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Your Target Audience Just Got Bigger
So you’re increasing your advertising investment this year, right? Right? In many companies the bean counters are pushing back on marketing investment decisions, seeing it as wasteful spend by characters who struggle with basic arithmetic. While that’s sadly far too … Continue reading
Sometimes
Sometimes we manage to get a little work done. Continue reading
Who Pulled the Names?
Every time I get a wacky, mis-targeted email, in-stream ad, or direct mail, one thought goes through my mind… Continue reading
Posted in Direct Response, Marketing, Media, planning
Tagged direct marketing, merge/purge, Operations, tactics
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Creating a Narrative…
…to explain your numbers is a fool’s game. The story will usually suffer from logical holes that you’ll have to gloss over. (How many times have you heard “we’ll get to that later” to question about a story you’re being … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Philosophy, Strategy
Tagged communication, corporate communications, leadership, strategy
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What are Your Principles?
One of my proudest moments as chair of the Board of Trustees of Utica College was when the entire community adopted our Statement of Principles. We acknowledged that, as a member of the community, you’ll be exposed to ideas that … Continue reading
Posted in Education
Tagged education, principles, Utica College, Values
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Know and Value Your Customer: A Forgotten Rule
One of the hardest things to teach marketers is that our customers are everything and that our brands are–in the minds and lives of our customers–tiny, inconsequential things. That level of humility can be hard to achieve, but it’s necessary … Continue reading
Posted in Marketing, Strategy
Tagged LTV, social media, strategy
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Chumbox Your Users While Taboolaing Your Brand Equity
Avinash Kaushik created a (new to me) term the other day. In his email on Friday, he coined the term Taboolaing to refer to the use of the chumboxes offered by dreadful companies like Taboola to destroy one’s brand equity. … Continue reading
Posted in Branding, Leadership, Marketing, Strategy
Tagged email, LTV, media, publishers, revenue, strategy
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Killing the Paywall
Tom Goodwin’s recent article, “Why making content on the internet free was our biggest mistake… and how to fix it” is required reading for all marketers in publishing. I’ve felt this way for a long time. Mr. Goodwin only wrote … Continue reading
Posted in digital marketing, Leadership, Marketing, Media, Strategy, Tactics
Tagged business model, media, New York Times, paywall, publishing
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D-Day
It’s pitch black, 00:16 hours and you’ve just crash-landed near Caen. You’re in hostile territory, lost, and some of your comrades are already dead and wounded. You’re just 20 years old and have never been in combat. So began D-Day … Continue reading
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