In the Land of Too Many Conferences, This is a Good One It’s rare that I’m sad to leave a conference — usually I can’t leave fast enough. But such is my mood today leaving Mediapost’s third Email Insider Summit. Our industry is way over-conferenced in general. I’m guessing that our company’s full conference calendar has 40+ events on it over the course of a year. It’s more than we can afford to exhibit at, participate in, speak at, attend. We do our best, and what money we spend is much more carefully monitored and measured than it used to be, but usually it’s with that sick feeling in the pit of our collective marketing stomach that we’re throwing money…
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Just Say No
Just Say No A recent study by AOL (published here in CNET) says that on average, people in America check email five times per day and can’t go without it for more than three days at a time. And six out of ten respondents said they check email on vacation. While I’m as guilty as anyone of perpetuating these statistics, I am a big fan of taking regular time off from email. Whether it’s a day each week, or a whole weekend here or there, or at least one week vacation per year, it’s important to Just Say No every once in a while. Even Fred took an email holiday recently, to great success, I believe. The great thing about…