By Thomas Temin The rise of social media and other new forms of marketing have created tremendous freelance opportunities for former business-to-business editors. Even Fortune 500 companies are leanly staffed and look to freelancers for a lot of … read more
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With Gourmet Gone, You Know There’s a Recession
By Thomas Temin If General Motors and Lehman Brothers can bite the dust, why not Gourmet magazine, for so many decades the Bible of chefs and foodies alike? A Wall Street Journal story on Oct. 6 noted that … read more
Where Is B2B as U.S. Gets Reinvented?
By Thomas R. TeminMedia and Government Consulting If you read the daily, traditional media, you might believe these “facts”: 50 million Americans have no access to health care. The cap-and-trade system being debated in Congress will help the … read more
How Is Your Business?
By Thomas R. Temin How do you balance the experience of web site visitors with the need to drive revenue? Judging from visits to a number of B2B sites lately, it seems as if in at least half … read more
Sure, ’09 Will Be Tough. You Can Tell the Grownups, Though: They Think Rationally
By Thomas R. Temin It must have been about three years ago that I was having coffee with a former assistant managing editor at the Washington Post. We met just after the first of what would be several … read more
The Basics Apply Online, Maybe Even More So
By Thomas R. TeminMedia and Government Consulting In judging for the ASBPE awards, consulting and just noodling around on the internet, I find some things that are just plain annoying. Here are some of my pet peeves, and … read more
Time to Reassess With Whom You Compete and Cooperate
By Thomas R. TeminMedia and Government Consulting After nearly three decades in print B2B journalism, I find it hard to get the classic model out of my head. There’s an audience; there’s a set of advertisers; and there … read more
For Sale
By Thomas R. TeminMedia and Government Consulting So, Reed Business Information is for sale. Its Dutch parent is divesting itself of a division which, at one time, was the chief profit contributor to its then-parent, Reed International. Now … read more
How WWW Changed the World of Publishing
By Thomas R. TeminMedia and Government Consulting After 30 years in business-to-business publishing, I decided to hang my shingle as a consultant. One reason resulted from a question I was asked at an industry conference. The organizers had … read more