Category Archives: projects

Market Research & Strat Planning

Making a case for strategic planning involves (really) knowing where/how it fits in marketing and advertising efforts. Nancy Tag at City College in NYC asked me to describe the difference(s) between reserachers and account planners and I sent her the visuals below about this time last year. I go back to it often as I build […]

More on Like

Summary report giving useful data for Like subscribers, Fans, and Followers from eMarketer- http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1008630 Data pulled from 2011 study from ExactTarget (requires email, etc share)- http://www.exacttarget.com/

Good-bye “( ) Strategist”

I love this industry- it’s fast moving, earth-y (organic/growth oriented/competitive) and with enough time-in patterns emerge (and re-emerge) showing conceptual consistency. The good stuff shared along the way becomes more solidified with professional exposure; building perspective and fueling instinct. The wheel continues to churn the new, yet similar- Take for example, the “Digital Strategist”– all the rage […]

Perfect ‘If You Build It They Will Come’ Example

Received an email from the Texas Exes’ Alumni today with the message below. The newly launched Longhorn Network is not yet provided by major providers such as Time Warner- bet that will soon change!                    

The Power of Like

Pulled from here Report avail here “Marketers have yet to agree on the value of a Facebook fan, but comScore argues the question may be missing the point. Instead, the research firm suggests marketers should consider reach and frequency of brand impressions shown to fans as well as their friends. In a study of unpaid Facebook […]

System builders

“How does innovation happen?  Economic and organizational sociologist Marc Ventresca approaches the world as a series of ethnographic encounters, seeing the microdynamics in big institutional arrangements and recognizing the structural sources of local and immediate interaction.” http://hbr.org/web/slideshows/difficult-conversations-nine-common-mistakes/10-slide System Builders