April 2, 2002 Circulation: 34,000+ Volume 2, No. 7
1 - When the Message is Only Skin Deep
2 - Press Releases are a Colossal Waste of Time
3 - 6 Tips To Shock Your Global Customers: It Works for Madonna
4 - Complex Times Demand Greater Simplicity
5 - Has E-mail Won the Battle?
6 - Speaking in the Same Tongue
7 -  Like a Virgin: Is Your Marketing as Fresh as Madonna's?
8 - Are You Practicing Permission or Perdition Marketing?
9 - Be Kind to Customers: Give Them a Search Box
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When the Message is Only Skin Deep

Jason Pontin is the editor of Red Herring magazine. And he isn't impressed by the leadership of either Enron or Hewlett-Packard.

In a recent editorial, he wrote:

"What Mr. Skilling and Ms. Fiorina have in common is their indifference to the substance of their businesses. They are all "message." They despise their employees, their shareholders, and their customers; they have little interest in the products their companies sell; but they love themselves and the trappings and power of their rank."

What Mr. Pontin articulates so clearly is what I see in the copy that is written for and by so many companies, on and off the Web.

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Press Releases are a Colossal Waste of Time
If you're doing them the traditional way, that is...
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6 Tips To Shock Your Global Customers: It Works for Madonna
Global marketers can learn from Madonna without going to the same extremes. And you don't need catchy dance-club pop tunes and crisp concert choreography either.

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Complex Times Demand Greater Simplicity

Everyone's mental switchboard is on overload. People everywhere talk about being distracted, being unable to finish projects, even being unable to sit still. Anxiety and concentration can't co-exist. Being nervous—being jittery—means being unfocused.

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Has Email Won the Battle?
Given the cost advantage of electronic media, does it make sense to consider direct mail as an ongoing part of your marketing mix?
Has email zapped snail-mail to death? Read on...

Speaking in the Same Tongue

The challenge facing the online marketing industry is to develop a common language that can be heard and understood across all disciplines, and to become accountable to the bottom-line goal of improving the way business gets done online.

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Like a Virgin: Is Your Marketing as Fresh as Madonna's?
Call it what you want, but few pop stars and fewer businesses have understood the intricacies of Madonna's genius of reinvention and its ability to repel the inevitable end of the business cycle.

While Madonna soars, everyone else seems to stumble, bumble and disappear down a deep, dark hole.

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Are You Practicing Permission or Perdition Marketing?
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