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What Fresh Fluke Says About Your Business

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A little food talk to end the week.  There was a great article in the Times’ Dining section this week about how technology changes everything.  The dining section?  You bet, and it wasn’t the obvious changes many of us foodies have seen in things such as reservations (Open Table) or reviews (Yelp and way too many others) or discounts (Living Social, GroupOn et. al.).  No, this one was about disintermediation and the business point it made was something we should all keep in the back of our minds.

The piece was about fluke but the change is anything but flukey, as you’ll see. Continue reading

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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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Just Throwing It On The Wall

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One would think that as media gets more specific and measurable they’d get more efficient as well.  One would think, but one might just be way off the mark.  I say this after reading the results of the latest Harte-Hanks study on email.  More details in a minute but  while companies seem to be doing a better job of getting their messages delivered to their intended recipients, those recipients seem to read them far less often and aren’t reacting as conversions either.  In my mind, this is just throwing it up against the wall to see what sticks, but let’s see what you think. Continue reading

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