links for 2009-04-30

  • Most marketers are busy trying to persuade people to buy their product.
  • Indianapolis is a hotbed of Internet marketing activity. Consider the following.
  • While we’d all like to see the economy make a quick recovery and hope that things will improve rather than get worse, smart business sense tell us that it’s better to hope for the best but be prepared for the worst.
  • MS will begin testing a new social-networking platform called Vine, and chief strategist Craig Mundie tells Fortune the company is planning on pursuing a subscription-based model instead of trying to support the platform only with advertising. Vine's other twist: It plans to target public safety officials and concerned citizens seeking emergency information.
  • I was thinking about a few things that marketers can do to help improve their game and wanted to share those things with you.