Toto, We're Not in Kansas Any More

Boy, with today's economic turmoil it sure doesn't look like we're where we were just a year ago. It's a whole new world for marketers and communicators.

Budgets are cut, and staffing is frozen but the pressure to bring in the bottom line is stronger than ever. Dwindling resources or not, you are expected to innovate and find new ways to get it done.

In recessions past, companies turned to direct marketing methods to get through. But even before this economy hit the wall, online had changed the marketing world considerably.

Digital Age Recession

Direct marketing of the past has become the social media of today. E-mail, blogs, podcasts and social media networks are

the new tools used to talk directly to a select and identifiable group of individuals. To some, it's like landing in Oz. Foreign, different, and less trusted than traditional media. To the rest of us, it's new and powerful ways to find key audiences and let them find you.

Rules Have Changed

The rules have changed -- we can no longer broadcast our spiel and call it a day. The digital publics talk back and expect us to listen and react.

Knowing how to employ these tools successfully is not rocket science, but it does require some actual, hands-on experience.

Let QuickSilver make sense of it all.

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