If you don't think your performance is sharply rhythmic throughout the day—or that timing matters— consider the results of 26,000 corp... | Continue reading
Customers' values have changed, and so has their definition of "quality," according to the travel and hospitality journal Skift . Sk... | Continue reading
Most Americans expect the media to inform them, but a majority (58%) think it's harder than ever to rely on the media for objective news,... | Continue reading
CLOSE UP - KAY surrounded by the men. She winces... hesitates... clearly unsure about stating her decision. KATHARINE GRAHAM Yes... | Continue reading
The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart. — John Grierson... | Continue reading
The greatest American superstition is a belief in facts. — Hermann Keyserling Facebook is countering fake news by downgrading ... | Continue reading
Ad blockers may appear the victors, but publishers are fighting back, "taking silent anti-ad-blocking measures," according to TechCrunch... | Continue reading
Time isn't the main thing. Its the only thing. — Miles Davis My home sits across the street from the original campus of NIST , wh... | Continue reading
Tuberculosis compelled Dashiell Hammett to quit his job as a Pinkerton detective in 1921. Seeking less strenuous work, he enrolled ... | Continue reading
A study by Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman shows we overvalue the things we own—an emotional bias he calls the "endow... | Continue reading
A bombshell not unlike Fire and Fury hit bookstores 40 years ago. Elvis: What Happened? , based on interviews with three of the rock ... | Continue reading
"Lead-gen leaders" are twice as likely to use a multi-channel approach as "mainstream companies," according to a survey of 1,000 B2B mar... | Continue reading
For sheer magnetism, nothing matches authority. B2B brands that show authority attract customers with ease, and always will: they're in a... | Continue reading
During World War I, the newly formed American Social Hygiene Association campaigned to arrest the spread of venereal disease, an incu... | Continue reading
When the US joined World War I, the American Library Association launched a fundraising campaign designed to provide troops leisure-time... | Continue reading
Banner blindness is lead-gen's Public Enemy Number 1. Ad blocking may be copping all the headlines; but if your ads don't arrest p... | Continue reading
If you want to know where the future goes to be seen, look here. ― Charles Pappas Charles Pappas, reporter for Exhibitor , has... | Continue reading
Anyone can go in, but it is not everyone who can go out. ― Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit Bernie Sanders only says free coll... | Continue reading
NOTE: The confessions below are transcribed from official police files. "We spent our marketing money on digital ads." "Yeah, w... | Continue reading
It is vain to do more with what can be done with less. ― William of Occam "Don't be a bore," says 17th-century Jesuit Baltasar ... | Continue reading
The art-show blabbermouth peeves me. He knows why every artist chose his subjects, what he intended by painting them, and where he ul... | Continue reading
England's policy of "appeasement"―letting Hitler grab neighboring lands with impunity―provides the backstory of Darkest Hour , the new b... | Continue reading
There is no perfection, only beautiful versions of brokenness. ― Shannon L. Alder B2B marketers who rent prospect names have a... | Continue reading
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. — Edith Wharton In the early 1920s, Pro... | Continue reading
Democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. — Isaac Asimov I've had it with the truthies, trash and ... | Continue reading
Democratic theories of government in their modern form are based on dogmas of equality. — Madison Grant Madison Grant was a New Yo... | Continue reading
As it liberated Rome in June 1944, the US Army came upon the American philosopher George Santayana , missing from his adopted homeland... | Continue reading
It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. ― George Orwell, 1984 Two decades ago, two child development specialists tracke... | Continue reading
I'm a fan of Joe Pulizzi, coauthor with Robert Rose of the new 260-page book Killing Marketing . So I wish I could recommend it. I c... | Continue reading
Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception. ― Niccolò Machiavelli 2017 ― a year which will live in infamy ― will be... | Continue reading
One never-ending thread throughout the posts on Goodly is the link between persuasion and clarity . So it's ironic when spammers le... | Continue reading
While events are no easy money , publishers are onto them like white on rice. Digiday reports that Forbes , in a move "symptomati... | Continue reading
Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money. — Walt Disney Publishers find eve... | Continue reading
A year-old startup is killing it by selling web cameras on Amazon for 90% less than its competitors, The New York Times reports. ... | Continue reading
I'm not here to be average. I'm here to be awesome. — Anonymous Unless you're from Alabama, you know other human species be... | Continue reading
In May, I suggested more brands would seek to differentiate themselves by publicly resisting Trump . I'm going on record to predict th... | Continue reading
Now every man may be his own statue. – Jeremy Bentham We hear much about Millennials; little about Perrenials. That's about to... | Continue reading
If a sign is not necessary, then it is meaningless. — Ludwig Wittgenstein A fundamental law of advertising—a law too often... | Continue reading
A colleague asked me to rate his organization's events on the 5-point scale I proposed earlier this week. The events are among the ... | Continue reading
The producers of North America's largest B2B event, CES, are in the hot seat . Seems they neglected to include any women in the li... | Continue reading
My clients are nonplussed by spam traps. Me, too. Spam traps catch legitimate emails—even personal ones—routinely. There are ... | Continue reading
You've heard of a Volkswagen . But a Volksempfänge r ? The Volksempfänger ("People's Radio") was introduced in Germany in 1933 upon de... | Continue reading
Like gourmands, event attendees crave a "5-star" experience, and event producers should want to deliver one. But how do you define a ... | Continue reading
Kings, aristocrats, tyrants, whoever they be, are slaves rebelling against the sovereign of the earth, which is the human race. ... | Continue reading
There once was an ugly duckling . And if you read to the end, you'll learn how he dealt with his handicap. But first, let me ... | Continue reading
In November, I rode in a car to the top of one of nature's wonders , Arizona's 9,200-foot high Mount Lemmon, only to encounter, of all ... | Continue reading
Old-line retailers are deluging holiday shoppers with irrelevant emails this season, The Wall Street Journal reports. Among other misf... | Continue reading
Hidebound execs often don't grasp why you'd recommend multichannel marketing . They project their own media habits onto customers. ... | Continue reading