I read an interesting ebook the other day. It wasn’t so much that the content was interesting, although it was, but how I came to have it was more interesting. The cost of the book,...
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Read More →According to an October 12th AdAge.com article, the 2010 Census is expected to find that 309 million people live in the United States. But one person will be missing: the average American. There is no...
Read More →As a Washington Post experiment Joshua Bell, one of the finest classical musicians in the world, playing some of the most elegant music ever written on one of the most valuable violins ever made stood...
Read More →Recently NetFlix found a winner to their long standing, million dollar, contest designed to inspire freelance teams toward creating new algorithms which would "…substantially improve the accuracy of predictions about how much someone is going...
Read More →You send emails every day. You send an email to a friend or colleague, and it goes through. Occasionally you check the spam folder to see if anything important was missed. Usually it wasn’t. Spam...
Read More →The concept starts as an organization who wishes to increase value to their customers. Not so bad. But what happens when this goes horribly wrong? Suddenly it becomes blatantly obvious that you really don’t know...
Read More →What is the value of an ad not seen? Worse yet, what is the value of an ad seen but not acted upon? For years we as marketers have worked hard to turn the Internet...
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