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  • The Power And Disappointment Of Digital Marketing

    Everything is digital. I’ve been banging that drum for well over a decade now. At first, it was heresy, then it was wishful thinking and...

  • Marketers, Let Your Egos Go

    What if your ideas didn’t matter? For senior marketers, it is a very humbling thought. What if your ideas, your thoughts and even your experience...

  • The Failure Of Social Media

    Social Media doesn’t work for the vast majority of small businesses. That was the main message in the USA Today article titled, Study: Social media...

  • The Problem With Allowing Consumers To Opt Out

    You have a right to opt out of anything and everything. As a marketing professional, there is nothing I hate more than receiving any form...

  • The New Convergence

    This is not about media convergence. It’s about something bigger. Things change. Things change so fast that sometimes, it’s hard to see it. We tend...

  • What’s More Important To A Consumer: The Price Or The Brand?

    Before you go spouting off the answer to this question… Please read this article from The New York Times titled, E-Commerce Companies Bypass the Middlemen....

  • End Of Blogs

    I love my blog. I love your blog. I love blogs. Call me old-fashioned. Loving blogs has nothing to do with me not loving the...

  • The Future Of Facebook And The Newsfeed

    Do you remember Facebook before the timeline… before newsfeed? I do. I loved the introduction of Facebook’s news feed when it happened. Many were up...

  • The Content Crash

    At what point do consumers push back, unfriend, unfollow, unplus and whatever else? This does not spell the end for social media, but there is...

  • The Mobile-Only Strategy Imperative

    How long will the personal computer – as we have known it to date- be relevant? If you look at any data points surrounding mobile...