The latest participant in our series of DAM News Interviews is Digital Asset Management Specialist and President of DAM consulting outfit, The 543 Group, Ken Christie. As a certified partner of DAM solutions provider Bynder, Ken has a long and impressive track record in project management, content strategy, and DAM implementation for a broad range of well-known brands including Staples, Church & Dwight, Kruger Products, and Aprimo. With a broad range of experience spanning numerous roles, Ken offers up some valuable insights, including the importance of coaching, mentorship and training, and how his company’s ethos of adopting a ‘digital first’ approach is essential in “doing DAM right the first time”.
Read MoreThere are many benefits for any sizable organization to having a solid Style Guide and UX Best Practices documentation
Read MoreA company IS its digital assets. This makes DAM essential.
Read MoreAs this critical part of the process will likely impact the overall success of DAM within you organization for some time to come, it is important to look at each of three key parts of the DAM vendor selection process – initial vendor review, designated vendor evaluation, and selected vendor contract negotiation. There are good lessons to consider from those who have been through this before.
Read MoreIt may not be necessary to visualize in detail every possible component of the future state of DAM within your organization, but the more comprehensive you can be the better outcomes your organization will experience. Here are a number of the important areas to include.
Read MoreIn order to know where you are going with your DAM initiative, you still need to know where you are. Never underestimate the value of a thorough analysis of the current state of your organization.
Read MoreMany think step 1 is vendor selection - shopping around for the right set of features from a vendor that has been around a while. WRONG.
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Read MoreVirtually every aspect of marketing starts in a digital form now, so keeping everything structured so it can be more easily integrated, customized, re-purposed, and tracked is essential to the running of an efficient and effective marketing operation.
Read MoreIf there is one question we are asked more than any other, this is it. Fortunately, we have the answer.
Read MoreIf you do not know where you are headed and how you plan to get there, it is likely you will end up somewhere else.
Read MoreOne way to look at the relationship between Marketing and Sales and what needs to happen to connect the two.
Read MoreThis example from Michael's shows a good approach to use when email subscribers select to opt out.
Read MoreA rather universal truth these days is that, no matter the industry or area of the marketplaces that exist, everyone sells but nobody wants to be sold. It's getting to real needs in real situations that meet actual client requirements that gets people to listen.
Read MoreThe only constant is change, and that has never been more true in the marketing world, especially online. Keeping up with the Jones's, which in our world is Google, takes focus, energy, and often resources you may not have internally. There are so many details to get right.
Read MoreLearn how B2B, B2C, and nonprofit organizations can set up their lifecycle marketing roadmap for external as well as internal use.
Read MoreIs your website fully optimized to the ways people search today? These insights provide some of the newer ways people are searching effectively, not to mention all the natural language queries happening through mobile platforms.
Read MoreInteresting Article for all those we know that seem like they maybe need more 'structure' than they really do.
Read More"It will be hard work, sometimes back-breaking work, and you may feel that the work is beneath you. But the reality is that nothing is beneath you, because you don’t know anything—yet."
Read MoreTo get to the heart of your brand and why it should matter to your customers and prospects, you need to not only crystallize what you do and how you do it, but understand and be able to communicate why you do it.
Read MoreWhat Steve Jobs said about satisfaction in life, and work, also goes for working to be satisfied with your company's marketing and advertising.
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