Here is a list of what one of the bigger players in advanced tracking knows about you based on gathering your surfing habits on a variety of sites. Stunned yet?
Ads that magically appear to be eerily well tailored to your likes and needs have been popping up more and more over the past two years [...]
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How Much Do Marketers Know About You?
Published by August 1st, 2010 in Sales & Marketing and Social Media. 0 CommentsShrinking Steve Jobs Presents the iPad, Seth Godin Cries
Published by March 6th, 2010 in Sales & Marketing. 1 CommentUpdate 03/12
Looks like I wasn’t as clever as I thought with the “shrinking Steve Jobs” thing – Rocket Fuel apparently thought of this gag before I did. Well, it is kinda obvious. Regardless, the actual point of this post still stands:
Marketing Tip: Selling Mediocre Stuff
Seth Godin, who (rightfully) says that one needs to have something [...]
Expensive Analysts VS Listening To Your Market
Published by October 3rd, 2009 in Sales & Marketing and Technology. 0 CommentsA quick thought…
I’m reading news coverage of a Morgan Stanley analyst (Kathryn Huberty) “predicting” that Apple’s iPhone would do much better without carrier exclusivity, that is, making the iPhone available on wireless provider networks other than AT&T.
The news articles generally make it sound like this is a new idea nobody else had thought of before.
A [...]
Rammstein’s new video to premiere on sex chat site
Published by September 16th, 2009 in Marketing with Kroy and Sales & Marketing. 0 CommentsThis is how mainstream porn is in Europe: RAMMSTEIN’s new video for their song “Pussy” premieres on a sex webcam site., Visit-X.net. On September 16th the rumored to be extremely raunchy video will be available to watch at http://www.visit-x.net/rammstein/ .
Imagine Korn’s new video debuting on Camz.com.
Personally I think this crossover promotion is very cool. [...]
If You Don’t Think Your Product Is the Best, Read This
Published by June 29th, 2009 in Sales & Marketing. 0 CommentsThe news that taiwanese company Acer is taking over Dell as the number two PC maker has some folks rattled because Acer’s quality is considered by many to be inferior. Even their main US web site is, mildly speaking, not the cream of the crop. It just doesn’t feel or function like a top PC [...]
Palm Pre Launch Email Goes Nowhere – Be Prepared
Published by June 6th, 2009 in Marketing with Kroy, Sales & Marketing, Tips and Tricks and Web Authoring. 0 CommentsWhat Not To Do In Marketing
So I get an email from Sprint just after midnight 06/06/2009 – As expected, the Palm Pre is now officially available.
After the hype Palm and Sprint have been building you’d expect those guys to put some extra care into the launch.
All pages should be up and running, all links working, [...]
Palm Pre out June 6th, Sprint and Palm still don’t get it
Published by May 20th, 2009 in Bullshit and Sales & Marketing. 0 CommentsUPDATE 05/20 – Best Buy gets it! Just one day after the announcement that Sprint would sell the Palm Pre for $299 with a $100 mail-in rebate, Best Buy said today it’ll offer the Pre for $199 flat out. So there is hope for the Pre if Best Buy keeps word and maybe Sprint starts [...]
Twitter Myspace and Facebook Compared
Published by May 14th, 2009 in Marketing with Kroy, Sales & Marketing and Social Media. 0 CommentsCan’t sleep? Then have a gander at my brief analysis and status report of Myspace, Twitter, and Facebook.
I’ll share some interesting statistics of those three behemoths and throw out some ideas and views on what’s going to happen with them.
For newcomers to marketing and branding on the Web I’ll talk about some basics you don’t [...]
Kill your Image – Loral Langmeier, Robert Allen
Published by May 9th, 2009 in Bullshit, Marketing with Kroy and Sales & Marketing. 0 CommentsWhat do Loral Langmeier (or is it Loral Langemeier?) and Robert Allen have in common?
They’re renown self help gurus who originally had a good service to offer, had a great reputation, and now are nothing more than desperate telemarketing sales spammers.
Got an automated call from Loral Langmeier’s office at 1-866-905-9891
The message stated that Loral Langmeier [...]
Podcast with Kroy – Mastering Affiliate Management
Published by July 21st, 2008 in Because You Asked and Sales & Marketing. 0 CommentsI recently had the pleasure to be interviewed for Sin 2.0’s podcast show. At Cybernet Expo in San Francisco a stunning girl named Daphne from Sin 2.0 introduced herself to me and asked me to do a podcast interview.
I can’t deny pretty girls anything so I agreed.
The interview lasts for about 30 minutes and I [...]
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