From the monthly archives:

February 2007

Learning positioning from politics…

February 13, 2007 Marketing

Whether you’re a Republican, Democrat, or independent, all marketers can learn from the Barack Obama campaign about how to deliver a message that states, “I am the right choice.” Even better, Obama is learning from us, too, about how to deliver that message in a post-media marketplace.
First, the message. Watch this.

Obama’s positioning, as [...]

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Check your assumptions at the door…

February 12, 2007 Web 2.0

Sramana Mitra provides guest commentary over at Read/Write Web discussing the web sites used by the tween market. While not typically an area I get into, as the father of two girls in the pre-teen demo, I bring years of unwitting – and sometimes witless – field research to the topic. While Mitra [...]

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Pardon the interruption…

February 11, 2007 Personal

Like Fred Wilson I got bit by something nasty last week – a stomach bug, in my case – and spent the last few days in bed. We now return to our regularly scheduled programming.

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The Big Apple. The Big PR Move…

February 7, 2007 Strategy

You’d think Steve Jobs just announced they were giving away free PowerMacs. While Steve Jobs’ “Thoughts on Music” fires a shot across the RIAA’s bow, in practice it represents little more than carefully executed PR. Jobs didn’t demand the music industry change. He didn’t state Apple will stop selling DRM’d music or [...]

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Out of breath…

February 6, 2007 Marketing

Sorry. I wish I had something clever to add to the Super Bowl ad debate. It seems that’s the big buzz of the day. I think I got it all off my chest – much like the Snicker’s guys’ hair – yesterday. About that, Mars is pulling the Snickers ad I [...]

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The Seth Bowl…

February 4, 2007 Marketing

I agree with Seth Godin’s premise that Super Bowl ads exist as content in and of themselves (hence, my activity this evening). His last sentence, though, “The winners, I think, are the agencies and the pundits and those that would like advertising to be more than it actually is,” shows what’s wrong with the [...]

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