Direct Marketing Observations

AUGUST 9, 2012

I’ve been somewhat neglecting the blog over the last few months but I have a good excuse er… reason. As device proliferation increases, so does demand for sites, apps, content curators and content creators. What will it take to create and curate compelling content? Others are getting my good content.

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Direct Marketing Observations

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Read this snippet below from Google’s blog post about social search. What this will get people to do possibly, is change the nature of the online relationships they have, they make, and that they curate. The time has come where social and search are no longer sharing the same clothes. Is this is a good thing?

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Direct Marketing Observations

APRIL 28, 2011

There are too many places to find content, curate content, share content and consume content. But nevertheless, at the end of the day-Your presence, your bio, your participation, your video, your pic, your blog post, your quote, your tweet, your status update, your opinion, your recommendation, and or your location is what’s needed.

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Direct Marketing Observations

JUNE 14, 2011

Additionally, creating an editorial calendar for when you are going to blog and what your topics will be and what the content might be is a lot different than paying someone to load you up with bland, link baited light on content,articles to fill your blog with.

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Direct Marketing Observations

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

. . . . . . . . Creation, curation and aggregation. I don’t dispute blog posts like this Why Content Curation Is Here to Stay. Google has been making changes to its algorithm to keep low-quality sites from appearing high in searches, according to Matt Cutts in a blog post last month. We do one of those.

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Direct Marketing Observations

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

In marketing, especially in the web world, there’s a sense that all we have to do is create a website, add that transactional back-end, create a Facebook page, a Twitter handle, and a blog site-and they will come. You have to be proactive in this new digital paradigm. You can’t wait for it to happen or you’re done.

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Direct Marketing Observations

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

People are using each other because they’re seeing that our social selves can be so easily intertwined into our ability to create, and curate; and yet it’s also dependent on consumption, its dependent on sharing, dependent on broadcasting the message, the message that is you and me. It’s how blogging works.

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