Archive for the ‘Marketing’ Category

The brand commandments: 1. Thou shalt be useful

March 31st, 2010 — Mark

One of the key questions for a brand online is: where do I fit in?  How can I join the conversation?  Of course, it all depends on the brand how you can answer that question.  Some brands are naturally the answer to a problem.  Some brands clean floors, or fill in your tax return for [...]

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Personalised PR pitches

May 16th, 2008 — Chunte

For the casual person, the more emails you receive, the more popular you are: normally be a boost to your ego. You’d expect that popular bloggers will be thrilled by this as a recognition of their popularity but 300+ “PR Spam” emails a day can be a little much.
Chris Anderson, [...]

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Interacting with bloggers: how to do it well

July 3rd, 2006 — Mark

This is a simple, useful “how to” from Boris Mann on how PR and marketing professionals should interact with bloggers:
- Use permanent links (and make them intuitive)
- Provide product information (as much as possible)
- Project personality (don’t be a robot)
The full link is here.
(via Steve Rubel)

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Thomson Holidays blog

June 26th, 2006 — Mark

Thomson holidays are blogging. It seems to be a mixture of news, jokes, diary items and other interesting stuff. It’s pretty well designed and it has a brand feel about it, without being too stuffy. There are a lot of useful links. After all the conversations we have [...]

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News moves to the web

June 14th, 2006 — Mark

An excellent survey of “citizen journalism” and the switch of news consumption to being a) continuous b) online by Stephen Quinn of Deakin University, Australia, writing in Ohmynews. The key stats:
- Internet advertising in the United States jumped 38 percent to a record $3.9 billion in the first quarter of this year as [...]

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