says. “That’s the most exciting thing to me...
Posted On 11 Mar 2019
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Yum CEO: Driverless Cars, Robots Making Pizzas, This is All In Our Future

Yum Brands which owns Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut and other restaurant brands are at the forefront of technological innovation. Yum also isn’t afraid to experiment with seemingly outlandish ideas either such as their announcement of the Toyota Tundra Pie Pro which makes pizza on...
Posted On 07 Mar 2019
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How to Offer Free Tools to Drive Email Collection and Leads

You can try a lot of stuff, but what used to work to collect emails doesn’t work as well now, says internet marketing experts Neil Patel & Eric Siu on their Marketing School podcast. What does work effectively they say are free tools. Entrepreneurs can even buy cheap scripts...
Posted On 27 Feb 2019
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Hulu Private Marketplace Gives Programmatic Advertisers Choice and Control

“The invite-only auction, which is I would say our new shiny toy that’s getting wrapped in the PMP, provides us the opportunity for a variable floor price,” says Doug Fleming, Head of AdvancedTV at Hulu. “So now the advertiser pays what they deem appropriate for that specific...
Posted On 21 Feb 2019
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