Direct Marketing Observations

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Does Good Content Matter Anymore?

Direct Marketing Observations

These folks are trying to appease the almighty search engines. Specifically Google, but Bing and Yahoo and all the other 2nd tier engines figure in as well. Content producers defer to search engines instead of people. Is it people or search engines? There’s an ulterior motive happening here.

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When Social Media Strategy Becomes Irrelevant

Direct Marketing Observations

Here are 3 examples where social media has never figured more prominently and yet it had nothing to do with strategy or ROI, but had everything to do with the engine that does drive social media, PEOPLE.

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Who are You Blogging for? Your peers or Your Customers?

Direct Marketing Observations

Again, yet another example of writing to your peers and not the target audience… I thought or assumed I had sent him a good, insightful, explanatory document of how we go about our business in social media; and I told him he could show that to his clients and that they should have a pretty clear picture of what we do.

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