3 Reasons Groupon turning down $6B was a bad move

Recently the Groupon team turned down a $6b acquisition offer from Google. Waaaay bad move. The Groupon team should have taken the $$$ and jetted to Tahiti for some R&R. A quick background: Groupon is a couponing or target direct marketing  / advertising program and so far they have done a good job. So such a good job, that there are a lot of copycats popping up all over the place….some new companies...

The digital marketing awards are really nice…..though it’s the results that drive business!

Over the last year the (add)ventures Interactive / Technology team has won a variety interactive web awards. Most recently, we won two different Interactive Media Awards (IMA), one for an eCommerce site and the other for a sports event site.  While winning these awards is incredibly rewarding for the information architects, project managers, designers, copywriters and engineers that contributed to these projects,...

The answer to Twitter overload: Paper.li

I came across the term “Twitter overload” the other day and immediately understood the reference. Twitter is a great channel for following thought leaders and culling insights from social media leaders. Unfortunately, with a very busy schedule, it is difficult to catch the nuggets of information within the stream of info flowing through Twitter. The answer is Paper.li a fantastic aggregator of your...