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Category Archives: Marketing
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
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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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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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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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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P&G eliminated 20% of their most ineffective spend and generated 10% more reach, according to this article in AdWeek. Wait, that doesn’t fit the narrative about digital media. It’s all supposed to be about good, cheap media, reaching the right … Continue reading
Monday, 5 March 2018 5:27 pm
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