Remove spam

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Information overload: beyond better filters

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Take email: the real problem isn’t spam, which is easily dealt with; it’s the scores or hundreds of work-related messages you receive each day, and the fact that replying intelligently to even the fraction that is really important forces many to work late into the night, 7 days a week. This is what has changed, not just the filtering.

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What the Crumbling State of the Media Means for Digital Marketing

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A 2008 study by Robert McChesney and John Nichols found that the ratio of public relations workers to journalists was 3.6 Google and Bing are aggressively going after low-quality content, revising their algorithms to favor valuable content on a topic, not just spam. Loyalty to media brands is on the wane.

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Persistence is fertile

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We have learned this from direct mail and email marketing, especially when it came to Obama’s 2008 presidential campaigns: if you’re aggressive and email your core demographic repeatedly, you may make a few enemies and suffer a few humiliations – but you’ll probably also raise. And, for many of them that day had come.