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Category: bullshit
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2009, account planning, bullshit, business, clueless, crap, ROI, scam, social media
How to NOT calculate Social Media R.O.I.
2009, account planning, adaptation, brand consciousness, brand insights, brand planning, brand relevance, brand strategy, brand valuation, building value, bullshit, business, business thinkers, clarity, competition, competitive edge, customer relationship, deception, experience, incompetence, integrity, management lessons, marketing leadership, microsoft, nonsense, opportunity, project management, ROI, semantics, social media
ROI vs. “Impact on X” – Understanding what Social Media ROI is and isn’t.
2009, account planning, advice, being the best, brand consciousness, brand insights, brand planning, brand promise, brand relevance, brand strategy, brand valuation, building value, bullshit, business, clarity, common sense, competitive edge, conversations, corporate culture, customer communities, customer experience, customer relationship, deceptive practices, setting goals, smart business, social media
Real Social Media R.O.I. – Part 4: FRY Metrics

account planning, adaptation, bad management, being the best, brand consciousness, brand culture, brand insights, brand ownership, brand planning, brandbuilder, bullshit, clients who get it, clueless, collaboration, competitive edge, conversations, corporate culture, courage, differentiation, fix your brand, growth, incompetence, innovation, insight, intelligence, leadership, management, management lessons, mediocrity, mental illness, opportunity, planning, point of view, poor leadership, rainmaking, reputation management, smart business
We have that under control.

2009, account planning, adaptation, arrogance, bad management, bonehead moves, brand culture, brand erosion, brand insights, brand planning, brand relevance, brand strategy, brand valuation, brands, broken brand, bullshit, bureaucracy, business, clueless, collaboration, common sense, compensation, competition, corporate culture, customer relationship, denial, differentiation, efficiency, employee morale, expectations, growth, idiocracy, incompetence, innovation, leaders, leadership, management, management lessons, market disruption, mediocrity, nepotism, nonsense, opportunity, performance, poor leadership, product design, product development, promises, purpose, relevance, setting goals, steve jobs, success, T-shaped, tactics, team building, the death of a brand, the great dumbing-down of America, value proposition, vision, vs., when things go wrong, wisdom
Killing America’s brands, one lousy C.E.O. at a time.

bad ideas, bad management, bonehead moves, brand consciousness, brand erosion, broken brand, bullshit, clueless, cowardice, customer relationship, ethics, idiocracy, idiots, karmic feedback loop, mediocrity, nonsense, politics, poor leadership
Flashback to December 2005: A letter to Ford

arrogance, brand you, bullshit, business, business thinkers, change agent, competitive edge, curiosity, deception, denial, design thinking, expectations, experience, talent
The expert fallacy

The Social Media Apocalypse is here!

bad management, being fearless, being the best, brand relevance, brand strategy, bullshit, bureaucracy, business thinkers, CEO, change agent, common sense, competitive edge, corporate culture, corporate ecosystem, courage, cowardice, creativity, curiosity, design thinking, differentiation, evolution, excellence, fresh ideas, hybrid thinking, innovation, insight, integrity, intelligence, leaders, leadership, management, management lessons, mediocrity
Robert Killick on the value of risk and true entrepreneurship.

account planning, advertising, agile creativity, anthropology, archetypes, being the best, brand ambassadors, brand consciousness, brand culture, brand elevation, brand insights, brand ownership, brand planning, brand strategy, building value, bullshit, business, business thinkers, change agent, client partnerships, clients who get it, collaboration, commitment, commoditization, common sense, communication, competition, context, corporate culture, customer communities, customer experience, customer relationship, customer service, expectations, good advice, growth, hack, horrible marketing, human interactions, hybrid thinking, identity development, incompetence, insight, leadership, lessons, management, management lessons, manifesto, marketing, marketing 2.0, marketing communications, marketing leadership
On Selling Marketing Short: Fixing the R.O.I. void
bullshit, design thinking, Les Cahiers de l'Advertising, product design, product development, viral marketing
Calling bullshit on "viral". Finally.

bullshit, earnings, performance