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"What GM’s retreat really shows is the harsh reality that other brands must face: Making social-media communications work requires heavier lift than many organizations can muster."
Why GM and Others Fail With Facebook Ads - Businessweek (via futuristgerd)
Business as Usual
“In one of the biggest IPOs in history, in which a huge amount of stock was sold to small investors, privileged Wall Street insiders once again got top-notch information…and individuals got the shaft.”
Sensationalism and the downside of modern media
With the proliferation of bloggers and twitter, and tech conferences, “everyone” seems to be an internet industry expert. While this is usually just annoying background noise to me (think airliners and road traffic noise) it sometimes gets under my skin. Yesterday was one of those days. The Wall Street Journal publishes an article about GM ending a modest (to GM) marketing spend with Facebook. The next thing you know it’s tweeted, blogged about, re-tweeted like it actually means something. You know what? All it means is that GM has decided there are more effective means to generate buyer interest in their products. It simply does not mean that Facebook ads are or are not effective. There are too many lazy intellectuals and ambulance chasers in the world.
Kidnapped by Pirates at Sea? Here’s How Economics Can Save You
Here’s something that the econ model tells us shouldn’t matter: the going rate. In normal markets the going rate matters, but only because it provides the opportunities for substitutes and this creates the “law of one price.” For instance, when I go to a grocery store and see a loaf of bread for $4 I won’t buy it. An economist would say I forgo this purchase because I know perfectly well that the going rate for a loaf of bread is about $2.25 and so I can go elsewhere and get bread cheaper. Similarly if I go to the Honda dealer to buy a Honda Accord, it is relevant for me to mention price quotes offered by other Honda dealers for an Accord or even how much Toyota dealers ask for a Camry because it is entirely credible that I’ll walk off the lot and go to rival car dealers offering very close substitutes for this dealer’s cars. However if my sister is locked in a basement in Ciudad Juarez and the kidnappers can credibly commit to not letting her go unless I raise $x, it is completely irrelevant that in the past kidnappers accepted ransoms of $x/2 since I don’t have the relatively good fortune of dealing with a kidnapper who demands $x/2 but am stuck with one who demands $x. There are no other places where I can buy the freedom of my sister and so the only price that matters is the one being demanded by her particular kidnappers. (Note to any cartels reading this: I don’t have a sister).
“The first rule of kidnapping insurance: Don’t tell anybody you have kidnapping insurance.” Good to know.
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IN ADVERTISING, AS IN LOVE, DESPERATION NEVER MAKES US MORE ATTRACTIVE
Who at RIM approved this campaign? Sadly, I couldn’t even get through it, poorly strategized, poorly executed.
Poor judgement.
Case in point, this new BlackBerry site, which attempts to woo iPhone users by insulting them: http://wakeupbebold.com/
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Asymco: The Phone (Hardware) Market in 2012
“The new market disruption is the migration of a large number of demanding customers away from phones-as-voice-products to phones-as-computing-products. The low-end disruption is the migration of a large number of less demanding customers from branded phones to unbranded, commodity phones.”
Statistics from statcounter – via Trak.in – show that a steady depreciation in the use of Internet from PCs is coinciding with continued grow of Web surfing from mobile devices. The data suggests that, with PC usage just a few percent points ahead, the lines will cross and access from mobile will overtake the PC before the end of the year. (via India: Mobile Web to Overtake PC Access by the end of 2012)
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
“Since that event followed this one, that event must have been caused by this one.”
A little Wednesday morning Latin….
Infographic: The Ins and Outs of Business Intelligence
From: Ft Lauderdale Buick Via: Automotive SEO
