Category Archives: Marketing stuff

AOL shows Huffington Post the money

Posted on February 7, 2011 by markkolier

You cannot blame Arianna Huffington for taking the $ 315 million ($ 300 million in cash) for Huffington Post from AOL and Tim Armstrong. Greg Coleman who is the CRO (Chief Revenue Officer) at Huffington Post actually came over from … Continue reading →

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Who will be the winners at Sunday’s Super Bowl Advertising Party?

Posted on February 4, 2011 by markkolier

Well it’s safe to say that Fox TV will be the biggest, if not one of the biggest winners. NFL viewership was off the charts this season and with the bad weather much of the U.S. experienced this winter more … Continue reading →

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A LinkedIn IPO – this one could be a big winner

Posted on January 28, 2011 by markkolier

Yesterday in Kara Swisher’s allthingsd.com blog http://bit.ly/e5QFen it came out the LinkedIn.com will likely file an S-1 for an IPO. This was confirmed late Thursday – http://nyti.ms/hZTvLp . Some interesting stats from the article were that LinkedIn has more than … Continue reading →

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MySpace – is it going no place?

Posted on January 26, 2011 by markkolier

One report had MySpace with 66 million users as of June 2010. Another had MySpace with 110 million people that are monthly active users on MySpace.com including 1 in 4 Americans. While those numbers pale in comparison to Facebook’s nearly … Continue reading →

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Why are people still flocking to movie theaters?

Posted on January 24, 2011 by markkolier

If you’re like me you have well over 100 television channels available to watch at home whether you are a cable or satellite TV customer. Yet I find it remarkable that more often than not it’s difficult to find something … Continue reading →

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Jack Ma and Alibaba.com are forces to be reckoned with in China

Posted on January 21, 2011 by markkolier

With Chinese President Hu Jintao in the United States this week there was much talk about the state of Sino-U.S. relations. My interest in developing our company’s Chinese business has me keeping a watchful eye for business and marketing news … Continue reading →

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Cold Stone Creamery does not get it any better than Crumbs or Krispy Kreme

Posted on January 19, 2011 by markkolier

Last week I posted on what I felt was a strange and less than good move by Crumbs Bakery to go the route of an IPO. Indulgence based products and services seem to me to be a difficult area to … Continue reading →

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Online couponing sites are working – but for whom?

Posted on January 14, 2011 by markkolier

Andrew Mason of Groupon http://www.Groupon.com has received admiring and quizzical looks from people when he turned down Google’s offer of $ 6 billion for Groupon last month. It was a bold move in the style of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s … Continue reading →

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5 Things Americans don’t know about business in China

Posted on January 12, 2011 by markkolier

U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is speaking this morning regarding China’s currency and the idea that it needs to strengthen. As many of my blog readers know, on behalf of CGSM, I have made a concerted effort to open business … Continue reading →

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Nothing left but the Crumbs?

Posted on January 10, 2011 by markkolier

The NY Times article this morning mentioned a possible new IPO – no not the much ballyhooed one for Facebook or even LinkedIn but for Crumbs Bake Shop http://nyti.ms/ibEzdz. A $ 66 million merger with an unnamed investment company would … Continue reading →

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