Sometimes it’s nice to be on the receiving end of some in-bound agency marketing. There’s a nice branding agency we have been following based in Birmingham, UK. They sent us a little slide deck. It had some background slides about the company and some case studies of client work. All very nicely presented. BUT There [...]
I expect you all just got the email from Reid Hoffman congratulating himself on recruiting 1 million members to Linked In. Lovely. Except he failed in two significant ways The email was not transactional, it was marketing. So the CAN-SPAM law applies. It requires, amongst other things • Physical contact data for your organization. • [...]
Imagine a world in which brands tell the truth, advertisers act like publishers and all communication is real-time. Is this world possible? #brandjo Kyle Monson – Editor JWT Brian Clark – President of GMD Studios Bob Garfield – Advertising Age David Eastman – CRO JWT North America Shiv Singh – Head of digital, Pepsico Eastman: [...]
Sometimes one thing just seems to turn into a flood of similar complaints. This week it is website fails. Places where statements are made, things are promised and nothing happens or the process is clearly broken. Three examples of website failures Careerzone A helpful site advertising high level marketing and business development jobs. Failure to [...]
Taking your website offline is rarely welcomed by the marcomms team. sometimes you have go do it. Brand Glue did a great job of making a strong message come through their holding page. In fact, since I took this screen shot, the timer doesn’t seem to have ‘counted down’ any more…. wonder if it’s really [...]
This is a guest blog by Larry Kim, Founder & VP of Product Development. WordStream Inc. Over the past seven weeks I’ve covered six steps that can transform your search marketing campaigns into lead- and revenue-generating machines. We’ve come to the final step: Step 7: Do it all over (and over) again! SEO and PPC are [...]
hands up the number of times your company has delayed the launch of its newly designed website? It’s virtually impossible to find a client who has actually delivered a new site on time, when expected. So why is this? What makes a corporate website so hard to deliver? Why can’t redesigns be launched on time? [...]






