Yesterday, as part of National Education Week, I audited several classes at my daughter’s high school. One of them, Non-Western Philosophy (yeah, high school has changed in the last 30…
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I’m a Twitter twit
A few months ago, I posted about how I was really on the fence about Facebook, but a few weeks ago I finally signed up and started using it. I…
Read MoreWhat do you want to be when you grow up?
It’s not a question I’ve spent much time thinking about lately, but it was a question brought to mind when I appeared on a panel discussion for 100 business students…
Read MoreHow dangerous is the slow lane?
I work for a large company, and although we try to move quickly and respond to the outside world, we know in our hearts that sometimes we move a bit…
Read MoreWhy don’t bid management programs optimize for profit?
Bid management programs are indispensible for paid search campaigns. Without them, you’d spend all your time recalculating what the right bid would be and have no time to do anything…
Read MoreTracking offline conversions
In my books and my appearances, I emphasize how important it is to identify your Web conversions—just what are you trying to persuade your customers to do? You also need…
Read MoreThe Do It Wrong Quickly Challenge
It’s a lot of work to write a book. So, when you’re through with it, you really (really!) hope people will read it. And so you try to think of…
Read MoreSearch by the numbers
I enjoyed speaking in Chicago on Friday at the final American Marketing Association Hot Topics seminar on Search Marketing. I’ve spoken at two previous versions of this event, but had…
Read MoreDo It Wrong Quickly is the right choice
Drew McLellan posted an interview with me in which he kindly says that “Do It Wrong Quickly Is the Right Choice And even though I literally wrote the book, I…
Read MoreMeasuring brand awareness for free
Often, I work with marketers who aren’t ready to expand their horizons to Internet marketing. They remain mired in the old TV and print habits, religiously comissioning expensive surveys to…
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