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by Eric Frenchman
Ok, the news is everywhere on the US government getting access to phone records, and you can draw your own conclusions on whether it is illegal or
I will not be offering any opinion because I don't want to get mixed up with becoming a political news there are already ...
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by Eric Ward
I received an RFP from a company that ought to know better that wanted to know how much I'd
...to get their site 500 one-way Pagerank 2 or better links. Another company wanted to know how long it would take me to seed 1,000 blogs with a link to their ...
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by Mack Collier
New Line Cinemas has gone from a position any studio would love to be in, to being on the verge of one that every studio
And they've done so in about a month's
Just a few weeks ago, Snakes on a , the August release from New Line starring Samuel ...
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by William Arruda
I was reading an interesting article in , Living at Jet
...on the flight from CDG to LHR today. It talks about the speed at which we move and all that it means for us in the age of constant change and non-stop international travel. For someone who has 'global' ...
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by Mark Vanderbeeken
The professional services firm " has released today the foresight study " Eye to the
...with the enigmatic "How TMT advances could change the way we live in 2010." TMT, it turns out, stands for "Technology, Media and
The report looks at how technology advances will change the way we ...
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by Paul Barsch
Steve Jobs is serving up a little crow to all naysayers that said Apple stores would go the way of the Mauritius dodo
Today's Wall Street contained an article titled "How Apple's Store Strategy Beat the Odds." It seems that Apple is enjoying phenomenal success in opening high-end retail stores ...
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by Seth Godin
Michael
* Why do you want your booth so crowded that I can't walk through it? Why do you want people to walk through, grab something, and get the heck
* If I am standing in line waiting for an is anyone talking to or occupying my time with a ...
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by Ted Mininni
The American Idol brand remain fresh, continue to reinvent itself a la Madonna for years to come, or will it fade away like so many of yesterday's top musical talent?
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by Allen Weiss
Before you go out and buy a book about the next marketing fad, you ought to read a down to earth assessment on business fads
One is in Monday's Wall Street , where some level-headed thinking is exposed on how companies jump from consulting fad to fad, which one exec ...
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by Ann Handley
If writing is a solitary pursuit, blogging is decidedly
Unlike other forms of publishing, blogging is immediate and social, which means bloggers tend to make all kinds of contacts and meet all sorts of people
Over the past few weeks, my new best friend is Mack Collier, who blogs at ...
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by Eric Frenchman
In Saturday's Wall Street Journal, there was an article called the Kos . It is about Ned Lamont trying to get into the Connecticut Democratic
...to challenge seating Senator Joe Lieberman. Now, I'm not going to try and politicize this article because most of the Kos Celeb article has to ...
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by Lee MarcStein
One of my favorite quotes for years has been %3Cstrong%3E"you can't steal second base with one foot on first." Too many executives and managers trying to create demand in the form of qualified leads don't understand the risk involved in keeping their feet on first base; they see only the ...
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by Ann Handley
" Mike wrote a heartfelt valentine to Mom .... the original "brand manager" .... on his " Own Your Brand . His own Mom, he says, in essence taught
...the fundamentals of brand ownership. Mike I can still hear her voice in those brand-critical "moments of truth" every parent faces ...
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by Ann Handley
I am a total sucker for community theater, especially musical theater, and especially middle or high school productions. What I
...isn't so much the corny show tunes or the predictable story lines, but the fact that the kids have such energy for taking risks. I was thinking of this over ...
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by William Arruda
I just finished a speaking gig in Paris for Garnier Fructis. My presentation was all about the role of color in
Garnier uses a highly differentiated color (pms 375c) for the Fructis product line to stand out from the competition. And it really does stand out. The next time you ...
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by Eric Frenchman
As reported in a WSJ article this week, Many Major Newspapers Post Circulation , most of the top 10 newspapers posted lower newspaper
The most surprising one was the San Francisco , that saw a decline of almost which dropped them out of the top 10. The reason, according to ...
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by Jim Kelly
At the recent MarketingProfs Finders Keepers , I heard, among others, William Arruda speak on Branding, during which he touched upon Personal
...as a way to perceive and to evaluate one's unique worth within the marketplace, as well as to inform one's
Mr. Arruda himself possesses a clearly articulated personal ...
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by Ann Handley
In this age of Web 2.0, what better way to stand out than to forego the job-search sites completely and pound the virtual pavement
My friend Chris Clarke, who writes at , landed himself a tasty position at the Ontario office of Thornley Fallis Communications almost single-handedly through his blog ...
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by Eric Ward
As more and more online marketers realize the importance of links to their Web success, services selling bogus and useless linking related services
I get at least five inquiries a day from mostly off-shore firms offering to "Turbo Boost My Link-Building
Some sell packages of links. Give them $2,000 and ...
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by Jonathan Kranz
In June, I'm participating in a panel discussion on direct mail strategies at the annual New England Direct Marketing Association
Our obligation is to focus on what's new -- or what's changed in the last few years. Some would argue that the big news is technology -- more sophisticated data ...
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by Sara Holoubek
For 4 years the results of shoddy contractor work have been staring me in the face. That is, until I employed a handyman last
The gentleman was extremely polite with a candor and general mechanical knowledge that one rarely finds in the city. (He, in fact, hailed from Iowa.) Throughout ...
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by Elaine Fogel
As marketing communications professionals, we've often been accused by colleagues as being anal and OCD
-- always so obsessed with proper standards, spelling, formatting, etc. In larger organizations, those communications standards manuals we create for employees may sit and collect dust. It's just another chore for staff to think about, ...
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by Harry Joiner
Here's an E-Z way to make more money the next time you change Do tell the HR department or hiring manager of the company with which you're interviewing how much you make in your present
Trust me, they'll always ask "How much are you making Do tell them! They'll look ...
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by BL Ochman
" A site that contains a melodramatic and droll video about a family whose credit card has been phished for a mysterious purchase in
was launched by today to promote its online security
The campaign is created by The Night , who no doubt hopes that the quirky site will ...
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by Mack Collier
Is Phil Angelides a better marketer than you are?
Angelides, a democratic candidate for governor of California, is in the same position that his opponents are, he needs to find a way to reach the millions of young voters in his state.
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