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Three most widely-held misconceptions about email marketing - 197 days ago
Aaron Smith, writing for MediaPosts’s Email Insider, provided an interesting sumary of the most common misconceptions about email marketing. Aaron is a founder and principal at Smith-Harmon, a design agency focused on email marketing. (Visit... Topics: Advertising, B2B Marketing, Digital Media, Marketing, Smith-Harmon
Have Americans lost their voice? - 197 days ago
After posting my piece on Consumer 2.0, I received a Tweet from one of my friends on Twitter.@BrandCentral - Consumers need to make companies stop taking us for granted. We are your source of income - respect us, dangnabbit!Not only did I find the... Topics: American Pulse Survey, BIGResearch, Brand USA, consumer 2.0, consumer relationships, Hope, Hubris, Marketing America, Opinion Studies, Respect
The Apple iPhone has been a tremendous marketing success. This week (today, in fact), Apple’s iTunes Apps Store just distributed its one billionth application for the iPhone. This last quarter, Apple shipped over three and a half million...
Topics: Apple, Baby Shaker App, Brand Crafting, Branding, eWeek, iPhone, Marketing, PR, Web 2.0
Topics: Apple, Baby Shaker App, Brand Crafting, Branding, eWeek, iPhone, Marketing, PR, Web 2.0
Customer 2.0 - 197 days ago
by Mike BawdenPresident & CEO; Brand Central StationThese are indeed interesting times in which we all live. The pace of life has picked up so dramatically in the last ten years, I question our society’s combined ability to adapt without some.. Topics: consumer 2.0, consumer relationships, Culture, Informed Decision Making, Leadership, Marketing, media consumption, Much Ado About Marketing, Social Marketing, Social Media, Web 2.0
B2B’s hidden marketing budget - 199 days ago
An article posted to BtoB Magazine’s web site a while back pointed out an interesting result from a recent Hearst survey: nearly 50% of all b-to-b marketing budgets are spent on online programs. That spend covers everything from web site... Topics: B2B Magazine, B2B Marketing, Brand Building, Duct Tape Marketing, Employee Communications, John Janstch













