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What do you think of the new RFC method of media planning?
Below is a link to an overview of the new RFC concept. Do you like this approach? Can it replace the RFP? Complement it? Thanks in ...
The RFC or Request for Consideration is is an alternative/complement to the RFP process that has been used in the digital media buying/selling process.

Google folds Checkout into Wallet theverge.com
Google Checkout and Google Wallet are two Google products with very similar goals: storing your payment information and ushering commerce through...

This week's Digital Sphinx: Damn Sales Reps!...A Love Story
Jason Burnham shares his experience with sales reps and offers advice on how to win over a media buyer.
Damn Sales Reps! …A Love Story burnhammarketing.com
Every day I receive a countless number of incoming sales calls and emails. Some calls are from reps I know or have worked with in the past, who are just following up to get update on the planning cycles for our clients. ...

This week's Digital Sphinx: The Value of Brand Relationships
Deep brand relationships are cultivated over time and integrate into people’s lifestyle. Our industry needs to get out of the minutia ...
The Value of Brand Relationships burnhammarketing.com
Brand favorability and loyalty does not start from the time someone sees an ad. It occurs when you pay no attention to other products in a particular category because the brand you know and love completely fulfills your...

There is no such thing as a category called “social media” or a "social media campaign". All media is social.
When it comes to building your marketing strategy, focus on the communication needs of your audience, then determine the channels and ...
Social Media “Experts”…Really?!? burnhammarketing.com
Social media is all the rage these days. In fact, if you type the phrase “social media” into Google, over 326 million results will appear. That’s more than double the results of just “media”. Marketers are feeling the...

This week's Digital Sphinx: Why Our Industry is a Mess
Did we learn from the Bubble Burst of 2001? If so, why are the signs pointing to the next bubble? We all have our opinion on this ...
Why Our Industry is a Mess burnhammarketing.com
For those of us in the digital media trenches, it is very easy to see just how dysfunctional our industry is. Although, sometimes it is challenging to understand why or the best way to resolve our problems. I believe we are...

This week's Digital Sphinx: Branding Leads to Direct Response
Marketers apply direct response, branding or a combination of these tactics to their digital media campaigns. Direct response tactics ...
Branding Leads to Direct Response burnhammarketing.com
The guiding principles marketers have used for years to deploy direct response and branding initiatives is about to be turned upside down; primarily because we have been using the wrong metrics to determine marketing success. ...

2011 US Interactive Marketing = $77 Billion, but don't lose sight of the details!
Our good friend and well respected leader, Doug Weaver (@UpstreamDW), gives us his perspective on what we should be thinking about and ...
Reading the Tea Leaves. getthedrift.com
As I was curled up last night with Forrester’s 5 year US Interactive Marketing Forecast, (sad commentary on my nightlife, I realize) it occurred to me that most people would end up fixating on the big numbers: $77 billion in...

Welcome to the Digital Sphinx burnhammarketing.com
The Digital Sphinx is not just a blog, newsletter or discussion group; it is a movement! Like the Sphinx of Greek mythology, digital media has the power of a lion, the ability to soar like a bird, the sexiness of a Greek God...

Can You Handle the Truth? burnhammarketing.com
It continues to fascinate me that regardless of how much evidence - and in many cases proof - that is gathered about how people approach their purchase decisions, many still continue to evaluate marketing performance based on...

Google now indexing more website comments. So now what? thenextweb.com
In case you've not seen this little number doing the rounds today, Google is now able to index some website comments. According to Digital Inspiration, Facebook comments are searchable, ...

This week's Digital Sphinx: Focus on Cultural Engineering
Simply put, cultural engineering is the process of servicing and satisfying individual needs to influence the attitudinal shifts of the ...
Focus on Cultural Engineering burnhammarketing.com
Recently, Volans and JWT released The Future Quotient, which is there take on the emerging agenda around global sustainable development. Future Quotient (or FQ) refers to the measurement of the future-readiness of individuals,...

This week's Digital Sphinx: Sustainable Thinking Drives Social Change
Our apologies for the time lapse since our last post. This week's post is on social sustainability and how to build high value, long ...
Sustainable Thinking Drives Social Change burnhammarketing.com
Our apologies for the time lapse since our last post. Client deliverables take priority over blogging, so I’m sure it will not be the last time it will happen. I want to discuss a particular topic which is dear to my heart...


Great advice @JasonHeller on following B.A.S.I.C. criteria to make decisions on marketing technologies.
"As the market proliferates with well-funded ad technologies, the ensuing hype surrounding the science-and-mathification of digital ...
When It Comes To Ad Tech, There's Often No Right Answer -...

New Findings in Market Research via @MindTime
What if the panels recruited for market research did not represented your clients’ target audiences? Would you disclose that the data ...
Your Baby's Ugly mindtime.posterous.com
Two years ago I presented the MindTime segmentation technique (now called SmartSlices) to the CEO of a market research company and his senior research staff. Later that day he told me that, given what I had just shown them—a...

The Digital Sphinx burnhammarketing.com
Imagine if you could understand how individuals think, how they see themselves, the world, and others, and how they really prefer to be addressed. Imagine the advantages this would give you: you would have insight into how...

Does TV really have a reach and frequency problem? What do you think?
Entrepreneur and CEO of Simulmedia, Dave Morgan, give us his point of view.
TV's Reach and Frequency Problem -...
