I am writing about the CMO Survey that has come from Duke’s Fuqua School of Business over at Marketing Pilgrim.

As I was looking through the report I saw this chart and immediately I called BS!

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The Slippery Slope of Self-Importance

by Frank Reed on August 31, 2010

Just as a warning this is a complete opinion piece. If you want facts and figures you have come to the wrong spot. You have been warned.

This is just a quick observation. Social media has created such an inflated view of self that we run the risk of actually losing who we really are. The social media industry is particularly guilty of this.

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Make Me Laugh and I’ll Pass It On

by Frank Reed on August 27, 2010

No great insight here.

Score one for GEICO.

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Unbranding: What the World Has Come To

by Frank Reed on August 25, 2010

I am a sucker for the weird and the odd especially when it comes to business. What’s even more interesting is when the weird and the odd makes more sense than the norm.

That’s how I take the revelation that brands are getting smart enough (actually sneaky enough is a better term) to find ways to disassociate themselves from moronic pop culture ‘celebrities’ like Snooki from MTV’s Jersey Shore.

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Has Google’s CEO Lost It?

August 18, 2010

I am reading some of the comments that have some from the Google CEO’s mouth lately and I am hoping that they are mostly taken out of context. Why? Because he sounds like a lunatic, that’s why.
From the Telegraph we read

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Google’s New Small Business Blog is Small on Content

August 9, 2010

Because I like to talk about the little guy, the SMB, I had to point out that Google is paying attention to the SMB as well. At least that’s what it kinda looks like.
Google has started its small business blog but they have committed the cardinal sin of new blogs. You see, if you are [...]

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Place Pages, Facebook Ads, Inc. Magazine and Changing Norms

August 5, 2010

Another day of looking at the Internet marketing space from several angles. I am really interested in local search so the ability for Google Place Page owners (which we refer to mostly as SMB’s) to be able to respond to reviews done in Google Maps is big. So’s the rest of it too, I guess, [...]

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Online Reputation Control, Global Marketing Control and bing Maps

August 4, 2010

Odd title right? Well, when you talk about a lot of different stuff throughout the course of a day you can see a pretty wide range of subjects. One subject that is usually an underlying theme in anything related to the online space is control. Here are some control related subjects for today.
It’s More Than [...]

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Too Much Information: Google, Secrets, Anticipation and More!

August 3, 2010

I have not been updating here so now you are forced to play catch up with me!
Well, you actually don’t have to do anything so it’s up to you.

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Facebook Questions and Mr. Zuckerberg Goes to Washington

July 29, 2010

It’s a Facebook themed Thursday for me today. Of course there is more to life than Facebook but you were never guess that considering the coverage it gets. As for today here are the two points of interest in the world of Facebook.
Facebook Rolling Out Questions Feature – Marketing Pilgrim

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