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Should Your Marketing Stink?

April 2, 2008 11:48 PM

Posted by Mitch Joel

Today, at the eMetrics conference in Toronto, Bryan Eisenberg (co-author of Call To Action, Waiting For Your Cat To Bark? and many more - also Blogger over at GrokDotCom) gave an incredible (and timely) presentation called, Should Your Marketing Stink?...


SPOS #97 - Six Pixels Of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast - +1 (206) 666-6056 - Reaching Influential Bloggers

March 30, 2008 4:38 PM

Posted by Mitch Joel

Welcome to episode #97 of Six Pixels Of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast. After a wild few days in Vancouver doing my full-day seminar on Social Media Marketing for IAB Canada, I am back and discussing everything from why...


10 Simple Ways Non-Profits Can Win At Social Media Marketing

March 22, 2008 8:58 AM

Posted by Mitch Joel

Did you see Google's announcement earlier this week about Google For Non-Profits? Here's the Blog posting from the Official Google Blog titled, Google For Non-Profits: "Many of you spend your days making this world a better place, and we want...


When GM Shifts 1.5 Billion From Traditional Advertising To Digital Marketing...

March 20, 2008 11:54 PM

Posted by Mitch Joel

Does it mean that General Motors is trying to get more bang for their advertising buck in a time of recession, or that the Advertising and Marketing world better really perk up and pay attention, because GM is the third...


Online Social Networks And Advertising Don't Mix

February 8, 2008 8:33 PM

Posted by Mitch Joel

With all of the excitement surrounding online social networks like Facebook, MySpace and Bebo, a couple of chinks in the armour are already appearing. Most recently, Mark Zuckerberg appeared on 60 Minutes and said that advertising is the main revenue...


No Slow Down For Online Social Networks - The Numbers Are "Staggering"

December 15, 2007 11:37 AM

Posted by Mitch Joel

When traditional Journalists use words like "staggering" to describe something, my ears always perk up. It's like when someone starts a sentence by saying, "it's incumbent on us..." I always feel like what comes next is something I should be...


The Fluid Web And The Waves Of Change In Online Marketing Metrics

December 13, 2007 11:39 PM

Posted by Mitch Joel

The Fluid Web is becoming a reality and we simply don't have the Digital Marketing metrics in place to measure it and define success. I first heard about the Fluid Web from Avinash Kaushik - Analytics Evangelist at Google -...


The Disconnect Between Marketing And Digital Marketing

December 4, 2007 7:04 AM

Posted by Mitch Joel

Seth Godin has a Blog post today called, Time Has A Long Tail Too, that highlights perfectly the problems that Advertisers and Marketers are having with the Digital Marketing space. The crux of Godin's post is about how still, after...


Online Social Networks Double Bubble

November 28, 2007 9:43 PM

Posted by Mitch Joel

What do you think about the "B" word? Bubble. I lived through the dot com bubble. I was there before it happened. I even stuck around for a little bit after. Being on the search engine side, I had a...


SPOS #78 - Six Pixels Of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast - +1 (206) 666-6056 - Widgets, Analytics And The Fluid Web With Avinash Kaushik

November 18, 2007 9:52 AM

Posted by Mitch Joel

Welcome to episode #78 of Six Pixels Of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast. This week there is an incredible conversation with Avinash Kaushik from Google all about online marketing, web analytics, the fluid web, widgets and more live from...


If Marketers Are Drowning In Data Imagine How We Feel In Digital Marketing

November 17, 2007 10:44 AM

Posted by Mitch Joel

While sitting through the awards ceremony at last night's Canadian Marketing Association 2007 Annual Awards, it struck me how many statistics were being tossed out on ROI, data and sell-through. I know that on the Direct Marketing side - and,...


What OpenSocial Really Means To Marketers And The Future Of Online Social Networks

November 7, 2007 6:06 PM

Posted by Mitch Joel

Data and access. It's just that simple. After the recent announcement of Google's OpenSocial program and the many online social network platform that are embracing it, much of the media attention is focusing on if this is a "Facebook Killer,"...


Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Just Make Some Facebook Widgets

October 13, 2007 6:10 PM

Posted by Mitch Joel

I read with fascination an article from BusinessWeek called, Who Wants To Be A Facebook Millionaire? It's not the first time I've heard about a couple of people getting together, creating an widget for Facebook and reeling in the big...


The New York Times Further Validates That Content Is Media

September 18, 2007 4:34 PM

Posted by Mitch Joel

One of my favourite quotes this past year came from Arthur Sulzberger (Owner, Chairman and Publisher, The New York Times). In one of the most provocative moments in the publishing industry's history, he said: “I really don't know whether we'll...