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Graphic Arts Monthly among titles to be closed by RBI

Friday, April 16th, 2010

In a press release today, Reed Business Information announced the intent to complete the divestment process started in July 2009 by by shuttering 23 remaining titles. Included in the list is the printing industry's Graphic Arts Monthly and Graphic Arts Blue Book. A memo by CEO Keith Jones notes: This is ...

Growth of B2B Marketing Budgets to be Slow

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

A recent survey by Target Marketing magazine indicates that B2B direct marketing budgets will grow only slowly in 2010.  Over half (55%) of B2B marketers responding to the "Media Usage Forecast 2010" survey (conducted in January 2010) said they expect 2010 budgets to be the same as 2009, while 23% ...

Social and Antisocial Media

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

I was meeting with my accountant last week, and since I am always curious as to what other professionals and businesses outside the printing industry are doing, the subject of social media came up—LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, et al., and he just sighed and said, “You know, I just don’t want ...

On Fighting the Market . . . and Railroads

Monday, January 4th, 2010

In her annual year-end letter to employees, Carolyn Reidy, CEO of Simon & Schuster, urged her colleagues to fight the price deterioration that has accompanied the rise of eBooks.  Ms. Reidy wrote, "We must do everything in our power to uphold the value of our content against the downward pressures ...

I Have an App for That

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

I admit it: I am becoming iPhone app-happy. I hadn’t intended to, but gradually—no, check that; actually pretty rapidly—I have become obsessed with mobile phone applications. iPhone apps were something that had been at the very periphery of my radar, but as I was researching my new WhatTheyThink primer report, ...

Are Legacy Media Going the Way of the 8-Track

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

There was an interesting panel of media executives this week titled “Are Legacy Media Going the Way of the 8-Track” These panels serve many purposes and are a necessary but sometimes  tedious step in our transformation from what we were to what we will become.  It is very hard when you are in the trenches ...

Is Your Website Helping Sales?

Monday, August 10th, 2009

One fact of life for most B2B companies is that their customers and potential customers are now firmly in control of the buying process.  From a marketing perspective, "buyer control" means that prospective customers now have the ability to determine when and how they will access and obtain information about ...