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Mobile Site or Native App: What’s a Marketer to do?

Why the Boston Bruins Became a Media Brand

Don Draper: Content Marketer

Pinterest: Interest Drives Action

10 Marketing Lessons from Steve Jobs

12 Marketing/Media Predictions for 2012

How Grocers Can Change the Conversation With Customers

What Siri Means For The Mobile Marketplace

Daily Deals: Four Ways To Improve The Experience For Moms

New Ebook: The Right Content at the Right Time

Want to Improve Your Word Skills? Memorize These Numbers.

Great Content Marketing Advice

Facebook’s Big Changes: Implications for Marketers

Content Marketing World: 8 Observations & Random Thoughts

Don’t Kill the Job? Fine. Then Finish the *%#! Job

How Steve Jobs Created Modern Marketing

How to Choose a Marketing Agency: Download the eBook

The New Pace of Content Consumption

The CMO Advantage: Own Your Media Channel

How Financial Marketers Can Reach Boomers

King Fish “Kings of Content” Mobile App Now Avaliable

New Mobile Marketing Study: Build a Relationship Now, and ROI will Follow…

Generating Real Results with Facebook Advertising

Free Webinar: How Companies Adopt and Measure Mobile Marketing

Time to Rethink the Loyalty Program?

Iconic American Brand Gets Style With Storytelling

What Great Website Writers and Great Conversationalists Have in Common

New Mobile Marketing Survey: Fill it out, win an iPad2

CMOs Turn to Content Marketing for Increased ROI

Fashion Icons Own Their Media Channel

Financial Marketers: Get In Touch With Your Feminine Side

The Boomer Athlete: Ready For Action And Ready To Buy

Twitter: Four Reasons to be a Follower

Facebook Comments – Does it make sense for your site?

QR Codes: How do they fit in your marketing mix?

Tweet This, Not That: Five Tips for Writing Effective Tweets

Five Easy Steps to Editing Your Own Work

Are Customers Immune to your Email?

How to Work a Room in Five Easy Steps

Who really won on Super Sunday?

2011: The Year of the Customer

Who’s doing the Shopping? Not Always Mom

A Social Media Strategy is Not Enough

2011 Media and Marketing Predictions

Lead Generation: Are you following through?

Damn it my daughter is on Facebook!

My Social Kid Project Part 3: Up and Running

Operation Safe Social Kid: Day 1 - Set Up and Rules

My Social Kid Project - First In a Series

“We’re Going Mobile”: The New Mobility and the Challenge to Internal Communications

New Study Finds Social Media and Content Are Kings

When It Comes To ROI, Don’t Be A Mad Man

Social Media and Online Sales: Closing the Loop

Use Sex as a Weapon, But Not in Your Subject Lines

Taglines: The Good, the Bad and the Totally Offensive

Newsweek: Buy a dead magazine, cheap

Customer Service as Part of the Marketing Plan: Why it Matters Part 2

Customer Service as Part of the Marketing Plan: Why it Matters

Let the Walls Come Tumbling Down: Internal Communications in the New Media Age

New social media research: Tell us what you think?

Custom content: More effective than advertising and on the rise

How Brands Are Becoming the Media (and Why Your Brand Should Probably Do the Same)

The Marketing Success of Scott Brown: Four Reasons Why He Won

2010 Media and Marketing Predictions

2009 Media Predictions – Scorecard and Results

Is mobile content part of your media strategy?

Where’s the buzz around custom media for publishers?

The Future of TV: Technology puts the consumer in control

Private label media: The promise of content marketing

Survey on marketing trends and effectiveness – Need your help!

Social Media ROI: How do you measure?

Media Upheaval: 10 Burning questions for marketers

97% of Marketers Will Lie With Bad Statistics

Customer Retention: Smart marketing during rough times

Al Gore: Living the Private Media Life

The Decline of Advertising: An opportunity for smart marketers

New Media Tools for Marketers

Numbers Don’t Lie: Magazines tanking while social media soars

Can Newsweek Change Their DNA?

I Don’t Drink Whiskey, But I’m Gonna Start

Time’s Mine: When custom media is not actually custom

Twitter Mania – Hype or Media Channel?

The Fate of Newspapers in a New Media World

I’ll Drink to That: Jim Beam Shakes Up Social Media

Project 100: Marketing in the Social Media Era

Brand Journalism – The Dark Side?

Will ads fail on the Web? Is Custom Media the answer?

How to fix Detroit: Own your media channel. Part II

Lifestyle, Measurement and Magalogs

How to fix Detroit: Stop renting media channels. Part I

2009 Oscars: Does America Still Care?

Virtual Shows Should See Growth in 2009

Online reputation mgt: A cautionary tale from Wife Swap

Facebook Nation – Your Own Private Media Channel

The Changing Media Landscape – What does it mean?

Is Webcasting replacing Trade Shows?

Ad Trends for 2009: Custom Media on the Rise

B2B Online Lead Generation - Best Practices

Marketing Professionals Chime in on the Auto Industry

Shop and Donate - Click to Cure ALS

PC Magazine: A Time of Transition

Seismic Marketing Shift Across the Fortune 500

Content Marketing & Private Media to Drive Your ROI

Social Networking: The Subject Matter Expert

Rate the Polls – Lessons in Market Research

A Tough Season for Print Media. What is the Future?

Final Thoughts and Links Before the Election

Election Predictions from the Think Tank

Social Networks for Business: Turning Contacts Into Leads

Tough Economy? Talk to your Customers with Custom Media

Driving Business Through Your Social Networks

The Dirty Dozen: Are You Sick of Politics Yet? Part II

Folio’s Magazine Marketing Excellence Site

The Dirty Dozen: Are You Sick of Politics Yet? Part I

Private Media Advice for the McCain Campaign: Give Sarah the Ball

Facebook: The Last Hold Out Gives In

Thoughts from the Folio Show: What do Marketers Want? How About Custom Media

Play Time? Custom Media and Advergamming

What is the difference between a Hockey Mom and the Vice- President of the United States?

Sarah Barracuda - Damn the Media and Full Steam Ahead!

Video Made the Political Star

From the Democratic National Convention – What’s the Brand?

SEO from a Marketer’s Perspective

Using Market Research to Drive up ROI

Presidential Private Media: A Text Message from the One!

Cuil Takes the Google Challenge

Folio Webinar: Media Marketing Timelines/Folio Show 08

The Ultimate Marketing Strategy – A Great Product

Mad Men - Creating Classic Advertising

Wikiracing For Fun and Profit

Strategic Over-Riding: One Mom’s Journey into Small Town Politics and Private Media Solutions

The Mets and the New Media Landscape: How to Shoot Yourself in the Foot

The Loss of Tim Russert

Media Bias? Not Us? The Mainstream Media Speaks Up

Media Bias - Barack Obama’s Not So Secret Weapon? Part 1

Media Bias - Barack Obama’s Not So Secret Weapon? Part 2

Social Networking and Web 2.0 – The New Political Battleground

How to Drive Marketing ROI with Interactive Events

In Oprah We Trust

Howard Stern – The King of All Private Media

Personality Driven Private Media – Creating an Intent-Based Environment

Managing Face to Face Events to Maximize ROI

The Cablevision/Newsday Deal – Think Locally, Act Locally

Why the Decrease in Ratings for American Idol? Could be Marketing Overkill.

From Digital Hollywood - Personalized Media and Shifts in Advertising

Customization and Brand Loyalty – Custom Media Implications

Have a Happy Pistol Packin’ Mothers Day

Junta42/B2B Study – The Rise of Content Marketing

Magazines 3.0? How about Custom Media 1.0?

Starbucks – Walking the Walk

Starbucks’ Private Media Channel – Listening to your Customers

Content Based Marketing in the Supermarket Aisle – Why Moms Love Whole Foods

Creating A Long Term Customer Experience

When is a Doll More than a Doll? When it’s a Private Media Channel!

Right Wing Radio Daze —The Changing Media Landscape

Super Bowl Recap - A Custom Media Perspective

Salesgenie.com Ads Were Guaranteed To Be The Worst Super Bowl Ads…and They Were

Super Bowl ads? Not that super. One Super Moms Opinion…

Microsoft/Yahoo – Don’t Forget the Customer

Dude! How to Build Brand Affinity

Is it Morning in America? Generational Shift in Politics and Media

Think Tank Super Bowl Marketing Preview

Super Bowl Prediction with a Media Angle

You Can Go Home Again

Lessons from the New Hampshire Primary (Part II) – Political Ads in the Post Advertising World

Lessons from the New Hampshire Primary (Part 1) – What is Your Brand?

The Brands of Hillary and Britney – What to Say to your Kids

Rosie, Roger and the Queen – Private Media on the Rise

An Extra Stamp for Extra Starch: Building Customer Loyalty Through Direct Mail

Life is Good

The Season of Excess and Giving - A Marketing Perspective

DVRs – a Disruptive Technology Leading to the Post Advertising Era

Print is Dead. Long Live Print.

Don’t Underestimate the Personal Touch - Customer Retention and Events

Mom Hunting

The Music Industry Gives Back

Bottom-Up Branding

The Return of the I Man

User Generated Content On The Rise - A Threat to Traditional Media?

Nike Embraces the Power of Private Media

Web Video and the Straight Talk Express

How Volkswagen’s Customer Affinity Program Overcomes Product “Challenges”

Just Say It – Feedback

Just Say It (Part 2) What Makes a Good Marketer

Just Say It (Part 1) - No Weasel Words

Where Have You Been? What Are You Doing? Got Jobs?

Lessons from the AI Conference

Face to Face Events – A Private Media Solution?

Angry Customers: What Are They Saying About You Online?

Two Great Evils of the IT Industry – Compensation and Brand Supremacy

Britney Spears and Larry Craig—Feeding The Media Beast

Corporate Journalism

Don’t Make Us Mad!

Thoughts On My iPhone - Is it for You?

Real Estate and Private Media

The Recycling of Advertising

Business Clichés and Unoriginal Marketing

The Proliferation of Opinions—Do You Have One?

Time 2.0, the Next Big Thing

Do You YouTube…And If You Don’t, You Better

Politics and Private Media

When I Became a Mom

Social Networking among Professionals – Do you Link In?

The Exponential Growth of Media Choices – Where are your Customers?

Correctly Sizing Up the Market