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Intel is using the SEC’s new default electronic delivery process for e-proxy materials smartly. 2008-04-02 Intel Corporation demonstrated that the Security and Exchange Commission’s (SEC – U.S. regulatory agency) new default electronic delivery process for e-proxy materials works GREAT if used correctly. We have been watching about 200 companies or there abouts using the new […]

Google can definitely steer some traffic your way. Unfortunately, search engine traffic is quite often low quality traffic that will not stay around. Accordingly, search engine traffic gets what it wants from your website, thereafter, it moves on to another site on the net. The same applies to traffic coming from social bookmarking sites such […]

Going Solo: Ropes to Skip

by Urs E. Gattiker on 2008/03/31 1 views

in e marketing 101 KISS

One of our readers has read about Going Solo – an upcoming conference in Lausanne (see logo below) and wanted to know if he should attend AND what he might get out of it. I tried to assess this issue from my perspective. Please keep in mind that I have registered myself, paid the fee […]

One of our readers has sent us a question. We think you might be interested in hearing about our answer to this reader. The question below addresses the strategic issue about how to identify and serve one’s niche more effectively, while making one’s blog more attractive to the target audience(s). The question posted to us […]

They all left Second Life after internal benchmarking exercises showed things were not going so well. Usually we say – name, content and brand matter – everything else is frosting. However, as the experiences of famous brands with Second Life demonstrate, brand is not everything in the virtual world. Instead, changing the act regularly, offering […]

London hedge fund Endeavour Capital loses 27% David Rubenstein, co-founder of the Carlyle Group fails to save $22bn Carlyle Capital Corporation (CCC) fund JPMorgan wanted to buy Bear Stearns for $2 a share, upped the price to $10  (remember, in Dec. 2007  the share price was over $80 and more than 30% of the stock […]

Everybody wants to measure performance of social media efforts – nevertheless, do these metrics make sense? Telling me that defining the right objectives for my blog sounds helpful. Even advice given regarding the need for measuring accomplishments against targets set is useful. However sometimes we compare apples with oranges and confuse matters more than we […]

Ever more Fortune 500 and a few smaller outfits want to start their corporate blogs or have already blazed down that trail ahead of you… Nevertheless, a successful blog is a journey and not a destination. Hence, tie your shoe laces and get yourself ready for the long run. We address this in more detail […]

Everybody is awaiting Firefox 3.0 and many are in midst of testing the Beta 4 version Recently we came across another test and we started to ask if the journalist had followed good or best practice, a mix or none at all. We address this in more detail and outline why most tests comparing the […]

Everybody gives lip serve to how important benchmarking exercises are. How can it then be that we leave the benchmarking of webpages, e-commerce sites, blogs and social media campaigns to the geeks, webmasters and techies in the firm? We address this in more detail and outline why c-level executives should worry or better take charge! […]