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Film festivals have become the prime venue where independent filmmakers launch their works to the public. Festivals offer an excellent place to build buzz about your film, find distribution deals, network, get press coverage, and experience an audience for your movie. Despite the importance of film festivals, most independent filmmakers have not really considered how best to market themselves to these venues.

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My wife Kay and I own our own businesses, giving us flexibility in our work schedules. Last Friday, we went on a midday three-hour date. First, we exchanged (for the third time) Kay's not-working MP3 at Best Buy (but that's another story) and lastly we gathered some groceries at Trader Joe's. In between was the date

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Tim Brunelle is playing games. He decided to celebrate the one year anniversary of his agency with a game - Viking . You can play it alone or with friends. He is onto something. You can use an iPhone and iPod Touch. Having seen the iPod Touch at work when I was in Canada recently, I

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The lagging nose-diving) economy is creating additional dimensions of customer need that may well force many companies to re-think their value propositions. Here's a good case in My husband decided to take a road trip with our 17-year-old this summer. With gas at a national average of $4.10 a gallon, our SUV with a V8 engine

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It's always tough to use the word "feminist" or "feminism" in a post. Those terms can seem to throw all sorts of people of both genders into a tizzy. So, why would I risk the possible comment backlash looking at how feminism applies to marketing, anyway? Let me tell I recently came across Dave Hill's in

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Was it Shakespeare who said "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet..."? It seems that the Bard didn't know what he was saying, if modern surveys are to be believed. At least, when it comes to consumer product According to a recent Wall Street Journal book review, Unhidden , Rob Walker's new marketing

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One of the natural byproducts of Twitter's constant downtime, is that users are changing how they spend their time on the site. Many are simply spending less time there, and more time on other sites such as and . But I'm also noticing that the site is becoming less Earlier this year, I would normally use

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We all have the friend whose quirks are mildly amusing in person. But place them under the magnifying glass of social media and those minor quirks become major, hard-to-ignore annoyances. Or, as one friend recently remarked about an acquaintance of ours, "I'm embarrassed for him every time I go on Not everyone has the personality for

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Last week we unveiled the agenda for our Digital Marketing , which takes place this October 22 and 23 near Phoenix. While the term "Mixer" might confuse some .... Attention, folks! This is not a singles party for .... the description actually is more It refers to the "mix" of what we see as the Big

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Rather than storing data and software applications down the hall in your office or in a big data center .... there is a shift towards storing them on the web. And that's the shift that Nick Carr has built his book We (America) need to jump on this paradigm shift to reduce costs in this post

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Does an economic slowdown necessarily mean that business-to-business marketers have to find even more ways to do more with less? Or can a downturn create opportunity for smart marketers to grow and thrive?

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Bringing a new product to market is one of the most costly and risky activities that any GM faces. Voice-of-the-customer research and stage gate reviews have improved the odds of achieving success. But do they go far enough? Three important tasks are frequently overlooked even though they offer the ability to identify weak links early on. So, how can you overcome the odds? Arm your team with a three-step commercialization insurance policy designed to identify and assess risks.

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Recipients of unwanted email messages have found a new way to unsubscribe from lists: Hit the Spam button. Major Internet service providers are now (or will soon be) using feedback loops to communicate complaints back to the message sender. What does this mean to email marketers? It means they need to rethink the way they display their unsubscribe link, especially if they are sending to a questionable list or are starting to receive complaints.

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Blended search, also known as universal search, is starting to change the way searchers see search results—and consequently, the way search marketers and Web site owners approach search marketing.

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Fellow Daily Fix contributor Paul posted a comment to a recent post of mine Functional ) that got me thinking. Paul "With food costs going through the roof, consumers are getting less for more, or sometimes less for the same Isn't that the truth? It made me wonder about how consumers feel about "getting less for

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One of my goals this year was to do a study on reputation management. As we all factor in the effects of new media on our brands, I felt this was a topic with long-lasting appeal to every My hypothesis going into the creation of these questions was that B2B marketers (including yours truly) just aren't

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To compete for lucrative Wall Street or consulting jobs, students across the United States are joining on-campus investment clubs to help prepare them for real-world situations. And while marketing students don't–yet–have similar clubs, students in all disciplines are racing harder and faster than ever to differentiate themselves before they graduate. In a "race for distinction"–how should

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Did you know that over 57 million Americans read blogs? U.S. blog readers average 23 hours online each week! An average of of Canadians visited blogs in 2007. And of online consumers in the U.K. read blogs at least once a I converted a valuable list designed for nonprofits Net2 blog ) so it now reads

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This is a tale of flimflam and a unique way that Boar's Head is battling it. Given the power of word-of-mouth, it's hard to overlook the potential of how Boar's Head is empowering its customer base. (And see how you can, too.)

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Integrating your email marketing application and your internal databases will take time and planning. Start by selecting an email marketing application along with an open CRM application. In doing so, you will increase efficiency and ROI by bringing these powerful tools together.