August 6, 2009 · 9:44 am
If you’ve spent any time around ad agencies and/or media sales people, inevitably the subject of process automation comes up. Many agencies are living in fear of Google on a lot of levels, in part because the big guys don’t do search and search’s high accountability calls a lot of other media decisions into question. One other factor is the automation of the whole buying and selling process and that’s today’s topic. Continue reading →
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Tagged as advertising, business, Business model, Business process, Business process automation, business thinking, Cost per mille, digital, digital media, google, HAL 9000, management, managing, marketing, Marketing and Advertising, media, Search Engines, technology
August 4, 2009 · 11:56 am
This is not a political blog but from time to time we do find lessons in the world of politics which apply to business. I’m saying this up front since the topic from which I’m pulling a lesson today – the whole Obama birth certificate controversy – is totally political and raises strong feelings on both sides. Yet within the heated arguments is a truth which holds for either side. Continue reading →
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July 31, 2009 · 9:21 am
At the end of the D.A. Pennebaker film Monterey Pop, there comes a performance that took place on a cold June morning in 1967. Everyone was half asleep, all the big guns like Jimi Hendrix and Otis Redding and the Mamas and the Papas had been fired. Yet while those guns had elicited many emotions, it took this one last one to bring out pure, unmitigated joy. Continue reading →
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Tagged as 1960s, advice, Bands and Artists, business, business thinking, Jimi Hendrix, life, life lessons, Monterey Pop, Monterey Pop Festival, Music, Otis Redding, Ravi Shankar, teamwork
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