How to Escape Big Tech’s Web (Thinks Out Loud Episode 395)
Big Tech, the Gatekeepers, the AGFAM (Amazon, Google, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft), the Frightful Five. We've got lots of names for the "bad guys" in our marketing story. They are…
Revisiting Does Marketing Have a Future?
Would you encourage a young person to get into marketing right now? Or do you think artificial intelligence will eliminate all the jobs? Does marketing have a future? Let me…
Strategy Session: How to Set Goals for Your Business (Thinks Out Loud Episode 389)
As I noted a week ago, if you're like most companies, you're about to start planning your strategy for next year. You started with a health check to assess where…
Day One: Today is a New Day (Thinks Out Loud Episode 387)
Amazon believes in a "Day One" mindset, a "Day One" culture, that focuses on building their company as though it is their very first day of operations, every day. The…
Revisiting The Word of the Year in Digital is “Integration” (Thinks Out Loud)
Ever since the pandemic, you and your customers have lived through a massive transformation. And it's not only “digital transformation.” Instead, it's transformation of every aspect of our lives. We’re…