I am a huge baseball fan. (Well, I am a Cubs fan, so some years they resemble a baseball team—any team can have a bad century.) I recall a baseball…
Read MoreMike Moran
What Google could do to stop negative SEO
Perhaps you’ve heard about “Negative SEO” or “Google bowling,” where your competitors use spam techniques seemingly on your behalf to knock down your site. Ethically-challenged search marketers are once again…
Read MoreMarket research to uncover the unexpected
My teenage daughter and her younger brother were kidding around, when he had an idea for something silly. Dwight removed the stick-on name tag from his shirt and adhered it…
Read MoreThe misguided quest for control
You’ve been there. Perhaps you’re in the supermarket minding your own business when you are suddenly struck by a scene. A child is totally out of control, screaming, carrying on,…
Read MoreDoes Google have enterprise software ambitions?
Google is the king of advertising, and it’s made moves toward productivity software, with Gmail and Google Docs. But what about enterprise software, the stuff that powers businesses, even large…
Read MoreHow do you effectively budget for customer acquisition?
I read a great post last week on the RKGblog on how to spend customer acquisition dollars wisely. Read it yourself, but remember that its audience is catalogers steeped in…
Read MoreLars Seier Christensen of Saxo Bank on being nimble
Sure, we’ve all heard of these new born-on-the-Web banks and trading companies. They’re cool and trendy, but surely no old-style bank could be like that, right? After all, we all…
Read MoreCan you trust contextual ads?
You might recall I talked about SiteTruth a while back, a free service that revamps search results from popular search engines to rate the trustworthiness of advertisers based on a…
Read MoreThe convergence of content management, text analytics, and business intelligence
I spoke this morning to over 100 people, which isn’t news in itself, but you might be surprised when I tell you the topic. These good folks want to know…
Read MoreAdvertising at the moment of the buying decision
I spoke yesterday about Google’s strategy, but a few people wanted to understand a bit more, so I am revisiting that topic. To understand what Google (and many other companies)…
Read More