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What’s In a Name? Marketing Excellence Becomes Digital Mindset

Published 13 August 2007, 11:44 PM

I have never been enamored with the name of this blog – Marketing Excellence – and I am taking the opportunity of the shift in content and focus to change its name.

I have been looking for a name that was a better reflection of the web 2.0 focus and was also a little …. jazzier… Here are the names I considered: 

- Digital Photography – pretty boring, but great from a search engine optimization perspective

- Digital Snapshot – great name, but maybe too centered on photography

- Pixel Marketing – Could be confused with Pixar

- Digital fish – this one was my favorite. A long running joke in Silicon Valley was that if HP was to market sushi, they would name it “cold dead fish”. The name “digital fish” would have been a tongue in cheek recognition that we have come a long way since then. But I quickly came to the realization that it took too much explanation and that I did not want to attract fish fans!

I eventually decided to select “digital Mindset” to highlight the recalibration Marketing has to go through to adapt to a digital world. Let me know if you like it!

Posted By Eric Kintz | 5 Comments | Trackbacks | Permalink
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Yes, I agree that word Excellence is a bit overused. However I'm a bit hung-up on that word Digital - that's connected with fingers. I've been suggesting here and there that there is such a thing as an Internet Mindset. Unfortunately many traditional marketers don't have it. If you want to use Internet Mindset, be my guest. :)
# Tuesday, August 14, 2007 11:53 AM by bwelford
I had not thought about digital in the context of fingers, but I guess you are right! :) I am afraid unfortunately that the word Internet is even more overused than digital.... Thanks for the input though! Eric
# Wednesday, August 15, 2007 02:11 PM by Eric Kintz
I do like digital fish more, but very rightly said that you would not want to attract fish fans. digital mindset is something that ought to work but I would say that it is playing safe but fair enough. :) Internet mindset as bwelford says is also nice.
# Friday, August 17, 2007 01:16 PM by Online Marketing India
What’s Next after Web 2.0? I do not like those buzz words like Web 2.0, Business 2.0 etc., however in order to communication, you have to conform to their protocols, otherwise they might think you are speaking in a foreign language. So far Web 2.0/Internet 1.0 lead by Youtube, FaceBook, same Amazon, New Yahoo! and New Google is successful, though at not successful as Web 1.0/Internet 0.0 led by Old Yahoo!, Ebay, Amazon and Old Google. Why? Not a big surprise anymore when from Web 1.0/Internet 0.0 to Web 2.0/Internet 1.0 as opposed from nothing to Web 1.0/Internet 0.0. I believe the next after Web 2.0/Internet 1.0 is Web 3.0/Internet 2.0, however we’d better to call it Internet 2.0, since at that time, Web is not that important any more. Why? Web 1.0/Internet 0.0 - Informed, you as a reader Web 2.0/Internet 1.0 - Inform, you as a writer Internet 2.0 (as opposed as Web 3.0/Internet 2.0) - formation of Information, you as a reader, writer, and much more - BTW I am writing this post while I am watching a lecture C++0x (yes, C++0x) on at Univ. of Waterloo made by Prof. Bjarne Stroustrup - Prof. Stroustrup, think about C++ 3.0, borrow somthing nice from Ruby, the world is way too different now as opposed to 1980s Frontier Space - http://www.hwswworld.com/space Frontier Blog - http://www.hwswworld.com/wp
# Monday, August 20, 2007 08:24 AM by edward998
That's a great new name, even if fish fans could have been a great extra readership ;) (I have to edit my blogroll now)
# Monday, August 20, 2007 10:28 AM by enjoyer

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