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30 March 2010 ~ 1 Comment

My Two Wallets

My Two Wallets

In my professional life I often spend time thinking about how much people value a product or service in an effort to estimate the prices they might be willing to pay. One of the biggest mistakes I always make in these evaluations is that I put too much emphasis on money.
Lately I’ve been seeing other [...]

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26 January 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Advertising Is The Last Straw

Advertising is buying customers. Advertising is spending money to talk at strangers. 9 times out of 10 it should be your last resort.
Try this – If your business has a marketing budget to spend ask yourself two questions:
1. What do I want to achieve by spending this money? Earning more revenue? Keeping customers? Getting new [...]

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13 January 2010 ~ 1 Comment

Video Killed The News Story

Here’s some recent headlines from a few technology and marketing websites. Both are about different stories, but the headlines all effectively say the same thing.
Online video more popular than blogging and social networking
Video Marketing Tops Search Marketing as a #1 Priority for Brands and Agencies in 2010?
A lot of stories like this pop up around [...]

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15 July 2009 ~ 1 Comment

Content is the Advertisement

This is an idea I touched on in a previous post called signs. The post was about a nice short film, which centred around a guy and a girl falling for each other through a series of short messages (it’s well worth the watch).
I suggested that this kind of short film could have been a [...]

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16 March 2009 ~ 1 Comment

Signs

I found this video today (via MJ). It’s one of the nicest short films I’ve seen in a long time, and is well worth the 12mins of your time. (click if you can’t view the video below).

One of my first thoughts for the video was “this should be an ad for Twitter”. Is it wrong [...]

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