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Social Media

Consumer Choice and Silo Thinking

July 21, 2010 Email Marketing

In case you aren’t aware of it yet, the email marketing industry is abuzz over Ben and Jerry’s decision to drop email marketing as a major strategy over in the UK. Check out the Email Guide’s scoop on the issue here. The consensus among industry types (found here on the Blue Sky Factory blog) is [...]

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Access and Opportunity

June 15, 2010 Email Marketing

We all know that the basic tenet of economics (and business in a sense) is the inverse relationship between supply and demand. The greater the supply versus the demand, the lower the price, and vice versa. I think this model, while generally an accurate depiction of how business and economics work, vastly simplifies the human/emotional [...]

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Email is the Digital Paper Trail

May 11, 2010 Email Marketing

You know why I love Gmail? By its sheer volume of available disk space, Gmail has become my paper trail. I shop frequently online. I pay the majority of my bills online. My Gmail account (or should I say accounts “plural”) has become a sort of receipt tray for all of those transactions. And with [...]

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Anonymity, Filters, and Authority: Questions for Social Media Professionals

March 23, 2010 Social Media

The other day on her blog, Lauren Fernandez wrote a great post preaching the very sensible notion that you should—God forbid—“Think Before You Tweet.” Her point centered on the fact that often, the persona an individual presents online is inevitably (particularly in her field—PR) linked to the company he or she works for and possibly [...]

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It’s About People, Stupid–Join the Conversation

December 3, 2009 Email Marketing

“No one cares if you’re a Fortune 500 Company on the Internet.” This was something Greg Cangialosi said a few months ago in a Blue Sky Factory webinar that struck me. And he’s absolutely right. Long gone are the days of the monolithic corporations telling you how to think, how to dress, what to buy. [...]

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