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January 8, 2013 Articles

The Future Of Marketing: You Connected To Your Toaster

What can media do? I was driving on the highway and spotted a billboard. It was your average, run of

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January 4, 2013 Articles

The Drone Wars… Business Style

Drones are everywhere. Less than a decade ago, The Pentagon had about fifty unmanned combat air vehicles (known as drones

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December 25, 2012 Articles

The Right Fit

What makes great advertising work? Whether you’re watching a panel discussion at the Cannes Lion or reading an article in

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December 18, 2012 Articles

Dances With Robots

In 1863 something profound happened to First Lieutenant John J. Dunbar. While recovering from an injury during the American Civil

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December 11, 2012 Articles

The End Of The Smartphone

What will be the timeframe for smartphone and tablet devices to decimate desktop and laptop computers? By all accounts, it

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December 7, 2012 Articles

Great Marketing Is Utilitarian

The pleasures of shopping for food. In any supermarket chain, some things are easy to find. Apples. Milk. Bread. But

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November 27, 2012 Articles

The Future Of Iconic Brands

In the real-time Web, the value of branding could become a game of diminishing returns. A friend recently told me

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November 13, 2012 Articles

Why Email Needs A Facelift

There has got to be something better than email. Email has been around longer than you think (you check out

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November 6, 2012 Articles

On The Road (Warrior) Again

Now – more than ever – it’s possible to do business from anywhere at any time. For over ten years,

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October 30, 2012 Articles

Why Newspapers Let Sandy Blow Paywalls Down

With Hurricane Sandy happening, the Wall Street Journal and New York Times took down their paywalls. Unbiased media is a

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October 23, 2012 Articles

The Lance Armstrong Effect

Much has been said about Lance Armstrong lately. Not much has been said by Lance Armstrong, himself. It used to

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October 17, 2012 Articles

The Perfect Marketing Strategy That Fell Out Of The Sky…

When someone jumps from the edge of space back to earth and it’s all supported by one brand, you know

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October 2, 2012 Articles

In The Nick Of Real-Time

Are consumer expectations getting out of control? True story: our brand-new dryer broke down. It’s not even one year old.

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September 25, 2012 Articles

Where Everybody Knows Your Name… And Face

Have you ever found yourself being tagged in a Facebook picture that makes you feel just a little bit uncomfortable?

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September 18, 2012 Articles

When Digital Just Won't Do

If you were looking to buy issue #11 of Marvel Premiere featuring Dr. Strange, where would you go? To Google,

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September 3, 2012 Articles

The Resurrection Of Podcasting

Does anyone listen to podcasts anymore? Does anyone even care? This past week, I published episode #321 of my weekly

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August 28, 2012 Articles

The Mailbox Re-Invented And Brought To You By Amazon

"Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these courageous couriers from the swift completion of their

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August 21, 2012 Articles

The Trouble With Online Advertising

Is online advertising any good? Last week, DigiDay ran the news item titled, The Ad Contrarian’s Reality Check. Bob Hoffman

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August 14, 2012 Articles

Are You In The Business of Awesome?

It’s hard to be great in business today. It’s not that businesses don’t try, it’s that their every waking move

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August 7, 2012 Articles

A Better Waze To Handle Traffic

Israeli drivers are insane. This isn’t a scientific fact, but rather a commonly held belief with the rest of the

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July 31, 2012 Articles

The Art Of Fake Familiarity

Pitches are getting worse. I recently got an email pitch from a public relations specialist that read something like this:

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