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Back issues: personal newsletter, July 2010

Posted by Christopher S Penn on Oct 17, 2010 in Blogging, New media | 0 comments

I just realized I never got around to posting the relevant content from the back issues of my personal newsletter, so over the next couple of days, we’ll get everyone caught up. Some of the stuff won’t make it here because it’s woefully out of date (like events) so it’ll just be the pieces that are still relevant. If you’d like to get the newsletter when it’s actually released, just click here to subscribe.

July 2010 Issue

Back issues: personal newsletter, June 2010

Posted by Christopher S Penn on Oct 16, 2010 in Blogging, New media | 0 comments

I just realized I never got around to posting the relevant content from the back issues of my personal newsletter, so over the next couple of days, we’ll get everyone caught up. Some of the stuff won’t make it here because it’s woefully out of date (like events) so it’ll just be the pieces that are still relevant. If you’d like to get the newsletter when it’s actually released, just click here to subscribe.

June 2010 Issue

Back issues: personal newsletter, May 2010

Posted by Christopher S Penn on Oct 15, 2010 in Blogging, New media | 1 comment

I just realized I never got around to posting the relevant content from the back issues of my personal newsletter, so over the next couple of days, we’ll get everyone caught up. Some of the stuff won’t make it here because it’s woefully out of date (like events) so it’ll just be the pieces that are still relevant. If you’d like to get the newsletter when it’s actually released, just click here to subscribe.

May 2010 Issue

Back issues: personal newsletter, April 2010

Posted by Christopher S Penn on Oct 14, 2010 in New media | 0 comments

I just realized I never got around to posting the relevant content from the back issues of my personal newsletter, so over the next couple of days, we’ll get everyone caught up. Some of the stuff won’t make it here because it’s woefully out of date (like events) so it’ll just be the pieces that are still relevant. If you’d like to get the newsletter when it’s actually released, just click here to subscribe.

April 2010 Issue

I really suck at short term marketing

Posted by Christopher S Penn on Oct 13, 2010 in Marketing | 3 comments

Slackershot - Spare Change I had this sudden, painful flash of insight the other day: I really suck at short term marketing. By that, I mean that I don’t have the ability to generate meaningful results in marketing over a very short period of time with no base except a pile of money. When I look back at where my skill sets are, they all revolve around long term:

Social media
Search engine optimization
Email marketing
Marketing strategy

All of my skills come from my experience: working at companies that have more smarts, time, and talent than piles of money, growing organically. I don’t think I’ve ever worked for anyone that simply handed over a billion dollar marketing budget, nor have I ever done any kind of pure “brand building”, because I’ve always been held accountable for actual results in some measurable form.

The things that generate short term results with impact generally require a massive resource pile in order to make a lot of stuff happen very quickly, and my track record has been entirely at companies that do not have billion dollar marketing budgets.

I mention all of this because there is a place for short term marketing and long term marketing. Both are important, and both require very different talents. The question is, which type of marketing do you need?

An even better question is whether you are expecting short term results from long term marketing, or vice versa. Are you being asked for short term results but given the meager resources of long term, organic marketing? If so, you will be immensely frustrated. Are you sitting on a pile of resources allocated for short term marketing that you’re not using because of a long term strategy? If so, you’re squandering available resources.

If your expectations are a mismatch for the marketing capabilities you have, you will always be disappointed.

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