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Smart Cars

SCION

This will be a brief post because I’m going to let the subject speak for itself. I write a lot about the changing nature of marketing, how smart marketers have realized a few important things have changed, and are acting accordingly. This is a great example of what I mean. Continue reading

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Doom and Gloom

A slide rule.  This is an example of a mathema...

You can sort-of fake remember the headline – “Sales of Slide Rules Forecast to Drop Dramatically.” (I think I just made up that “fake remember” notion, by the way).  A gloomy forecast that hides good news – “Sales of Calculators Skyrocket” because they’re a better solution (and I’m old enough to have used a slide rule in school – not fun). I bring this up because there’s another instance of this today. Continue reading

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Just The Facts, Ma’am

Men in Hats

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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