I've been exposed to the full spectrum of review processes over the years, from sticking-needles-in-your-eyes to OMG-what-a-wonderful-relationship-that-would-be. Here's what I believe works best for all parties. Keep your list of participants as small as possible. A short list of three is ideal. If you can, [...]
You avoid a relationship review by having a relationship review. Let me be more specific: You avoid the big, formal competitive business relationship review (which the agency world so colourfully, albeit inaccurately, calls the gang bang) by having regular little reviews along the way. These [...]
Advertising Age and the Ipsos Observer people released new research [1] in mid-February that sought to better understand the social media habits of US consumers. To no one’s surprise, Facebook is the dominant social network through which users want to receive communications from marketers. Nearly 75% [...]
Please allow me to re-visit what is now very old news in the social media world. Somehow I missed it when it happened. Malcolm Gladwell, journalist and author of significant acclaim, wrote an article which appeared in The New Yorker magazine’s October 2010 issue titled: [...]
It makes sense to be forward-looking at the beginning of the year. Some of what I learned in researching-up for this topic was a surprise to me, and some of it, luckily, actually made sense: 1. Where Online Media is Going It’s always discussed with [...]
Humour in marketing. No weapon in the marketers’ arsenal is as potentially powerful and so often misused. At the most simplistic level, humour in marketing works like this: If an ad makes us smile, we like the ad and the brand too. I get the [...]
