Facebook Community Pages and Connections: what it means for brands, reputation management, and privacy
Facebook made some drastic changes to its services and features a few weeks ago. First, Fan Pages are a thing of the past. Now, there are just Pages, and you can’t become a Fan of them, but you can Like them. Ok, weird but basically just a semantic change. Facebook also announced their new “Connections” […]
Marketing 101: Give them Bling and they will pay (a lot) for it
Here is the ultimate example of the value of good marketing and packaging: bling H2O, which is basically glorified water in a really pretty bottle, that costs as much as some people in the world make in a year. People pay more for water already when it’s in the form of mineral water. But in […]
Using your competitor’s name as part of a Google Adwords campaign
In Israel, businesses may set up Google Adword campaigns that use their competitors’ names and brands as keywords. In August 2006 an Israeli judge ruled that Crazy Line, a women’s clothing retail chain, was not guilty of any wrongdoing when they set up an Adwords campaign using the keywords of another clothing store, Matim Li. But […]