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USPS 3685 and the State of Marketing
Sometimes reading the USPS-required Statement of Ownership, Management, and Circulation (form 3685) can reveal a lot about the state of one’s industry. As a direct marketing and postal junkie, I find USPS forms fascinating. (I don’t get out much.) I … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Education, Marketing, Strategy
Tagged Byron Sharp, Net Promoter, NPS, research
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First Mile Problems
I was recently interviewed by Tim Furey, CEO of MarketBridge, on The Last Mile Podcast. Among our discussion of SAC, CAC, LTV, ROI, other three-letter acronyms, we also spent time on “first mile” marketing problems. As a practicing performance/direct response … Continue reading
Posted in Direct Response, Marketing, Media, Philosophy, Rants, Strategy, Tactics
Tagged Market-Bridge, marketing strategy, Podcast, tactics
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At the End
When my brother-in-law passed away early Sunday, his wife was by his side. I hope to be as lucky. Godspeed, John. Continue reading
Ads on blogs
I just had a chance to check my blog. Here’s the type of quality ad that gets served on blogs like mine. Do you know if the creative is automatically generated by some brilliant AI? Or have you ever really … Continue reading
Posted in digital marketing, Direct Response, Marketing, Media, Tactics
Tagged adtech, advertising, digital marketing, digital media, martech, programmatic, social media, targeting
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Ads back on temporarily
I just turned the WordPress WordAds monetization tool back on. Doing a little test.
Posted in Uncategorized
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The silence of the fake influencers and lack-of-thought leaders is deafening…
Originally posted on The Malcolm Auld Blog:
Those who have read my missives or attended my seminars, are aware I’ve been calling out the online zealots and their snake-oil since the invention of the information superhighway. So here’s today’s polite…
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Your Facebook Rebate
Q2 2018 is in the books. Plenty of time for advertisers and their agencies to true up Q1 and really start work on the second half of the year. As a reminder, in Q1 Facebook removed: 583MM fake accounts. 21MM … Continue reading
Posted in digital marketing, fraud, Social Media Marketing
Tagged accountability, accounting, advertising fraud, bots, Facebook, fraud
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Talent > Systems
“Any industry that values systems and processes over talent is an industry in decay.” Wrote Bob Hoffman today, reminding us that the adtech, martech, …aaS, and whatever other stuff we’ve cobbled into a tech stack isn’t our secret sauce. Like … Continue reading
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Tagged adtech, Bob Hoffman, leadership, martech, organization
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