Pilar Lazzati, founder of Dalai Group and Mil y Un Consejos, has been involved in the digital marketing industry and the development of internet companies since 2001, when she co-founded Mailcreations Corporation.

Amazon Will Now Come in Spanish Too

A spokeswoman for the Seattle-based online retailer told CNET on Thursday that the website has begun adding Spanish. The change will let the US’ more than 40 million native Spanish speakers and over 10 million bilingual Spanish speakers toggle between English and Spanish on the site. The US is now the second-largest Spanish-speaking country in the world, after Mexico.
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How to Get on Podcasts and Increase your Authority

How to Get on Podcasts

There’s a podcast boom going on right now and you should be wondering why they are so important right now. In this article by Neil Patel you will discover the benefits of getting featured on popular podcasts and how this can help your digital marketing strategy.

How to Get on Podcasts and Increase your Authority

Podcasts, as we know them, have been around since 2004, but they haven’t always been popular. Somewhere along the line, podcasts gained traction. They started to enter the mainstream, and more podcasts popped up.  Now, being featured on a podcast has huge benefits.

It can give you a giant SEO boost. You can get thousands of visitors a day. It also increases your authority. If you’ve been on a podcast people like, you’ll be seen as an expert in your niche.

What do you Need to Get Featured?

When it comes to podcasts, you need a good story with a unique slant. You might think a story is something like Romeo and Juliet. You’ve probably heard that all stories need to have a beginning, middle, and end. At the beginning, the main character is in one situation. He or she experiences conflict and overcomes it. As a result, the character ends up in a different situation.

Podcasts are looking for people who have been successful and built something amazing.  In business, that usually means going from a bootstrapped idea (rags) to a profitable company (riches).

Your story also has to be emotionally engaging. People want to connect emotionally with other people. Emotion plays a big role in marketing, and since getting on a podcast is a form of marketing, emotion is important.

Finding Podcasts

There are several sites that host podcasts, and it’s super easy to search these. The iTunes Store has hundreds of thousands of podcasts. There are podcasts in almost every niche you can imagine.

These are up and coming podcasts, so they’re probably in need of good guests. If you find a podcast in this section, I recommend researching it with a Google search.

Sites like Stitcher and Podbay are also hotspots for podcasts. You can search these sites for podcasts in your niche.  Now, searching for podcasts with general terms like “business” or “technology” will only show insanely popular podcasts. Try a more narrow search term like “food startup.” If you search that on a podcasting site, you’ll get much more specific results.

Create an Awesome Pitch

This is the most important step.  Anyone can make a great pitch, but you have to know how, step by step:

Step 1: Find out if the podcast accepts interview submissions. Some podcasts only interview people via personal connections. These podcasts won’t accept submissions from just anyone. You’d have to know someone to get in.

Step 2: Create your pitch. To stand out, you’ll need an awesome subject line and a message that’s super persuasive.  If you really want to stand out, put more effort into your pitch than everybody else. That’s how you can get on insanely popular podcasts.

Step 3: Seal the deal.  If all goes well, you’ll hear back from the host and schedule a time for the interview. Whatever you do, don’t treat the podcast like an ad. Use it to deliver all that value that you promised in your pitch.

Conclusion

Podcasts are perfect for getting in front of a new audience and scoring new opportunities. Give these techniques a try, and you could be the next guest on a hot podcast.

If you want to know how to create the perfect message for your audience, maybe you can use the article: Global Video and Storytelling. It will give you an idea of how to tell your amazing story.

Do you want to get featured in Popular Podcasts?  Contact Us, our Digital Consultants will plan the best strategy to make you stand out with your message. 

 

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Reverse Image Search to Build 26 Percent More Backlinks

It’s amazing that you can use Facebook Messenger bots to get higher open rates and leverage Instagram to get more sales.
Most of the time, these innovative solutions are extremely effective because not a lot of people are using them.
They help you look at something from a new perspective so you don’t get too stuck.
This particular strategy is odd, but it works really well.
The idea: Using Google’s reverse image search to get more backlinks.

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Reasons You Should Care About Mobile Marketing

In 2017, most brands are finally beginning to think about how mobile marketing plays into their overall strategy, and some are even developing mobile-first campaigns. Here are a few compelling statistics about the immense impact mobile is having on the marketing world:

By the end of the year, 75 percent of internet use will be via mobile devices.
36 percent of Americans now go online using multiple devices.
86 percent of respondents say it’s important to create mobile apps, according to Salesforce Marketing Cloud’s State of Marketing report.

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Marketing Tools You Need to Dominate Your Social Strategy

Social media has become a regular part of our daily lives.

Marketers know the best way to connect with their audiences is to go where they go. Often, that means meeting them on the social channels they use.

As the use of social continues to climb, so does the number of brands that use social platforms to get their messages in front of customers.

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How to Launch a Killer Influencer Marketing Campaign

A few months ago, I began debating ‘cutting the cord’ with cable and going with a streaming television service.

I travel a lot, and to be honest, it doesn’t make sense to keep paying for a service I don’t use.

There are several options — Apple TV, Amazon Fire Stick, Roku, and Chromecast, among others.

Many of the product reviews contradicted one another. As you can see, there were more than 33 million search results. Talk about information overload.

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Digital Consulting Trends

Top 10 Digital Consulting Trends in 2023

 

Digital Transformation is moving faster than ever. Technology is always changing, and for that reason, we need to get a sense of the digital consulting trends for transformation in Marketing for 2023. The following are some of the leading changes predicted for this year in this article by Daniel Newman.

Digital Consulting Trends for 2023

1. Internet of Things.

This year consulting companies are increasingly tapping IoT Solutions and Services to boost operational efficiency and transform their business models.

More than 8.4 billion “Things” are on the internet today, up more than 30% from just one year ago. However, IoT alone is just the start. It isn’t so much about the things, but rather what we do with these things once they are connected and supplying us data. Consulting companies can use the data from these devices to implement predictive social media, or optimize their campaigns with Artificial Intelligence PPC.

In the image below, you can observe other ways in which IoT can be used in marketing consulting companies:

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2. Analytics Revolution.

One of the main trends is related to the Analytics Revolution. The mass amount of information created by the IoT has the power to revolutionize everything, allowing companies to work more efficiently and profitably than ever before.

Big Data and advanced analytics promise profound competitive advantages. Consultant companies translate technology into business value by driving out costs or increasing revenues from the application of big data.

3. Edge Computing.

Driven by the sheer volume and speed of information produced by the IoT, edge computing is one of the digital consulting trends jumping to the forefront of the business scene. As AI-powered smart devices seek to connect and communicate instantly via the IoT, the matter of sending data “all the way” to the cloud will become highly impractical making edge computing the only viable option. 

The infographic below shows how 4 edge computing technologies can help with processing IoT data in digital consulting companies:  

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4. 5G cell processing.

The amount of data produced by the IoT will force mobile providers to move faster than ever. The level of hyper-connectivity expected by digital consulting agencies today leaves little room not to move forward on the 5G path in International Mobile Marketing.

With so many IoT devices streaming massive amounts of information, the need for big data warehouses, machine learning and artificial intelligence will increase, and the 5G network rollout will enable these foundational technologies to provide services.

5. Blockchain Finds Its Way.

Blockchain is a digital peer-to-peer asset transaction exchange, shared among a distributed network of computers, that can help increase the speed of completion or settlement and improve security. 

While the financial industry and digital consulting agencies will be the first to begin utilizing this fantastic tool, numerous others — from healthcare to entertainment to hospitality — will not be far behind on this digital consulting trend. 

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6. AI Goes From Newbie To Mainstream in Digital Consulting Agencies.

In 2019 digital consulting companies will continue to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to surprise, connect, and communicate with their customers in ways they may not even appreciate or realize.

Artificial intelligence is the key to digital business; it has the potential to transform everything from business operations to the customer experience. AI provides business and IT leaders the chance to help their companies rethink their business models and drive customer obsession. 

In the image below you can see some of the anticipated benefits of using this technology:

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7. VR Goes From Hero To Zero.

Augmented Reality has pushed Virtual Reality out of the way, because it’s cheaper and easier to use, especially in a professional context. By using 3-D visualization, digital consulting companies can better train, pitch, and envision new products — without the same expense of VR.

However VR still offers some opportunities for digital marketing consulting:

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8. Failure As A Service (FaaS).

One of the main digital consulting trends is FaSS, a tool that will provide visualization, rapid prototyping, and other fast fail methods that will help companies strategize fast for greater success. 

Failure as a Service  is a concept the business world will be hearing a lot more about in 2019 and beyond. This is referred to the process which enables organisations to iterate new ideas, optimise those which work, quickly discard those which don’t and learn from both.

The ability to more quickly recognize when something isn’t working and move on will be a crucial differentiator between the winners and losers of digital transformation.

9. Culture Remains a Hurdle.

A massive 62% of business leaders consider culture as the number one hurdle to digital transformation.  But as the pace of change continues to increase — and the number of new technologies continues to grow — it will become even more imperative that companies move fast while moving forward toward growth and new digital consulting trends.

Keeping your organizational culture and infrastructure flexible and easily adaptable are the new key success factors. Don’t let your people experience frustration, anger, and disengagement over digital transformation—whenever they do, it is a clear sign that some of your organization’s rules, policies, procedures, processes or systems have hindered, rather than assisted, in achieving the organization’s desired results.

10. Transformation Becomes a Must in Digital Consulting.

DX  is imperative in today’s business market. Disruption will continue to be an increasingly common occurrence in the next few years also for digital consulting companies.

Digital consulting firms that view transformation as an opportunity will have more business available. And they will position themselves better for growth in the future. Also, it can help marketing departments within large organisations streamline internal processes, adopt technology and break down organisational barriers.

Some of the core elements of these DX can be seen in the image below:

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Conclusion:

If there is one thing that’s clear in digital consulting trends for this year, it’s that all the technologies above are working together to push one another forward, creating a swell of change that just cannot be resisted.

If you are interested in embracing this digital consulting trends and take your company to the next level, Contact Us, and our agency will help you achieve your goals.

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Meet a New Leader Woman

Meet Katrina Lake, the founder and CEO of fashion subscription startup Stitch Fix. At 34 years old, Katrina has proven the naysayers wrong at every stage of her success. “We’ve been underestimated before,” says Katrina. Let’s run the numbers: Six-year-old company, $120 million in VC funding, $1 billion in annual revenue. And on top of that, earlier this month, Katrina made history as the youngest woman founder to lead a company to an IPO…ever. Due to the success of her business, Forbes thinks Katrina is in line to join the likes of Oprah Winfrey and Beyoncé on their Richest Self-Made Women list in 2018.

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