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Category Archives: Marketing
Guitar Effects: Two Legends and a Sale
My core beliefs include positivity and assuming goodwill. If you only knew me from my writing here, you might not think that. It’s hard to be positive sometimes when I seem to spend the whole day mired in “digital” marketing … Continue reading
Posted in Branding, Communications, digital marketing, Guitar, Marketing, Media, Sales, Social Media Marketing
Tagged Anderton's, guitar, Lee Anderton, Pete Honore, TC Electronics, Tore, YouTube
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Source Level Triage
Let’s assume you’ve built your marketing whiffletree and have a banding model at the source level that you can analyze every Monday. Of course, you’ll sort your sources from most effective to least and do more of the things that … Continue reading
Posted in Marketing, Media, Philosophy, Tactics
Tagged banding, media, triage, whiffletree
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Live by the Algorithm, Die by Same
Think your fancy, all-seeing algorithm can’t be gamed? So do the fools at Uber. Unfortunately, it looks like Uber drivers can just switch off the app at once and trigger surge pricing. No complicated competing algorithm, no data scientists needed. Complex … Continue reading
Posted in digital marketing, fraud, Marketing, Philosophy
Tagged algorithms, digital marketing, Uber
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How Many Tracking Pixels to Screw in a Light Bulb?
I turned on WordPress’s WordAds on this blog a couple of days ago. It takes a couple of days for the ad tech ecosystem to smell the fresh blood, but as of this morning, there are 66 tracking pixels firing … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, digital marketing, Marketing, Media, Privacy
Tagged adtech, digital marketing, digital media, martech, pixels, technology, tracking
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Handling Marketing “Helmet Fire”
Helmet fire, also known as task saturation, is a silent killer among pilots. As more things happen at once, you start to fail. You might get fixated on one thing–like the 20 cent light that killed 101 aboard Eastern Air … Continue reading
Posted in digital marketing, Marketing, Tactics
Tagged digital marketing, targeting, task saturation
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Videri Quam Esse: P&G and Digital Advertising
P&G cut between $100 and $140 million in digital advertising last quarter and sales went up. I don’t mean they were flat or that margins went up through a short-sided strategy of cutting marketing investment. This wasn’t just advertising that sort … Continue reading
Posted in digital marketing, fraud, Marketing, Media, Strategy, Tactics
Tagged digital marketing, duopoly, Facebook, fraud, Google, marketing strategy, P&G, waste
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Says the great Drayton Bird in his email this morning: “On-line marketing is just accelerated direct marketing.” He’s right. It’s therefore more important than ever that your marketers are properly trained: it’s harder to keep the rubber on the road … Continue reading
Thursday, 27 July 2017 11:14 am
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Print out a page with your ad on it. Put it on the whiteboard and give your buying team a marker and ask them to draw out exactly how that particular ad showed up on that particular website and why. By that, I mean all the names of the ad tech and martech players involved. No looking anything up. Continue reading
Wednesday, 19 July 2017 12:41 pm
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