Five worthwhile reads for the weekend
Problogger Darren Rowse sheds some light on how he mixes his own site with social media platforms like LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.
DoshDosh uses a recent article by Philip Myer in the American Journalism Review as the basis for an interesting post on the future of content. The DoshDosh article is [...]
Springwise points to a new self-publishing magazine service, MagCloud.
The service allows you to upload your PDFs for free, to be printed – on demand – in glossy magazine format for around 20 cents per page (11p) whether you need ten copies or five hundred.
The idea follows in the wake of the success of print on [...]
Springwise points to Louis Vuitton’s branded walking tours of three Chinese cities – created in association with Soundwalk.
Designed to immerse the user in the sights, sounds and stories of the three cities – Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai – the MP3 audio guides ‘give consumers some of the experiences and status skills they so ardently [...]
Springwise points to the return of the milkman in Manhattan as well as some other retro ideas.
So if seemingly passe ideas are now distinctive enough to warrant a mention as ‘new’, what marketing methods might be worthy of a comeback?
Certainly the Internet has changed both the way we market and how we look at customer [...]