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Business Thoughts: Tool Providers v. Service Providers
In: The Web| Work| advertising| branding| business| marketing| social media
29 Jul 2009The hip new shiny thing for a new company is to position themselves as a service. Stepping back from the hype machine for a minute, can you really identify a service provider when you see one? Or are the companies that sell themselves as services are actually tools. And what differentiates a tool provider from [...]
A Brand is not a Conversation
In: Commentary| advertising| authority| branding| reputation
12 Jan 2009Brand and Branding are tossed about as sterile concepts that people want to dissect on a repeated basis, as if a deeper understanding of the words themselves will allow a view into the soul of a people.
When I step back and examine these concepts, free of involvement in the world of Brand creation and propagandization, [...]
Branding, Authority, and Reputation: A Parable
In: advertising| authority| branding| reputation
2 Jan 2009On a fine July day, a local man runs into a neighborhood bar carrying a stack of pamphlets, and wearing the hat announcing a new service. His beaming smile and easy attitude made the rest of the patrons want to listen to him.
“I have seen the greatest new thing in the history of our species,” [...]
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Video: The mistake of the personal brand
In: advertising| branding| marketing
31 Oct 2008Personal Brand, Reputation, and The Mistake of Closed SourceA video description of why reputation outranks brand every time
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Branding v. Reputation: Idea Pairing
In: advertising| branding| marketing| social media
6 Oct 2008I spent some time today pairing ideas that separate Branding from Reputation. These came from my discussion of Branding being closed-source and Reputation being open-source [here].
It’s just a start, but it’s a start.
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Marketing and Social Media: The Bullseye of Communicating
In: Blogging| The Web| advertising| branding| marketing| social media
6 Oct 2008Marketing has traditionally been a two-pronged attack on your mind and your wallet, designed to find the most effective ways to reach your mind, and get you to part with your money.
The techniques used to identify who to go after, how to go after them, and why this message will work drives a social media [...]
Peter Kim’s discussion of Social Media Marketing and Scalability
In: advertising| branding| marketing| social media
5 Oct 2008If you are interested in the area of social media marketing, head over to Peter Kim’s blog and check out Social Media Marketing’s Scalability Problem. The post is excellent, and the comments are the kind of conversation that needs to be had in this area.
The best comments so far:
Aaron Strout
John Bell
Phil Gillman
The interesting thing is [...]
(Personal) Branding is Closed-Source
In: advertising| branding| marketing
3 Oct 2008Last night I asked myself what would happen if blogs and social-media sites were no longer allowed to have advertising on them. What would be the revenue model for them? How would they generate income?
I fell back to the position that these sites were not originally created to be driven by advertising, but to develop [...]
PageRank for Social Media is a Broken Metaphor
In: The Web| advertising
1 Oct 2008When I posted Advertising to the Community: Is PageRank a Good Model for Social Media? a couple of days ago, I was working in a vacuum. I was responding to some degree to the infamous BusinessWeek article, and to the comments Matt Rhodes made on the idea of PageRank being used to rate social media [...]
The Loss of Blogging Voice, or Why I removed the Ads from my Blog
In: Blogging| Commentary| The Web| Web analytics| advertising| analytics| branding| reputation| social media
11 Aug 2009I have had advertising on my blog for as long as I can remember. Except for the period of time when I hosted the site at Wordpress.com, I have always had AdSense, Chitika, or some other ad services content being contextually presented to my visitors.
Frankly, I found having ads up on my site extremely hypocritical, [...]