This week our start-up presented at TechCrunch Disrupt, a conference about how emerging technologies and bootstrapping start-ups are disrupting the media business. It was held at 570 Washington Street (pictured here via Google Streetmaps), a former Merrill Lynch data center in New York City’s far West Village.… Read the rest
Tag Archives: Marketing
Getting Rid Of The Sludge & Greasing The Skids
I use this blog not only to organize and share my thinking, but to experiment with various Web software services — typically plugins and small code embeds. An unintended consequence of a few recent updates resulted in very slow page download speeds — sometimes up to 13 seconds.… Read the rest
Be More Effective Through Storytelling
New Scientist cites Chao Lu of China, who was able to recite 67,890 digits of pi from memory in 2005, making him a world memory champion. I found the method used by memory champions interesting:
Many of them use a mnemonic method. Before starting to memorize a number, they associate a person or object with each four-digit number from 0000 to 9999.
Search Marketers Poised To Dominate Exploding Growth Of Social Media Advertising
There probably isn’t a single advertising or marketing communications agency today that hasn’t checked the box on “social media marketing.” Can you think of one that hasn’t? No? Didn’t think so.
With so many agency disciplines and the absence of meaningful advertising platforms on the social networks, most agencies have been building social-media marketing (SMM) capabilities around “earned media” tactics.… Read the rest
Lee Odden’s Q&A With Me
Apologies…
My intention is not to sound vane. But if you’re interested in learning a little more about me, check out my Q&A with Lee Odden on his TopRank Online Marketing Blog.
Btw, Lee is one of my favorite guys in the online marketing industry.… Read the rest