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What’s Your Number?

I read a lot of marketing related publications.  Newsletters, blogs, magazines, etc.  Obviously, all of them have written extensively on the change in media and how marketing through those media have been affected.  I think the most recently evolved form of media – social media – gets most of the ink of late, along with mobile although more traditional forms of media such as TV still get the bulk of the investment.

One thing I find disturbing in all of this is a kind of legacy from my TV marketing days:  a focus on the numbers.  I don’t mean obsessive measurement – I’m a big believer in accountability.  What I mean is what Bob Seger wrote about:  feeling like a number. Continue reading

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What Is It And Why Do I Care?

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A group of very smart web executives and I were talking about content and how to present it to increase engagement.  The discussion centered around defining how we should be thinking about user engagement with content – is it just page views, is it time on a page, is greater time on fewer pages just as good as a lot of quick views, etc.  I tried to simplify it down to the basic question I think is in the user’s mind:  what is this and why should I care about it.  Let me explain. Continue reading

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I’m An Addict?

There is a bit of buzz this morning around the interwebs about a study that was done in the UK about people’s emotional dependence on technology.  I’ll share some of the details in a minute but the headline is that many of us are “digitally dependent.”  As in addicted.  Although most of the respondents to the study don’t call it that, the psychologists evaluating the data say that the responses are similar to how addicts describe being without their drug of choice or smokers envision life without cigarettes.

So are we a bunch of junkies or what? Continue reading

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