Archive for the “Marketing” category

MySpace Reminds Everyone: Your Widgets All Belong To Us

by Tony Hung on April 11, 2007

Rupert Murdoch is a wiley old fox.

RIP: Gary Halbert

by Tony Hung on April 10, 2007

One of my peripheral interests is copywriting and direct marketing.  I was tremendously sad to hear that one of the original gangtas of copywriting, a true legend in his own right, Gary Halbert passed away yesterday. The direct marketing industry, (…)

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When Will Jason Calacanis Own Up When He’s Wrong?

by Tony Hung on March 28, 2007

Well, all debates about a-listers aside (and as an aside, do you think anything but an a-lister who has a history of anti-PPP rhetoric could pull ted murphy on to his podcast?), I feel that when you’ve issued, or answered (…)

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PayPerPost to Target College Crowd As Next “Posties”

by Tony Hung on March 15, 2007

Every time I read news about Pay Per Post I feel a little more ambivalent about them. A recent press release on their efforts to enlist College students to as paid word-of-mouth bloggers makes me only more so. On one (…)

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How To Circumvent Early Bird Digger Dilemma

by Tony Hung on March 4, 2007

Be the Early Bird, or be the Black Bird (and face the consequences)

Battling the Bury Brigade Fundamentally Different than Getting Gamers

by Tony Hung on March 1, 2007

Its different because the patterns of burying and promoting are vastly different.

The Most Egregious Sin in “How-to” Blogging

by Tony Hung on February 24, 2007

No, its not being boring. I can handle boring if its informative and useful. The worst sin in “How-to” blogging, or article marketing, as it perhaps was known in older days, is the crushing banality of the how-to that is (…)

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