This week heralds the very first DemandCon, the brainchild of Shawn Elledge(@IMSummit) and Steve Gershik (@SGersh). Launching in San Francisco, the event is, in our opinion, the center of the Marketing Automation Universe. Here are some highlights of the great keynotes and panels that we got to hear. The crowd was comprised of 300 leading edge marketers from companies like Intel, Samsung, and Office Depot. Steve reviewed the flow of the day and […]
Allinio had the privilege to be the Regional Sponsor for Marketo‘s “Rock Your Revenue” tour when it stopped in the Washington, DC area. The speakers included: JimLenskold (@jimlenskold), Managing Director of Lenskold Group, who spoke about the imperative for Marketing to be better at showing ROI; Kelly Waffle of Sourcefire, a Marketo customer, spoke of the the issues he faced implementing the platform and how he has further configured it for even […]
Last week’s post revived a discussion from two years prior. So it seems we do this again. A little over two years ago, we addressed a debate over “art vs. science and math” with regard to advertising and once again an alarmist is presenting a failing, emotional argument to fight a business argument. This week’s Advertising Age ran “The Dangers of Online Advertising’s ‘Math State,’” Kendall Allen of the Laredo Group laments that “Filling […]
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? What is exactly is a QR code? First think “bar code” which are one-dimensional (1-D) representations of data in […]
At TWTRCON this past June, we found out about Tap11, a Twitter business intelligence platform that allows companies to track, engage, and increase their audience with great data mining, metrics & measurement, and business intelligence capabilities. Earlier in the spring, the San Francisco based company launched with over 100 major brands and marketing firms and is VC backed. Allinio had the privilege of asking Adam Zbar (@zman47), Tap11′s CEO, a […]
Last week, this blog listed some of the challenges that a B2B Marketing organization faces for Sales and Marketing Alignment. Aligning those departments is not that easy so you’re not getting off the hook just yet. This week there are five more to think about and have some comfort in knowing that your organization is not the only one that needs to go through such an […]
The Marketing Consigliere loves New York pizza and will find any excuse to go get some. What better excuse than this year’s LeadsCon? Smack dab in the middle of Manhattan, LeadsCon, like a hot fresh pizza straight out of the oven, will offer much to chew on and digest. Jep Castelein (@jepc) of LeadSloth had indicated that he would not be attending since he was concentrating on lead nurturing and lead scoring as opposed […]
This is the third anniversary of this blog. Similar milestones were previously acknowledged in 2009 and 2008 with much joy and pasta, but this year is extra special. Although it is still referred to as “The Marketing Consigliere” Blog, and written in the third person narrative, it is undergoing change as it figures out what kind of Marketing blog it wants to be when it grows up. Earlier this spring […]
Tech startups are generally innovators. But whether bootstrapped or venture funded, they are burning cash and have significant milestones to meet in order to get to the next level – namely, increasing sales. The irony of many startups, even ones that are selling disruptive technologies, is that many rely on the same old ways of marketing and sales that existed before the Internet came along, […]
The Marketing Consigliere was honored to have lunch with David Rudolph (@davrud) of Eloqua earlier this year and was tickled to see this creation of his on Eloqua’s blog today. Dave has taken the “Lost Generation” viral video and cleverly applied its upbeat message to our world of Marketing Automation. Thank you to Eloqua and Dave Rudolph for sharing this!