Joe Cardillo is a product/ops guy turned marketer and digital evangelist for San Francisco based design marketplace Visually. He digs writing, journalism, media, PR, design, rocanroll, startups, anything science-y, and thinking about how to become a better human.
Marketing | May 21, 2014
We don’t need new tools to become more disruptive marketers. We need to change our mindsets to think like journalists, focus on the product, and test, test, test.
Email Marketing | December 2, 2013
By Joe Cardillo The recent redux of Gmail had a lot of people worrying about where their marketing emails were ending up. Did that important, four-alarmer crisis email get buried in the Promotions tab or get flagged as spam? What about the beautifully designed newsletter your team spent days editing and laying out? Where did it go? Once […]
Communication | October 14, 2013
By Joe Cardillo Design has crept into my life. But I’m not a designer. In fact, on a semi-regular basis I find myself asking an actual designer for something, and immediately follow up with “Never mind. That’s a bad idea.” That’s how Not a Designer I truly am. That said, there’s just something about creating […]
Business Planning | August 5, 2013
By Joe Cardillo Last week marked three full months of working at a startup. In that time I’ve learned dozens of things, ranging from email marketing and lead generation to biz dev for tech, and even a little bit about database queries / SQL (don’t be jealous). I don’t come from a startup background. In fact, […]
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