Last Thursday we received two pieces of mail at our home. The first was from the Volvo dealership in Minneapolis where I have my car serviced. The week before last I had taken the car in to have the brake pads and rotors replaced for $1,000. I was also quoted another $1,700 to have the [...]
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Phony Car Dealership Marketing Meets the 21st Century
SXSW: Hey, Beyond Behavioral, Can We Use DNA In Social Marketing?
(Note: This post originally appeared on Social Media Today, where it was picked up by Forbes’ Haydn Shaughnesy in a column. Also in the Sunday, March 25 edition of the New York Times an article on Gilad Elbaz’s start up Factual made observations about the use of DNA information for research and analytics. Finally, I [...]
Personas Are Back In Style
Personas are making a comeback in account planning and strategic planning. As the social Internet fragments audiences understanding the coherent behaviors of the increasing number of audiences segments is becoming the critical first step in account planning. The modern use of personas as far as my research found, dates to the 1980s. Angus Jenkinson began to use them to develop the first CRM strategies as the CEO of a database marketing firm in the UK, and they were adopted by OgilvyOne as the centerpiece of their strategy development
Welcome
I'm Rohn Jay Miller, a strategic consultant and designer who works with clients to engage their customers on the Social Internet.
For the past twenty years I’ve built digital products, services and content for marketing, e-commerce, and social media. I write and speak on management, digital strategy, online influence, design thinking and social networks. And I blog for Social Media Today. I can be reached at rohnjay@rohnjaymiller.com.
AMA & Aquent Webinar: The Fabulous Collision of Search and Social
Social networks and search engines are the two primary ways we seek and browse online for information and personal connections. Google and other search engines have seen huge amounts of traffic growing from social networks and are working frantically to take advantage of this transformation.
These two massive worlds of social networks and search are colliding, and this will change the Internet forever. Click here to watch this Webinar sponsored by the American Marketing Association and Aquent.
Video Worth Watching
Tim Malbon, founding partner at Made by Many in the UK, spoke at an IPA event about Agile and the philosophy of Made by Many. Video courtesy the IPA, originally uploaded by them on Vimeo.
Hans Rosling illuminates the challenges of world poverty with startling infographics:
Douglas Rushkoff of NYU explains why the Internet will destroy our economy--and why that's a good thing:
Nancy Duarte explains how great presentations are built, from Steve jobs introducing the iPhone to Martin Luter King's "I Have A Dream" speech. Brilliant analysis
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