Not your daddy’s email

Remember when email was spelled “eMail”? And you read it from a desktop computer after dialing up with a modem and waiting for it to download? Makes me nostalgic for sock puppet commercials and Y2K panic. Check out Wendy Roth‘s great article on the ways email marketing has changed in the last decade. It may [...]

The socialification of search

Peter Hershberg of AdAge just posted one of the better write-ups I’ve seen on the merging of search and social (searchial?). The concept has been in the news and on my mind more lately since HitWise reported that, for some sites, Facebook is a bigger traffic driver than Google. Peter does a really good job [...]

Turbo Tax Makes New Friends and the Sci-Fi Channel Renames Itself

Hey, Trae – Turbo Tax is running a contest where they reward people for Twitter and Facebook chatter. It’s ‘an engagement campaign across social media’. Everyone who chooses to participate must first ‘friend’ Turbo Tax or follow them on Twitter. Turbo tax will then have many more new friends and followers. What should they do with that data?

7 simple steps for reviewing creative

Good morning marketing folks. If you’re spending any time looking at print ads, email, websites, mobile creative, social media ideas, direct mail, or creative concepts for any other channel, here a few things to consider: 1. Biases begone!  So what if you don’t like sumo wrestlers? Think about whom you want to like the work [...]

I’ll give you my username if it means a better pair of shoes

It’s a colossal understatement to say that the world is all aTwitter these days. Congress tweets (or is it twits?), heads down, thumbs pounding, during the president’s address. Jon Stewart mocks them. Big media jumps on the Twitter bandwagon. Doonesbury mocks them. And then there was the techno-incestuous, narcissistic, seemingly-infinite, self-referential, Twitter loop that was [...]