Tag Archives: marketing
Creative Note
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A great quote about advertising and a link to a real life Mad Men legend. Continue reading
Related: advertising, Ed McCabe, link, Mad Men, marketing, NYT
Online Advertising for Indie Publishers: Banners Alone Won’t Pay the Bills
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Unless you are one of the top 10 sites on the internet, banner ads as your primary source of revenue is not a win. Warning: I go off here. Way off. Continue reading
Related: advertising, analytics, cpm, dad2.0summit, marketing, monetizing, numbers, publishing, stats, the deck
Stop. Go.
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A nice photo and a brain dump about the panel I’m going to be on at the Dad 2.0 Summit this weekend. Continue reading
Related: 2012, conference, dad2.0summit, hipstamatic, iPhone 4S, marketing, morning, online marketing, winter, wonky
Time to Rethink Online Ads
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Link to a piece about the state of online ads and how the direct response model has killed creativity in online advertising. Continue reading
Related: advertising, link, marketing, online advertising
Siri v TellMe
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Video showing a real life use of Apple’s Siri versus Microsoft’s TellMe as well as another video showing a Microsoft C-level exec dismissively talking about Siri. Continue reading
Who’s Gonna Buy That?
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Your mom. I kid, but it’s true. One of the shortest sighted things that nerds do is project their dreams … Continue reading
Related: apple, geekery, iPad, marketing, product theory, rant
Demographics Survey
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I haven’t done one of these and I think it will help me decide the kinds of ads to run or … Continue reading
Identity Conference Materials
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You can see the materials from the conference Heather and I attended in Calrgary last month here. My stuff is down … Continue reading
Canadians are Nice
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I’ve known about Canadians and their niceness since university. I fell madly, then obsessively in love with a feisty Toronto girl in … Continue reading
Advertising Does Work
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Many of you have sent email or commented about the Blog Ad currently running on this site. The ad is … Continue reading
Advertising Homophobia and Losing
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I saw this post on Boing Boing involving a blogger and free speech. Justin had posted the above image in response … Continue reading
CEO Gone Mad
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Here’s an example. Someone needs to tell the person(s) making the decisions about a home page that going Las Vegas doesn’t … Continue reading
$30 vs. $800
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Is the $800 coffee machine really worth that much more? The coffee machine I have ($33). The coffee machine somebody gave a member … Continue reading
Related: coffee, design, I was so wrong, marketing
New Product: Tater Bombz
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As part of the Blurbomat annual Autumn Regression (wherein editorial staff channels their inner twelve year-old boy), we’ve done some … Continue reading
Related: dude, marketing, scatological joke
Badvertising — Nice Rack
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Recent travel dictated that I purchase a PC rag to read while waiting through endless security checks. Normally, Blurbomat would not include … Continue reading
Related: badvertising, marketing
