Posts tagged “marketing”
Marketing doesn’t help if the business model is broken
Andrew Dubber has an excellent blog post on the state of EMI, the record label, and on the departure of their latest top executive Douglas Merrill. Douglas Merrill used to be the CIO of Google, then the Head of Digital for EMI. Andrew has gotten his hands on the internal letter of EMI through the [...]
Free Business Idea: Opening Hours Blue Ocean
Even though Bill Hicks is telling all the marketing people to kill themselves, I’m going to share this idea with you. Have a look at the daily routines of the millions of people around the world – how has it changed along the years as companies have begun to follow the quarterly cycles of the [...]
Tweetree = Bad Jaiku
Looking at twitter this morning I noticed people going crazy about this new service that combines Twitter and FriendFeed, called Tweetree. The service is pretty much summed up in the picture above. It’s trying to create a platform for discussions from the way twitter works. I had a conversation with warzabidul on twitter about Tweetree [...]
Customer service should be everyone’s business
We were talking today about a certain company at a client meeting with a colleague when he said that ultimately their business is customer service – keep the systems working and customers happy. Some how that got rolling around in my head until I got home and realised, all companies – no matter the business [...]
Paulo Coelho and social media
Paulo Coelho, one of the most popular writers around, has been very active in many of the social websites I hang around. Today I decided to take a look at Paulo’s blog after Lo?Øc blogged that Paulo has started using Seesmic to show video comments in his blog. What a surprise I had waiting. Paulo [...]