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Is This Really So Difficult To Grasp?

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For years, we’ve shared reasons you should blog and that you’d basically have to be crazy to yield your presence to the stream. The path we advocate is simple: focus opt in at the source and approach the web as if you are a media company.

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August 22, 2011 Author Adam Singer In Digital Marketing and PR
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How Startups Can Use Market Research To Avoid Fatal Mistakes

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Branding, marketing, advertising, and PR industries often practice an empirical approach in their search for the best decision: “let’s do our best, then launch the new logo/banner/press release and we’ll learn from our mistakes if we encounter them.”

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August 19, 2011 Author Guest Author In Digital Marketing and PR
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Fishing, Poker, TV …And Digital Marketing?

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No, the blog hasn’t been hacked. Yes, I’m sort of obsessed with analogies lately. I thought of another fun one for you, but I’ll let you think about the answer first: what do fishing and poker shown on TV have in common with digital marketing?

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August 16, 2011 Author Adam Singer In Digital Marketing and PR
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Is The Internet Accelerating The Disruption Of Religion?

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We’ve long since made the point that religion is one of the best examples of the efficacy of marketing. Take your personal beliefs out of the picture and think critically about it for a moment: people are persuaded to believe in a story and follow a group of others without any real evidence. Other than marketing.

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August 8, 2011 Author Adam Singer In Digital Marketing and PR
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Everyone Needs To Get To Conversion

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Yeah, so we’re writing another post on data. Today I wanted to talk about the single most important and equally most forgotten step for any online marketing or PR program.

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August 4, 2011 Author Adam Singer In Digital Marketing and PR
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How Media Companies Fit Into The Fifth Estate

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One of the rising memes in the marketing social web is the idea that every company is a media company, and in large part due to this blog. In Welcome to the Fifth Estate, a core topic focuses on how companies become a part of the independent Long Tail of voices and content creators.

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July 26, 2011 Author Guest Author In Digital Marketing and PR