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Much has been written about QR (Quick Response) codes, but there still has been relatively little proliferation of this technology for everyday businesses. For now, it seems as though the most common applicaiton of QR codes is on display advertising. So what can you do with them?
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Illustration from Marketing News 12-30-10
2011 is still new enough that we should look back at 2010 and see what kind of lessons learned we should take into this new year. The American Marketing Association‘s publication, Marketing News, came out with “The Year in Review,” which was mildly disappointing.
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Day 1Yesterday, The Marketing Consigliere asked What will LeadsCon Offer Marketing Automaters? Over 1,000 filled the conference room for the initial sessions. Jay Weintraub (@jayweintraub), an organizer of the event, kept a good tight schedule of some impressive panelists. This was a different world for The Marketing Consigliere, who primarily advises in B2B Marketing world. The event was focused towards the B2C marketing world, where a pay-per-click and CPM frame of mind tend to dominate. Of interesting note: [Read more...]
The Marketing Consigliere recently blogged about “Twitter Envy,” but since he was already on Twitter approaching two years, can’t say he remembers knowing enough about Twitter to be envious of it before he started dabbling in it. And being a B2B Marketer, he had never heard of SXSW until he started using Twitter (Come to think of it, Twitter has really expanded his horizons since he had never heard of TED or Davos either – He’s just a nice Italian boy who knows his food and Marketing).
At first it seemed like a giant recess for the youthful, goateed crowd who were far more versed in social media and mobile Internet than he. This funny sort of Spring Break in, of all places, a land-locked section of Texas appeared not to be the jurisdiction of serious, discplined Marketers, especially of the blue-blooded B2B batch. It’s taken a year, but now The Marketing Consigliere admits SXSW is misunderstood by outsiders – there is value to this event, and even admits he has SXSW Envy to the point he wishes he was there this year and would jump on a plane if offered the ticket.
SuperBowl XLIV will provide another interesting event for Marketers to think and talk about. While always designed to be entertaining, the advertisements that make the the SuperBowl “the” marketing event of the year are rumored to be even more entertaining due to the “Great Recession,” and will hopefully lift viewers’ spirits up. But this year, The Marketing Consigliere will not critique the ads; he is not as pleased this year regarding the advertisements, but not because of their famed jocularity. [Read more...]
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With a tight economy, many Marketers are forgoing important national trade shows to keep focused on their main job: to manage the processes which allow for the gathering, storing, analyzing, sharing, and acting up on data that drives revenue for their firms. However, in this brave new world of Network Centric Marketing, it pays to make the investment in knowing your peers in other industries and learning about the newest tools that will make your job easier. So to keep up with the many facets of advertising, behavioral marketing, business intelligence, search, social networking, web analytics, email marketing and demand generation, there are many choices to make. [Read more...]
