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- This headline, sent to me by a colleague, appeared in a recent issue of the Wall Street "Should You Outsource Your Company Blog?" Like most questions addressed in communications, marketing and other similar fields, the answer is -- Maybe. It 1. If the company doesn't have a communications or a ... more
- Just happened to catch an interesting short new infomercial on TV. Anthony Kennedy came on the tube, and as we all know, he hawks quite a few consumer products. But something about this commercial really got my attention. "Did you know that the leading household cleaners consist of up to ... more
- In today's is an ad and a few articles referencing our upcoming Digital Marketing , which takes place this October in Scottsdale, Arizona. I'm pretty excited about the event itself, because the content offers a solid grounding in the Big Three of online marketing. Covering Email, Search, and Social Media, ... more
- This is my first blog post on MarketingProfs Daily Fix. I'm starting a regular series here highlighting marketing by the numbers. Hope you enjoy it and I'm looking forward to the discussion. the number of advertising messages an average American consumer sees every About a year ago, I was having ... more
- Behavioral targeting has caught the attention of the US congressional leaders, as privacy advocates grow concerned with the tremendous amount of web data collected by internet businesses such as ISPs and search engines. Consumers, lawyers, congressional leaders, and businesses are now opining regarding necessary disclosures and the appropriateness of targeting ... more
- Any teacher can tell you that students have three basic learning channels: auditory (written and spoken words); visual (pictures and graphics); and kinesthetic (hands-on activities). If you had to choose your preferred channel for online communication, you'd probably pick verbal communication. But, says Rick Sloboda of Webcopyplus, only 20 percent ... more
- A recent NPR profiled an intriguing artist and entrepreneur named Justin Gignac. In that story, titled "Treasure or Trash? Artist Says It's in the Packaging," Gignac puts forth a persuasive While an intern at MTV, Gignac relates that he engaged in a discussion with his fellow workers. One of them ... more
- For years, classic brand strategy has always been about the creation of a single message that can be used with all of your constituents; investors, employees, senior management and customers about who you are and what value your company provides. Brand managers tend to write it up and paste it ... more
- A Pro Membership at MarketingProfs includes access to case studies that examine a new story of marketing success each week. A recent example—written by Kimberly Smith—looks at Tripmela, a site that aggregates and broadcasts travel bargains to India through a weekly "10 Best Deals" newsletter. In the study's Quick Read ... more
- Ardath Albee has a word for the marketing copy that loiters at your website without any clear goals or ambition: Unemployed. "[C]ontent, to be of value to anyone, must do something," she says in a post at her Marketing Interactions blog. In other words, it should have a job. According to ... more
- The microblogging platform Twitter has had anything but a relaxing summer, plagued as it has been by outages, brownouts, disabilities, and new competition in the form of and others. But still, brands continue to invest time and energy building connections and communities Take a look at this impressive list of ... more
- A recent points out that "Nutraceuticals May Be Near Tipping Point in the U.S." While the average American is spending $90 per year on functional health ) foods and beverages to the tune of a whopping $27 billion last year, the Center for Culinary Development and Packaged Facts claim that ... more
- File Sharing is very binary .... either you share a file online or you don't. Well not anymore! .... enter Drop.io allows consumers to create their own private online spaces where they can easily and privately share photos, videos, documents, and other types of media with others. By default, drops ... more
- Beyond key words, beyond placement tactics, there is one unchangeable Golden Rule of SEO for content, according to Ray "Catfish" Comstock: Once you create online content, don't move it. "I used to think that this was obvious," Comstock says. "… But I found that there are many clients that still do ... more
- Truvia. Remember that name. It's a natural, no-calorie sweetener derived from compounds found in the leaves of an herb called stevia. Agribusiness giant Cargill is about to roll out Truvia, which is being positioned as a natural alternative to artificial sweeteners. D'Agostino markets in Manhattan will debut the product shortly. ... more
- Enterprises are starting to deploy advanced speech technologies that can identify when a customer is angry, confused or even lying. By listening to call center feeds, these applications are often able to troubleshoot a given situation or route the call to a live agent with a specialization in solving critical ... more
- Earlier this week I talked about how corporations are beginning to experiment more with social media. But a couple of recent studies suggest that companies are still not utilizing blogs very First, a study released earlier this by Forrester Research showed that B2B blogging growth slowed dramatically in 2007. After ... more