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Category Archives: planning
Building Marketing Tech Stacks? Forget Fast and Good; Look at Reliability and Schedule
The old engineering adage, “Good, Cheap, Fast. Pick any two,” is a familiar challenge. In reality, bosses often want all three, with “Cheap” meaning “Almost Free” and “Fast” meaning “Tomorrow.” Understanding the Cost/Reliability/Schedule model and its implications early on can help navigate trade-offs in building marketing technology systems. Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy, planning, Strategy, Tactics
Tagged engineering, planning, product development
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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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I love the holidays, but as a buyer, I hate this time of year. Media sales people and vendors are calling constantly looking for that use it or lose it “dump money.” If you have dump money, only two things … Continue reading
Friday, 1 December 2017 9:16 am
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Your Holiday Season Mission: Customer Acquisition
We’re in peak marketing season, with under 30 days to go. Digital CPMs are rising, clearing spots at acceptable CPA is getting harder, email in-boxes are more cluttered than ever, and sales promotion is off the hook. Nothing we haven’t … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Marketing, Media, planning, Sales, Strategy, Tactics
Tagged acquisition, allowable, Byron Sharp, Ehrenberg-Bass, growth, holiday, marketing strategy, Q4
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Marketing Navigators: Do You Have a Sextant?
How can you be sure that your marketing navigation system is picking up the true signal, which can be very weak in these days of bots, fake traffic and across billions of rows of impression data? Continue reading
Posted in Marketing, Media, planning, Strategy, Tactics
Tagged analysis, GPS, Naval Academy, sextant, technology, whiffletree
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Nobody’s Talking About This ads.txt Problem
As a media buyer, I find myself scratching my head about the IAB’s ads.txt initiative. It’s a good thing, of course. Knowing that somebody selling advertising inventory to you is actually authorized to sell that impression to you is important. … Continue reading
Posted in Marketing, Media, planning
Tagged digital media, IAB, programmatic
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Ignore “Three Rights” At Your Campaign’s Peril
I believe in the old “40/40/20” rule of direct response marketing which states that 40% of the performance of a campaign is dependent on the the list, 40% on the offer, and 20% on everything else. You can also think of it as the “Three Rights” which you must do correctly to for successful digital performance marketing campaigns. Continue reading
Posted in Communications, Direct Response, Marketing, Philosophy, planning, Tactics
Tagged afterburner, analysis, debrief, digital marketing, digital media, direct response, performance marketing, rules of thumb
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