Jason Jensen

How to react to a marketing monopoly?

Facebook has every right to charge businesses for access. The real question for your business: Are you too dependent on one social media platform at the expense of the media you control?

It's the day the music died for one-trick marketers.

Facebook - the publicly traded company with a net worth greater than McDonald's and several other multinational corporations combined - has switched up its sharing algorithm, much to the chagrin of the self-appointed marketers of the status quo.

Facebook went pay-to-play for brands, and to some, that equates to selling out. Facebook isn't cool anymore.

They had a good run - marketers reliant on a one-dimensional marketing strategy, that is. For them, it's over. Facebook, however, is here to stay - cool or not.

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An apology — not an explanation — is in order

If BDCC is committed to local vendors, it needs to share business opportunities with local vendors more transparently

RE: “BDCC: Out-of-state firm offered the best proposal” [Letters, May 22]: This letter does not address the fundamental issues that my piece [“Ignoring the talent in our own backyard,” Viewpoint, May 15] raised. 1) The RFP process was not communicated to my website, Brattleborology, as a contender nor as...

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Ignoring the talent in our own backyard

Shouldn’t economic development groups try to use vendors that aren’t half a continent away?

When I heard that the Brattleboro Development Credit Corporation (BDCC), a regional development nonprofit that brokers investment money to local startups and artisans, was on the verge of signing a $500,000 deal for a Colorado-based company to market Brattleboro, I couldn't restrain myself any longer. Here I've been as...

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