Lots has been published about the value or hype of MarketingSherpa today put out a nice piece on the subject titled MarketingSherpa's Practical Podcasting for Marketers. In typical Sherpa fashion, it's a well-thought-out collection of the usual suspects and should act as a nice guide to encourage someone to look ... more

World class cellists and pianists descend on Meadowmount boot camp, located in Westport, N.Y., every year for a grueling summer of practice, drills and more practice. And these are some of the world's very best and up and coming talents. If the world's best musicians need the rigors and training ... more

The hotly anticipated report (in marketing quarters) of the top 100 global brands has been recently released by Interbrand and Business Week Now in its sixth year, the "Best Global Brands report identifies the top 100 global brands that have managed to create and sustain strong performance in today's competitive ... more

Why do traditional marketers & media always think that it's the "young" who make up the digital space and the "old" ones who watch That's why I decided to check for a moment whether the surf, game and PVR behaviour of my parents and in-laws are anomalies... or whether they ... more

So after all the hype Snakes on a enjoyed a tepid opening weekend. Number one in the box office, mind you, but far less than ...leading the president of theatrical distribution for New Line Cinema to comment on the "Now we just have to sit back and figure out how ... more

The female brain. We can't understand it well enough in this So, I'm happy to announce that there is a new book, aptly entitled, The Female , to give us news we can surely Though I have not yet read it (it was released August 1), a recent Francisco Chronicle ... more

Despite the hype about blogs, podcasting, RSS and other digital tools, most people still get their news and other kinds of content via TV, print and the Web, writes Advertising summarizes it * of American adults write blogs and read them * About listen to podcasts and use RSS feeds ... more

Here's a thread worth following and continuing. It deals with things every company should be monitoring (and resulting implications). I have contributed items Started Cameron Olthuis on his blog, Pronet Company Company Public facing Product Product The industry "hang Employee Brand Amplified Steve Rubel on his blog, Extended Jeremiah Owyang ... more

A big mea culpa to anyone I might have offended on the title of my last . But the saga continues...and I had another taste of it yesterday at my local All of the tellers actually had ribbons pinned to their name badges that said, "Can You Rate Me a ... more

I received a call this week from a My friend is a famous search engine copywriter, and the friend she referred to me is a smart, friendly, business-oriented 29-year-old internet marketer with an unblemished 8-year track record of success with the same Fortune 500 direct-to-consumer company.  Four of those years ... more

A great discussion on a Harvard Business School on the impact of the new consumerist on global trade. Here's an interesting "There is another way in which consumer market regulation drives trade. Countries tend to enjoy export success in product segments for which their domestic consumers favor high levels of ... more

From all signs and symbols, Snakes On A will do boffo business this weekend. And if so, God help us Prepare for a glut of articles and citations about the success of the pre-release Internet "buzz." I expect these articles to be as independently-thinking as, say, each of the millions ... more

Jones started it way back in 1998 when you could customize the soda bottle label. Now, many Consumer Packaged Goods companies are getting in on the now sells customized messages on ketchup bottle labels for $6 per bottle. And Wheaties, the breakfast of champions, lets you customize the with your ... more

Obviously there's been a total lack of crisis planning at Dell Jeez! They don't have a security certificate and you have to accept the recall as a trusted site without it." These days, any big company that doesn't have a crisis blog ready to roll is asking for trouble. The ... more

Customer experience expert Stephanie emailed me last week to see if I'd noticed the promo for a September-launching television show that goes by the "Ugly Betty" We then had a bit of an email discussion about how disturbing and misogynistic it seemed to us. Were we missing It may really ... more

This week's news that Indra Nooyi will take over the reins of PepsiCo will bring the inevitable re-focus on the ROI of female corporate Most of the pundits will look at PepsiCo's large size, its recent financial successes, and the likelihood (or not) of this particular woman to keep moving ... more

With this latest round of heightened security...we are now in an ever-increasing era of being a consumer that requires We're all going to have to learn to cool our jets (accidental pun intended) for our own safety as the waiting time on all aspects of airline travel increases. This is ... more

Chris Anderson has a " great post on the "mainstream media He takes a look on a regular basis at the key mainstream media year over year Mainstream media * network TV had its " lowest weekly ratings ever in July. CBS, ABC, NBC and Fox averaged 20.8 million viewers ... more

So it all comes down to After months of building hype, we will soon know if New Line's strategy to embrace the internet users that were promoting Snakes on a pays In reality, the fact that we are even wondering if SoaP will be a hit means that New Line's ... more

If you haven't heard of the Snakes on a " movie phenomenon (SoaP), then there is not much use consuming this post this late in the A movie that innocently enough generated buzz due to scriptwriter Josh Friedman's , has evolved into the Rocky Horror Show of our times, aided ... more

Writing the second part of this post was hard. Not because I didn't know what I wanted to say, yet because the need to summarize it into a readable blogpost meant leaving out important Still, I've tried to highlight how marketing as a function can help organizations the challenges described ... more

Just read an interesting article in the July 23rd issue of the International Herald France driven to (gasp) market and I think it merits In the , author Eric Pfanner begins by citing that although vintage French chateaux wines are commanding record places in the marketplace, the average French winemakers ... more

Blogging doesn't get marketers to the executive suite and won't keep them What elevates the influence and business impact of marketers is driving the CEO's agenda for top line and bottom line growth. A blog, regardless of how widely read, is unlikely to deliver revenues and profits, neither in the ... more

I've been getting up a little earlier than usual these days, because it's the only time I can walk my dog without killing her in the humidity (and she is used to a longgg daily . So, it happens that I was awake and listening to Marketplace's Morning Report at ... more

Once upon a time, sex was unmentionable among polite Now the subject is inescapable. Topics that were once confined to discreet, brown-paper packages are now fodder for afternoon talk shows and supermarket aisle women's In fact, just a few years ago, my jaw hit the tabletop when I found an ... more