John Adam’s agency leads the GEICO account recently with it’s multiple story lines. John asserts that two major things are changing at present in the advertising marketplace: 1) The destruction of integrated marketing and direct control of brands is no longer possible. 2) The nature of storytelling is changing. People can understand multiple branding messages [...]
DMA07 – Pre-Conference Keynote John Adams The Martin Agency
by David Dalka on October 15, 2007 in Branding/Buzz/Viral, Change Management, Chicago
Sexy Social Media Revolutions Emerging – Forrester Consumer Internet Conference 2007
by David Dalka on October 11, 2007 in Blogging, Branding/Buzz/Viral, Change Management, Customer Experience, Social Media
There were a few critical points in Charlene Li’s speech and then Christie Hefner’s speech that I want to get to. But before I do an overview of Charlene’s speech. New term POST People Objectives Strategy Technology (notice how this is listed last? Charlene pointed out that this is on purpose! In other words don’t [...]
SES San Jose Day 4 – Buzz Monitoring
by David Dalka on August 23, 2007 in Blogging, Branding/Buzz/Viral, Social Media
Moderator: Chris Sherman, Co-Chair, SES San Jose Search Engine Marketing Speakers: Rob Key, CEO, Converseon Andy Beal, Consultant, Editor, Author, MarketingPilgrim.com Jonathan Ashton, Director of SEO, Agency.com Rob Key Consumers trust each other the most Social media rapidly gaining SERP Predominance and are now intertwined. You no longer own your brand. Your brand is a [...]
SES San 2007 Jose Day 1 – Universal & Blended Vertical Search
by David Dalka on August 21, 2007 in Ask, Blogging, Branding/Buzz/Viral, Change Management, Customer Experience, Google (GOOG), Reputation, Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Social Media, Yahoo! (YHOO)
Moderator: Chris Sherman, Co-Chair, SES San Jose Search Engine Marketing Speakers: Greg Jarboe, President and Co-Founder, SEO-PR Sherwood Stranieri, Search Marketing Director, Catalyst online Bill Slawski, seobythesea.com Erik Collier, Director of Product Management, Ask.com David Bailey, Engineer, Google Tim Mayer, Vice President of Product Management, Yahoo! Search Quite likely the busiest session of the day [...]
Career Distinction : Stand Out by Building Your Brand
by David Dalka on August 13, 2007 in Blogging, Branding/Buzz/Viral, Online Recruiting, Recruiting
Co-written by Kirsten Dixson and William Arruda (deleted blog at http://blog.williamarruda.com/blog/) have written an unique book in Career Distinction : Stand Out by Building Your Brand. On the Amazon review, you can see several reviews already about the usefulness of the messages about personal branding. More important is that it’s the first book of it’s [...]
adtech Chicago: Redefining Search to Realize Its Full Potential
by David Dalka on August 12, 2007 in Branding/Buzz/Viral, Chicago, Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Yahoo! (YHOO)
August 1, 2007 MODERATOR: Jeffrey Pruitt, President, SEMPO, and Executive VP, Search, iCrossing PANELISTS: Kelly Graziadei, Senior Director, Agency Development, Yahoo! Search Marketing James Colborn, Group Marketing Manager, adCenter Communications Group, Microsoft Kevin Willer, Central Region Development Manager, Google James Colbourn, Microsoft Kelly Graziadei, Yahoo! Think about the many different faces of search. – The [...]
adtech Chicago: Search + Video + Contextual Targeting: Is the Holy Grail Upon Us?
by David Dalka on August 12, 2007 in Branding/Buzz/Viral, Chicago, Google (GOOG), Search Engine Marketing, Social Media, Yahoo! (YHOO)
July 31, 2007 Shashi Seth, Head of Monetization, YouTube.com Rebecca Paoletti, Director, Video Strategy, Yahoo! Patrick Moorhead, National Manager, R&D Advanced Marketing Solutions, Avenue A | Razorfish Chris D’Alessandro, Group Director, Customer Insight, Organic, Inc. Moderator: Curt Hecht, Executive VP, Chief Digital Officer, GM Planworks/Starcom Mediavest Group Rebecca: Video search is not as important to [...]
Potential Chicago Cab Strike July 31 – How to Get to adtech(ad:tech) via CTA
by David Dalka on July 31, 2007 in Branding/Buzz/Viral, Chicago, Interactive Ads, Mobile / Cell / LBS / SMS, Mobile Search Marketing, Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Social Media
With today’s possible cab strike in Chicago, I thought it would be a good idea to post CTA bus options to arrive at the west end of Navy Pier. Please note that even with these bus options, it is a10 minute walk to the east end of Navy Pier where the Festival Hall is located. [...]
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