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Author: Kris Skavish

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Two Octobers Becomes Majority-Woman-Owned

Last month, Two Octobers made a big and little change. After 10 1/2 years of being a 50/50 partnership, co-founder Nico Brooks and I decided to tip the scales towards female ownership, and I became the majority owner. Is this a symbolic change? Is it a meaningful change? Yes, it’s both. First, the fact that

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The $10,000 Gem Hiding in Your Google Analytics

I promise you there is a gem hiding inside your Google Analytics that will have a real impact on your business. It might be a piece of data whose impact can be felt beyond the website and into the core of your business. It may be something that could drive more visitors to purchase, uncover

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Attract & Qualify Customers with Google My Business Q&A

One of the most underutilized tools on a Google Business Profile (formerly Google My Business) is the Q&A section. For all the time marketers put into choosing the right Google Business category and crafting the perfect, not-too-keyword-heavy description, the Q&A gets left behind. All too often, users browsing local business listings on Google see this:

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Data, Data Everywhere–But How to Stop and Think?

The world gathers data at an alarming rate – 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day. We’ve become extremely proficient at collecting data – be it from enterprise systems, documents, social media, or email and collaboration services. Our challenge as marketers is how to use that data well.

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5 Tools to Run a People-Centric Agency

As a veteran of several software startups, I’ve been involved in my share of attempts to write mission statements and extol the companies’ differentiators in marketing collateral. I wistfully read articles describing forward-thinking companies in which HR, company positioning, and actual day-to-day management were in concordance with each other. But then I had to go

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