Thought Leadership
Knowledge is power.
Knowledge reigns in the ever-evolving marketing and advertising industries. At Faction, we believe in the power of knowledge to guide marketing strategy, hone marketing programs and reveal marketing opportunities.
We keep a constant pulse by engaging in active reading, writing, and believing in thought exchange, and we leverage a collection of resources to educate our industry, our clients and ourselves. In this section of the site, we share with you knowledge, insights and resources pertaining to the marketing and advertising industries.
Believing that knowledge sharing strengthens our client relationships and educates the marketing community we've provided some of our favorite feeds below.
American Copywriter is a Blog about a podcast about advertising and other stuff people think about too much.
- America's newest addiction: killing clowns.
- McCormick's high tech fight against your cabinets.
- What to call it when a campaign goes rogue viral?
- Sign of the apocalypse: Pepsi splits with BBDO.
- Rough economy spurs new kind of ad blog.
- Homer Simpson meets Don Draper.
- Need a laugh? This will provideit.
- Potentially as awesome as someecards.
- Star Wars + Obama + McCain = Fuh-nee!
AdPulp serves up the daily juice from the Ad Biz.
- Don't Consume. Be.
- Learning to Listen Is An Important First Step, But Learning to Act On the Info Provided Is The Critical Second Step
- Web Architects, Like Real Architects, Build For The Long Haul
- Elite Runners and Their Shoe Brand Schooled By A Teacher
- Today In Twitterverse: Hyperlocal FTW!
- First Iceland, Now Sweden
- Cause-Related Meet Your New BFF, Social Media
- Haggling Over Price And Cheapening A Brand
- And All This Science I Don't Understand
- Climb Aboard Harley's Lovely Cliché
- Long Copy Ads, Courtesy Of The Onion
- Not 2000
- Today In Twitterverse: Pitching Pitch Black Porter
- Yammer Wants to Know “What Are You Working On?”
- Hate The Pod, Not the Pea
Seth Godin is a bestselling author, entrepreneur and agent of change. Godin is author of six books that have been bestsellers around the world and changed the way people think about marketing, change and work. Permission Marketing was an Amazon.com Top 100 bestseller for a year, a Fortune Best Business Book and it spent four months on the Business Week bestseller list. It also appeared on the New York Times business book bestseller list.
Matt Cutts works at the Googleplex and at his blog writes about Google, search engine optimization traps and whatever comes to his mind that wont waste peoples time. Of all the Googlers around who have blogs, Matt might be the most outspoken when it comes to Google itself, and people in the search industry started checking his blog for semi-official "weather forecasts" on Google updates.
- 9 tips for the Google Mobile App for iPhone
- Google Adds Voice Recognition to iPhone App
- A word about metrics, part III: market share of Google Docs?
- Pubcon/WebmasterWorld conference, here I come!
- Fun email
- Vote vote vote!
- Halloween 2008 wrap-up
- My Halloween 2008 Costume: Rick Astley
- Halloween easter egg: Google protects itself from zombies
- Happy Diwali!
Chris Baggott's Email Marketing Best Practices - Email is the greatest marketing tool in history. If used properly, nothing is more personalized, inexpensive, interactive or easier to execute.
- Chris Baggott's Guide to Blogging - Blog Action Day 2008 End Poverty
- Chris Baggott's Guide to Blogging - In tough times, you better be easy to find
- Corporate blogging software - Where do you turn when everyone is inboxed-out?
- Chris Baggott's Guide to Blogging
- Compendium Blogware Update
- Compendium Is looking for a director of Marketing
- Corporate Blogging Webinar
- Inbox 2.0 - Long Live Email
- What's happening with this Blog??

