Facebook Google+ Twitter Email Big Data. Big Promise. Big Caution. Big data claims to be the new salvation for all businesses. Because, we’re told, big data will discover amazing new… 0 April 17, 2014
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email “The Best Ideas Come as Jokes”… But the Best Quotes are Sourced The Quote Recently, at Atomic we came across a funny meme on DigiDay. The piece was a blend of clever… 0 April 7, 2014
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email “Practicing on the Bandstand”. Some Thoughts about Miles Davis, Improvisation & Business. Business has a tremendously complicated relationship with improvisation – often preferring a mythological quest for risk-free management and ignoring the… 0 October 18, 2013
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email Succeeding Despite Bad Choices. Thoughts on “The Myth of the Media Shootout” Quite often businesses succeed in spite of specific choices – not because of those choices. Yet most never stop to… 0 October 7, 2013
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email Seven Dysfunctional Ways Ad Agencies Learn the Wrong Lessons In my last post I wrote about agency feedback loops – how important they are and the three tiers of… 0 September 11, 2013
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email Does Your Ad Agency Learn from Hard Results? It’s fundamentally human. The feedback we receive (intentional or unintentional) shapes our actions in the future. Unfortunately, there’s a pile… 0 September 8, 2013
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Facebook Google+ Twitter Email Don’t Test Whispers Key to marketing success is a disciplined approach to testing ideas and action. After all, marketing writing and consulting is… 0 April 15, 2013
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email At Walgreens: An Amazing Abuse Of the Customer Satisfaction Survey A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about how fed up I am with customer satisfaction surveys (link… 0 February 21, 2013
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email Agencies Need to Be Good Stewards of Their Own Brand I’m often amazed at how poorly agencies manage their own marketing – especially their own brand. Look across the ad… 0 February 18, 2013