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Why Do TV Commercials Like Billy Mays, ShamWow, and HeadOn Work?
The television is often on in our home, but it’s usually background noise. If I do watch television, it’s usually the Discovery Channel. Today is a weekday, so I roamed the channels a few times. After a while, we just rented a movie. These three commercials are why: ShamWow I hope this guy squints because someone poked him in the…
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3 Essential Requirements for any Web Application
More and more, I find myself asking vendors and companies the same questions over and over. If you’re thinking about developing your own application, these are 3 features that need to be integrated from day one in your application if you wish to conserve resources later. Does your application… Have an API? It doesn’t need to be special or a…
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Why Not?
How does your company profit? Are each of the goals of your company aligned with building that profit? Are each of your management teams’ goals aligned to support the goals of your company? Are each of your employees’ goals aligned with your management’s goals? Are your employees’ performance measured against their goals? Is each employees’ compensation determined by how they…
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Testing Leadership with Telecommuting
This evening I met with Pat Coyle and other Smoosiers at Pat’s Open House at Smaller Indiana Headquarters. One great discussion I had was with Lalita Amos, a Leadership Coach and Human Resource Specialist, Purdue Alumni, and Adjunct Professor at NYU. I had the pleasure of sharing the stage with Lalita when I spoke to the IABC about the use…
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Social Media and the Business Strategy
Seems like an appropriate cartoon (from Geek and Poke) after my presentation on Social Media and Business.
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Firefox 3 Review, Robots, Add-ons and Tweaks
It’s the second day with Mozilla Firefox 3 and I’ve already dislodged Safari from my dock. The browser is quite fast (I’m guessing until all my popular add-ons and a few security updates arrive). I believe it’s worth the upgrade and I can wait a few days until the add-ons are up to speed. Usability Improvement on the Button Layout…
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10 Affiliate Marketing Lessons Learned from Jeremy “Shoemoney” Schoemaker
Jeremy Schoemaker, better known as Shoemoney in the digital marketing world, has been an influential figure in Internet marketing for years. Through his courses, blog posts, and public speaking engagements, he has shared valuable insights that have shaped many marketers’ strategies, including myself. Here are ten key lessons I’ve learned from Shoemoney’s teachings: Embrace Transparency: One of the most striking aspects of…
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MBP: Micro-Blogging Provider and Protocol
It’s time! You folks may have read about the tiff a while back between Robert Scoble and Twitter. Scoble did meet with Twitter and resolve the situation. Some folks are speaking about a business model with these micro-blogging services where popular users pay for the service. I’d actually like to submit a better proposal and that’s for the net’s micro-blogging…
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Don’t forget online in your offline marketing!
Online consumer behavior is becoming invaluable to online marketers, but has been primarily missed with respect to offline entities. Many companies who have retail stores, as well as online stores, treat the two audiences separately, missing an excellent opportunity to target and track the other. Advanced analytics applications such as WebTrends, Coremetrics, and Omniture have largely been treated as reporting…
