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Marketers, Go Back to Basics

Harvard Business Review

Marketing is changing so fast, it's easy to get our heads turned by new, high-tech developments. Instead, he says it often pays to focus on bread-and-butter marketing (like direct mail) or even on technical innovations of the past few years that are effective, but less novel (like mobile websites).

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The Social Cost of Bad Online Marketing

Harvard Business Review

Dan Lyons’s book Disrupted is an often-delightful tour through startup culture, based on the author’s experience working at online marketing firm HubSpot. Today’s standard marketing playbook looks a lot like what Lyons describes in his book.

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