Search Results for: Marketers on Fire

  • Tweet This: Screw Revenue

    While not every story of Twitter tries to untangle the mini-entrepreneurial soap opera that gave rise to Twitter, no story would be complete without a talk about the low hanging fruit of topics, Twitter’s lack of revenue. From one…

  • Make it Count

    During the weeks leading up to a marketing effort, a top campaign strategist does everything possible to glean customer insight. Targets are segmented

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  • Stupid ESP Watch: The Big Lie

    I received a cold-call voicemail yesterday from a representative of an e-mail service provider looking to do a barter deal.

    Never mind I’m not the person to approach for barter deals—or any other type of non-editorial issue, for that matter—the sales rep made one statement that made me cringe.

    “Our delivery rates are very high,” she said.

    That statement has no place in a pitch from an e-mail service provider.

  • Stupid Idea Watch: What Not to Put in a Work E-mail

    An account manager in Australia has been fired as a result of writing an obscenity-laced tirade about a client meant to be forwarded to a co-worker and then mistakenly hitting “reply” instead of “forward,” resulting in the message being sent to the client.

  • Home Run

    Sports fanatics are die-hard fans. They bellow and chest bump when their team is winning and fire the clicker across the room (emphasized by a high-pitched

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  • American Airlines Runs Contest to Build Hispanic Loyalty

    American Airlines has added another marketing initiative to its efforts to build Hispanic membership in its loyalty program. It is partnering with Eurosport, a U.S. soccer-specialty retailer, for the second consecutive year, this year running a contest to encourage Hispanics to join the program

  • Point of Sale vs. Point of Sofa: Owning the Sell

    Since the dawn of the ad man, marketers have looked to advertising to create a brand message that leads consumers from the newspaper, magazine, billboard, radio and/or television set, and more recently the Internet, to the store

  • Blair Warns Consumers on Recalled Robes

    Blair Corp. is urging consumers to stop wearing certain robes due to a fire hazard believed to have resulted in six deaths

  • Lea & Perrins Brand Manager: Q&A

    Lea & Perrins has launched a new sauce, Lea & Perrins Thick Classic Worcestershire Sauce. The timing is great. Summer’s about here, people are firing up their BBQ grills and outdoor picnics are being planned

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  • Land of Opportunity

    When we talk about arbitrage, we so often think about it from a single point of view – the classic arbitrage scenario involving a single person spending money on one of the major self-service interfaces be it Google…