While attending the Online Marketing Summit in Washington, DC, the audience had the privilege to listen to the lunchtime keynote by Steve Woods, CTO of Eloqua, a leading marketing automation platform provider. He was handing out copies of his recently published book, Digital Body Language, to people who asked questions at the end of his speech. Fortunately, the Marketing Consigliere asked one of the questions and was pleased to obtain a […]
Change is happening in the Federal government, and there is definitely positive change happening in the US Department of Commerce regarding the 2010 Census. Marketers don’t think about it much, but it truly is an immense and impressive marketing research effort that has no peer. While it is obviously a governmental effort to determine things as varied as legislative representation and budget allocation, the primary research that will […]
The Marketing Consigliere likes to take examples from our nation’s honored warriors and apply them to business and marketing problems. He also wants to recognize things which can be publicized from the impressive United States Intelligence Community that are relevant to Network-Centric Marketers. Yesterday, the Adobe Intelligence Community Executive Forum, sponsored by Adobe and Carahsoft Technology Corporation, a Washington, DC based government IT solutions provider, was held with a gathering […]
The 20-Year Road to Net-Centric Marketing brought amusement to many readers who remember the “gold rush” of the “dot-com” era. And the Marketing Consigliere wants to make one more observation about those seemingly long ago days. In the early nineties there was an exciting book that created much buzz in the Marketing profession: The One to One Future: Building Relationships One Customer At A Time by Don Peppers and Martha Rogers, Ph.D. […]
Prediction 1: Robert Scoble will become marginalized as a new “Twitterer to follow” emerges that is less condescending and opinionated. The Marketing Consigliere actually likes Scoble, has met him twice, but understands that like all “celebrities,” a new one will probably come along that the huddled marketing masses will want to anoint as their new savior. He will never be relegated as the “Lindsay Lohan” of […]
How do you keep CRM data secure once you’ve gathered it? Do you have to treat some data different than other data due to its country of origin? These are important questions for B2C marketers in an increasingly international economy. Datawarehousing and security issues are not going to go away as political boundaries get fuzzier. Thanks to Greg Miller, the Marketing Consigliere found out about an […]
Real quick – The Marketing Consigliere had a domain name issue and had a terrific GoDaddy service rep. A few minutes later he got a survey from them and loved the look of it. Instead of showing numbers on a continuum for the potential answers, they use “thumbs up” and “thumbs down” at each end of the range. This is great B2C brand management in that it […]
We’ve all had hard drives crash and gone through the hell of picking up our business lives afterwards. For individuals this can be traumatic and completely disruptive. But what happens to the Enterprise when a database “detonates?” It can make or break a company’s existence; so the money spent on preventing data catastrophes is well spent, but it is prudent to be prepared for the […]
The Marketing Consigliere heard someone talking enthusiastically about EDS. I was puzzled why someone in a small startup would be abuzz over the company that Ross Perot put on the map. Well, he was misinformed. Email Data Source, Inc., is a company with a great story that needs to be told. According to their website, they “collect, analyze, organize, and archive thousands of daily email marketing messages, providing our […]
In iMedia Connection‘s leading e-newsletter story today, “5 New Ways Brands Can Go Beyond the Browser,” Max Zabramny of Organic writes about the new applications on the near horizon which will allow for work to be conducted offline after the a connection is terminated or is that is automatically executed once an online connection is re-established. We are familiar with this, but the twist is that now marketers are taking […]