Geno on September 6th, 2010

David Meerman Scott has a new book out. It is co-authored with Brian Halligan of HubSpot, and entitled “Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead: What every business can learn from the most iconic bank in history”. I’ve had a chance to read it cover-to-cover on my transatlantic flight a couple of days ago. Yes, its [...]

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Geno on August 20th, 2010

Did you know that there are a number university professors who are quite active on Twitter? Among these there plenty of true marketing experts that you and I can find of great help. So you wouldn’t need to take any online schooling classes in marketing, but can just follow their tweets instead. Today I’d like [...]

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Are you participating in the Fast Company’s Influence Project yet? Launched just 26 days ago, it already has 21,784 people registered, and the number is growing quickly. The slogan of the campaign is “You’re more influential than you think”. The project’s website clarifies the idea: ABOUT THE PROJECT We started with a simple question: Who [...]

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Geno on March 31st, 2010

The transitive verb “to mimic” has several definitions, but the first two listed in the Webster’s dictionary are (i) to imitate closely, and (ii) to ridicule by imitation. Semantics is one of my favorite branches of linguistics; and when I look at the below picture I really don’t know which of these two definitions suits [...]

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Today I have decided to put together a list of posts, articles and discussions I have enjoyed in the course of the past week. Some of them are related to affiliate marketing and affiliate program management, while others address the areas of marketing and advertising that I am personally fascinated with. I hope you will [...]

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One of the websites that I own is hosted with Globat. I wanted to switch its hosting, but didn’t have the time to move over to another host in time before my yearly renewal, and got charged for another year. I thought: “Okay. I’ll know better next year” and entered it into my calendar to [...]

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