Tag: strategy


Call and Raise

If you’re reading this blog it’s probably safe to assume you’re in the camp that thinks experiencing traditional advertising is not unlike being savaged by a dead sheep. OK, you might not put it in those exact terms but hopefully you get my drift.
So if campaigns and promotions and incentives and sweepstakes and banner ads […]

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Posted by Jeremy on Monday, March 24th, 2008

Us and Them

“The Net is more than just an interactive TV channel with troublesome users”. This great quote courtesy of Doc Searls (hat-tip Mr Arthur).
It’s already a hoary cliché that marketers and agencies have lost control of the conversation (assuming they had it in the first place). What’s also evident is that brand perception is something that […]

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Posted by Jeremy on Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

Keynesian Marketing

John Maynard Keynes wasn’t always right as an economist but he certainly had a pithy turn of phrase. One of his aphorisms, “You can’t push on a piece of string”, seems pretty relevant today as a critique of wrong-headed online marketing strategy (ie, most of it).
I’d define any marketing plan that relies on broadcasting interruptive […]

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Posted by Jeremy on Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

Link round-up (3/11/2008)

Welcome to another edition of “Chris can’t stay away from his over-stuffed feed reader” — on today’s menu is a serving of 10 delicacies culled from a week’s worth of multiple-windows with dozens-of-tabs, lightly sprinkled with banal commentary and liberal use of the <em> tag.

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Posted by Chris on Tuesday, March 11th, 2008