The Whole Magilla
By Ken Magill
About Ken
If there’s one word that most aptly describes Ken Magill’s coverage of online marketing, it’s fearless. For more than a decade, Magill has built a reputation for calling it like he sees it no matter who may get offended. Some marketers read his column just to make sure they’re not in it. In a trade-publishing market populated mostly by vendor representatives who must watch what they say, Magill stands out as the one guy who says what he thinks. Moreover, he often writes what others are thinking, but are afraid to say. He can even be very funny.
Having been a direct marketer, and having covered online marketing since 1997 for DM News, Direct, Chief Marketer and Multichannel Merchant magazines, Magill offers a unique, informed perspective on the evolution of digital selling. He was also founding editor of trade weekly iMarketing News and Magilla Marketing, a newsletter dedicated to e-mail.
He is currently founding editor of the recently launched trade weekly email newsletter The Magill Report.
Think Mobility
Ask Yourself These 3 Questions Before Moving Forward With Any Mobile Solution
May 20, 2013I often get super excited when I see other businesses doing cool and innovative things in mobile. You read an...
Marketing Sustainably
Direct Mail Benchmarks From DMA
May 20, 2013In my years following the direct marketing field, one of the resources I've most appreciated is the Direct Marketing Association's...
The Power Punch
Hello, Complaint Department? My Friends Are Listening
May 17, 2013If it costs five times more to acquire a new customer than to keep one, why do brands continue to...
The Brand Matters Blog
The A-Z List of Stop That! Behaviors
May 16, 2013In the April issue of Target Marketing, I wrote about 26 verbs that sometimes get in our way when we're building brands...
Yblog
Wearable Mobile Devices Are the New Black
May 15, 2013This year's hot trend in fashion is computers. Whether at SXSW or in the tech and media hubs on the...
The Integrated Email
What Is the Best Day to Send Emails?
May 13, 2013Somewhere, in the world just on the other side of the rainbow, there is a magical day for sending emails....
Making Social Sell
Convince Prospects You Can Change Their Success Rates
May 10, 2013Is generating leads with LinkedIn proving frustrating and difficult? Probably because you're failing at tempting prospects to click more deeply...
Online Video Marketing Deep Dive
Top 10 Ways to Improve YouTube Video Search Ranking
May 8, 2013YouTube recently announced reaching a new milestone of 1 billion unique monthly visitors, or 15 percent of the planet. Those...
Ruthless B-to-B Marketing
B-to-B Marketers Should Take Another Look at E-commerce
May 6, 2013E-commerce opportunity is evolving fast, but only 25 percent of B-to-B marketers are taking advantage of it, according to a...
Triple Venti Dolce Data...
The Data Czar and His Ministers
May 1, 2013I live in a relatively small, rural town of 50,000 residents spread over 61 square miles. My specific neighborhood still...
Muscle Marketing
List-building 2.0: 7 Tips for Using ‘Power’ Polls For Prospecting
Apr 8, 2013Most people know Web 2.0 is simply the evolution of the Internet into an environment of interactivity, reader participation and...
Who's Your Data?
Instagram: Does It Matter That It Will Make Money on Your Pics?
Dec 19, 2012Instagram announced the company will soon begin using your content to sell targeted advertising products to the highest bidder. Does...
Denny Hatch's Blog
The Internet Can Make You a Chump—Forever!
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SEO & Content Marketing Revue
5 Tips for Top Positioning (And Converting) Page Titles
Aug 11, 2010Wondering about a SEO content strategy that offers the biggest impact in the shortest time? Try tweaking your page titles....
What Marketers Can Learn From Maine's Political Email Idiocy
It finally happened. Politicians' idiotic email practices had a measurable negative effect. "Maine Republican Party chairman Charlie Webster has admitted that the state party made numerous clerical errors in counting the state's caucus results—even omitting some votes because emails reporting tallies 'went to spam' in an email account." Ha ha, especially if you're a Democrat, right? Well, the same thing is happening to you.
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DMARC: Another Step in the Fight Against Email Phishing
Is there any topic more certain to make a marketer's eyes glaze over with boredom than email authentication? Don't answer. That was rhetorical. However, there was an email-authentication-related development earlier this week that marketers who use email should take note of. It may begin to tip the scales in the battle against phishing—fraudulent email pretending to be from a well known brand in order to get users' account information—in favor of the good guys.
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Some Email Industry BS We Should All Be Wise to by Now
Quick! Which email service provider has the best delivery rate? Don't know? Neither do I. Let's try and find an answer. According to a list put out by ranking firm topseos, Pinpointe On-Demand has the best delivery rate of 10 email service providers it ranked for January. Let's just cut to the real problem with Topseos' rankings list—that it mentioned ESPs' so-called "delivery rates" at all.
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How a Dirty Mind Can Help Save Your Creative
My journalism mentor Charlie Adair [RIP] was an utterly twisted human being, but in the best way imaginable for a student who wanted to learn to be the best reporter he could be. He could have taught marketers a thing or too, as well-for example, about empathy, hitting deadline, and always thinking on one's feet. The final exams for Charlie's infamous interviewing course were legendary for putting students in excruciatingly uncomfortable positions. ... Team Obama could use a Charlie...
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Astonishing: The One Email That Made It Through
An astounding email hit my inbox this week that perfectly illustrates the value of triggered messaging, or email sent as the result of some sort of action or inaction by the recipient.
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