I’ll give you the short and the long answer… The short answer: No, not really. The long answer: Email marketing used to be THE staple of the web marketers tool box. Everyone had email. Everyone used email. Everyone was reachable via the medium, and things were great. This went on until about 2 years ago [...]
Happy 2009 boys and girls! After some much needed rest and strategizin’, the Blend is back and so is this blog. We got into a nice little groove in December and plan to continue that throughout this year – a lot to talk about, much to consider and a ton of bullshit to break through. [...]
“Clutter clutter everywhere, and not a drop to drink…” It used to be that you had to live in a few specific cities, have access to the right people and tools and devote a large amount of time, sacrifice and money to produce content. This was true for film makers, musicians, artists, writers, illustrators, radio [...]
British publication The Telegraph recently ran a story on the new AC/DC album and it’s conspicuous absence from the iTunes store. While the article provided some cool insight into the psychology of the band, it was laughably wrong on several points. Consider this a public service in exposing poor journalism… The author, who appears to [...]
Remember this day… While it likely won’t go down in any history books of authority, and many will laugh at even the thought of it, today something monumental happened. MTV has canceled it’s long running program Total Request Live, better known as TRL. Immediately, you ask “why is this important?” TRL represented the height of [...]
Guest post by Pinky Gonzales Perhaps I woke up on the wrong side of the couch this morning. Maybe my coffee is too strong. Or maybe SonyBMG is so stupid about their online marketing efforts that they deserve to be ridiculed first thing the morning… every morning, until they stop damaging their own artist brands. [...]
