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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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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!
- 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…
- 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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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…
- Content Marketing
Stepping into Cross Media Optimization
There were quite a few sessions at the Webtrends Engage 2009 Conference that spoke to the power of data integration and its positive impact on business results. Many companies start with an enormous datamart design and then move backwards – trying to make everything fit into their data model. It’s a flawed process since processes continuously change… you’ll never successfully…
- Analytics & Testing
What’s your Strategy for Customer Recovery?
In many posts I’ve spoken about “get, keep and grow” strategies for companies to grow their business, but one aspect I don’t think I’ve ever written about is recovering customers. Since I’m in the software industry, I’ve rarely seen customers return so we’ve not incorporated tactics to try to win a customer back. That’s not to say it should not…
- Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Social Media and the Employee Conundrum
John Jantsch asks a great question, Do you have a Social Media Non-Compete? Another question might be, “Can a company enforce a social media non-compete?” Courts have traditionally frowned upon restrictions placed by employers on their employees’ right to find and make a living. Since more and more companies are being compelled to utilize social media and encourage their employees…
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AT&T: The Next AIG?
Almost every day I get home, I get a beautiful piece of direct mail from AT&T about U-Verse. They’ve sold me. I want it. I want a big ‘ol fat package with increased download speeds, the advanced ability to control my television programming, the DVR… I want it all. But I can’t have it. Following the instructions on one of…
