By Ian, on February 23rd, 2010 Finding this video so quickly after yesterday’s post proves something. More on making money from media content, even though people can get it for free. Mike Masnick of Techdirt describes the ways Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails have created a profitable business from their music, after they sacked their record Continue reading Valuing Content: Nine Inch Nails By Ian, on February 22nd, 2010 I wrote yesterday about the difficulties of selling media content when people can get something more-or-less identical without paying. It looked a bit bleak. In this – more positive – post, I’m going to look at some of the ways media owners might persuade people to pay for their content, focusing on the Continue reading Valuing Content: Dragon Age By Ian, on February 18th, 2010 Many thanks to Pearson Education for sending me two recent books about blogging for review. The first of these is Blogging to Drive Business by Eric Butow and Rebecca Bollwitt. It seems that Eric has written the more business and strategy-centric chapters, and Rebecca the more practical information about Continue reading Book Review: Blogging to Drive Business By Ian, on January 8th, 2010
Via Stuart Bruce, I found this funny clip in which social media marketing guru David Meerman Scott lambasts client-side marketing managers for continually asking about the ROI of social media projects. His point is that marketers don’t know the ROI of traditional forms of advertising like billboards and 30-second TV Continue reading Social Media ROI, Again By Ian, on December 14th, 2009
AdWeek covers a story that most people working in the digital sector will already have had some intuition of: Forrester Research conducted a “state of interactive agencies” survey of about 100 global interactive marketers. It found just 23 percent believed their “traditional brand agency” is capable of planning and managing interactive marketing activities. About 46 Continue reading Good News; Bad News By Ian, on December 8th, 2009 Life just got better. At the end of last week, Google announced that its personalised search had now become available to ‘signed-out’ users. What does that mean? Well, personalised search means that Google uses its history of what you have searched for before to provide more relevant results for subsequent search queries. It records everything Continue reading Don’t Be Evil Page 2 of 23«12345»Last » | About this BlogSocial tools, devices and web evolution are creating epochal change in media, society and business. The plan is to hide under the floorboards till it’s all over document some of the interesting parts of that change. More…. |
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