Several years ago, I wrote a post called What’s Google’s Strategy? where I broke down the search giant’s real business model: advertising anything everywhere. And while I have had more to…
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Is the Valley mindset leaving $60 billion on the table?
I read a very interesting article this week by the deputy editor of Adweek, Chip Bayers. The premise is pretty simple. Silicon Valley has created the monsters of the Internet…
Read MoreBattle of the social media titans
Big companies don’t move that rapidly. They are lumbering sump wrestlers that move slowly and continually bulk up to be big enough to move the titan on the other side…
Read MoreToyota launches a social network for drivers
Is the car the ultimate mobile device? Toyota thinks so. With Salesforce.com, they’ve launched a social network for Toyota owners and drivers that keeps them connected to Toyota, to its…
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Why Google will clean Bing’s clock on local and mobile
Just recently as a month or two ago, I really thought that Bing had some genuine hope in making a dent in Google’s search dominance. Each month it seems like…
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The Bing opportunity: Be the Anti-Google
NOTE: THIS IS NOT AN APRIL FOOLS JOKE. SOME OF US ACTUALLY BELIEVE BING HAS A SHOT AGAINST GOOGLE! READ ON AND SEE HOW THAT MIGHT HAPPEN. I have had…
Read MoreMarketers must be mindful of the software ecosystem
It’s a brave new world for marketers. When I started in this business, it would have been hard to find two teams with less in common than the IT team…
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Google and Bing still have an SMB gap
As I follow the SMB market in the online space, I see something that I am not convinced the tech world is paying enough attention to. It’s a demarcation line…
Read MoreSearch goes social–Where should you go?
It’s been about a month since Facebook and Microsoft hooked up to talk about how Bing will be using Facebook data in its search rankings. It caused quite a stir,…
Read MoreIs Microsoft losing its grip?
I like to say that Internet marketing is more about marketing than about the Internet, but every once in a while, the Internet gets in our way. If you follow…
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