Month: July 2010

  • My upcoming webinar: email marketing for the 21st century

    I’ll be doing a webinar on July 23 at 2 PM Eastern on 21st century email marketing, put on by my employer, Blue Sky Factory. In the webinar, I’ll be going over the 5 things every email marketer wants: More audience More delivery More opens More actions More/better metrics In terms of value, I’ll be…

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  • Throwing mattresses and social media

    One of my favorite learning and teaching metaphors comes by way of both the martial arts and Quantum Teaching (Amazon link). Imagine for a moment that the knowledge you have to impart to students is in the shape of a mattress. Imagine that it’s immutable, meaning you can’t magically shrink it or carve it up.…

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  • Did you subscribe?

    When was the last time you heard a really great speaker? When was the last time you read a really insightful blog post? When was the last time you acted on a follow recommendation on Twitter or a LinkedIn connection? I’d bet recently. The beauty of social media is that there’s an infinite choice of…

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  • Marketing lessons from the kitchen

    As a marketer, half of our job is analytical – figuring out what works and optimizing our methods for better results. Half of our job is also creative – coming up with new ways to create demand for our ideas. No one would eat at a restaurant where the sole measure of its performance was…

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  • Why Awaken Your Superhero?

    A funny thing occurred to me recently as I was redesigning this blog. (by the way, if you haven’t stopped by the actual site lately, it’s got a whole new look) There’s a very specific reason why it’s named Awaken Your Superhero – you’re already a superhero. You have only to realize it, to awaken…

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  • You are independent, right?

    For my American friends, happy Independence Day! You are independent, right? You read multiple news sources from around the world, different nations, different viewpoints You read multiple different viewpoints in commentary, even writers whose politics and perspectives you disagree with You listen and watch trending topics in social media broadly as well as have a…

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  • Does your company care? Do you?

    While in the airport yesterday perusing a variety of marketing materials (aka billboards as I walked to my gate), I saw a bunch of different advertisements by companies about how much they care, from facility maintenance to oil to the airlines themselves. This inspired a late afternoon tweet: If all your marketing materials insist that…

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