Kevin Hillstrom: MineThatData

Exploring How Customers Interact With Advertising, Products, Brands, and Channels, using Multichannel Forensics.

October 27, 2008

Books

This industry leader is frustrated with people like me who recently sent him an advance copy of a newly published book.

How would you inform people about your new book, when you know that Amazon won't promote it, and you know that Barnes & Noble and Borders have zero interest in carrying the book?

You tell me --- if you were me, how would you market the next book I write? What is an appropriate price point? What is an appropriate cross-channel platform (paperback, hardcover, e-book, mp3 audio, give away free digital copies but charge for dead-tree versions)? How would you market a modern book? Or are books finished, just write stuff on the blog and hope money magically arrives, or take the advice of the author and condense the message to 800 words in a trade journal?

If you like marketing books, here's a few from folks who've been very kind to me in the past.

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April 14, 2008

Akin Arikan's Multichannel Marketing Metrics Blog

Akin recently initiated a blog called Multichannel Marketing Metrics. He works at Unica Corporation. Unica supports the "Affinium" suite of products used for campaign management during my time at Nordstrom.

If you have a chance, check out his blog!

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