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Podcasting The Marketeer

Almost There

I’m siting in an apartment that is completely empty except for a broadband router, the only thing missing at Studio N. FIOS will be in the house on Tuesday and I’ll be back in the game.

We are back from hiatus on The M Show and you can listen to the long standing business podcast by clicking through.

The big news this week was C.C. Chapman leaving Crayon, there’s been a lot of chatter, but I know both C.C. and Crayon will both continue to succeed. Every new agency has to spend years getting the roster tuned, and really it’s a never ending process. The only difference with Crayon is that the entire social media peanut gallery gets to view a little further behind the curtain that ever before.

The never-ending battle continues!

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Daily Life Podcasting

Rough Road Ahead

The boxes are getting filled and we are preparing for the move. The office where I do my writing is been destroyed so my posting may be sporadic over the next week. I’ll be limited to when I’m on my laptop at home and that’s about it. The scanner has been packed up too so no Friday Night Fights, or other wacky photos until the box reopens.

The summer doldrums continue with everyone waiting until the decision makers get back from vacation. A good time to clean up your lists and get ready for Q4.

Libsyn seems to have their domain issues straightened out so there will be a new M Show for you before you sync tomorrow morning.

-J

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Daily Life Podcasting

Silent, but Still Deadly

Normally I cheap out on the Thursday post and brag about the latest episode of Marketing Over Coffee. We had a good discussion yesterday talking about trade shows, amongst other things. The bad news is that my hosting company, Libsyn is having a real run of bad luck. They’ve been having a hard time getting the stats package back up and running and now they are completely dark. This is the only service disruption I have ever had with them in almost 3 years of podcasting 5 different shows.

This is one of those moments where you realize how important it is to have control of your feed. The primary feed for The M Show is http://www.themshow.com/feed which then redirects to my libsyn feed. So if this continues I just redirect to someplace else, or write my own feed and I’m back in business. You need to ask yourself if you are building an audience for yourself, or for your hosting company, or for feedburner, or somebody else.

For $5 a month I really can’t complain since I’m getting unlimited bandwidth, but it is a bummer to be down as Marketing Over Coffee continues to gain momentum. So, this is kind of a lame post but at least it’s not a bunch of compiled twitter updates or bookmarks from del.icio.us

I’m tired, and I’m off to bed…

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Podcasting

Quincy Jones

This morning on my way into work I listened to Podcast 411. The host, Rob Walch, interviews Quincy Jones. When I saw it downloading in iTunes I thought “It can’t be THAT Quincy Jones, as in THE Quincy Jones“. But it is, and it is fantastic. Not only is he fun to listen to but he’s also uplifting and motivating.

“The melody is the only thing that comes straight from God” – Quincy Jones

I laughed at number of the stories, and overall I found it funny because, like any story told by someone over 50 years old they tend to run off in more than one direction. But unlike your crazy uncle Stan, whose stories run from Aunt Petunia, to the dog food factory in Kansas, to the time they met some baseball player you never heard of, Mr. Jones’ stories run from Miles Davis to Frank Sinatra, to Paul McCartney, around Michael Jackson, with the occasional world leader thrown in along with enough Grammys to fill a small pickup truck.

If any part of the music Quincy Jones has done is a favorite of yours, go check it out now.

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Daily Life Podcasting

Another Weekend in The Can

Perfect weather this weekend and I had a chance to play around with my camera, no incredible photos but now I know a little more what the hell I’m doing.

It’s Sunday, that means there’s a new M Show for you! Now we get back to business…

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Brain Buster Podcasting

Wall’s Paradox

This is something that I have been working on and haven’t completely fleshed out. The bottom line is this – the better the product and company you work for, the less important it is to be a great marketeer. At first I thought this to be a great revelation, now I’m thinking it’s just depressing to the talented, or perhaps an attempt to call out the lottery winning pretenders.

Rather than marinate on that, check out this weeks Marketing Over Coffee, the best marketing podcast.

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Podcasting

Hammer Time

The latest M show is up, and I am off to bed. I have a post brewing on why companies should be in Second Life (even though I’m a hater), talk to you tomorrow….J

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Daily Life Email Marketing Podcasting The Marketeer

3 Important Things

  1. America is drowning in processed sugar and flour, Jason speaks the truth, notice the power of marketing in step 4.
  2. The world’s greatest marketing podcast is going to take over your brain, resistance is futile. Lots of good stuff on email marketing
  3. All that too much to take? Look at my soothing Flickr Photos
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Daily Life Podcasting

Where can I get a fake eyeball?

I’m back from another busy weekend. We were out in Western Mass and I’ll have some photos up on Flickr by tomorrow night.

If you want to get the story behind the fake eyeball and some other interesting and funny stuff, check out the latest M Show, which I must admit is a good one this week.

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Daily Life Podcasting

Once upon returning home

Just hanging out at DTW getting ready to catch a flight home. We’ve been delayed 1 hour but given the stories I heard about delays over the weekend it sounds like we are not that bad off. The latest M Show is up with some live reports from the trip to Torch Lake. I think it’s better than last year but I still haven’t been able to catch the lightining in a bottle that I found during CigarCast 1.

We had a great time and I’ll be posting some photographs up on Flickr so you can see the lake. More when I get back to business  tomorrow.