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How To Reach And Influence The Connected Consumer

To reach the connected consumer, you must first walk in their footsteps. It takes research, not guesswork. It takes understanding, not skepticism. And it takes a dedicated, not generic or approximated, approach.READ»

How Your Business Can Better Promote Itself--And Avoid Pitfalls--On The New Facebook

For businesses, Facebook especially just got exponentially more complicated, because there are now issues around your brand's visibility in the new timelines, as well as around the training you must offer your employees, who are all on Facebook in their personal lives. Here's how to get started.READ»

Mastering The "C" In Chief Marketing Officer

Consumers are an undeniable part of the marketing process, with a growing arsenal of tools to create and curate their own content around the brands they love. Technology enables them to share content on their networks and take an active part in a brand's dialogue. Tomorrow's marketing professionals will have to master new set of skills for their brand's message to come through. READ»

Old Spice Man Marketing, Redux: What Went Right--and What Did Not

In this excerpt from his new book "The Thank You Economy," author Gary Vaynerchuk turns a critical eye to the Old Spice Man marketing campaign. What did the brand get right? And what didn't work at all?READ»

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Lo-Fi Social Marketing Is Saving Lives in Haiti

How one organization, Population Services International, is using traditional and untraditional marketing to save lives.READ»

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Five Rules for Responsible Social Marketing

 “I am baking cream cheese cupcakes this morning.”  A colleague of mine tweeted this and got a message within a few minutes that said something like: “Become a fan of Brand X cream cheese” Now, wait a ...READ»

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Getting Started With Online Marketing – Web Analytics – Part I

In continuation of my last post about Getting Started with Online Marketing, this post will start you on your way with web analytics. First of all, what are “web analytics?” In simple terms, web analytics represent a ...READ»

The Hire

Two weeks ago, I did something heroic: removed someone from the U.S. unemployment rolls.READ»

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Getting Started With Online Marketing – An Introduction

 There is a lot of information available about online marketing today; this post and some coming posts will try to simplify what you need to know. First, some things you need to know if you want to play in the online marketing ...READ»

The Rise of Handiwork

Why blog about soap?My point exactly. Can you imagine blogging about American soap, its considered design, its carefully chosen ingredients, its gorgeous wrapping that might seduce you to place it on a shelf rather than fling it into ...READ»

Squeeze your Lemonade

Another movie about advertising that makes you want OutREAD»

FaceBook, ehh?

Interesting thing I have noticed about Facebook...the majority of people who have found me on Facebook are Canadian...and still in Canada.  I am a transplanted (for over 15 years) Canadian citizen living in California.  Initially ...READ»

Space on My Space

  What's not to love about a form of  marketing embraces components such as easy and dynamic messaging, free platform and freedom of speech?  Isn't that what all good marketing people crave?  No lawyers, no cost, no ...READ»

Twitter saves man from prison in Egypt

I bet this guy doesn’t think Twitter is a waste of time! From Twitter headquarters: “Last weekend CNN lead with a big story about James Buck, a graduate student in journalism from the University ...READ»