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Marketing Books
The Business of Social Networks
David Silver, a venture capitalist who specializes in social networks, wrote The Social Network Business Plan: 18 Strategies That Will Create Great Wealth. I’ve been reading through the book with interest – since I’m a co-founder of Smaller Indiana and owner of a social network for Navy Veterans. The two networks have very different business models and goals. Pat Coyle…
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Dear Twitter, Please Stop the Following Madness
Each day I pay attention to my following on Twitter. Each and every member that follows me used to mean something. I built my following organically, by gaining favor with one follower at a time. Not anymore. Now it’s ridiculous… auto-follow tides are being executed minute by minute. I could go on Twitter today and find a couple hundred scammers…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
What Makes a Great Analyst?
At the eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit, we had an interesting conversation on what makes a great data analyst. With a room full of analysts in the room, it’s an excellent question. Generally, the team I worked with agreed that there were business analysts and data analysts – and the expectations on each were a bit different. Business analysts provide information…
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Marketing Books
Outliers: The Story of Success
As I was waiting for my flight yesterday, I remembered the two things I forgot – my sport jacket and one of the books in my to-be-read pile. Luckily, the store by my gate had a reasonable book selection, and Outliers: The Story to Success, by Malcolm Gladwell, was there. I’ve been a huge fan of Malcolm Gladwell – both…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
Acrylic Times Elegantly Combines Newspapers and RSS
My friend Bill turned me onto MacHeist a while back. MacHeist is a great deal – they put together a bundle of applications for the Mac that you can purchase at a steep discount. If enough people purchase and enough money is raised for charity, they provide every purchaser licenses for every application in the entire package. It’s an ingenious…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
Video: Twitter in Real Life
This might be the greatest example of the insanity of Twitter. I think I follow 5,000 people because one out of every 1,000 tweets is useful. Watch the video and you’ll see what I see. Even with all the insanity, I still love Twitter though! That’s where I found this video, of course!
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Content Marketing
The Most Important Feature of Your Corporate Blog
Tonight I had a great time at Confluence, an Indianapolis networking event, where we reunited a team to speak on the Do’s and Don’ts of Corporate Blogging. I was joined by fellow industry professionals Rhoda Israelov, Rodger Johnson, Kyle Lacy and Kevin Hood. There were minor differences in agreement over command and control of a corporate blog, but I believe…
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Content Marketing
HUGE PROFITS… Secrets Revealed Now!
No, my site was not attacked by a spammer. This is still Doug writing this post and I’m doing it under my own free will. Have you ever hit a web page that advertises that they’re going to reveal all the secrets of the problems you’re looking to solve? The page starts with some incredibly written, formulaic text that sucks…
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Analytical + Creative = Social Media Success
What are the characteristics that drive success in social media? As we continue to grow at work, we’re looking for talent and need the right mix. My son is an honors math student… and a musician. My daughter is a singer… and a math wiz. I’m very analytical… but love being creative in my writing and design. Music is definitely…
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Marketing Books
Super Crunchers by Ian Ayres
Regular readers of my blog know that I’ve always been an advocate of measurement. A career in database marketing opened my eyes to the power of data and its ability to accurately assist marketing efforts. Attending the Webtrends Engage Conference was quite an inspiration and has really put me on a crusade to ensure companies measure and analyze their online…
