Monday, 10/8 Online Marketing Blog -- "Why Search Marketing is So Hard" Pronet Advertising -- "StumbleUpon: The Antithesis of Google?" Tuesday, 10/9 Marketing Pilgrim -- "Are Newspapers Squandering Yahoo Ad Opportunities? InfoFlow -- "Marketers: There are Seven Separate Intelligences"...
The Tech PR Gems blog ran an interesting post earlier this week that discusses the practice of PR folks commenting on their own clients' stories. As the author notes, it's a fuzzy area that makes a lot of folks nervous: "In talking about engaging bloggers in PR, we...
Does your company ever dilute its credibility with these types of very common lame-o announcements? Lame Partnership Initiatives -- When Google and IBM announce [even relatively mundane] joint initiatives (like today's announcement that they're partnering to "promote new software development methods" in research and academia), tier-1 business...
In a perfect world, product reviewers would buy the new products they're reviewing ... and test them completely independent of any interaction with or coercion by the respective vendors. But most publications don't have the budget to independently acquire the products they review, and therefore rely on the vendors...
Too often, new products are created without adequate feedback and buy-in from prospective customers. That's the gist of the popular book "The Four Steps to the Epiphany" -- which advocates / roadmaps a much richer interaction between vendors and customers during the entire product development cycle. ...
You hear a lot of PR folks claim to have 'relationships' with certain journalists. I remember when I was at PR firms how often colleagues would drop names during new business pitches. "Walt Mossberg WSJ, Steve Lohr NYT -- yeah, we have GREAT relationships with them." As if to say...