| You are here: Home » The Marketing Diary » The Different Marketing Approach The Different Marketing Approach Discovering fundamentally different marketing approaches and considering the future of marketing ... Multimedia Banner Ads That Rock The internet ad to see ... Some will find it annoying, while others will just love it. My observation is that such unintrussive multimedia ads just might be the future of 'traditional' banner advertising ...
Character Blogs Revisited: Whedonesque.com Continues the Conversation Whedonesque.com, the site devoted to Joss Whedon and his work, such as Buffy and Angel, is continuing the debate on character blogs. If you want to get the consumer point of view, this is a must read. And there are some marketers there as well ...
Internet Taking the Upper Hand 'Against' Newspapers: What Can Publishers Do? Younger audiences, as proved by a recent study, have mostly abandoned print newspapers as important sources of current events in favor of the internet. But what does that really mean? And most importantly, what can newspaper publishers do? And no, blogging is not the only answer ...
Business Blogging: What's The Big Deal? Enough Already ... Most debates about blogging focus on what goes and what doesn't for business blogging, such as the latest character blog discussions. But while we're all seeing (and many 'doing') much talk about blogs, I haven't actually seen any conclusive blog case studies with proven results that without doubt show how blogs impact businesses. Anyway, the Darwin Magazine has an interesting article on why business and blogs don't mix well together, and here's StrategicBoard.com's full response ...
Character Blogs as a Branding Vehicle: An Essay On the Use of Character Blogs to Extend the Brand Character blogs are starting to generate interesting feedback within the blogosphere, getting people on either the positive or the negative side of the fence. This 'essay' was written to demonstrate the enormeous potential of character blogs with the purpose of extending the brand, and to argue why 'authentic' may not really be 'authentic' to many consumers looking for entertainment.
'If e-mail is such a pain in the rear, why are marketers and (of all people) their analysts (i.e. Jupiter) so militantly dismissive of emerging technologies like RSS? I can only conclude it's a combination of 'fear of the unknown' and 'this world moves too fast... we just figured out e-mail... give us a break!''
How to Compute the ROI of a Business Blog Most modern marketers require every marketing activity to yield a certain level of return on investment (ROI), which is something especially close to direct marketers. Let's take a look at 4 ways you can determine the ROI of your business blog ...
Marketer Against Corporation: The 'Moral' Victory is No Question at All A couple of days ago, as we reported here, Joe Vitale beat Harry Potter for the #1 bestseller spot on Amazon.com, at least for a few hours. Well, the Harry Potter following responded in an interesting manner, many of them insulting. But let's take a look at the big picture here: one marketer challenging the corporate world and an army of corporate marketers, and winning, even if just for part of the day.
Marketing Integration: Let's Just Go Back to Faxing One blogger 'suggests', as a response to my article on bloggers having to use e-mail, that we should perhaps even go back to sending broadcast faxes. And strangely, in a way, I agree with him, but without the sarcasm. This article is my case on why the question 'RSS OR E-mail' doesn't matter. What matters instead is learning how to best combine multiple channels, which include even broadcast faxing. This is the 'age of the customer', and any pro-choice decision in the favor of the customer does not mean going backward, but forward. [Updated]
Defining the Relations Between Blogs, E-zines, RSS and E-mail The #1 Mistake Most Blogs Do article generated quite some interesting feedback from the blogosphere. What especially strikes me is that somewhere along the line we started comparing apples and oranges, and lost some much needed objectivity. Let's take a closer look at the relations between blogs, e-zines, RSS and e-mail.
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