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The Garage Sale Mapper: My Killed Idea That Was Never Built… But Is Documented
Back when newspapers were fighting to stay relevant in a digital world, I had what I thought was a breakthrough idea. Working at a local paper, I noticed how garage sale ads consistently filled our shrinking classified section. They were…
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The Gap in Marketing Technology?
1.webp" alt="Olympics Relay Drop" title="Olympics Relay Drop" width="360" height="202" class="alignright size-full wp-image-4495" align="right" />Many, many years ago I was an analyst at a Newspaper. Each week I compiled data from across our production and distribution systems and worked to find…
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Vendor Client Relationships in Real Life
My favorite client story is one where a client told me that my hourly rate was twice what my nearest competitor was. I told him I'd be glad to meet that rate but the work would take twice as long.…
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Bing It On!
Microsoft is taking Google head on with a word that's been synonymous with search and Google = relevance. Here's the first commercial that Microsoft is running . I truly hope that Microsoft can aggressively challenge Google with Bing . For…
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Pink: When Business Is Bare
1.webp" alt="Victoria Secret Pink" title="Victoria Secret Pink" width="300" height="166" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-4246" />When my 15 year old daughter came home with a Victoria Secret bag in her hand I almost had a stroke. I welcome all the comments in this…
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Brand Perfection is Dead
In the past few weeks I've spoken with quite a few companies who are trying to deploy strategies to overcome negative search engine results regarding their companies, products or services. It used to be possible to maintain a perfect brand…
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Does Apple’s Marketing Suck?
Who's marketing is really winning here, Apple or Microsoft? This post was inspired by a conversation I joined regarding Microsoft gaining some ground back against Apple. The conversation continued on Twitter with a great tweet from Kara: https://twitter.com/karaweber/status/1931656148?s=20 ...







