Direct Marketing Observations

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Should Everything be Free Online?

Direct Marketing Observations

Does Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Youtube, Tumblr, WordPress, Posterous, Typepad, Flickr and Evernote amongst others, charge to use their platforms at an entry level? It’s actually been gasoline on an open flame. There’s a simple solution. We have to level set expectations up front.

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On Dependence of 3rd Party Platforms and Leaving the Grid

Direct Marketing Observations

What happens if Facebook, Apple, Twitter, Youtube, Pandora, Verison, Spotify, Evernote, Amazon, Google and Microsoft were to go away? They wrote a book, they V-logged, they tweeted over 15,000 times, they created an active Facebook page, and then all of a sudden. Without technology, how would we connect with people? What happens?

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