Monthly Archives January 2009

The (Horrible) Future of Viral Marketing?

Is this what frontier guerrilla marketing looks like? What kind of horrible Bladerunner-esque nightmare is this?
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How to Syndicate del.icio.us Favorites to Twitter

Bloggers like you and me all want to build a following on Twitter for the same reason that we want more RSS subscribers for our blogs – we want to provide value to our audience and engage them with some combination of information and entertainment.
One easy form of providing this value / engagement is to [...]

When You’re Forced to Do It Wrong

You’re a smart guy or gal in your company’s marketing department. One of your initiatives hasn’t been performing well and you decide to investigate. You spend days pouring over ProClarity reports, Google Analytics data, WebTrends, and on and on and on.
You figure it out – you discover that your organization is doing something fundamentally wrong [...]

Are Most Online Marketers Clueless?

I’m serious.
I am by no means a veteran in online marketing. I have the pleasure of working with and learning from people who have 10+ years of experience in online marketing, but I didn’t start riding shotgun with them until last year. I’ve talked to dozens of other online marketers, attended meetups, webinars, seminars, conferences, [...]

If the iPod Were Produced by Microsoft

Feature bloat meets packaging.

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Entrepreneurial Success Requires Entrepreneurial Failure

My reply to an insightful post written by Jessica Mah, a blogger I had never heard of before – Why 99% of Entrepreneurs Fail: Because they don’t do anything.
I’ve had more ideas than I can count, implemented many of them, but never taken one and ran with it. Most of those projects I implemented were [...]

Email Marketing is Not Spam, And Vice Versa

If there’s one part of online marketing that I loathe it’s dealing with the jerks who write me inflammatory, offensive, and often insulting emails for doing something heinous, like sending them emails. I tweeted the other day about a C-level exec at a Fortune 500 company who sent us some pretty unkind words regarding an [...]

Google Pulls Out of Print Advertising

Spencer Spinnel, Director of Google Print Ads, writes:
While we hoped that Print Ads would create a new revenue stream for newspapers and produce more relevant advertising for consumers, the product has not created the impact that we — or our partners — wanted. As a result, we will stop offering Print Ads on February 28. [...]

When New Media Marketers Need to Say "No"

A Short Story
You’re a successful content marketer, corporate blogger, social media manager, or whatever the title of the month is for the dedicated new media expert on-hand. You’ve invested a lot of time and effort into building a valuable marketing channel your company. You were trusted by management to go off and do your own [...]

Circuit City: Yet Another Example of Why You Can’t be All Things to All People

Today I spent some time reading about the final liquidation sales at Circuit City and the recently-filed bankruptcy of Black Angus restaurants, and it made me a little sad. Did Circuit City do a lot of stupid things that upset customers over the years? Of course, but it’s still sad to see a giant ride [...]