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Email Pronounced Dead Yet Again (So Why Is It Still Making So Much Money?)

10.18.11 Posted in Blog, Marketing, Marketing: The Bigger Picture by

Pity the poor email. It’s been pronounced “dead” a half-dozen times since spam almost killed it for real in the mid-90s, and today you’ll find it trampled underfoot by hordes of inexperienced marketers eager for the Next Big Thing. For businesses — even small ones — that’s a shame. One longtime small business client knew [...]

Why Marketers Shouldn’t Overinvest in Social Media (and, Six Tips To Avoid Getting Burned)

05.03.11 Posted in Blog, Marketing, Social Media by

For an online marketing consultant, I’m remarkably conservative when it comes to social media marketing. It’s not as if I ignore it; it’s just that urging clients to invest large amounts of time in media platforms they don’t own or control raises a few red flags. Or at least it should. There are plenty of [...]

The Hype Around Social Media Is Deafening. But What About Its Weaknesses?

02.02.10 Posted in Blog, Social Media by

Social Media is the object of more than its fair share of hype, yet the downsides of social media often go unexplored. These include aspects of social media like employee oversharing, the need to Feed the Monster, and an increased risk of malware and spam attacks (the new social disease?). If that conversation doesn’t occur [...]

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