DISQUS

The problem is no matter what rules you set, some ad agency or brand will come along and break them. No matter how hard those of us who advise these companies object, the client still makes the call and thus you have 5, 10, 15K advertising messages a day bombarding the average American consumer.

For all of you who do it right, there are 10 others who will screw it up.

Separately, advertising doesn't belong on Twitter because the inherent purpose of Twitter is conversation. Advertising can happen in conversations, but it has to be natural, else it's not conversation. Conversational marketing is an art form. Few know how to do it well. Which means few better be doing it on Twitter or the place will get gummed up really quickly.

Two cents.

You're a gentleman and a scholar. Thanks for the props and I'm glad I could inspire such a post.

Your blog, by the way, wasn't eliminated from my reader and yes, I was already subscribing.

Rock on, my friend.

Well, you need some pointers on holding him, but that video was pretty cool. Congrats to the Earwoods all. I'll be glad to offer pointers. After all, not many people get to learn how to handle kids from someone like me. Heh.

Dude ... what a cool list of great stuff. What the heck and I doing there?

Thanks for the link love, my man. I'm adding you to my blogroll now (Sorry I hadn't before.)

Falls

Bravo, my dear. And a most gracious thank you for the mention. I can't wait to see you tomorrow!

I highly recommend setting something on fire. Preferably where they can see it.

Feel for ya, dude.

Figure out what they're doing (surely blog posts, etc., can hint at it) and hit them from that angle. "Charlie ... great freakin' blog post about nonresponsive email people. Now about that $25 you owe me ..."

Robert, Thanks for this. We had a blast at Phoenix today trying it out. Still some imperfections in it all, but we'll iron out the kinks. We appreciate the recognition.

Hey Gaurav,

Excellent addition to the conversation. Point No. 1 is absolutely true, and of most labels we like to apply to groups of people. Nice work.

Outstanding once again. It's reassuring to know we might be doing things right and that the scoreboard can blind us to the reality of building our personal brands the right way. Great post.