Well, for those of you who never got a St. Valentine’s Day card this month, neither did we! So print out the one above and consider you our sweetheart and close you eyes and pretend we’re hugging you! Today’s topic is an interesting one, although it should be about maintaining your editorial calendar because we’re obviously two weeks late on this one! But we digress…. […]
Earlier this month, we made a a brief comment regarding Hubspot‘s standing in the world of Marketing Automation. Undoubtedly they are the thought leader in “Inbound Marketing,” but we said that they were not playing at the same level as some of the leading Marketing Automation platforms such as Pardot or Marketo. Well, the fantastic listeners at Hubspot caught wind of our blog, and none other than the effervescent Laura Fitton (@pistachio) […]
From the left: Chris Wolf and Marcy Wilder of Hogan Lovells; Maneesha Mithal of the FTC; Stuart K. Pratt of the CDIA, Justin Brookman of the CDT; and Jane Horvath of Google. (not pictured: Hooman Radfar of Clearspring and Robert Quinn of AT&T) It’s been over two years since we blogged about “Do Not Track” regulations, and the pendulum has been swinging in favor of those […]
Creative Commons by whatleydude, Flickr.com 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 […]
While the Marketing Consilgiere was at TWTRCON last month, he paid visits to the booths of various event sponsors. One booth that really captured his attention was that of Attensity, who provides a text analytics platform that quickly and rapidly transforms unstructured data- such as in the gazillions of tweets that fly through the Twittersphere- into valuable, actionable information with unparalleled accuracy. If you go to their website […]
This past week the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the international community organization led by Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee that develops web standards, issued a working draft for Emotion Markup Language (EmotionML) 1.0. This is the genesis of a very exciting phase in network centric marketing. EmotionML may be of interest to Marketers because it can enhance human-to-machine communication. Emotions are a fundamental component of human communication and need to be included in interpreting […]
Poor T-Mobile. First they lose all the Sidekick data from their Microsoft-hosted server. Then people scoff at their offer of $100 or to comp a free month for users. Then they allow customers to get out of the contract without penalty. Now T-Mobile is the defendant in two class-action lawsuits accusing them of misleading users with regard to the integrity of their data storage. $100 million worth of headache, embarrassment, […]
Keeping up with Marketing trade publications is difficult, but it is often the best way to keep from lagging too far behind when it comes to knowledge of the latest and greatest applications that Marketers can use. It’s also important to check niche technology publications to see what may be coming down the horizon. In the October 2009 issue of Speech Technology, there was a short […]
Web Analytics 800-pound gorilla Omniture was picked up this week by 1,600-pound solutions provider Adobe for a mere $1.8 billion. This was a fantastic development for network-centric marketers and hopefully will set the stage for things to come regarding behavioral marketing and campaign management. Despite the wailing and gnashing of teeth by the “creative” camp, metrics are here to stay and will continue to drive marketing efforts, which are increasingly Network Centric. Now […]
eMarketer fanfared the results of a MailChimp survey result this week. There are millions of users of “free” email through providers like Yahoo!, Google, and Microsoft with Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, and Hotmail, respectively. AOL is included in the report, although its services are not free; the email is part of the overall package. Of those users, however, which are the most “engaged” with their email? We predict that people will use free email, even in business situations, […]