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The Marketing Matrix: Ignore or Explore? by John Moore – www.brandautopsy.com

“In your left hand, I’m placing a blue pill and in your right hand, a red pill. Choose the blue pill and nothing changes, you’ll ignore everything I have shared and continue to believe in the inertia that binds you to the past. Choose the red pill and your journey begins… you’ll explore deeper and truer connections with your customers participating in the online groundswell.”

In a chapter entitled ‘The Marketing Matrix: Ignore or Explore?‘ John asks us to wake up to reality – those who trust the opinions shared by others in the online groundswell must use those methods to create a new type of effective marketing – a social kind.

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