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The Online Spin - Tom Hespos

  • 10/24/2006 - Engagement Is Dynamic, Not Static
  • 10/17/2006 - Avoiding Customer Service Snafus
  • 10/10/2006 - Five Reasons To Disengage From A New Business Pitch
  • 10/03/2006 - An Open Letter to Greg Stuart and Ken Fadner
  • 09/26/2006 - E-mail: Yes, Let’s Take It ‘Personal’
  • 09/19/2006 - How To Avoid Common Invoice Reconciliation Traps
  • 09/12/2006 - Remembering The Day When Internet Was True Human Web
  • 09/05/2006 - Darwin Visits Online Video Business Models
  • 08/29/2006 - Dos and Don’ts For The Cold-Calling Sales Rep
  • 08/22/2006 - ‘SoaP’ Fails To Clean Up At Box Office
  • 08/15/2006 - Getting To ‘The New Big’
  • 08/08/2006 - Let's Expand Our Rich-Media Horizons
  • 08/01/2006 - Going Off The Grid
  • 07/18/2006 - Too-Tight Targeting
  • 07/11/2006 - My Top Problems With Online Video
  • 06/27/2006 - Setting Aside An Opportunistic Media Budget
  • 06/13/2006 - In Search, How Close Is Close Enough?
  • 06/06/2006 - Embrace A Loss Of Control
  • 05/30/2006 - Have A Remessaging Strategy Yet?
  • 05/23/2006 - Jury Still Out on 'Lost''s Sponsored Alternate Reality Gaming
  • 05/16/2006 - What To Do With The Haters
  • 05/09/2006 - The Scale of Individual Conversations
  • 05/02/2006 - Why You Need to Understand Social Tagging
  • 04/25/2006 - Let's Enforce Penalties For Late Creative
  • 04/18/2006 - Low Barriers To Entry Fuel Citizen Publishing
  • 04/11/2006 - Why Audience Composition Is So Important to Online Ad Campaigns
  • 04/04/2006 - Industry Needs To Come To Table On Ts & Cs
  • 03/28/2006 - What Podcasting Is NOT
  • 03/21/2006 - Filling An Informational Void
  • 03/14/2006 - Why Agencies (Should) Hate Tactical One-Offs
  • 03/07/2006 - The Chaos of Too Much Choice?
  • 02/28/2006 - Watching the Long Tail
  • 02/21/2006 - Is Anyone's Media Consumption 'Typical' Anymore?
  • 02/14/2006 - Is The Era Of Consumer Choice Over?
  • 02/07/2006 - The End Of Watered-Down Content
  • 01/31/2006 - No Attachments
  • 01/24/2006 - Don't Turn Off The Microphone
  • 01/17/2006 - The Next Shakeout--Buyer/Seller Hybrids
  • 01/10/2006 - Only Distribution Holds Citizen Publishing Back
  • 01/03/2006 - Tom's 2006 Predictions
  • 12/20/2005 - Predictions for 2005--How Did Tom Do?
  • 12/13/2005 - The Importance Of Online Social Networking
  • 12/06/2005 - When Will Online Measurement Stop Playing Follow The Leader?
  • 11/29/2005 - A New-Business Pitfall to Avoid
  • 11/22/2005 - The Old Excuses Are Wearing Thin
  • 11/15/2005 - Buzz Marketing Makes No Sense
  • 11/08/2005 - Internet Bubble II: The Interactive Work Force Strikes Back
  • 11/01/2005 - Relevance Can Take Back Seat To Service
  • 10/25/2005 - Customer Dialogue Is A Good Thing, Isn't It?
  • 10/18/2005 - RSS Provides a Learning Opportunity
  • 10/11/2005 - Online Sales And The Personalization Culture
  • 10/04/2005 - Consumer-Generated Content Should Fill Garfield's Void
  • 09/27/2005 - Behavioral Targeting In-Depth
  • 09/20/2005 - Blogs: A Better Form of Community
  • 09/13/2005 - Deliver the Web Content Your Consumers Expect, Not What You Want Them to Expect
  • 09/06/2005 - The Internet Needs Organized Local Data
  • 08/30/2005 - Perhaps It's Time for Aggregated Registrations
  • 08/23/2005 - What to Do About Mobile?
  • 08/16/2005 - More Than Awareness
  • 08/09/2005 - Using Independent Conversations as Brand Assets
  • 08/02/2005 - Cooler Heads Will Prevail in Search
  • 07/26/2005 - The Brand Landscape as Mash-Up
  • 07/19/2005 - First Step in Defending Cookies is Refuting Disinformation
  • 07/12/2005 - Online Conversation Benefits
  • 07/05/2005 - Distractions, Distractions, Distractions
  • 06/28/2005 - Consumers Abandon Channels, Not Publishers
  • 06/21/2005 - An Objective Look at Fraud
  • 06/14/2005 - Prepare for More Content, Not Less
  • 06/07/2005 - Striking a Balance with Ad Targeting
  • 05/31/2005 - Watch Those Page Weights
  • 05/24/2005 - Agenda Item - Keeping Our Ads Off Unapproved Sites
  • 05/17/2005 - Online Media's Shared Moments
  • 05/10/2005 - Marketing in the Consumer-Generated Content Era
  • 05/03/2005 - Cookie Issue Research Needs Behavioral Approach
  • 04/26/2005 - What Happened to Standard Terms and Conditions?
  • 04/19/2005 - Atlas: The Sky Isn't Falling on Cookies
  • 04/12/2005 - On Joining the Market Conversation
  • 04/05/2005 - Not Without My Strategy
  • 03/29/2005 - Satellite Radio: It’s Nice, But Still Only One Way
  • 03/22/2005 - Consequences of Crumbling Cookies
  • 03/15/2005 - There Are No Black Boxes in Online Marketing
  • 03/08/2005 - Where's the Accountability?
  • 03/01/2005 - On Keeping Up With the Joneses' Cable TV Package
  • 02/22/2005 - Democratizing Radio
  • 02/15/2005 - One Step Toward Disarmament
  • 02/08/2005 - You're Not Fooling Anyone
  • 02/01/2005 - Don't Lose Sight of the Opportunity
  • 01/25/2005 - What Will the Post-Arms Race Online Ad Market Look Like?
  • 01/18/2005 - Oversight Needed for Network Buys
  • 01/11/2005 - A Resurgence of the Browser Wars
  • 01/04/2005 - A 2005 Prediction About to Come True
  • 12/21/2004 - 2005 Predictions - The Coming Year of Hyperfragmentation
  • 12/14/2004 - Looking Back Before We Look Forward
  • 12/07/2004 - Reach and the Metric System
  • 11/30/2004 - Get Ready For December Insanity
  • 11/23/2004 - Remember That Integration Thing?
  • 11/16/2004 - Take Your Message to the Niches
  • 11/09/2004 - Online/Offline Shopping: Getting to Why
  • 11/02/2004 - Open-Ended Affiliate Programs Must Go
  • 10/26/2004 - ''Involvement Branding'' Is About Conversations
  • 10/19/2004 - Prep Your Web Presence for Mobile Browsers
  • 10/12/2004 - Radio Shakes Off Its Bandwidth Constraints
  • 10/05/2004 - I'm Rendered, Therefore I Am
  • 09/28/2004 - Think Outside the Sweet Spot
  • 09/21/2004 - Leveraging Behavioral Predictors Online
  • 09/14/2004 - The Importance of Transparency
  • 09/07/2004 - Biting the Hand That Feeds You
  • 08/31/2004 - On Media Withdrawal
  • 08/24/2004 - World Live Web
  • 08/17/2004 - Then Again, RFID Could Backfire
  • 08/10/2004 - Think the Fragmentation Problem Isn't Going to Get Worse? Think Again
  • 08/03/2004 - Simpson Asks the Right Question: 'If You Don't Trust Peter Jennings, Are You Going to Trust a Blogger?'
  • 07/27/2004 - Post-Impression Purchasing: It's Not Just Gravy Anymore
  • 07/20/2004 - Do We Need More Proof That It's The Media?
  • 07/13/2004 - Aging and the Influence of the Internet
  • 07/06/2004 - Should We Kill The Pop-Up Now?
  • 06/29/2004 - Why Resist Consumer Dialogue?
  • 06/22/2004 - When a Web-Based Email Account Isn't Just a Web-Based Email Account
  • 06/15/2004 - Then Again, Maybe Audience-Based Media Currency Does Have Its Drawbacks
  • 06/08/2004 - Clutter Rears Its Ugly Head (Again)
  • 06/01/2004 - Why Google Won't Kill B2B Magazines (Just Yet)
  • 05/25/2004 - Keeping Tabs on Clearance Issues
  • 05/18/2004 - You Can't Squeeze Google Juice from a Stone
  • 05/11/2004 - Extension of Value Drives New Relationships
  • 05/04/2004 - We Need Consumer Privacy Education - Now
  • 04/27/2004 - Why Blacklists Don't Stop Spam
  • 04/20/2004 - But Will It Sell Chicken?
  • 04/13/2004 - Internet News Stands to Gain From Offline's Credibility Problem
  • 04/06/2004 - Why Your Ad Server Wants to Kill You
  • 03/30/2004 - How Do I Get Started?
  • 03/23/2004 - In Pursuit of Trippiness
  • 03/16/2004 - Merge The Two Versions of Media Magazine? Not Yet.
  • 03/09/2004 - CAN-SPAM - Will It Do What It's Supposed To?
  • 03/02/2004 - Placeshifting, And What It Could Mean for Online Publishing
  • 02/24/2004 - Ad Inventory Reservation - Hasn't This Been a Problem Long Enough?
  • 02/17/2004 - Parallel Information Structures
  • 02/10/2004 - From Managing Habits to Managing Choice
  • 02/03/2004 - Some Better Ways to Spend $2.3 million
  • 01/27/2004 - Please, Do Believability Check
  • 01/20/2004 - Marketing Innovation Sorely Needed in Video Games
  • 01/13/2004 - Internship Programs and Why They Work
  • 01/06/2004 - Reach and the Law of Diminishing Returns
  • 12/16/2003 - Online Tearsheeting: Who Will Step Up?
  • 12/09/2003 - Tom's Christmas Wishes
  • 12/02/2003 - AOL and Agency Relations - A Follow-Up
  • 11/25/2003 - Why AOL Needs an Agency Relations Director
  • 11/18/2003 - We're Back... Now Let's Not Mess It Up
  • 11/11/2003 - E-mail's Moment of Clarity
  • 11/04/2003 - Accountability or Analysis Paralysis?
  • 10/28/2003 - Intangible Justifications for Avoiding Online (And What We Should Do About Them)
  • 10/21/2003 - Counterpoint: The Internet and Local Advertising
  • 10/14/2003 - A New Channel - Let's Not Mess It Up
  • 10/07/2003 - Retail is Only the Last Mile
  • 09/30/2003 - Some Tips for People in the Interactive Conference Business
  • 09/23/2003 - Let's Automate for the Small Guys
  • 09/16/2003 - Some Additional Thoughts on an Online Upfront
  • 09/09/2003 - Then Again, Maybe the Music Just Sucks...
  • 09/02/2003 - Industry Challenge - Build Out Audience Size Estimation
  • 08/26/2003 - The Quick and the Dead
  • 08/19/2003 - Optimization is its Own Animal
  • 08/12/2003 - Confessions
  • 08/05/2003 - The Do Not Spam Debate: A Better Argument
  • 07/29/2003 - Online's Piece of the Political Advertising Pie
  • 07/15/2003 - More Proof That It's The Media, Not The Creative
  • 07/08/2003 - Gaping Holes at the Local Level
  • 07/01/2003 - Who's Overpromising Now
  • 06/24/2003 - RTFM
  • 06/17/2003 - Behavioral Targeting - Moving in the Right Direction
  • 06/10/2003 - The Sport of Geocaching
  • 06/02/2003 - Why I Like Salon So Much
  • 05/27/2003 - Shaping Your User's Experience
  • 05/20/2003 - The Power of Making It Easy
  • 05/13/2003 - Is Risk Aversion The Enemy
  • 05/06/2003 - Exeunt Email List Rental
  • 04/29/2003 - What Else Are You Doing?
  • 04/15/2003 - Do You Know Where Your Ads Are Running?
  • 04/08/2003 - What's a Viable Paid Content Model?
  • 04/01/2003 - Struggling Publishers - Leave the Oxygen-Breathers to Traditional Media
  • 03/25/2003 - Lessons Learned from Open Source
  • 03/18/2003 - An Open Letter to the National News Media
  • 03/04/2003 - Put Down the Spaghetti
  • 02/25/2003 - Tom's Tips on Hiring Entry Level Employees in Online Media
  • 02/18/2003 - Recognize Your Existing Customers
  • 02/11/2003 - Another Click-Through Debacle?
  • 02/04/2003 - Sharing Through the Media
  • 01/28/2003 - Ricocheting Off The Schema
  • 01/21/2003 - Wireless Access Provides a Media Opportunity
  • 01/14/2003 - What's Worse Than Being a Spammer?
  • 01/07/2003 - Planning Tools Part III - Predictive Modeling
  • 12/17/2002 - More Planning Tools to Streamline the Process
  • 12/10/2002 - The Process of our Business and What Lies Ahead
  • 12/03/2002 - Why We Need Media Planning And Accounting Tools
  • 11/26/2002 - Let's Not Kid Ourselves - It's About Consumer Control
  • 11/19/2002 - Playing a Role in Interactive's Renaissance
  • 11/12/2002 - Invest in Training
  • 11/05/2002 - Smaller Websites And The Reach/Frequency Debate
  • 10/29/2002 - Thank You, Arthur!
  • 10/22/2002 - Ignore at Your Peril
  • 10/15/2002 - DR on the Web
  • 10/08/2002 - Compromising Our Way To Ineffectiveness?
  • 10/01/2002 - Why Are We Waiting for Broadband?
  • 09/24/2002 - Exit Strategy: Stage Left
  • 09/17/2002 - Can You Take One More Column On Pop-Ups?
  • 09/10/2002 - Defining an Audience With a Set of Rules
  • 09/03/2002 - Getting Paid
  • 08/27/2002 - Making Internet Advertising Media Work Affordable
  • 08/20/2002 - The Online Snorklewacker - or Things That Keep Me Up At Night
  • 08/13/2002 - Some Advice for Dave Smith
  • 08/06/2002 - My Real World Reality Check
  • 07/30/2002 - Why Marketers Fail To Give eCRM Its Fair Shake
  • 07/23/2002 - A Crisis of Unrealistic Expectations
  • 07/16/2002 - Explosion of New Content Sites
  • 07/09/2002 - Will The Advertising Arms Race Be Resolved Peacefully?
  • 07/02/2002 - The Real Issues Behind the Latest Gator Suit
  • 06/25/2002 - Can Web GRPs Be Better Than Offline GRPs?
  • 06/18/2002 - ROI is NOT Dead Yet
  • 06/11/2002 - Connecting With Consumers Through Unconventional Means
  • 05/28/2002 - China and the Threat of Spammers
  • 05/21/2002 - Clay Pigeons or How to Set up a Great CRM Program
  • 05/07/2002 - Opt-out + Privacy = Eroded Trust
  • 04/30/2002 - Don’t Separate Planners and Buyers!
  • 04/23/2002 - Sometimes Data DO Mean a Damn Thing
  • 04/16/2002 - Cheap vs. Good... or How Mr. Smith Bought the Wrong Sprinklers
  • 04/09/2002 - Barriers to Major Online Spending - Are There Any Left?
  • 04/02/2002 - Why Renting Email Lists is a Bad Idea
  • 03/26/2002 - Email Guiding Principles - Comply or Perish
  • 03/19/2002 - Getting Email Back on Track
  • 03/12/2002 - Is There A Real Ad Opportunity In Video Games?
  • 03/05/2002 - 'Why Didn't We Make the Plan?'
  • 02/26/2002 - Super Targeting
  • 02/19/2002 - Signs Of Recovery
  • 02/12/2002 - If I Were President Of The IAB...
  • 02/05/2002 - What’s in a Click?
  • 01/29/2002 - Pitting Consumers Against Marketers
  • 01/22/2002 - The Negative Effects of Online Ads
  • 01/15/2002 - Stop the Clutter!
  • 01/08/2002 - Why Aren’t Brand Advertisers Cultivating Relationships?
  • 12/18/2001 - Striking a Balance With Scumware
  • 12/12/2001 - Leave the Impression Alone!

 

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