Stats: The State Of The Internet
February 27, 2010 · Categories: Demographics, Email Marketing, Marketing Trends, Mashups, Online Communication, Photo Sharing, Social Networking, Statistics, Trends, Video, Video Marketing · View Comments
A cool video statistical visualization of the state of the Internet. Found at Vimeo from Jesse Thomas via Holy Kaw!
Google Buzz Demonstration
February 9, 2010 · Categories: Buzz Marketing, Conversational Marketing, Email Marketing, Internet Marketing News, Lifestreaming, Marketing Trends, Micromarketing, Mobile Marketing, Online Behavior, Online Communication, Online PR, Search Engine Marketing, Social Networking, Trends, Video · View Comments
Google announced Google Buzz today, their integration of social accounts and online conversations with Gmail. TechCrunch has a rundown, here’s Mashable’s coverage, here’s ReadWriteWeb’s coverage, and here’s Google’s own blog post about Buzz. Here’s a video demo of Google Buzz. Found at YouTube from Google. UDPATED: 2/9/2010 3 P.M.
Google Buzz on a mobile device. Found at [...]
A/B Testing Using MailChimp By Cary Lenore Walski
February 5, 2010 · Categories: Email Marketing, Language, Minnesota, Online Communication, Video · View Comments
I had the pleasure of meeting Cary Lenore Walski yesterday at a presentation my Tunheim colleagues and I gave for the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Communicators workshop. I’ve known Cary from Twitter; it’s always fun to meet the real person behind the username! You can find Cary on Twitter @defiancecary and she blogs at Defiance.
She [...]
Email Marketing & SEO
Great video on email marketing and SEO from seomoz.org. Found at Vimeo from Scott Willoughby.Email: The Black Hole
July 7, 2009 · Categories: Email Marketing, Lifestreaming, Online Behavior, Online Communication, Organizational Dynamics, Productivity, Technology, Tools · View Comments
I have a love/hate relationship with email.
I love it because it’s so easy to use but I hate it because all the insight that comes in and the wisdom I send out evaporates the next day when my attention is focused on that day’s email.
I know I can search my email but that’s not [...]
My Branded Birthday: Birthday Marketing Online
May 14, 2009 · Categories: Ecommerce, Email Marketing, Music Marketing, Online Behavior, Social Networking, Video, Video Marketing · View Comments
I know I’m in the extreme minority but I don’t quite get the idea of celebrating birthdays (my own). I mean, I didn’t do anything to merit celebration. I was just born and I didn’t have anything to do with that. I’m not really a curmudgeon about it, but, you know, there it is.
So, today [...]
Punch Pizza Featured On Fox News
March 17, 2009 · Categories: Client News, Email Marketing, Local Internet Marketing, Marketing Trends, Social Networking, Trends, Video · View Comments
My favorite pizza place, Punch Pizza, and a client of my employer Tunheim Partners, was featured on a Fox News segment last night about the economy and the proliferation of online coupons. Very cool:
Updating Your Email List Subscribers’ Demographics
I subscribe to the IAB SmartBrief email newsletter for top daily interactive marketing headlines. They’ve recently been trying to get me to update my profile by sending me to a profile update page when I click on a given story in the newsletter and before sending me on to the actual story. The trick to building [...]Brazen Comment Spam
This comment spam was submitted yesterday to my blog: So, if I want to keep you from spamming my blog, I need to let you spam me through email?!?Barack Obama’s Online Fundraising Machine
January 1, 2009 · Categories: Citizen Marketing/Branding, Ecommerce, Email Marketing, Online Strategy, Political Marketing, Social Networking, Video, Video Marketing, Web Design/Development · View Comments
Howard Dean’s 2004 Democratic primary candidacy pioneered online fundraising by proving it could work and provided a sort of proof of concept for using online social networking tools through Meetup.
Barack Obama perfected online fundraising by combining it with social networking and throwing in a dash of the subscription model used by such software-as-a-service companies as [...]




