To and from my vacation in Grand Cayman I was on 4 different US Air flights where the flight attendants were pushing their airlines credit card. Right after the safety briefing they went into the virtues of the card. They then went up and down the aisles flashing the applications and taking them back from […]
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The Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO), www.sempo.org, will hold a series of events in connection with ad:tech Singapore, June 9. Singapore is the first stop on a three-city Asian tour that SEMPO is undertaking to foster the awareness of search engine marketing and connect professionals in the region with Western markets. It will also
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Since Ogilvy let the cat out of the bag with a release to the New York Times, I can talk about my upcoming departure from Global Strategies. I am still here until the end of May and will continue to be a shareholder. My departure is amicable. I needed to take a break from integrating
I recently had an experience with a client where they had enough infighting with various marketing and advertising tactical silos as well as the functional units of the agency, all playing one tactic off the other to gain a sliver of the ever-decreasing marketing budget. They told everyone they are tired of the fighting and
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Search ad spending by tech, electronics companies slows is the headline to the B2B Magazine article last week by Chris Hosford. Chris was referring to a Paid Search spend study released recently by Covario.The study indicated that search spend by technology companies had decreased. Now, it was not Chris’ story or the study by Covario
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If you sell a service or offer anything that is local-centric, you MUST, MUST, MUST ensure you have local findability and leverage the increased adoption of smartphones, especially the iPhone. Recently, I was in Austin, Texas, for SXSW and needed to take a cab after an event at the Carver Museum to return to our
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I have been asked by a number of people about the current state of the market and the key competitive threats and opportunities. There have been many different context put on that question but I wanted to share some of my answers and see if there are any differing thought. While many of these may seem like big vs. small agency that is not the case. The opportunities are real for either agency to win this this current economy.
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One trend I am noticing more and more as the advertising market sours and budgets decrease is vendors and publishers doing end-runs around agencies and key internal evangelists. CMOs and senior marketing managers are grasping for improvements in performance and tactics that can help them extract additional value from their current marketing budgets. This desperation
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For those of you in the Austin area or who are flying in for PubCon South or SXSW stop in and catch my session on the SEO Landscape, where I will cover the following: SEO is gaining popularity due to the high cost of PPC, as well as a growing understanding among companies to integrate
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I have a particular affinity for the SES London conference. About seven years ago, at this event, the GSI partners and I were referred to as the “dream team” of search, and we have had our heads high with pride and delivered killer work since. Attending the event also means I get to go on
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