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Canaries in the coal mine

Which established organization or way of doing things is the best predictor of marketing’s future? That is, is it the newspaper business? The record business? Neither? None?
I think politics is a pretty good canary. There’s a great article in this month’s Atlantic about what many are calling the “YouTube” election. (Note: I’m not. […]

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Posted by misterarthur on Monday, April 21st, 2008

How to tell the era of newspapers is almost over

They’ve just opened “The Newseum” in Washington, DC. (Don’t mean to steal Casey’s predictive thunder, but I’m trying to be topical)

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Posted by misterarthur on Friday, April 11th, 2008

Accidental Branding

The Church of the Customer blog has an interesting interview with David Vinjamuri, author of Accidental Branding. It’s a good interview, and you should know that the “accidental” part refers to the incident(s) that caused an entrepreneur to start his or her company - an incident that occurred accidentally.
Here are couple of things Vinjamuri […]

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Posted by misterarthur on Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Your last dollar

Pretend for a minute that your business is failing. You have (figuratively) one dollar to spend on “advertising” and “marketing”.
Where would you spend it? A cheap tv commercial you could run a couple of times on cable? A couple of radio commercials on Rush Limbaugh? One print ad in the New York Times or the […]

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Posted by misterarthur on Friday, April 4th, 2008

We’re not targets

Well, I’m not, and I bet you’re not either. Yet much of modern advertising is based on the premise than you can lump people together, based on their age - or an age range, which makes even less sense - sex and income. Watch the NCAA basketball tournament, and you’ll see all the money wasted […]

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Posted by misterarthur on Tuesday, March 25th, 2008