While waiting to unveil my blog’s new look and feel, I can’t help but think there’s no better time than now to talk about good blog design. But, of course, that’s more Lisa Sabin’s bailiwick than mine. Owner and founder of E.Webscapes, Lisa’s services include blog and Web site design, maintenance and hosting. I’m glad [...]
After 15 months and some 33,000 words, A Fine Kettle of Fish is finally getting a makeover. That’s right, in just a few days my blog will have a brand, new look and feel (thanks to Lisa Sabin of E.Webscapes), not to mention a number of bells and whistles that are long overdue. Call it [...]
A few months ago, I read an article in The NonProfit Times suggesting that most nonprofit organizations don’t collect enough feedback from their constituents. I couldn’t have agreed more, and said as much in a letter to the editor of the publication. It’s as clear as the day is light that many organizations, nonprofit and [...]
Experienced direct marketers know that an effective way to optimize their offers is to give away premiums as incentives to buy. Subscribe to this or that magazine and take delivery of a calculator or compact disc, compliments of the publisher. Give to such and such nonprofit organization and receive a free umbrella or tote bag. [...]
Some 20,000 people ran the Boston Marathon just a few days ago (I was one of them, plodding my way along the legendary, 26.2 mile course – all the way from Hopkinton to Boston – in a painful, interminable 4:24:51), but only 26 of them had been selected to tell their stories prior to the [...]
Advertising, Boston Marathon, Cause-Related Marketing, Public Relations
With only a few days to go before the 109th Boston Marathon, it’s a good time for me to follow up on the four-part, 2,637-word article I posted here in A Fine Kettle of Fish a couple of months ago on my experiences running this legendary race for charity. If you read my original piece, [...]
Despite all the attention being paid by marketers today to exciting, newfangled online channels and strategies, traditional direct mail is very much alive and well and more effective than ever in reaching individual customers and prospects. That appears to be the premise – which, as much as I’m enamored with the Internet, I certainly couldn’t [...]
Before I got married, like most 20- and 30-somethings, I did my fair share of wining and dining and painting the town red. It was fun while it lasted.
Today, with a home in the suburbs and four children under the roof, my wife and I are certifiably too encumbered to get into Boston for dinner, [...]
If you haven’t gotten around to it yet, don’t hesitate any longer to pick up a copy of The New Marketing Conversation: Creating and Strengthening Relationships Between Buyers and Sellers. Written by Donna Baier-Stein and Alexandra MacAaron, both past presidents of the New England Direct Marketing Association (NEDMA), it’s a comprehensive model for marketing in [...]
