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September 15, 2006

Home Depot Breaks New Ground

In an unusual move to subsidize its online business, Home Depot has begun to offer prime product placement on its homepage.  Click here for a demo.....

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August 29, 2006

Oldies But Goodies

This work week prior to Labor Day is understandably slow...

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July 13, 2006

Talk About Foresight!

My last post was about how much foresight Ted Levitt had when he published Marketing Myopia in 1960. That got me thinking about the eye-opening book I stumbled upon 15 years ago....

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July 6, 2006

In Memoriam: Goodbye to the Godfather of Consumer Centricism

I saw in this morning’s obits that Theodore Levitt, former Harvard Business School Professor, had died....

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June 29, 2006

The Last Word May Be a Number

Numbers move people to action....

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June 28, 2006

Confessions of a Hypocrite

So in the last post, I talked about retailers lies and how they reverberate and why marketers should not lie....

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June 20, 2006

Big Words, Bad Copy

Using big words in marketing copy is for the lawyers and academics. But if there's no legalese, liability or certification to worry about, why not stick with plain old words that most people can understand...?

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June 15, 2006

2-5-7-8...How We Gonna Differentiate?

In a world where everything is commoditized, the key to success becomes DIFFERENTIATION. That's becoming more difficult to achieve, and one of the reasons is that it's relatively easy to put up a Web site....

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June 8, 2006

People Who Need People

There are two kinds of people in the U.S. No, not Red Staters and Blue Staters...

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People Who Need People

There are two kinds of people in the U.S. No, not Red Staters and Blue Staters...

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May 31, 2006

The Profit of Doom

There are almost as many direct response marketers who are against using negative appeals and copy as there are who are against using humor....

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May 26, 2006

So What Really Moves the Web Traffic Needle?

Here at the Daily Fix and throughout the Internet, there’s been tons of discussion...

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