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Though I consider myself a marketing-guy at heart … the past few years of my career have been spent working first in advertising agencies, and most recently in a large public relations agency. Ok, I know they’re all connected – but today I’m glad that I’m in public relations. With the rise of blogs, and … Read more
Whoever has the misfortune of the email address bob@bob.com definitely hates me. If he exists, I’d like to apologize to him for the hundreds of sites that I’ve avoided providing my real details to by usurping his good name. Of course, I also have my own email address set up just to register on sites … Read more
A recent ad in the Washington Post takes aim at the Monster.com’s of the Internet who have taken away ad revenue from job classified ads (a cash cow for newspapers in the past). The ad copy reads "The average job listing in The Post is 2 days old. The average job listing online is 2 … Read more
About 2 years ago, I probably installed my first popup blocking software. And I always remember The Washington Post as the last straw which drove me to find and install it. At the time, the popups on the site were so distracting to the user experience, I could barely get through a paragraph before the … Read more
Leading up to the Ad Tech conference in Chicago next week, all participants received an invitation to create a virtual profile of themselves to help maximize their experience at the conference. There is a fantastic feature in the profile setup area that will weight your various roles, industries, and interests based on the relative importance … Read more
Orbitz.com is down – an extremely rare event for large ecommerce sites these days. I’m sure there will be articles in the coming days about the real cost of this outage for Orbitz. And at this point it’s still down with only their admission that "We are aware of the problem and are working to … Read more
I got my second great direct mail piece today from Quark selling the features of their latest release, QuarkXPress 6.5. They are a series of postcards, and each highlights a different feature of the software and explains it through targeted copy and testimonials aimed at print graphic designers with language like "No doubt about it. … Read more
MarketingSherpa released a case study today about how Gymboree revised their website to better meet the needs of busy moms shopping for children’s clothing online. Some interesting lessons in here for any campaign targeting moms, including: Moms are multi-tasking at certain times of the day – "moms are so busy that they’re hopping online as … Read more
Content creation online is exploding, with over 53 million people (or 44% of all Internet users) having created and posted content online in 2004 – according to a Pew Internet Study. While the entire category of content creation sometimes seems hijacked by blogging and podcasting, another content creation activity is noted by this same report … Read more
Just a few weeks ago I got my blue star on Ebay. Aside from signifying that I’ve now successfully bought or sold 50 pieces of junk – it also felt like validation in the purest kindergarten way. Somebody likes me. 50 somebodies. And they even said so when they rated me positively. It also got … Read more
Non-Obvious Thinking is my upcoming book about the 4 secrets of becoming a non-obvious thinker - coming 09/24!
Rohit Bhargava is a trend curator, founder of the Non-Obvious Company and the 3-time Wall Street Journal bestselling author of ten books.
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Rohit is the author of 10 books on trends, the future of business, building a more human brand with storytelling and how to create a more diverse and inclusive world.
