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Monthly Archives: December 2016
You’re Buying Digital Media All Wrong
The only people who ever got rich by developing exotic solutions to common problems are the ones selling the solutions. FOMO (fear of missing out) is not a reason to be wasting your dollars on untested media or unproven “audience” schemes pitched by salespeople. If the media works, it will be there tomorrow. Continue reading
Posted in Marketing, Media
Tagged digital marketing, digital media, segmentation, whitelist
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Use Real Metrics, Not Social Media Nonsense
Don’t focus on lousy Facebook social media metrics. Instead,look at sales, retention rates, and ARPU. Don’t waste your time with the little kids’ metrics, which make for easier-to-understand and flashier charts at the next convention you attend. Don’t track them in your data warehouse. Don’t put them in Powerpoint slides. Don’t even talk about them. After all, the people that promulgate this nonsense have told you that they are worthless.
Worry about the things that actually generate profit. And win. Continue reading
Buying Audiences, Getting Worked
I thought the modern age of non-intrusive advertising was supposed to give me only the relevant ads I wanted to see, lovingly presented to me by some perfect algorithm hand-crafted in a loft in SoHO? Ta-da–you’ve just seen what happens when you get stuffed into an “audience.” Continue reading
Posted in Communications, Strategy, Travel
Tagged adtech, digital media, marketing, segmentation, tactics, targeting, technology, Twitter
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An Odd Industry: “Marketing Leadership”
Increasingly, marketing is being taken over by charlatans. An example of this is the so-called “marketing leadership industry” one that is, so far as I can tell, devoid of metrics and accountability. When you see a CMO bragging of their accomplishments in said “industry” you can be sure you’ve been had. Continue reading
Posted in Career, Marketing, Organization, Philosophy, Sales
Tagged Bob Hoffman, charlatans, CMO, leadership, Mark Ritson, marketing
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