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April 13, 2006

Signal vs. Noise vs. Customers

- The Social Customer Manifesto

There's quite the conversation going on over at 37signals' "Signal vs. Noise" blog today, and I'm still puzzling over why said conversation is even taking place. What's going down: Matt Linderman, from 37s, today put up a post that... ›››

Category: Branding | CRM | Marketing | Strategy | conservation | conversation management | sales effectiveness | transparency

April 11, 2006

No, Really. Put The Customer In Charge.

- The Social Customer Manifesto

Guy Kawasaki* cranks out a top-10 list on "The Art Of Customer Service." My favorite of the lot: Put the customer in control. The best kind of customer service happens when management enables employees to put the customer in... ›››

Category: CRM | Marketing | Strategy | haystack | social customer

April 04, 2006

Chevy Careens Out Of Control (Or Do They?): A Roundup Of The Tahoe / Apprentice Ad Flap

- The Social Customer Manifesto

The writing has been fast-and-furious over the weekend, with opinions flying on whether Chevy royally screwed the pooch with their current ad campaign for the Chevy Tahoe, a tie-in (somehow) with the TV show The Apprentice. To summarize: Chevy... ›››

Category: Branding | Marketing | PR | Strategy | apprentice | chevy | remix | remix culture | sustainable | tahoe

March 01, 2006

Targeting Ads To Biz Women

- Diva Marketing (Blog)

Received my issue of pink magazine last week - thanks Genevieve. pink is a fairly new pub that targets professional women and blends work-play-relationships. What caught my attention first was not the content (although that's pretty good) but the... ›››

Category: Advertising | Brand Strategy | Business | Marketing | Marketing Strategy | Marketing to Women | Strategy | marketing_to_women

February 13, 2006

Yee-hah! Charter Street Launches!

- The Social Customer Manifesto

For the second time in as many months, am thrilled to announce that a new business blog is on the scene; this time it's the Charter Street blog ('a blog about entrepreneurship, the internet, and the state of the... ›››

Category: Business Blogging | Strategy | blogs | business blogs | corporate blogging | enterprise blogging | transparency

December 10, 2005

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The 'First Mile'

- The Social Customer Manifesto (feed)

The following line in Charlene Li's post on the Yahoo! acquisition of del.icio.us stood out for me. Charlene: 'The acquisition by Yahoo! is significant for much the same reason why it bought other social computing darlings, Flickr and Konfabulator... ›››

Category: Strategy

December 08, 2005

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Blue-ocean strategy on the college football field

- IdeaFlow (feed)

Tom Peters blogged about a terrific article from last Sunday's New York Times magazine (reg reqd) -- Coach Leach Goes Deep, Very Deep. Peters likens Leach's strategy to the thesis of Blue Ocean Strategy authors Chan Kim & RenĂ©e... ›››

Category: Strategy