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Vol. 5 , No. 29     July 18, 2006

 


In this Newsletter:

  1. Avoiding Customer Efforts That Crash and Burn: Straight Talk From 'Chief Customer Officer'
     
  2. How to Create Effective Brand-Driven Entertainment Content for the Web
     
  3. Organic SEO—What Does It Really Mean?
     
  4. Going Mobile: Portable Media Market Finally Getting Traction?
     
  5. Don't Worry About Your Competition (Let Them Worry About You)
     
  6. Retail's Marketing Management Challenge
     
  7. Marketing Challenge: Three Magical Marketing Metrics
     

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Michael Perla
Avoiding Customer Efforts That Crash and Burn: Straight Talk From 'Chief Customer Officer'

Why do customer efforts crash and burn? Are you wrestling with customer leadership? What are you doing to match the commitment to the customer to the actions of the organization? And, is the Chief Customer Officer the solution?

Such questions are asked (and answered) in Jeanne Bliss's new book, "Chief Customer Officer," a highly energetic, tell-it-like-it-is treatise on how to create and execute a customer-centric agenda. Her passion and battle scars are threaded throughout the book. Her recommendations have been vetted and tested in the real world, at some of the largest, most powerful companies in the world—Microsoft, Lands End, Allstate Insurance, among others. As Bliss writes in the introduction, the book is about "reality." She offers a roadmap to critically examining your own organization to determine if a chief customer officer (CCO) makes sense and if the customer thing is achievable and worth it.

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Ted Page
How to Create Effective Brand-Driven Entertainment Content for the Web

Computers are the campfires of today, around which we are all gathered. If you have a good story to tell there, people will listen.

Here is a practical guide to creating brand-driven Web entertainment that marketers can use in their content-development efforts. The key is to have fun, experiment, and create some memorable stories.

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Organic SEO—What Does It Really Mean?

There's more than one way to skin a cat—and for achieving natural search engine results.

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A Note to Readers

Summer Harvest

Some interesting data came out this week:

  • The third annual ANA Marketing Accountability survey pointed to "substantial improvements" in the ability of senior-level marketers to measure and act on ROI. But, at the same time, it also cited obstacles to turning metrics into action. In other words, marketers don't always have the necessary senior-level support. Read the details at MarketingVOX.

  • MarketingProfs Daily Fix contributor David Armano writes up HP's mesmerizing new ad campaign—"The Computer is Personal Again." Actually, "mesmerizing" was David's word... but I agree. David includes the first spot, with Mark Cuban—check it out.

  • Strangely addicting: JacksonPollack.org

  • MarketingProfs contributor (to both our blog and this newsletter) Suzanne Lowe asks: Wouldn't it be great if we could have superpowers?

  • Here's a great way to look for a job. Start a blog and then create a fun, engaging, surprisingly honest PowerPoint (look in the right column under "Downloads" or click here).

  • Finally, the MarketingProfs Daily Fix has a new server and a brand-new address. Instead of blog.marketingprofs.com, the blog has moved to a nicer neighborhood at www.mpdailyfix.com.

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