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See My Opening Keynote at Esomar WM3 2009!

April 6, 2009

Last week I announced that I will be speaking at the Bring Dialogue Conference this summer, a speaking opportunity that I’m very excited about. Today I’m proud to announce that I will also be making the opening keynote adress at the Esomar WM3 Conference to be held Sweden this year. At the Clarion Sign Hotel [...]

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3 Ways of Striking Out in a Social Media Pitch

February 26, 2009

Strike 1. The first and perhaps the most important mistake in social media is to start out with what you want to say rather than what engages people. Sure, you might be on strategy with your message, but nobody will talk about it. You can’t take the classic advertising agency approach and buy yourself in, [...]

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Björn Rietz New CEO – A Promising New Beginning For The AAS.

February 18, 2009

Björn Rietz is the new CEO for the Advertising Association of Sweden. I guess I should comment on that. “The World is Changing” is perhaps one of the most worn out phrases in trend analysis. And it’s always true. But now, the rate of change for our context as marketing professionals act is extreme. Not [...]

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The Undercover Educator

August 21, 2008

I think that sometimes, we’re over-analyzing and under-synthesizing. We’re reading all these complicated books, finding advanced psychological explanations or statistical correlations. Sometimes old truths just need a dead simple but inspirational explanation to be interesting and valuable. On some trip I went on a while back I bought a book in the airport bookstore. The [...]

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