By Mark on Dec 17, 2007 in Advertising, Copy, Direct Marketing, Featured, Marketing, Strategy | 2 Comments
Over the years I, and my clients have labored mightily at our marketing efforts. Hours of careful thought about our marketing objectives, followed by more hours of careful analysis of past test results. And even more analysis of our lists and target audiences, followed by hour upon hour of agonized copywriting and creative [...]
By Mark on Dec 11, 2007 in Email marketing, Online, Process, Testing | 0 Comments
Today's example of online marketing waste, which probably went awry someplace in the 4% of process (see Focus on the Four in our featured article section), comes from Samsung in the form of a promotion for their new Blackjack II cellular phone, which is available to subscribers of AT&T's wireless network.
A couple of reasons why [...]
By Mark on Dec 11, 2007 in Featured, Marketing, Process | 1 Comment
Humans and chimpanzees have a match on about 96% of their DNA. That's not a lot of difference between you or I in our automobiles, sipping a Starbucks latte while chatting our cell phones and our pan troglodytes relatives in the rain forests of central Africa.
And that 4% is about the difference between dramatic marketing [...]
