Do Real-Time Analytics Stifle Decisions?

Do real-time analytics stifle marketers’ ability to make decisions? That is the premise of my latest MediaPost column:

First of all, think about the fear of not knowing, or not knowing right now. Does that fear consume one’s ability to focus mental or decision-making resources where they should be?

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What Will The Flood Of Everybody Do To The Core Users Of Facebook?

Now that Facebook is open to everyone — not just people with a .edu email address — what will happen to the core, once-exclusive network? In my latest MediaPost column, yet another blatant regurgitation of myself from a few days ago, Annie Heckenberger from GPTMC said in the comments:

I’ve noticed a surge…and consequently a mass exodus of their core users.

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