Tag Archives: Rich Kelley

Battling the Online Tyranny of “More” at MIXX 2008

PT thanks New York–based marketing consultant Rich Kelley for his reporting. “What we have today is the tyranny of more,” warned Mike Linton, CMO of eBay. “More choices, more technology, more competition, more alliances, more complexity, more risk.” “The Internet is run on love,” mused Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of…Continue Reading

Social Media Marketing: Putting Money Where the Mouths Are

PT thanks New York–based marketing consultant Rich Kelley for his reporting. Can you get a good ROI in social media? That was one of many questions on the minds of hundreds of publishers and advertisers at the International Advertising Bureau’s Leadership Forum on User-Generated Content and Social Media in June. Speakers and panelists agreed on…Continue Reading

Bookview, March 2006

PEOPLE On the heels of news that Emily Loose has left Penguin Press to become a Senior Editor at The Free Press comes news that Ray Roberts is retiring from Viking, after 40 years in the business. Meanwhile, Executive Editor Michael Millman is leaving Penguin, where he focused on Penguin Classics. He may be reached…Continue Reading

Book View, March 2004

PEOPLE Changes in the far-flung HarperCollins realm: Carl Raymond has left ReganBooks to go to DK as Director of Marketing. Claudia Riemer Boutote has joined HarperSanFrancisco as Senior Director of Publicity. She was most recently at Workman as Marketing and Publicity Director. In New York, Mimi Kayden has been named Marketing Consultant at HarperCollins Children’s…Continue Reading

Searching for Clicks

Book publishers looking to brush up on their Internet marketing tactics could have done worse than sit through sixteen hours of pep talks and panels at the Jupiter/ClickZ Online Advertising Forum on July 30-31 in New York City. Sure, there were blindingly obvious insights — 72% of Internet users say pop-up ads make their skin…Continue Reading

E=I(nternet) + M(ail): Direct Marketing Days NYC

Direct Marketing Days in New York 2001, the May 21–24 conference at the Hilton when envelope manufacturers and list brokers convene to discuss changes in their industry over the past twelve months, showed once again that the basic business — junk mail delivered to your mailbox — has not died yet. And this despite the…Continue Reading