Contributed by Ann Handley
- 9 In the Morning
Daily Fix contributor Steve Woodruff runs a series of posts he calls "Five in the Morning." At 5 AM, he ...
- Got iPhone Apps?
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- Digital-Marketing Series: 9 Ways to Reach Digital Natives (and the Rest of Us, Too)
New media and technology have inherently changed the way the newest generations experience the world: how they learn, live, play, ...
- Something Old, Something New at the Digital Marketing Mixer
Eight years ago, in the spring of 2000, a company I co-founded called ClickZ held a two-day on email marketing ...
- 9 Questions for Guy Kawasaki
As one of the original employees, Guy Kawasaki is well-known as an entrepreneur in the technology and internet space. More ...
- When It's Time to Turn Off Twitter
Don't get me I love with all my heart and soul. But this week, it started to get in the ...
- 50 Powerful Women in Social Media
I'm both honored and privileged to be named #1 on the list of the 50 Most Powerful and Influential Women ...
- Mixing It Up with Arianna Huffington
In today's is an ad and a few articles referencing our upcoming Digital Marketing , which takes place this October ...
- Want a Free Pass to the Inbound Marketing Summit?
I'm attending the Inbound Marketing September 8th in Cambridge, MA, listening to the likes of Seth , David Meerman , ...
- Brands On Twitter
The microblogging platform Twitter has had anything but a relaxing summer, plagued as it has been by outages, brownouts, disabilities, ...
- Join the MarketingProfs LinkedIn Group
After listening and reading for a few months now about the various ways to leverage as a marketing and professional ...
- Keynote Dream Team: Huffington and Vaynerchuk
Last week we unveiled the agenda for our Digital Marketing , which takes place this October 22 and 23 near ...
- Who's On First?
There's been lots of great buzz about the MarketingProfs B2B Driving Sales forum. Matt , Greg , Jayne , Amanda ...
- 5 Real Reasons You Need to Come to Boston This June (*and a Bonus 6th!)
Last week, my friend and colleague Susanne Sicilian sent an email highlighting the 5 Reasons Your Boss Needs to Send ...
- Registration Open for Driving Sales: What Works + What Sticks
Registration is now open for the next stop of the MarketingProfs B2B Forum, Driving What's New + What This time, ...
- Top Tools
BL Ochman has been running an interesting series of interviews with "top bloggers" at her place recently, including Doc , ...
- Start Here If You Need a Job (Or Have One to Fill)
One of the best-kept secrets at MarketingProfs is the MarketingProfs Job . It doesn't have a sexy tag line, "Marketing ...
- Super Bowl Haikus, Postmortem
Depending on your inclinations, the excitement of last night's Super Bowl may have been for the commercials. Some 50-ish ads ...
- On HuffPo: The Story of the Guy Who Marketed the Frisbee, Silly String, and Superball
I'm not sure whether to say that the business world–not to mention kids everywhere–lost a giant of an inventor or ...
- Seth Godin's New Book (& New MarketingProfs Seminar!)
Today Seth Godin releases his new book, Meatball , in which he Is Your Marketing Out of Here at MarketingProfs, ...
- A New Social Networking Rehab PSA
Jeffrey is clearly losing his battle with social networking addiction. But, he writes, "The good news is that I am ...
- Email Shipping Confirmation, for Profit and Fun
In this season of retail frenzy, Web metrics bigwig Jim points to an shipping confirmation email that he calls "unmeasureably ...
- Want to Work for MarketingProfs?
MarketingProfs is looking for a Marketing Communications Director -- in other words, a "marketer's marketer." You can read the details ...
- Introducing Our Snack-Sized Newsletters
Are you a little stuffed from Thanksgiving indulgence? Check out our new snack-sized . With only one mini article per ...
- Do Your Customers Think You're a Turkey?
"Thanksgiving is when everyone–even marketers–takes stock of everything they are thankful for," writes 's Jordan Ayan. So it's as good ...
- Guest Blogging at Rohit's Place
I'm guest-blogging over at Rohit 's place today, as he and his wife are expecting their second baby any second ...
- In Recovery from Social Media
"Recovery" and "rehab" seem to be theme of the week around year. Time was when was all the digitally addicted ...
- Must-See Video: 'Did You Know?'
Anyone who is online in business today should watch this video. Actually, anyone in business should watch it. (Reconsidering....) Actually, ...
- MarketingProfs Video: RSS, Made *Really* Simple
Marketers may be from Venus and IT guys from Mars, but Marketing nonetheless needs to understand what IT is talking ...
- 'Hey Mimi'... Striking the Right Tone
Ben (via Fabrice ) points to this video. It's about composing an email to a girl the writer met in ...
- On Huffington Post: 10 Curious Things About Baby Boomers
Baby Boomers are a curious bunch. And by "curious" I mean "unexpected," not "inquisitive." After a recent survey of 26,000 ...
- Fans of MarketingProfs on Facebook: Join Up!
A few weeks ago, I created the Fans of MarketingProfs group on Facebook. I saw it as yet another way ...
- A Brilliant Marketing Video
A colleague sent this video around to his network today, calling it a "brilliant use of video" explaining a relatively ...
- 7 Ways Marketers Can Use Twitter
Ad Age calls Twitter "asinine." Is it for everyone? No. But Twitter has a real use for media companies and ...
- Are You On Facebook Yet?
Are you on Facebook yet? Maybe you should * * * * Last month, in , writer and entrepreneur Jeff ...
- Are You Going to Chicago?
MarketingProfs is holding its 2007 B2B Forum this October 1 and 2 at the swanky Renaissance Chicago Driving What's New, ...
- On HuffPo: 'Learning to Shut Up and Listen'
Afrer a brief respite, I write today on the Huffington Post about marketing in the Age of Conversation, as well ...
- Pah-Tay Time: Our 100th Seminar Is Today!
"It's party time! This Thursday's online seminar is a cause for celebration around here, because it's going to be the ...
- Doodle: Putting the 'Fun' in 'Functional'
You know how it's so tedious to synchronize different people's agendas and find a date for a group meeting that ...
- Why I Read the Harry Potter Ending First
Susan at MarketingBlurb Will "the buzz marketing associated with Harry Potter, which often manifests itself in the form of real ...
- Huffington Post: 'Life Imitating Apu'
In time for this month's release of the new Harry Potter movie (Tuesday) and book (next week), Jelly Belly launched ...
- Don't You Hate a Midweek Holiday?
July 4th falling... well, on July 4th... makes it a little tricky to celebrate on July 2nd, or 6th, or ...
- MarketingProfs: Our New Look
Today is the first business day of our Web 's new look. This change isn't just cosmetic. Instead, it highlights ...
- Weblish Spoken Here: Debut on The Huffington Post
If you aren't in line for an iPhone today or stuck in traffic heading to the shore, take a jaunt ...
- Strength of Social Media: Somebodies Can Be Nobodies
The degrees of separation between the "somebodies" and the "nobodies" inch closer All voices count. The playing field Yesterday the ...
- Marketing Poetry Slam
When's the last time you read a poem inspired by marketing? Perhaps... Innocent When doctors puffed their cigarettes and Advanced ...
- A PowerBar for Small Business Marketing
How do you create a great logo? Here are 3 excellent * Design in black and Color can mask a ...
- Accidental Marketers
Aquent's Matt Grant emailed me the other day to request an interview to chat about my marketing career. I had ...
- Marketing: Science or Art?
I was getting some errors on the MarketingProfs content management system yesterday. So I did what any proper technophobe would ...
- The Times They Are a-Changin': Announcing a Free MarketingProfs Event
Dylan was The times they are a changin'... And he was prophetic, too, at least as relates to marketing. What ...
- Second Life: Clunky, Complicated... and Yet Compelling
Kris Hoet at Belgium's Cross the Breeze wrote recently looking for answers to eight frequently asked from advertisers, dealing mostly ...
- Job Titles 2.0: Brilliant, Bullshit, or Both?
I'm a huge fan of Anu Garg's A Word a Day . Since way back in 1994–ancient in Web publishing!–it ...
- 'Blogger Boomers': Now What?
This turns one year old this week. I've already celebrated the occasion–back in January, on the one-year anniversary of its ...
- TV and Cavemen: The Unintended Metaphor
Anyone else feel a little bemused at the news of ABC ordering a pilot of a TV based on Geico's ...
- The Best LinkedIn Invitation I've Ever Received
I get a lot of invitations to connect on the networking exchange. It might be because I'm desirable as a ...
- Real Estate 2.0: The Future of Buying and Selling Houses
Last week, Chicago Tribune reporter Mary Umberger called me for a about new media and... of all things, real estate. ...
- Help Wanted: Blogger to Earn Easy Money, Adoring Fans, Hot Chicks
The Wall Street Journal deconstructed the job of "Blogger" in its "Paygrade" section yesterday, under Blogging for Web . The ...
- Happy Sixth Birthday... Cha Cha Cha
Things have been so hectic here at the World Headquarters of that I completely skipped our birthday celebration last month. ...
- Q&A: PETA's 'Gorilla' Marketing Tactics
No matter how you feel about PETA, as an entity or a cause, you probably know its marketing. Even those ...
- Outing Second Life
Has Second Life peaked? Gartner analyst Steve Prentice recently predicted a in Second Life hype, followed by a stablization and ...
- Outing Second Life: Q&A With Digitas's Greg Verdino
Gartner recently predicted a drop off in Second Life hype, followed by a stablization and eventual trend toward sustainable growth ...
- Seven Lessons from a Blogging Year
Last January 19, Publisher Allen Weiss sent me an email from his office in LA. "Hi Ann," Allen wrote. "Just ...
- Seven Lessons From a Blogging Year
Chief Content Officer Ann Handley takes a look back at the blogging year that was for the MarketingProfs Daily Fix ...
- There's Something Else About Mary
My Aunt Mary died a week ago and will be buried tomorrow. Today, New Years Day, seems a particularly appropriate ...
- Meme Mia!
In this season of reindeer games, a couple of blogging "games"–or, more specifically, memes–have been bouncing around blogs over the ...
- You Like Me! You Really Like Me!!
Big new around the blogosphere this TIME magazine gives the individuals behind "User-Generated Content" an early Christmas present by naming ...
- Psst! Heard Any Good Podcasts Lately?
Have you heard any good podcasts lately? I stumbled upon two good ones today, but I'm in the market for ...
- Closer To Home
Fridays are usually the day to wrap up unfinished business and miscellaneous tasks, but much happened over the weekend in ...
- Counting Our Blessings
Many of you faithful readers of the Daily Fix know first-hand that has had a very fortunate year. After all, ...
- Are You Going to Mplanet?
Are you going to ? I am, as an invited "embedded blogger," so to speak, and I'd love to see ...
- Talk Isn't Cheap
Most of you bloggers have heard about , right? But please... don't tell me you've thought of Here's the PayPerPost ...
- 7 Steps to Better Business Blog Posts
One of the questions I often field comes from business owners and marketers who are thinking of launching a blog ...
- Out of the Primordial Ooze
My fundamentally introverted nature made me cringe a little when I read blogger Tony 's latest on his Small Business ...
- Quick Fix News, Issue #2
Here's what's happening within the Daily Fix community these Soon to be Daily Fix contributor Tim , brand manager for ...
- Ten Questions With 'Marketing Champions' Roy Young and David Stewart
Marketing often gets no respect. What's more, there are damaging myths about marketing that non-marketing managers circulate—such as "marketing is ...
- Four Questions About Blogging, Career & Content
Blogger Kevin Hillstrom publishes an occasional series of short Q&A interviews with interesting people he run across in the blogosphere. ...
- From Guru to Guru Barbeque
Allen Weiss President and Founder of , published a post here titled Thought Leaders & Too Big for Their Allen ...
- Pet Peeves
My friend Eileen has a grey striped cat named , whose greatest joy is to hunt in the backyard woods ...
- To Err Is Human (But Then What?)
Last week, produced a terrible error in our own email marketing As part of a segmented test to the MarketingProfs ...
- 8 Writing Tools
My two kids went back to school yesterday. And the Chex Mix of their unique genetic makeup revealed itself again ...
- 10 Things You Didn't Know About Mack Collier
This week's profile of Mack Collier reveals a little about Mr. the man behind the Top 25 Marketing list as ...
- Dick Cavett: The Original Blogger
My 14-year-old son, born in 1991, is certain he was born two decades too late. So, lately, he's been bringing ...
- We're #9!
Hi Daily Fix aFIXionados. I've been hunting around online for giant We're " foam fingers, but surprisingly our super-competitive culture ...
- Oldies But Goodies
This work week prior to Labor Day is understandably ...as many of us head to our favorite vacation spots to ...
- Hype or Hope?
Despite the hype about blogs, podcasting, RSS and other digital tools, most people still get their news and other kinds ...
- Chrismakwanzanukkah In July
The weekly Top 25 Marketing list has become something of an institution in BlogLand. Every Monday morning, Mack Collier updates ...
- Four Elements of a Compelling Campaign
Hewlett-Packard's new ad campaign successfully sails clear out of the ballpark, to use a seasonal metaphor. Here's But first, some ...
- Is a Blogger Still a Blogger If She Doesn't Have a Blog?
The fact that the MarketingProfs blog has been down over the past day has given me an opportunity to consider ...
- The Value of 990 Links
It's a happy day here at the MarketingProfs Daily the great Technorati gods have updated our links and , showing ...
- Via Print and Podcast
Further evidence that mainstream media is giving blogging a big group hug came last Monday, July ...when while on vacation ...
- How (and Why) to Make Your Business More Conversational
Are you trying to figure out how to help your company "? Or figure out just you need to in ...
- What's the Biggest Lie About Blogging?
It's been 3 months since this blog launched. And the learning curve .... as for any new venture .... has ...
- Hundreds of Friends, but No One to Talk to?
I was talking to my pal " Mike today. In passing he mentioned that a good number of his reader ...
- What Does a Blog Award Mean?
In the past day, I've gotten 10 emails from various writers asking me and their other friends to ...for them ...
- Is 18 the New 8?
Yesterday, Verizon launched a new cell-phone service that will chaperone your kids (and alert you if they wander beyond a ...
- How I Invented Blogging
When I was a kid growing up in the '70s, and my parents' friends would ask me the inevitable question, ...
- From the Digital Divide to the Participation Gap
Marion points to an interesting and sensible conversation about MySpace between UC-Berkeley PhD student " danah boyd and MIT's Henry ...
- Top 10 Signs You Might Be Addicted to Blogging
David and I met for the first time in the support group Bloggers ...but we've broken our code of confidentially ...
- Since When Do Women Have Nothing to Say?
Why don't more women comment more on In the seven weeks since we launched the MarketingProfs Daily , I've been ...
- Top 25 Marketing Blogs
If writing is a solitary pursuit, blogging is decidedly Unlike other forms of publishing, blogging is immediate and social, which ...
