Direct Marketing Observations

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Does Good Content Matter Anymore?

Direct Marketing Observations

We’re content starved. The emergence of tablets and mobile devices has only enhanced our desire to consume digital content. When content producers cannot meet the demands of a ravenous public, things can get ugly and the public walks-digitally speaking. Good content is getting lost in the firehose of bad content.

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The Conundrum of Content

Direct Marketing Observations

Others are getting my good content. Or maybe I should just say they are getting my content, whether it’s good or not, well that’s in the eyes of the reader now isn’t it? Being a content producer is brutal, it’s hard and it never ends. No longer is average content acceptable. Sometimes it sucks.

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Our Shifting Notion of Search, Social and Mobile.

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In 2000 Google was a 2 year old start-up still trying to create an identity and compete with Yahoo and MSN. If you think about what made MySpace popular, it wasn’t as much about the conversations as it was about creating your own content, your own page-it struck a nerve. Take for example search. doesn’t it?

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