This Week’s Top Marketing Posts from Around the Net

Until recently, most of the decisions we were called on to make were based on hunches, insight and a little bit of data. Occasionally, a field like direct marketing would develop into something quite data-driven ("I don't care if you... [continue reading]

Update, 11:45 am: After emailing Google to ask why the phone numbers have been removed, a Google spokesperson replied back saying it was a bug: “For a few hours this morning phone numbers were not displayed as part of local universal se… [continue reading]

Now that twitter lists have been rolled out just about everyone, I’m going to actually agree with Robert Scoble and say twitter lists are teh awesome. To be clear I haven’t gone as far as stopping to use my feed reader … but… [continue reading]

Do you feel like you're fighting for every page view your blog receives? Do you wonder why you're struggling to find readers when other bloggers seem to just hit "publish" and the world comes running? It may be tempting to throw up your… [continue reading]

This week marked the 40th anniversary of the breakthrough TV program Sesame Street. Ive written before about some of the many lessons you can learn from this cultural icon, but today Im going to zero in something new. You might have an Elm… [continue reading]

By Guest Blogger, Donna DeClemente, Donna's Promo Talk The last couple of days I've spent in Myrtle Beach, SC visiting my parents who moved down here about three years ago from New York. My mom's been battling breast cancer which spread to he… [continue reading]

For many organizations and individuals, attention is the most precious resource. The pursuit of attention for our ads, or our city or our careers dominates all else. How else to explain the silly math that is used to justify Olympic... [continue reading]

Now that twitter lists have taken off and are being utilized, and in some cases are replacing RSS readers, I’m going to try to take advantage by experimenting with a new account @graywolfseo.Some of the common complaints I get are that … [continue reading]

It's interesting to see that people are much better at putting up with things that happen to them than they are at living with the consequences of a bad choice. When you can blame someone else (or the gods of... [continue reading]

Google has published a new set of guidelines for local businesses using the Local Business Center — guidelines that continue to get more specific to counter the very specific ways small businesses spammers try to bend or completely get … [continue reading]