My friend Aileen is breaking up with her husband Dan. It’s going the way such things usually do, and Aileen is self-medicating with a nice pinot noir when she isn’t building Dan-shaped snowmen to run over in her driveway. I called the other night to see if she needed help with the Tuesday Night Effigy […]
This Old Website – 7 Unfortunate Realities
Years and years ago somebody thought it would be a great idea if the corporate communications function in the company I worked for reported in to the CFO. I was the corporate communications function and that meant some very interesting conversations, that mostly ended with “just don’t let it cost anything”. At about the same […]
The Favour of a Reply is Requested– Why We Should Start Loving Email Again
Do you remember when email was invented? I don’t have any specific memory of the day it turned up, like magic, on my computer at work, but I am fairly certain it was a matter of minutes before I joined every other marketer on the planet getting very excited about the possibilities of the medium. […]
Nine Visuals Your B2B Website Really Doesn't Need
All together now: “Content is goooooood.Visual content is gooooooder.” Great got it. Lots of content is essential for B2B marketing efforts (we kind of all knew that even before it was cool to know that, didn’t we?). And I’m willing to concede that in a post-literate world full of distracted Gen Y’s, we need to […]
Welcome to Our Resolution-Free Zone
What did you expect for the first working day of the year? A quiet bit of time, perhaps, to hide the last of the 2011 bodies and steal that nice chair from the conference room? Had you counted on having to rid your Inbox of 2012 Predictions, 2011 I-Told-You-Sos and Helpful New Year Resolutions for […]
