I totally agree with her supposition about ‘E-mail Marketing’ as a term slowly fading away as we find more and more vehicles to get our messages in front of the customer, consumer or client – the marketing doesn’t change, just the medium in which we do it.

But I think the key point that’s missing is that we need to change the discourse and make our superiors (whether those are bosses or clients) realize that marketing online is a much more holistic medium now and doesn’t just involve ‘an e-mail blast to tweak some sales’ (said to me more often than I care to count – as an aside, I hate the term ‘blast.’ Makes me think my client is Dick Cheney with a shotgun on a hunting trip: dangerous and not good for anyone on the other side of that ‘blast.’).

No, it’s now our responsibility as marketers to make people realize that any marketing content is going to be used across multiple mediums, and that the audience is having more and more control in how they interact with us. That the convergence that was mentioned almost a decade ago as the holy grail of technology and marketing is finally happening today and that our messages will be seen on Facebook, MySpace, Del.icio.us, TiVo, the iPhone, the Android, the billboard, or the internet-enabled car stereo.

We’ve finally entered the age of true, interactive marketing.

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I am working on a research project with a small group, and we have an online test up and running right now atInterface Research

If any of you, as my readers, could please take some time (it will not take more that 10 minutes) and go take the test, that would be great. After you take it, if you could pass it on that would be a wonderful thing also.

Now, if you really want to help our world you could go and Digg it, that would rock!

I would love to hear what you all think of the survey. So, if you feel like it stop back by and drop a comment off and let me know.

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