Sometimes I think that traditional offline marketers look at the Internet like the title character of some monster movie–the Internet is the thing that ate marketing. It doesn’t have to…
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Google suffering from Big Company Disease
No, Google isn’t suffering from corporate hardening of the arteries the way many old mammoth firms do, but I noticed something the other day that made me do a double…
Read MoreIt’s time for “trust marketing” on the web
Are you concerned about how much Google and other marketers know about you? Do you habitually erase your cookies to cover your tracks? Do you wish there was an easy…
Read MoreWhy Internet marketing is just getting started
Someone said to me today, “It must have been great to be part of Internet marketing from the beginning.” Well, it has been. But in truth, we’re still at the…
Read MoreMarket researchers need the opposite of a blog
OK, I get it it. You probably haven’t spent much time considering the question of what the opposite of a blog is. But Genevieve Bell has. She is working on…
Read MoreHow social media listening helps your search marketing
I frequently talk to clients about how they can use the services of Converseon to listen to the subjects that customers talk about in social media. Lots of companies are…
Read MoreThe biggest secret of social media is free
Are you afraid of unleashing your employees in the world of social media? You might not need to be. To find out the no-cost secret that successful social media companies…
Read MoreSocial media is direct marketing
Lee Odden posed an excellent question in his blog recently, as to whether social media is direct marketing. Brian Clark told Lee that it is, most definitely, direct marketing. Lee…
Read MoreSearch engine conflicts we don’t accept
Microsoft is selling Razorfish, the search consultancy it acquired as part of the bigger aQuantive acquisition. Microsoft has been criticized for owning a search consultancy that manages clients’ paid search…
Read MoreSearching for profits more than answers
The refreshing thing about search marketing is the way that the little guy was on equal footing with the big guy. Yes, I said “was” on equal footing. I am…
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