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I have a secret. I’ve kept it from most of my colleagues and coworkers for some time now.
The sad truth is this: Seven years ago, I weighed close to 205 pounds. And I stand all of 5 feet, 9 inches. So, when you weigh that much, are of limited stature, and don’t have “NFL Running Back” in yo…
A few years back, I was attending a conference, and it seemed like every time I turned around, I heard someone touting the benefits of—and dire need for—innovation. “We’ve entered the age of the ‘innovation economy,’” it was said. “Today, innovation is the key to differentiation,” we were told.
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Today, Mike Wesch connected our fairly insular industry to the larger world we inhabit.
Wesch, an anthropologist, gave an excellent and thought-provoking keynote address entitled “Our Mediated Culture, and What it Means for Marketers” at the Digital Marketing Forum. It would be impossible for…
There’s a scene in the film “The Princess Bride” (one of my all-time favorite movies) where the hero and heroine, Wesley and Buttercup, flee their pursuers and face the decision to enter the perilous Fire Swamp, a legendary forest filled with all kinds of danger. Buttercup says, “That’s the…
Marketers are often focused with gaining competitive advantage—combining resources to beat the competition. However, the concept of comparative advantage—or “producing something at the lowest cost of anyone else”—shouldn’t be overlooked as a way to win in the marketplace. And one…
As bloggers and social media pundits, we’re often scouring the data from reports to get a firm grip on what’s really happening in the worth of social media. We look at reports like Forrester 2010 Technographics research and the recent data from Pew Internet’s Older Adults and Social Media…
There are many presentation worst practices well-documented on the Internet, especially concerning the use of PowerPoint slides. However, a top five worst practice employed by some marketing professionals is the overtime presentation, or more succinctly, the presentation that never ends. If given a…
This past weekend kicked off the start of summer for most of us. As it happens, it also kicked off our virtual conference season––which means you can wear white to the first few Digital Marketing World events of 2010!
We’re trying something new this year. Instead of having one or two mammoth…
If you were stranded with only 14 books to read, what would they be?
I’m about to move from Europe back to the United States. I have to tell the moving guys which books to pack for the sea shipment (which will take nearly two months to arrive at my new home) and which books to pack in our air shi…
The impulse for marketing services firms to be everything to anyone has always been strong, but now it has become nearly irresistible, given the current economic circumstances. This has given clients the upper hand, driving down the price of generalist services and distracting many firms from…
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