You like me: 4 lessons the Oscars offer

You like me: 4 lessons the Oscars offer

by Joelle Polisky From a content marketing standpoint, here are four lessons you can take away from the Oscars. Build your fan base. Which actor has the biggest social following? Many celebrities increase their fan base by taking the time to share personal pictures...
Apple Car: The next medium for content marketing?

Apple Car: The next medium for content marketing?

by Stacey Lee Boyett The Wall Street Journal leaked late last week that Apple is entering the automobile sector with what has since been dubbed the “Apple car.” This is but the latest in a string of Silicon Valley and Motor City marriages with product development...
Google boss warns of a digital dark age

Google boss warns of a digital dark age

As technology marches forward, do we run the risk of entering a digital dark age or “forgotten century,” as Google vice-president, Vint Cerf, warned at a conference in San Jose, California, last week. With so much emphasis and money put on developing new,...
Content that could make you fall in love. Really.

Content that could make you fall in love. Really.

Want to gear up for the ultimate Valentine’s Day experiment? All you’ve got to do is ask another person (of your targeted sexual orientation) 36 questions and be willing to answer them yourself. Could be worth a try — even for couples who have been...
3 keys to solid content marketing

3 keys to solid content marketing

If you’re still wondering what content marketing is and how it could improve your business or organization’s efforts, know that the best content marketing is not smoke and mirrors. Instead, it is substance over sizzle. 1) The best content marketing focuses...
Marcia, Marcia, Marcia: Our favorite Super Bowl commercial

Marcia, Marcia, Marcia: Our favorite Super Bowl commercial

Snickers hits the nail on the head with this throwback demonstration of digital trickery. Snickers put together a winner. It plays on our generation’s quest for nostalgia. Plus, it’s surprising and perfectly cast. What’s not to love?...
What we’ve learned so far…

What we’ve learned so far…

Sunday is Shift Key’s two-month anniversary. We’re excited about all the content marketing work that’s come our way thus far and looking toward the future with our shades firmly in place. We’ve already learned a couple of things along the way:...
We do more than create content.

We do more than create content.

We also like to make lemon crepes. And eat them. (Our CEO, Jan Risher, has written a weekly Sunday newspaper column since March 2002. Her column Sunday was about the lemon tree she planted a few years back and the lemon crepes she and her family make and enjoy,...