Direct Marketing Observations

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

I was reading an article today titled, Behind the Wheels: An all-too-real Cinderella story it had 12 comments. Which got me to wondering: How come useless throw away blog posts and articles have tons and tons of comments and the good stuff gets next to nothing? Do you share it, save it, or comment?

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Direct Marketing Observations

MAY 22, 2012

Recently in the Wall Street Journal, there was an article titled , Why Successful Branding Still Happens Offline. The article was good but it was really similar to a thousand other articles that I have read over the years about how brands need to do this or that in social in order to be successful. That’s the money shot.

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JUNE 2, 2011

I was reading an article on MSNBC recently about Groupon and the tag line to the piece was the following: “When everything’s social, nothing is.&#. It’s not going to happen yet, but as I was made aware in a comment on a post I wrote about social media bubbles -&# there is a bubble, it’s just different&#.

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JULY 12, 2010

I read an article in Wired’s Epicenter from a couple of days ago titled- Gaming the System: How Marketers Rig the Social Media Machine and the article caught my eye for a number of reasons. Back then, comment spam and server farms did wonders for text based links and I was all over it. I was the one gaming the system.

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MARCH 5, 2010

It shows up in search in the form of great websites, sweet artwork, graphics, compelling, link juicy blog posts, articles, white papers, e-books, comments, mentions, profiles and bookmarks that you created all on behalf of the client. Simply put, your good work will and still resonates long after you have departed.

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JANUARY 18, 2010

On January 8th Mark Zuckerberg the founder and CEO of Facebook made the following comment: If he were to create Facebook again today, user information would by default be public, not private… Here is the full blown article as found on ReadWriteWeb: Facebook’s Zuckerberg Says The Age of Privacy is Over.

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