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Book Review: Maverick Marketing

Webbiquity

Written for creative types and marketing strategists on both the agency and client sides of the fence, the book highlights edgy tactics and concepts that have enhanced brand success. Traditional television advertising, for example, comes under the whip. This creates an effective barrier to entry to many marketers and startups.

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5 Content Campaigns That Changed the Way I Saw Marketing

Contently

It’s resulted in a book, Bronze Seeks Silver: Lessons from a Creative Career in Marketing. Bhutan Tourist Board: The power of research. They liked how I translated research into persuasive communications. When rereading David Ogilvy books, one of his beliefs stuck out: “We sell, or else.”

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Cobotics Is Becoming a Media Industry Game Changer: AI-assisted work requires upskilling as cobotics changes an industry

Biznology

My objective is to research, validate, and share a series of articles that explore promising new opportunities arising from the changes taking place in the entertainment industry and report the new ways of dealing with them. The knowledge curve: Buckminster Fuller, in his book Critical Path (1982), articulated the “knowledge-doubling curve.”

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Does Marketing Have A Marketing Problem?

Marketing Insider Group

With so much fun stuff to do on our phones, we started to ignore boring and self-serving banner ads on websites and television. Then align this research with the marketing content and campaigns you are creating. In my book, Mean People Suck, I talk about the art of the pushback. So what is marketing going to do now?

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‘The Night of the Gun’ Is Being Made Into a Mini-Series, but Every Young Writer Should Read the Book

Contently

Like its author, the book is poignant, crass, vulnerable, and somehow funny at the same time. In the beginning of the book, Carr visits an old friend from his drug days to discuss one of the worst days of Carr’s life. The Night of the Gun was perhaps the best thing he wrote. “I never owned a gun,” his friend says.

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Interview with Mark Schaefer

Onalytica B2B

He is a faculty member of the graduate studies program at Rutgers University and is the author of six best-selling books: KNOWN , Social Media Explained , Return On Influence , Born to Blog , The Content Code , and The Tao of Twitter , the best-selling book on Twitter in the world. Tom Webster is VP of research for Edison Research.

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Stop Investing in Content and Start Investing in Consistency

Marketing Insider Group

This helps it to “stick” in their minds better in the same way that you remember brand messages from frequent television adverts better than you’ll remember an ad you only see once or twice. This might mean setting aside one day of the week for writing content, or shorter periods of time in your day for research and promotion.