Organization

6,580 views

2026-05-03

The Marketing Curse: Everyone Has an Opinion About Marketing. Here’s How to Survive It.

Everyone has an opinion about marketing. Design, copy, tools, channels, competitors, timing. Everyone knows better. This is the marketing curse. It quietly wastes money, exhausts teams, confuses customers, and puts marketers’ careers at risk. Understanding how it works is the first step to stopping chaos from running your strategy.

19 minutes read
48,776 views

2026-03-04

Top 10 Tips to Build Your Marketing Career in 2026, According to CMOs

If you want to build a remarkable marketing career in 2026, start by listening to the people who have already done it. Not the growth-hacks-will-save-your-soul crowd. The real ones. The CMOs who spent years inside boardrooms, crises, reorganizations, failed campaigns, winning campaigns, and the occasional moment of “Why did I choose this job again”.

9 minutes read
44,133 views

2026-03-02

Content Waste Is Killing Your Marketing ROI - Producing More Rarely Creates More Impact

Let’s get this out of the way: most of the content you create never gets used. I don’t care how fancy your CMS is, how many “best practices” slides you’ve read, or how many AI tools you own. It sits in folders, abandoned. Collecting dust. Doing nothing.

16 minutes read
34,761 views

2025-12-01

The RIO Framework: Finally, a Structure for Integrated Marketing Campaigns That Works

You're running an "integrated" campaign, aren't you? Let's be honest: your 'integration' is probably just four different teams doing four different things at the same time and calling it alignment. Your customers see the chaos. Your budget certainly feels it. You’ve got channels cannibalizing each other, assets gathering digital dust, and an attribution model that looks like modern art: meaningless, confusing, and expensive. I know it, because I've been there, countless times.

13 minutes read
26,789 views

2025-11-25

I tested COMET, Perplexity's AI-powered browser

My quest for transformative AI led me to Comet, Perplexity's new Agentic AI browser. This report details its ability to handle complex tasks: cleaning email, classifying 8,000 Dropbox photos, and planning a calendar. You will find a review of its tab management, technical failures, security risks, and my final verdict.

11 minutes read
9,322 views

2025-11-19

Why Listening to Marketing Blueprint in 2026 Is a Real Career Accelerator

In a world where marketing evolves at high speed, treating your career as a living project is no longer a luxury — it’s a necessity. Whether you’re just getting started, already rising through the ranks, or rethinking your direction after a setback, your professional path is never built once and for all. It requires curiosity, humility, constant adjustments… and above all, inspiring role models.

5 minutes read
256,804 views

2023-05-06

5 Essential Tips for Successful Recruitment: A Manager's Perspective

Hiring the right people is critical for the success of any organization. According to a study conducted by CareerBuilder, 74% of employers admit to hiring the wrong person for a position, leading to lower productivity, decreased employee morale, and higher costs.

4 minutes read
258,891 views

2023-04-30

The Power of Tracking: How to Boost Your Marketing Results

In the marketing world, it's not enough to simply launch a campaign and hope for the best. To succeed, you need to know what works and what doesn't, and the only way to do that is by tracking your results. In this article, we'll explore why tracking is so crucial, what you should be tracking, and how to do it effectively. Whether you're a marketer or a business owner, understanding these key principles will help you maximize your efforts and achieve your goals. So let's dive in and discover the power of tracking!

10 minutes read
20,238 views

2023-03-05

Efficient Team Management: The Importance of Tracking Tasks

As a team leader or manager, you are responsible for ensuring that your team is working efficiently and effectively towards achieving their goals. However, keeping track of all the tasks and projects your team is working on can be a daunting task. Without a clear view of what has been accomplished and what is yet to come, it can be challenging to assess your team's performance and give feedback accordingly.

4 minutes read
22,791 views

2023-03-01

Mastering Project Management: Why Tracking Milestones is Key to Success

As a project manager, keeping track of your team's progress is crucial to delivering projects on time and communicating timelines effectively. But with so many moving parts, it can be overwhelming to stay on top of everything. That's why having a clear view of all the various milestones of your project is essential. In this article, we'll explore the importance of milestone tracking, the tools you need to do it effectively, and how it can make all the difference in project success. Did you know that 77% of high-performing projects use project management processes?

3 minutes read
612,148 views

2020-09-15

How to Generate Leads from LinkedIn Marketing?

For this article, I invite Harikrishna Kundariya, Director of eSparkBiz Technologies, to share best practices to generate business from LinkedIn campaigns.

8 minutes read
82,144 views

2019-02-20

Should you care about your customers or their problems? Review of the ticketing approach

There are two major strategies when it comes to dealing with customer enquiries: the ticketing approach and the conversation approach. Both methods have pros and cons, one is more problem centric while the other is more customer centric. Let’s review these strategies to define which best fits your business.

6 minutes read
106,369 views

2018-05-29

Human / Machine collaboration for omni-digital customer care

This is a summary of my speech at the Client Strategy/E-marketing 2018 Paris Conference with Dimelo and Pierre-Edouard Lieb from Recast.ai (SAP) discussing “how can humans and machines collaborate for better customer relations”.

6 minutes read
78,540 views

2017-10-31

What's a CRM and why does my company need one?

Do you really know what a CRM is? What can you do with it? How does it integrate with your teams? How to use it concretely? In this article we study the secrets of CRM and its impact on your company's performance.

5 minutes read
103,815 views

2017-07-19

Webinar with #EventIcons – how to build a successful booth strategy ?

#EventIcons is a major webcast in the US interviewing icons of the event industry all over the world to share their knowledge and experience. In this specific episode, I was invited to discuss trade shows and strategy.

4 minutes read
15,845 views

2015-06-27

The 3 steps of successful fairs - start making profits

Organizing a fair is both time and money consuming. If you don't get much return from it, you might be wasting precious resources. With the following 3 tips, you will not waste money on fairs ever again.

7 minutes read
11,151 views

2015-06-13

Get ready for your next PR interview

If you are not specialized in PR, handling press interviews can be overwhelming. It gets even worse if various people in your company could be interviewed. This article offers tips on how to handle such situation and keep a consistent communication.

5 minutes read
12,672 views

2014-04-26

Launching or re-launching a website - don't make those mistakes!

Whether you launch a website or relaunch an existing one, things might seem easy at first sight but traps are everywhere!

1 minutes read
10,048 views

2014-02-01

What would you like to read about?

For the past two years, we have been discussing Social Media, SEO, SEM, SEA, company's organization and management structures...

1 minutes read
25,590 views

2014-01-18

5 reasons to use infographics to improve information retention

Information has always been a powerful way for engaging the human spirit. Facts, figures and expert analysis have a great power for persuasion. Letting your audience know and see what you want them to see, you get an ability to influence their beliefs and decisions.

5 minutes read
13,960 views

2013-12-21

In-house development VS using standard tools

There will be a point in your business development where you will need to decide between developing a system in-house or using an existing system. Here are a few tips to ease this difficult decision.

4 minutes read
11,070 views

2013-09-14

Making each project a success is before all a matter of organization

Have you ever found yourself diving into a project even before having thought it through? Project management implies having a clear overview of the requirements and goals before starting any action.

4 minutes read
13,923 views

2013-07-20

Regulating Social Media usage in your company

Have you set rules to regulate the usage of Social Media within your company? Where is the limit between employees' privacy and company's rights?

6 minutes read
104,020 views

2013-02-16

Checklist for a perfect Trade Show or Consumer Fair

Organizing a trade show or a consumer fair can sometimes be tricky. This article will give you some clear guideline and useful tips to organize your event as efficiently as possible.

17 minutes read
15,117 views

2012-08-18

Organize your tasks efficiently: i-list.it, management tool

Organizing your tasks efficiently is the first step toward an efficient management. The post-it era is over: enter the 21st century successfully.

6 minutes read
12,030 views

2012-08-04

Time is your most precious asset: learn to waste it efficiently

If there is one thing in life you can never get back, it is time. There are millions of strategies and theories out there teaching you how to get the best out of the time you spend. Today, let's see together how to waste it efficiently.

6 minutes read
15,761 views

2012-05-26

How to become rich within 24h and be first on Google? The secret Marketing

Today I offer you, for free, my secret to appear first on all Google results pages and become rich in 24h! With my free solution you will earn at least 6000$ a month... from home!

13 minutes read
25,690 views

2011-12-11

The importance of an efficient coding structure

A coding protocol is the insurance of a productivity increase and a better follow up of projects in your company.

9 minutes read
16,471 views

2011-12-04

The basics of network marketing

Network marketing is a form of natural marketing which can have a huge impact on your business if you know how to manage it.

10 minutes read

Entrepreneur specialized in web marketing, I have been developing online platforms and strategies for numerous companies across Europe and Asia.
Through those experiences I have managed large teams and handled various projects involving Marketing Strategy, digital marketing, SEO, communication & PR, web development, trade shows & exhibitions, social media, emailing campaigns, design, etc.
In this blog I share my experience and knowledge. Please feel free to reach out if you have specific projects for which you would need my expertise.
Julien Rio.

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