All Things Cahill

Journalists and columnists will tell you: when you don’t have anything for your column, the bastion of last resort is the Top Ten List.  Kim Gordon’s list is at least a good catch up for the small business that might not have been paying attention for the last year or so.  Check the full list out on Entrepeneur.com – here are the headers: College Grads Affluent Working Women Asian Population Growth Word-of-Mouth Yellow Pages Simultaneous Media Use Newspapers Web Conferencing Online…

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Don’t know when, don’t know where…almost 8 minutes of Neil…

It must have been some bad catnip…from the Daily Mail… Brazilian Cassia Aparecida de Souza, 18, says three of the cat’s six offspring, which were born three months after Mimi mated with a neighbour’s dog, have canine traits. Only in Brazil man, only in Brazil…

Marketwire notes that today is the 100th anniversary of the Press Release, which they attribute to Ivy Lee in 1906.  Yawn… They do make note that today’s press releases don’t need to be limited to 400 words and carry the following advice:

Mary Schmidt takes KFC to task on their new logo. And it’s also the first logo visible from space! I’ve previously written about KFC’s slimmer, trimmer “hip” logo But that’s not all! The KFC marketing juggernaut just keeps rolling along! You can now see the dead white guy from space. And, this sells more chicken how? Is E.T. coming to visit? Do aliens like chicken? What could I possibly add to that? They’re definitely in the running for boneheaded marketing…

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David Churbuck (I know, I’m citing him often, but he’s that good) posted about the NYT article entitled “How to Make Your Web Site Sing for You“ – which comes down to the following: Build a bad-looking small-business site filled with poorly written text, and your potential customers will go away. Build one that is attractive, compelling and clever, but crucial design mistakes will still guarantee that few people will know that the site exists.

I was reading OpinionatedMarketers this morning and read an interesting post about popup ads on broadband interenet connections at Marriott Hotels, and how annoying it is to pay for the priveledge of seeing intrusive ads.  Then this little bit crossed my desk and I got to thinking. In Google’s perfect world, cellphones would be free for those users who would be willing to watch ads on their devices. In an interview with Reuters, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said that cell…

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As valid today as it was when it was meant to drive a stake through the heart of semantic web in 2001.  Read it here… You and me are engaged in the incredibly serious business of creating information. Here in the Info-Ivory-Tower, we understand the importance of creating and maintaining excellent metadata for our information. But info-civilians are remarkably cavalier about their information. Your clueless aunt sends you email with no subject line, half the pages on Geocities are called…

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David Churbuck had a great post about the NYT article on Web 3.0 A direct link to John Markoff’s NYT piece here… It seems like deja vu all over again to me. I remember in 2000 as the bubble was starting to burst it seemed everyone had a “semantic search” or “contextual keywording”  solution in the works.  Brilliant “artificial intelligence” applications that were going to change the way the web worked, that would do it better, faster and more accurately…

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Sometimes the most important thing in Mass Email is not knowing when or how to send, it’s knowing when NOT to send. I know, those of you that aren’t involved in the active end of marketing are saying “He’s a bloody spammer…”  The truth is this – I am the gatekeeper who decides who gets to use certain cherished customer lists.  And part of that it ensuring anything that is sent is relevant to the particular user group in question.  And I…

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