Mark Gorman of Thinkhard talks about the future of marketing in Scotland. We like to rave about the wonders of cost-effective videos and podcasting so we’ve put our mouth where our money is and produced this interview.
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WRATH – blaming the customer for not caring
The last sin in our series happens when all that excitement over your site launch is a distant memory and you start to hear the murmurings of another site redesign. The lack of post launch editorial planning has started to destroy that great design that you agonised over. [...]

GREED – lots of data no intelligence
You can have too much of a good thing. It has often been commented that online wins over offline because it offers real time feedback of people’s behaviour. This is true, but what is provided is something like this
Page views 10,000; Unique visitors 3000; click through rates 10%; bounce rates 3%; [...]

A leading expert on online politics sees a wonderful future based on user interaction. Phil Noble believes members of the public will enter into dialogue on the websites of politicians and political parties, who in turn will respond to negative as well as positive comments and be more open about what they really think. w00tonomy attended a video roundtable at the US Consulate in Edinburgh with Noble. Content marketing is very much like this new type of politics. Proactive and reactive, it engages with people to understand their behaviour in order to develop a message that resonates. It is through content marketing that the process of continuous engagement can take place online

GLUTTONY – just stuff the content in without thinking

We’ve all been there. You know this “content stuff” is important and you know you need a lot of it so you grab big chunks of it and throw it all on the plate.
But the best websites are like a balanced meal, not a bargain [...]

LUST – project blindness and desire to deliver
Businesses and agencies love projects. The project world is a familiar and comfortable place for us all; we know how to scrum, scope, budget,and deliver. And to put icing on the cake we enjoy that great feeling of hitting the finishing line, the launch party.
Too [...]

ENVY – not understanding how others succeeded
Online, your message is fighting for the attention of the user alone against the rest of the internet. There are no sectors, there are no walls. The internet is one vast open playing field. And your message is up against the BBC, YouTube and blogs about kittens.
You’ve [...]

PRIDE – just expecting your site to work

Remember the film The Field of Dreams ? In it, Kevin Costner was told that if he turned a field into a baseball pitch dead players would turn up to play on it. He was told: “Build it and they will come.”
In the online world, baby, [...]

SLOTH – failure to plan beyond launch
This is the sin of indifference to your content and failure to make the most of what you have. It always happens after the dust of the project delivery has settled. The hustle and bustle of the project review meetings are a distant memory of post-it notes [...]

The PC vs Mac debate part II (see our previous post from 3rd March)
For Marc Davis, Yahoo’s social media guru, there’s no doubt that the future is about mobility – with the number of handsets about to hit 4 billion.

We are about 18 months from an incredible boom in mobile applications and mobile adoption

Mike Butcher, [...]